The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-10-14
Ctr g atty Argns.
ROCK ISLAND, .....1LLrrors
POLITICAL soUNDINGs.


| John M. Langston is paid $1,000 a yeal
for serving as minister-resident and consul
general of the United States at Port-au
Prince, Hayti. He is at present earning
his salary by delivering lectures at Wash
Ington. advocating a colored exodus from
the South.
From the New York World
Senator Conkling asserts that but for
state rights we should never have had our
war with Mexico. Does Senator Conklinp
think it misfortune that the United
States acquired California and the great
mineral wealth of the Pacific coast? Is
the world at large better or worse off for
the state rights which gave US all these
treasures and opened all these new ave.
nues to the energy and enterprise of man
kind2
From the Boston Globe
When Zach Chandler said to Worces
ter audience, If you were to elect the
Democratic ticket headed by Ben Butler
IN the state of Massachusetts, there would
be one yell of rejoicing, a rebel yell. coming
up from Mason and Dixon's line to the
southern shores of Texas" he insulted the
Intelligence OF every man. woman and
child who heard him, and strengthened
the barriers between himself and Heaven.
From the Chicago News.
Gen. Grant will arrive at GaIena about
the 9Th of next month. He will meet the
prominent men of Chicago q little later.
just keep your eye peeled for these prom
inent meDl Wait and see how they will
swarm around the returning traveller!
Take pencil and piece of paper and
check off the number of men who will
appear as prominentssat the Grant recep-
ton, who have never been prominent
anywhere else or in anything else. But,
above all. look out for the snobs. The
snobs are contemplating glorious time!
From the Paoli Qndl News.
No lawfully elected president of the
United States ever put himself On record
as speaking slanderously of his competitor
for that Office. But the man who fills the
position to which Mr.. Tiden was elected
gosslps 10 reporters about the private
character of the gentleman whose stolen
place be holds. Ii is a Illuminating specs
tacle for the American people to witness
such degradation of the presidential Office
1t is of piece with Mr.. Hayes sending
$500 out of the White House t. buy the
silence of a title thief
From the louisville Courier Journal.
The story that most of the Southern
papers which are attacking Mr.. Tildeu so
are unsuccessful applicants for
money, and that Mr.. Tilden has their
applications filed, aud will give their
names to the public at the proper time. is
not true, Like the rest of the ISLANDERS
with which partisan hate and personal
malignity have pursued the Sage of Gram
ercy park, it is fabricated out of whole
cloth. Mr.. Tilden has received many
applications for money, which he has
invariably tossed into his waste basket.
He cares as little for the authors ofthese as
for their abuse. They are free to SANDER
him at their own sweet will and in perfect
security. just in proportion as he does
not expect, and has never proposed. to buy
himself into the presidency. has he any
fear of being b!ackguarded out of it. He
rightly considers the question an affair of
greaterr pith and moment