The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-22

perpetuate themselves in the government.
Having worn out the purely sectional
issues, they are now used as make-weights:
Having succeeded in keeping control OF
the presidency by fraud they find that
they succeed only to lose forever an op-
portunity of repeating the like fraud.
Now they seek TO make use of the oppor-
tunity gained by that fraud to use force
for the maintenance OF their supremacy.
The issue is, then, one of life and death to
the republican party, and their only hope
of further life is in the power to use force
to subvert the will ofthe people.
"Where will this issue be fought out,
North or South"
"Why, in the North, of course The
battle ground is shifted, and che purpose
now is to use the military power OF the
country, and to control and reverse cleo
tons 10 the doubtful Northern states, just
as was done in the Southern states up TO
the last few years. The hope of these
conspirators-for do pronounce it con-
spiracy-is that, by the use of the army,or
deputy marshals and supervisors, they will
control the elections in New York, Con-
necticut, New Jersey and Ohio, and not
only force the election of a republican
president, but so cast the legislatures in all
of them as to return radical senators in the
places of the democrats whose terms ex-
pire in 1881. These, with one other, would
again throw the senate into their hands,
and right there is the secret of their des.
perate fight to keep Kellogg in his seat.
Since it is pretty certain that Mcdonald
will be returned from Indiana, they dare
nnk X oil III &c aAou &c g.
bic elections such as this that the people
of those states must meet and defeat. 1t
is desperate one, and the fight will be
bitter and remorseless to the end.
A SOLID NORTH.
"Yet the South will not be disinterested
in the result?"
by no means. for should the republl-
can schemers succeed In this conspiracy
and create solid North, giving them the
presidency and congress once more, then
the troubles of the south will begin anew.
Their first movement viii be to cut off the
representation of the South, and she will
never again be allowed to appear in con-
gress in her full strength and with her real
weight. This is the danger which menaees
the South, and which will keep her united
to defeat so bold and INSCRIPTIONS plot f"
THE SECOND VETO.
What do you think of the last veto by
the PRESIDENT"
ct was expected and is absurd. The
reasons assigned by him for vetoing the
bill are trifing The idea that this bill
repeats the legislation of 1870 and 1902 il
| the veriest nonsense"
Nv hat do you think of the President
purpose in taking this solid stand against
this legislation n"
why. he has gone over, body anC
soul, to the radical side Of his party. He
has most uuquestionably gone back OF
| himself and is now controlled by the very
worst element of his party. Winning hin
over to their schemes was the great tri
| umph they had to gain, for without his CO
operation all they did was emptiness. They
had to have him. and it is said that he has
even been told that to join with them
would be to solidify the party, identity him
as its great leader and make him the party
candidate of next year.
DO you really believe he looks to beinl
his own success?"
/ u co. You see he held the stake
in his own hand. He could dictate terms
and the party could afford to promise any
thing for success. since without him tia
success would be impossible. 1t is saiC
| he has been promised reelection and tina
be has joined the rabid leaders 10 thei
schemes with a view to that result.
WHAT Is THE PROSPECT"
well, to sum up the probabilities, wha
think you of their chances to win upo
that line, or at all?"
"My.candid opinion is that they havt
not the slightest chance to win, The
will not succeed. The people are brough
face to face with an essential question i
free government. It is whether the wi
of the people shall make government, 0
whether force shall create. maintain ant
perform the functions of government j
this republican system. | do not douE
the result of that issue. The democrac
goes before the country upon higher an
, broader platform of popular rights an
popular liberties than did Thomas Jeffer
son in 1900 The question is betwee
force and freedom, fraud and justice, cen
tralization and constitutional government
} | believe that upon those issues the demo
J cracy will sweep the country, carryin
J with it a majority of the votes of the Mort
itself.