The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-03-26
POLITICAL soUNDINGs.

The Washington correspondent of the
Hartford CouYant. says: Edmunds is as
| much the antipode of Blaine in his man
ner of dealing with general legislation as
any man in public life. Observe his scorn
OF Blaine's demagogism on the Chinese
question; his Straightforward action IN
contrast with Blaine's whiting on the
monetization of silver and the retirement
of greenbacks. The most radical differ
ence of all. however. is ia fact that. while
Blaine is dltoags the agent OF the lobby
while it relies on him as confidently as If
he was its paid attorney-there is no sen
ator whom the lobby breads as it breads
Edmunds. There hasn't been scheme
against the treasury, from the endeavor of
| the Union Pacific to be relieved of its
obligations for interest money and the
| subsidy of John Roach down, but Blaine
| has been at the front as its advocate, while
| Edmunds has held as steady guard of the
public interest in opposition. These last
are to be the vital issues of the next four
years,
Washington Post: Tilden is candi-
date, and his candidacy has received a
fatal blow, He counted upon coming into
the Cincinnati convention with one hun
dred and twenty eight votes of New York
and Pennsylvania at his back. With
these he would present, perhaps, more
solid strength than any other one man,
and stand the chance of success usually
favorably inclined to the leader on first
ballot. Without Pennsylvania, without
| Louisiana, without New jersey, without
den will cut no figure at Cincinnati. It is
| hard to kill such a man off. but the events
| of the week seem to have accomplished it,
Danviue IL) Post; Had we only the
| interests of the democratic party to look
after, nothing could please US better than
the very thing that will surely come to
pass, namely. the nomination OF Gen
Grant by the republicans. There is no
one who would lose 30 many republican
votes, With any other of the candidates
spoken of, we would have less hope of
carrying Ohio. With him to oppose, New
| York and Indiana are made doubly sure
| for the democrats, and should it SO happen
| that Judge Davis is nominated at Cincin-
natl, we shall confidently look for Illinois
| to be democratic.
albany argus: The discovery is made
| that 10 debate IN the house some years
ago. when both were members of that
| body. it was Washburne who said to
Conkling, You lie." Eiicitlng no re-
spouse, he resumed the conversation after
few minutes and said: Il don't know
| as you understand what / said. and [ don't
wish to have any mistake made. [ said
You lie. " This discovery leads the re
publican papers generally to the conclusion
that were Washburne nominated Mr.
Conkling would see that he did not get the
full republican vote in New York.
The Troy Times, edited by John NJ.
Francis, delegate to the Chicago conven-
tion says: The Utica Herald (Robertsl
wants Gen. Grant to declare that the popu-
lar uprising 10 his behalf--the call of the
country upon him to once more take the
helm of the old ship of state-is in opposi-
ton to his wishes aud can not be responded
to by him Find out what your enemy
wants you to do and then do something
else, is maxim Gen. Grant learned in
war. 1t mag have its uses also 10 politics.
The Aew Orleans Pcavune, speaking
for the democracy of the south, says: Wei
require our candidate man around
whom will collect all the conservatism of
the north, west, and south, without being
repealed by questions arising out of the
late war We believe that
Gen. Hancock possesses all the qualities
which Should belong 10 our leader ia the
present orisis, and that oroum stances in |
dictate him as Enthusiastically as they indi-
Gated Geo. Washington, when the CONT |
mental congress made him their commau
der-in chief
The Nashville american saws of th e |
republican party: The stalwart element
has.reached!a point where it must controller |
yield to growing liberalism. It is a con |
test between ideas and sentiment, with |
the advantage in the convention n favor |
OF sentiment The contest is serious and |
to ap oEtent that does not appear on the |
surface.
Harrisburg Patriot. Whens strong |
man" is wanted the government of the |
people is weak and their political insttu |
tons have fallen into contempt. They |
are ready then to bear the yoke of any
usurper.
The Boston Journal thinks that Blaine's |
exceilng strength is his weakness, be- |
cause he is the especial antagonist of all |
the weaker candidates.
Indiana is to vote at her April constitu- |
tlonal election on the political enfranchise |
ment of her colored citizens,
Neso Yorl: Tribune: Not a single state |
has thus far followed the example of |
Pennsylvania and New York 10 the matt
OF sending Grant dee cation tied up by
d uull rune ~ tulCAROs % tue ebert % |
to give the third term boom a start viii b |
would sweep the country and overawe all
. OPPOSITION has vanished into thin air. |
Instead OF leading in the preliminary cam
vass for the presidency. these great cam
m anwealths have thrown away the in |
auence which their position naturally |
gave them, and are likely to follow in the |
wake OF some OF the smaller states. The |
early meeting of the New York and |
Pennsylvania conventions demonstrated |
beyond doubt that there was no such |
popular demand for Grant as was claimed |
and his boom has steadily declined since.
The republican party persstently refuses
to enthuse or work itself into persp ira-
ton over his candidacy, It is probable
that the third term movement would have
been stornger to day. had these convention
met later. Then its strength and it's weak
ness would not have been patent to ever
one as it is now.
TO aehons tt may concern:
THIS is to certify, That my wife. Eliza
Rice, has been afflicted with troublesome
cough for more than seven years. | have
expended a large amount of money with