The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-23
The 9ailg Areus.
ROCK ISLAND. ILLINOIS
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Ills. State Register
The attitude of Cooper and Carey to
wards Gen. Hancock demonstrates the i'm
potency of any attempt at conducting a
areenbaek campaign on the part of the
few and scattered lingerers of that once
formidable organization. Cooper gave to
the greenbaok party that air of CONNER
cial responsibility aud financial backing
which a successful business man aud
wealthy capitalist alone could confer
Upon the stump. Carey infused vigor and
courage into the movement by eloquent
sophistry and passionate and unreasoning
appeals to the prejudices of iphamed
minds. The successful resumption OF
specie payment. the redemption of the
currency. che succession of the excel-
lent crops and heavy foreign demands
have operated to close with magic fingers
the lips Of complaint, and restore the
clearer vision of reason and fact. The
few soft handed leaders of the greenback
movement to day lack the Immaculate
character of Peter Cooper and the burn
ing eloquence of Carey. The honey is
out of the comb, and the vacancy lett by
its withdrawal is all that renders con
spicuous the so called greenback party Of
to-day.
As a national organization the party il
dead. Some of its friends will keep the
corpse antil after election day before they
will discover 1t perhaps. Its vivifying
cause is gone. Its coherency shattered,
and the glimmer of logic which imbued it
with life scattered to the four winds. Its
new apostle, Weaver, is sad commentary
upon the infrmity of the party he is
supposed to lead. He lacks all that made
Cooper presentable candidate and all
that won followers to Carey. His promi-
pence Is founded upon the preposterous
proposition to readjust debts Of the war
upon the gold standard 1t has been. as
the STATE REGISTER understands, in the
faith of that faction. cardinal principle
that paper money was and is the measure
of value; that gold was and is q commodity.
The candidate for president, Mr.. Weaver.
1t will be seen, desired. as shown by his
proposition. to recognize gold as the stand
ard, and ignore the measuring capacity OF
greenbacks, in direct contravcntio1 of all
the theories of that fraementary party Of
which he is the temporary represents
tive.
In localities the sect may secure some
strength by the fostering care of the
republican party end the hoodwinking by
smooth tongued sophists and white~
fingered Oaii0t- IN O0GerS OF honest lAOOTi1R
men, who conscientiously seek their own
and their families best good through the
ballot, as well as by sturdy and productive
labor. The calculating Mepbistophles
who with grim delight plays upon the
easily Wrought passions of men who, in
their innocence of the great crimes of
stateeraft and politics may obtain audi
ence and following They are even now
whispering in the ear and impregnating
the minds of the best meaning laboring
men with ideas potent Of wrong. and as
dangerous as damnation Blu. for these
cunning agitators, who seek for the mere
purposes of barter, and set-gain to secure
the willing ear OF men who fail to
fully investiGste for themselves, the green
back movement would experience that
collapse which i long ago experienced in
fact
II ito ~ Weaver Is unmathodi
rnadress t. engage IN local move ents,
forsaking tie Democratic party for the
beBe6t of some fiionaut babbIer. is the
height IF uusisdou,, fruitiesa of good
disastrous To the ultimate aims OF the
voter. AID only brnrfi ::al {, the ballot
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