The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-07
Before the Davsnport Election.

To the truly good and loyal. RETROSPECT
ton is source 'sof great pleasure. IF
there is any one thing more enjoyable to
average humanity than another it is to be
able to say II told you So" This is per-
haps more especially applicable to old
ladies, like for instance the party now
editing the Davenport Gazette. The day
before the election this old lady poked her
head out of the building on third street in
that city, and shaking her night-cap by the
strings at the Ackley House boarders,
shrieked:
Rally round the flag boys. rally once
again, shouting the battle cry of freedom
from rebel rule. When you SO shout you IL
vote the Republican ticket"
The boys shouted and voted the democra-
tic ticket"
The old lady thought of her post-of6ce
and how the salary had kept the wolf from
her door these many years, and how hun
gry she would be if thrown upon the
world and her own resources, and even
while her mind ran onthe subject of trea-
son she again shook the night-cap in the
| morning breeze and shouted.
us the attempt to starve the government
| to death in any degree less reasonable than
the effort to shoot it to death? Let the
voters of Davenport record their answer at
the polls to-day on ballots for the straight
republican ticket.
The answer was recorded by glorious
democratic victory.
As she retired for the night, after hav-
ing looked under the bed and making sure
that no terrible democrat was near, she
thus soliloquized
Nothing but republican folly and repub.
lican inertness can prevent the full success
of the republican ticket
Thoughts Of the victory on the morrow
disturbed her slumbers, and she arose tc
pen the telegram that should carry the
news to Hiram" Of Davenport's endorse.
ment of the republican attempt to perpet
uate impartial juries and baycnet rule
around the ballot. In visions sweet she
saw Hiram arise 10 his place in Washing
ton, unfold the message, and heard hin
read:
DAVENPORT, April 5.
DEAR HIRAM:
| Your instructions were followed. We raised tht
cry of revolution :" 'treasonr Confederate de
mocracYn We met the enemy; they were numer
GUS, but they are ours All hail, TO the ''stalwart
chiefs Garfeld's speech did the busiuess-we dis
tributed them by the thousandl 1t is Iowa's frs
/ gun for 1891 Yours lovingly ED,
| Postmaster at Davenport.
Chuckling with delight at the chagrln O
the democrats, when they should see he
despatch in the press reports from Wash
Iington, the old lady danced about the Of
fee, but finally falling into a more
peaceful frame of mind. she fell to study
ing her Bible the Chicago Inter Ocean,
and to make the victory doubly sure sh
again grabbed her cap. and, soaking it ii
ink to give it bloody appearance, foate,
it from the window and yelled to The. boys
IF you want to be happy tomorrow d
your duty to-day. Hence, shoot with you
ballots the party which is trying to starv
: the Government to death.
: The boys did want to be happy, but til
. rebound of the gun upset the old woman
and has knocked the breath out of tn
whole republican party in Iowa. Goo
s for Davenport. she has sounded the frs
r gun in Iowa for 1880. and the echo is sti
. ringing in the ears of the astonished oil
lady on Third Street.