The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-09

cation such as the Reform club has on en-
istence here. II would doubtless meet the
eve of many who were interested in the
Temperance work, and induce them to
visit it, while Others would frequent it out
of curiosity, and all would give dattcrlng
account abroad 1t is doubtless true
that many So long have sought, and
mourned because they found 1t not And
all because they were ignorant Of Its exist
ence or where it was to be found.
A number Of our young men feel them
selves sighted because their names did not
appear in our list of manageable young
men, published few days ago and we
have been compelled to promise them that
their names should appear at some future
time. They may be regarded as somewhat
forward by thoughtful papas and mamas'
but since they entertain the BELIEF that
"only the brave deserve the fair have
screwed their courage to the sticking
place" in order that they may obtain as a
partner for life, one who will "love them
little, love them long
1t really looks as though the stampede
of the Republicans had commenced. All
their manufactured courage and pluck has
oozed out and they are to-day as badly de-
moralized as when they first heard OF Han
cocks nomination. OF course Maine has
had something to do with this result. Gen.
Hancock's unequivocal letter on southern
claims has bereft dishonest alarmists Of
one of their most effective spooks, and Gov.
Hendricks emphasis of the really greatest
issue OF this campaign has to all appear
ances. made solid the deciding October
state.
Hon. Lawrence Harmon, Of Peoria,
democratic candidate tor attorney general,
W i'll address the democrats of Cairo and
surrounding country on Monday next the
18th inst. His appointment was first fixed
for the 18th, but dispatch yesterday re-
celved by Judge Green from the chairman
of the democratic state central committee,
states that Mr.. Harmon will certainly
be here on Monday. He is one
of the best posted men in
the country, and pictures the misdeeds and
shortcomings OF the republican party in
the most eloquent manner. We suggest
that the courthouse be secured for the &C.
casion, as in it all will be enabled to hear
him and find comfortable seats.
Hancock is not professional army Of
fcer. He is soldier whose patriotism and
devotion to his country have been tested on
more than one battlefield. He is more than
a soldier. He is a statesman of superior
ability. HIS honesty is unquestioned, his
character unstained. In all their research
es for something to defle his character, the
republican sleuth-hounds have failed This
last great charge that he was in favor of the
payment of the southern claims recoiled
upon themselves, and left him in higher re-
putc than ever before. Because they could
not FINK something with which to smirch
his high standing they are well nigh dis
;racted. Their time is growing short. If
they find anything, they must find it soon.
Only little more than three working
weeks remain between now and the Novem-
Der election day. Hancock's record is in.
vulnerable.
To be sure, we have not very old
head on our shoulders, and it may there
fore not become Us to have opinions like
the Olympian oracular editor But We will
make ourselt heard sometimes, if not felt,
and what we wish to remark now, is that it
always seemed to US great waste Of en-
ergy to laboriously dig up and sift to the
winds the mole hills of Credit Mobllier and
De Golyer thefts, while the mountainous
excrescence of the presidential steal is
charged with dynamite to our hand, The
BULLETIN is entirely satisfied that Mr., Gar
field was guilty in the Credit Mobilier and
De Golyer business, and it might be able to
pardon INN for these theits; the thief on
the cross was pardoned; doubtless Mr..
Garfield has as bitterly atoned Of them as
did Barbas for his sins. But the Judas
Iscariot, that betrayed popular suf-
fragc with kiss; that put to an ignob.e
death the vox PoPULT Of the United States;
that blasphemed the spirit OF liberty in
the holy centenary of its birth! Can there
be in time or eternity adequate punishment
for such as he2 If the Republican party
had put up its purest and most exalted
name; a candidate who was the veritabe
north pole, instead of in Louisiana, and OF
theelectoral commission, when of the sacred
will OF the people "a damned defeat was
made"-he still must have been beaten on