The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-06
FROM THE "FORMER EDITOR"

AN EPIsTLE FROM CHICAGO TOUCHING NAT
TIERS OF INTEREST TO OUR LOCAL READERS.
Friend Burnett
see by THE BULLETIN, which keeps
me fully advised of local offairs Tin which
l assure you still take profound INTEREST,"
that the Democracy Of the 18th district has
nominated Judge Heilman for congress.
With Judge Bross and Others, do not
| think this the strongest nomination that
could have been made" and further
think that Hartzell would have shown
himself 500 votes the strongest man, yet
| would not give SNAP for the Demo
crazy of the man who refuses to come up
to Heilman's support. The struggle is
one of life and death, with the Democracy,
and if its banners are furled in defeat this,
time the future promises no breezes that will
1aunt then out again in the pride Of vic.
tory.
BY private advice | am assured that
Jack Hodges will certainly beat Nellls
800 votes. Jacks success, by smaller
majority, would reflect upon the inteli-
gence and integrity Of the people Of Alex
ander county. You have been well served
in the office of sheriff; but never better
served than by Jack Hodges. He has
shown himself the closest vet
THE MOST oBLIGING COLLECTOR
of the past twenty years; and but tor his
untiring industry and ceaseless vigilance,
the tax books would be encountered, to-
day, with thousands of dollars of "for-
feited taxes" for use of which the county
would be standing in the sorest need
Charley Nellis is good man and almost
everybody likes him; but nobody
whose opinion is worth anything, will
insist, for moment, that Charley can
fill the office of sheriff and col
lector as acceptably as Jack Hodges has
done and will continue to do as long as he
is retained in Office. With so good an Off.
Ger as Hodges available for the two years
to come, it would be MADNESS to expert
ment in the hope of getting q better one.
If you feel inclined to question the sound
ness Of this philosophy, interview my old
friend Henry Metcaf.
John A. Reeve is, socially, one Of the
best fellows in the world; but Ham. Irwin
will beat him in the race for the circuit
cerkship, even if he is drawn over the
course by one leg, in imitation of his recent
Clear Creek experience. There Is not a
lawyer in Cairo who will not say, if he ex-
presses his honest convictions, that there is
not man in Alexander county so fully and
thoroughly qualified for the Office Of cir
cult clerk as Ham Irwin is question it
much if he, Ham, has a superior, in that
regard, in the state of Illinois. He has
filed the office Of city clerk, the Office of
clerk Of the court Of common pleas, the Of
fee of sheriff, etc. and left all of them with
a reputation unsmirched and unchallenged,
He is
"HoNEsT AS THE DAY IS LONG,
the most courteous and oblging man
in your county, and possesses
qualifications, as everybody is
willing to testify, of the highest order, If
live long enough to die in Chicago III
"haunt' every voter in Alexander county
who is bound to me by ties of friendship,
who deposits ballot, in November next,
against Ham Irwin.
| learned TO day that Coc Dunning was
in Chicago yesterday. Although | am
quartered at point only nine miles from
the hotel he beats, he didn't come to see
me. | mention this fact that you may I'M
derstand the anmus of the assault intend
to make upon him in the Chicago Sun
(Which is NOT, as you state, olive stock
paper" but the best and largest dollar
weekly local and family paper IN Illinois,
Of next Saturday.
THE KNIGHTS TEMrLAR
biennial conclave, for which such extern
sive preparations arc being made, will un-
doubleday be the largest civic demonstra-
ton ever seen in Chicago. Over four hun
drcd communicates have already slgniied
u purpose to be here, ard the general cx.
pectation is that no less than thirty thous-
and Sir Knights and one hundred and fifty
brass bands, will take their places in the
procession. The attendance of outsiders
will be tremendous Milwaukee, alone,
promising to send in 10,00apeoplc. 1t
will, doubtless, be the "big thing" Of the
century among the Masons. Cairoites who
think Of coming should secure quarters in
advance, as now assure them they will