The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-07-11

ever ready and enthusiastic defender In the
Argus Is reallya deplorable fact. Mr.
Sheehan has during his several years Of
official life, given cause for grave
suspicious against his general character
His name has been very freely
used, by persons who claimed to be we'll
informed, in connection with cases where
he Is said to have conspired with criminals,
and sought to do so with fellow officers,
for the purpose of committing oiienses
against the law. Whether all these suspl'
cions were really well founded or MOTIVE DO
not pretend TO know, but We 10 KNOW that
he and his partners have been guilty OF
those things which stamp them as eatiCely
unfit for the positions they hold Yesterday
evenings disgracetul affair caused intense
excitement among our people, Mr. sAee-
hans few hangers-on eulogiled him Tor his
bravery and applsudedhi noble behavior
while the grea, majority OF our citizens, 10
fact all those who have any selGsespeet OF
any regard for the cityS we'll being and
who believe that there is, in the city, con
spiracy OF evil mea tor EGrposes Of
plumber, denounced hia for
his cowardly act and expressed
themselves very freely coaeeTaipg his gea-
eral character. Among these ls,Ier weEe
numerous prominent men, several vi whom
We're threatened with violeaee by MessyA
Sheehan and Hogan for their expressions ot
opinion. Among these were Messrs, Lon.
ergan, Woodward, and those merchants
who had expressed willingness TO swear
that they would not believe SheehAn under
oath. In fact, We were Informed tha, these
two men, officers OF the law,
We are ashamed 10 say, went about the
streets like pair Of bulldogs, threatening
to tear into fragments anyone who dared TO
express himself agains, them. These men
should remember that free speech Is guar.
anteed by constitutional amendment, and
thst dictatorial cir only makes pigmies
the more ridiculous and detestable. But
the Argus is their appologist The
journal, whose boosted reform in conducting
a newspaper, consists in nothing more nor
less than cringing knsw.nothing and say
nothing policy, for fear Of losing one or
two Of its subscribers; and whose highhswn
brag over the success of its new depar-
ture in the field of newspaper literature is
only cover for its natural cowardice-this
journal is the guardian Of these men these
are worse than wolves In Sleeps clothing. As
it is, we,with the assistance OF all good cit.
liens, have to combat the efforts Of gang
Of bold, bad, inscriptions, intriguing
scoundrels, feebly backed up by hypo.
critical sheet, which feigns to labor for the
best interests of the community at large,
but whose little vitality has been expended
in abstaining from all efforts
that might make its columns
interesting to the intelligent reader
But we shall not allow ourselves TO be in
timidated, either by the slurs and sense.
less rebukes of our cotemporary, nor
by the threats and abuse Of unprincipled
men. We shall continue to fearlessly ex-
pose the wrong and denounce the men
who endeaver to enrich themselves through
crime; and while doing this, it is con.
ISOLATION to know that We have the approx.
al not Of ga woman or man" but Of all
good men and women