The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-03

| fully sustained by .the board I made q
reply to the attack. The discussion thus
commenced was sustained 10 the best OF
my liability until the close of the cam
paign, The charges made by the cham
| pion of the prohibition party were IN the
main refuted, The defeat we suffered
was vastly more creditable than the alleg
ed victory. My fair election, notwith-
standing bribery. constitutes the fourth
crime. for solsich I am perfectly scittsn0 to
be fugiren. The indictments are cate
fair consideration of an honest jury. LII
after Nov. I'd, of this year Of grace. the
republican party shall continue TO control
the legislation Of this country, will ask
to make my peace with Bishop Ford; fail
ing 10 that pious effort will seek audience
| with Pope Ingersoll and ask absolution
| for all the cuss words INDUCED 10 my late
| conversations with the Beeizes.
The new category of my crimes begins
with this presidential campaign. am
guilty of furnishing hickory poles for a
Hancock and English banner, and assisting
TO pay for an American flag to place on
the pole; am guilty of thwarting the
designs of our noble senator In his efforts
to prevent the erection Of the pole from
which to suspend an American flag: | am
guilty of organizing. with the help of my
fellow citizens, q Hancock and English
club of such vitality as to foreshadow the
defeat of the Republican party; i am
passlvely for Barney Donnelley to choke
me, cut of compliment to his age and M.
Nj. Ford's politics; / ana guilty of the
crime of choking a foo | on the public
street, and for this last abuse of a univer~
sal sentiment, ask the indulgence Of
generous public, dllatde to the 0vert act.
LIZ addressed Asa Bealis as the son of q
dog, beg the pardon Of bis progenitors
for reminding them that they are not respon-
sibie In any sense for the existence of SO
NANCY a cur. The allegations of the
Nesos as to my drunkenness are false in
every particular. The allegations as to
my conduct Oh the occasion of the Repub-
Iican meeting on the 18th of August were
equally false. denounce it's editor as
coward. a liar and hypocrite.
The charge made or the affair of the
2Sth of August is true to the extent that
I.clutched him by the throat and applied
epithets that no man would submit to. He
proposed kicking process which my
ready acceptance discouraged; he then
threatened me with arrest, and the fear
of that alone prevented me from infictiug
a punishment which he fully merits and
[ an fully able to infict. The statement
imputed to me that | could whip any
Republican In the country is utterly false:
the statement that desired the nomina
ton for congress in this district is utterly
false. Were to retail in all their details
the rumors Of the street, his base personal
attack upon me would give way to the
elaborate defense of NJ, M. Ford and
Hiram Higgins. He is self appointed
minister of Christ and ought to remember
that adultery is graver crime than any
thing bis party has imputed 20 me and
that the recollection of this crime is the
Skeleton 10 the closet" of many of the
faithful If the Bellies desire l will
elaborate on the idea at an early day.
j. +, TODD.