The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-04-17

hahlhs TIE Umc himself. just what
passed during that interview, we are not
prepared to say. We only know that Judge
Bird seems to be well satisfied with the re-
sut--that ne is strongly impressed with the
idea that the president will consider the
claims of the Republican party--its unity
and harmony, as paramount TO the claims of
any individual, and that, as a consequence,
Col. Mekeaig is, ultimately, bound to "step
down and out"
We publish to-day Judge Browning's
announcement, He is a candidate for the
office OF Circuit Judge, and avows his will
ingness to submit his claims to the arbitra-
ment of the Democratic convention that
meets in this city on the 9th day OF May.
No gentlemen who has offered himself AZ
a candidate for the position named has re-
ceived better Endorsement than Judge
Browning. The press of the district has
endorsed him as capable, upright and hon
est-a gentleman of unexccptionable char
aCtcr, and Of great personal popularity.
Judge B. is, comparatively speaking,
stranger to us, but, as such, he certainly
commends himself rs a gentleman Of most
| excellent parts-genial, u true Democrat
and good man,
One of the defeated candidates has
| lost all faith in human nature. Over six
hundred citizens soemnly promised to
support him for the Office for which he
ran. and less than 200 made their promises
good. Another candidate was defeated
because he was traded of He lost more
votes than he received by the trading pro-
cess. Another candidate claimed that he was
the victim OF the concentrated hate of the
whisky element,and that people OF that class
moved "heaycn and earth" to defeat him
And still another thought the temperance
people, through msconception of his tenn
perancc status, united against him, and to
that misunderstanding he owes his defeat
and 50 all the way through, from the can
didate who received 100 votes to those who
came within three OF election.
The election is over, the officers who
are to serve the people during the next two
wears, have been designated. and will soon
enter upon 81 discharge of their duties
TIE BULLETIN thought it wise TO take no
part in the canvass. There were no pro
nounccd questions inyoycd-cxccpt the
general promise that the outs would give
us better city government than the Tins -
had given us. Having recorded tins
promise, we shall carefully watch the pro,
gress Of affairs with the expectation of no
ting az effort to make il good. TIE BuL.
LETIN, as We have said espouscd the cause
of neither side, and is, therefore, free to
criticisc or commend, as occasion may seem
to require. This We propose to do, fear.
!essly AID frcely-pacng responsibility
where it belongs, and according praise
where it has been earned.
-Canysssing the result Of the election,
yesterday, we find it full of surprises Dur
ing the day it seemed 10 be conceded that
Mott would be the clerk, but Motifs not the
clerk. Rittcnhousc's election in the Sec.
ond ward, was regarded as a foregonc con,
cluSiOn, and his friends would have wreck
! ed their fortunes on such result, had they
been driven 10 the extreme Of betting But
Rittcnhousc was defeated. Linegar did it
with his five men. In the Third ward
Colonel Woods election was put down as
among the certantics up 20 the day Of the
election. But Colonel Wood, like Ritten.
house, was beaten by an aggravatingly
small majority. The greatest surprises,
however, were those experienced by the
candidates themselves. Six of the eight
candidates for Clerk, and three Of the five
for Treasurer, regarded their election as sure,
up to the close OF the polls. Candidates
for whom less than 200 votes were pollcd,
would not have given ten dollars for their
commission, signed, sealed and Delivered
80 confident were they that they would Sc
cure them without such an expenditure. 70
all these men the result was stunning
surprise; and take the election as whole,
its result was little less than grand aggre-
cation Of surprises
Scores Of persons who read The Bur.
LErlY every morning, can truthfully as
cribe their financial straits to the credi,
system, that prevails SO generally in the
Western and Southern States. II is true.
as stated by one Of our country exchanges,
that in almost every town and city in the
Mississippi valley, there are scores Of bus.
mess men in Strengthened circumstances
who have sufficient outstanding accounts to
put them on their feet in good shape il
they could only collect the amounts due