The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-10-12

Twenty-eight street, from st, Mary's Park
to Commercial avenue. The committee de-
cided that an ordinance by which their
prayer be granted be drawn up.
Sanders, the democratic candidate for
governor of Indiana, is quite confident that
he will be elected to-day. He says that he
will receive many greenback votes and that
working men will give him their support,
because he has always stood by them, and
guarded their interests. lie is of the
opinion that his majority will not fall be-
low seven thousand and five hundred, but
since the republicans have stocked the
state with negroes from across the river, it
will be a surprise to most democrats If he
! carries the state at all. The BULLETIN
will publish the dispatches in to.morow's
issue, in order that our readers may be
promptly advised Of the result.
The democratic meeting was held in
the courthouse last night, instead of
the Tenth-street stand, because Of the in
clemency of the weather. TRAINED nearly
all day, and threatened to do so last night,
but that did not prevent large crowd
from gathering in the courtroom, The
Boosters martial band, with torches and
uniforms, marched from Eighth street to
the place of speaking about 1880 O'Clock,
and, by their enlivenlng music, picked up
very nice little procession as they went.
Arriving in the courtroom, they made the
building tremble for about twenty minutes
with the sound of horns, flies and drums, and
then the speaker of the evening, Hon. Law
renee Harmon, democratic candidate for
attorney general, began his speech to
large audience, which was composed of in
telligent persons of all political parties
Mr.. Harmon is a man of no common ability,
which his speech amply demonstrated He
gave attention to many important questions
and addressed himself 70 persons of every
shade of politics. His argument was con
elusive upon every point; his style was
pleasing and convincing, and it was plain
ly visible that the general effect Of his eff
fort was everything that could have been
desired. II was pronounced by some. who
heard it, to have been the best polti-
cal speech delivered here during this cam.
paign, and sure to gain for Mr.. Harmon
that respect and confidence, which is es-
sential to his election by a good majority.
There is an old adage that "all is fair
in love and war" and it has been used to
excuse countless breaches of trust, betrayals
OF confidence and violations of principle.
1t is dangerous doctrine at best, and it is
we'll that it is MOI generally accepted by
decent men and women as fixing the stan.
dards of action either in love or in war.
But when an effort is made to make a
practical application Of this pernicious doc
trinc, IN politics, every honest man and
patriotic citizen must revolt against it with
out regard to party considerations. We be-
lieye that they will DO so. However much
professional slanderers may rely upon in
tense partisan prejudice to applaud and en-
dorse their dishonorabe acts in their con-
tests for position or patronage,
we do not believe that the
thinking men Of Cairo, for instance, will
countenancc the recent disgraceful attacks
of the republican organ Of this city, upon
men for no other reason that they are &C.
tive workers for the success Of the demo.
cratic party. Such men as Walton Wright,
William Cundiif Lon. Daniels, Capt.
Shields and Judge Green have been sub
,jeCts of Misrepresentation and abuse of the
vilest nature, not because they interferred
with the rights Of any man; not because
they are fceseekers-tOr they are not
but because, with due respect for the OPP
posing party, they dared to express their
political opinions, and nothing more. We
have, ourselves, SAID many hard things
about men and things, during our connec-
ton with The BULLETIN in our present
capacity, but have ever given the pubic
our reasons for so doing, in order that they
might be able to judge whether or not
what we said was merited, The editor of
the News should break himself of this
habit. If he would abuse people he
should give the public the reasons for so
dong
We publish in another place this morn
ing an extract from the "Republican Advo.
cate" republican paper published IN
Chicago, Ills, and edited by colored man.
The writer has become awakened to the
fact, so often urged by THE BULLETIN
upon the colored people here, that the
negroes are being treated by their republi.
can friends O. as so many pack mules upon
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