The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-23

u fixed date. He even went so far as to
tell Mr. john Dlrmody that il would cost
him seven dollars and half to secure the
desired papers and thereby was about to
Brighten him of when Mr. Richard
Fitzgerald, who happened TO be pass
ing through the court house, heard Of
the affair and enquired Of Mr. Reeve why
he asked such an enormous and unlawful
price for issuing the papers Nj. Reeve
replied that he was only joking with Mr.
Darmody, aud that he did not mean what
he said, He knew that he had no right to
| Joke about business affair Of such great
importance. and has shown TO the public
by the actual charges since made that he
was not Joking. he was conscious OF the
| fact that by his conduct he was creating the
impression al over town that il would cost
| a foreigner an enormous sum
| to become naturAizcd But this was
exactly what lac wanted since q man Of
limited means would shrink from paying
such a sum for the privilege of voting.
The record of the court bears US out in
what we say, aud we again ask the News
to attempt to deceive the people by deny
ing our statements. II should not be silent
on a matter Of such great Importance
A lady reader of The BuLLETlS--a
bright and active little woman, who takes
proper interest in all charitable move
ments and matters OF reform and who also
possess a goodly store Of political inlorma-
ton TALL the lady readers Of THF BrLLE.
TIN are SUCH, yesterday met us on the
street and without catching Us BY the coat
collar, or leading US gently aside by the
sleeve, smilingly called US a liar. We are
used to being unccrcmoriously knocked
down and abused Cor pursuing the eventenor
of our way and reigiously adhering to the
straight and narrow path, and have pre-
pared ourself for anything that might al
tlict all ordinary mortal in this vale of tears,
but that we should, with smiling
face. be called "a liar" by
one of our esteemed lady readers
never occurred to us, and for moment we
felt like quoting from one Of Americas
distinguished poets something like
The rose is red,
The yolet'- blae,
If I'm liar,
SO are
but no, we didn't quote it then and refrain
from doing so now. We only assumed sen
atorial gravity and begged for an explana-
ton, which was very frankly given, We
were informed we had stated in yesterdays
issue that the rotten eggs that were thrown
on Tuesday night at the Republican pro-
cesson were thrown by colored boys. This
was lie. We had also stated that there
were only some seventy odd white men in
the procession on the same night, and this,
too, was lie We were stunned, and,
for a moment, looked up and down
the street for assistance. However,
seeing no one approaching, stammered out
that we were not in the city on the night
of the procession, but had obtained our in
formation from thoroughly reliable
source. Our reliable informant, then, was
constituencies pervaricator, was the re-
ply. We admitted that this was possible but
not probable, but before more could be
said number of colored men were seen
approaching. The poor fellows bore evil
dence of some fearful struggle. Their
faces were haggard and their eyes blood
shot, while smell of coal oil pervaded the
atmosphere. 1t was noticed that the back
hair of most of them had been burned off
by the torches of companions, while
their ears were swollen and
blls,ered from the same cause. They
were accompanied by an employee of the
custom house, who was shooting one of
his double back action opinions at them.
As they came within hearing distance one
of the colored men, who looked more worn
out tl.an the balance said that he and his
friends had, for months, spent the nights in
carrying torches, crying for Garfield listen
ing to speeches, applaudng at the proper
time and rubbing out 1920 all over town.
lie said further that they had stood up like