The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-24
POLITICAL souNDrNGs.

evenly divided and that IT the stalWarts
relax their efforts. and fail TO avail them.
selves of hard work and every political ad-
vantage the State may be lost to the party,
According to the Washington Repubh-
can the Democratic party is to be held re-
sponsible fort Dennis Kearney's threat to
hang Gen. Grant. This is matter OF DO
surprise, Republicans nowadays, so toI
speak, grow politically fat on just such
diet. Nothing is so relished by the stall
wart palate as a good, startling Democra-
tic outrage, but the Southern manutactur-
ed product commands premium.
[Chicago Times,]
General Woodford returns in perfect
safety to New York, it is to be presumed,
to take up bis long-neglected work IN the
district attorneys Office. General Wood
ford not only returned in safety but he re-
ports that during his visit he received
nothing but civility and courtesy. lie
neglected the magnificent opportunity TO
help bis party at the north. He ought to
have got himself killed, or, as Senator
Spencer once did, puncture his hat with
| buckshot aud cry out against the ku-
| klux.
The Cincinnati Enquirer AYERS that Grant
doesn't belong to any state ID particular;
whereas it is a we'll known fact that he is ii
bona tide citizen in good standing Of the
free and independent sovereignty of Gale
na.
The Malone Palladium which is Vice
President Wheeler's organ, doesn't TICKLE
kindly to Cornell aud his associates. 1t
says: 1T woald not be folly simple. but
falsehood as well, to profess delight with
he ticket"
[St. Louis Republican
The political needs of the ,Republicar
party 10 Ohio and elsewhere are beeoming
daily more pressing and the Republican
congressional committee at Washington
has made another call for help. Govern
ment employees will understand its meau
ing and pony up accordingly.
John Sherman owns 6fty~one houses j,
Washington, from which he receive
rent. His agent who looks after hi
property, is a government clerk on the pa
rolls as chief computer in the supervisint
5 architects office aud draws pay from th
r government at the rate OF 50. 90 day 10
cludlug Sundays. Although democrat
may be mean enough to abuse John 20
this ii is all right and proper from hi
e staOdiog point, for he c8ndjdiy believe
that The government of the United Safe
belongs TO the Sherman Family
OstaWa Free Tadtr
,, C,ecinnai Enquirer: - "RepubHoa
papers are dropping in their claiws.
few weeks aeo nothing less than 40 90
majorityi 10 Ohio would be considered. w
e observe that some OF the most eGthusias
- &c organs now set the figures at $1,000
. and concade that hard work will be rcqui,
a ed 10 obtain that
Ill,1oi4 ate Register
TIE secretary of the treasury control
n Pll toe currency in the 0Olutry, and til
REPUBLICAN leaders propose that the CON
Il N lder in-chlef oS the army shall contrt
n all the elections 1t is evident these pee
|. pie have no confidence in the ability Of tn
Y people to use their own money or the
Il own votes Alright.
Quincy Herald,
). Mr.. De Young hadn't you better g
down into Massachusetts and lodge a pa
of bullets in old Ben Buffers carcass2
might make him Governor of that Stat
b Your political favors should not be confr
d ed to Rev Kalloch.
il Chicago Times,
As he travels through Ohio, Have
- might as we'll have his special car emil
y zoned with the legend: Vote for Foste,
sc Plattsburg Republican (Dcm.)
u The Democratic party goes into Il
le fight purged its corrupt elements, ar
h, appealing to the people in behalf Of a goo
honest tJv,nIp Il
y state government.
ID 4 democrat that is too good a democr
0. to cast vote for the defeat of the repul
d llcsn party Is too good to wear the robe
T. democracy, aud should at once dress up
~. bloody shirt aud shake himself, Pr
H. Co. Democrat.
From the Fulton Telegraph
% The Globe Democrat, the Republic,
IS organ of Missouri. is in the habit of sla
&c derlng The people Of every Democrat
Is state in the West. and especially the pe
= pie OF Missouri. That paper recent
~ sad:
p Missouri is thrown away back in Il
ar progress OF things, and her case social
seems almost hopeless in some parts.
Louis is about the whole of the state; O,
ID Missouri population is to a oonsiderab
extent emlgrating into Kansas and furth
~ W est. In return We are getting no Ell
~ grafton that is worth anything. Violepc
De lynch law and outlawry have bIasphem,
is, some OF The finest land 10 the world, Ka
It's sas is filing up with magnificent popul
70 ton, and to the hopeful minds of men
:, ~ what Missouri ought to bet is the ne
u Missouri"
is Not satisfied with slandering Nilsson,
a the Globe democrat says the rascaIly DO
III ulation originally came from KentueI
and Virginia Where disorder is SO muc
80 lngralned 1t is very hard to tell when the
Ie- Will be an enllgbtment. /; will be maj
he years before Missouri comes up to the s.
ma curlty and character of Illinois"
t;o les, the notorious Rande and hundre
OF other cases that we might name of
N similar character in shat state is the cha
go acter OF security that Illinois affords. 81
re Nathan murder, the stealing of the corp
Il of A. L. Stewart, the Beecher- Tiden q
m fair, tina strengthening affair, the Hu
ny Cox murder, the KalIoch-De Young affa
ert the assassination of President Lincoln. d
III, hanging of Mrs. Surratt, the attempts
es. assassination of Secretary Seward, the i
auguration of fraudulent president, Ii
Plttsburg riot the war of the Orangem
ce in New York, and thousands other of SUI
cases that have 'bIasphemed some of Il
finest land 10 the world" and all done
es the loyal North. Now tell emigrau
be, where life and character are safest-Nor
or South
ne If it is reputation that has retarded Il
o. progress OF Missouri, both Kansas az
Illinois should have been not onlv RUNE
o. but utterly wiped out from the face of Il
", world. Kansas has alreahr renndiatI