The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-20
GOV. CULLoM AND SEN.
AToR LOGAN HAN
DIED WITHOUT
I'd GLOVES.

Hon, Lyman Trumbuil, Democratic cans
didats for governor. made q speech at
JolieG on Tuesday evening, in answer to
Cullom's speech at Rock Island and
Logan's at Galesburg, It is q scathing
review and as the Republicans of this city
have been distributing Gov. Gallons
speech by hundreds, We publish Ma.
Trunbull's remarks in full Let every
body read this speech--it will fully repay
for the time. Below is the speech in full:
In recent speech made at Belleviile. |
asserted, and. as thought. demonstrated
that there was no reason why q Republl-
can OF 1856 or 1860, should continue TO act
with the Republican party, by showing
that the party as originally organized, as
shown by its platform. was in favor of
restoring the action of the federal govern
ment to the principles Of Washington and
Jefferson" ''of maintaining in
violate the right of each state to order and
control its own domestic institutions
according to it's own Judgment exclusive
ly;" of q return to rigid econo-
my and accountability to arrest the
systematic plumber of the public treasury
by favored partisans; and of an entire
change of administration in order to check
the then 'sstartling developments of fraud
and corruption at the federal metropolis
and that it denounced s'ths lawless inva-
sion by armed force of the soil of any state
or territory. no matter under what pre-
text, as among the graYest of crimes. -
While many OF the questions involved in
the Republican platforms of 1856 and
1860. such as that Of slavery and the
~c Ia
the rights of the states to manage their
domestic affairs, and the necessity for
economy and honesty in the a1ministra-
tionOf the federal governments are living
questions, and will continue to be such
while the government exists, / then
showed that the Republican party as now
organized had proved recreant to the vital
and living principles announced in its
origin, and had become party of central
lzatlon and extravaganza, and had been
guilty OF the most monstrous frauds and
corruption. also showed that its claim
OF Crsdit for the great deeds performed
under Republican administrations, in the
days Of their purity, were false and
unfounded. To some of my remarks both
Gen, Logan and Gov. Oullom have at
tempted to reply. as appears from their
published speeches in the Chicago Tribune.
l. propose now to examine these replies,
and II show that they consist of evasions
oil the issues presented, of false differences
and n1isstatements of facts, an intelligent
public will know to what weight they are
entitled.
GEN. LOGAN,
Ia speech delivered at Galesburg. Sept.
2, is reported to have used this language
in reference to me: Il am sorry TO find
one fer whom | have naught but friendly
feeling resort to such misrepresentation"
This Is q serious accusation. 1timplies
that was guilty of Intentionally falsifying
facts, which. if true should disgrace me
In the eyes OF all honest men. A man g
arguments may be shown to be unsound,
or his differences from facts mistaken
without any Impeachment of his integrity; |
but one who intentionally resorts TO mis-
representations to sustain his position is |
the confidence or respect of /
honest men. Ii in any speech had mad |
vertentiy misrepresented fact, / should |
hasten 10 correct it the FIRST opportunity |
ten. Logan, who charges me with "a
resort to misrepresentation, fails to |
point out what they were, and, if I show |
mat IN making the accusation he has been |
guilty OF the very same offense he charges |
upon.me, like Hannah of old, he may find |
himsef 4 suspended from the same scaffold |
which he proposed for another. I shall |
apply no epithets to Gen. Logan, but will
compare some of his statements with |
recorded facts, and leave to others the
apploation. In speaking of the
oIRanixafon of the Republican
party quote from his report
ca sp seenf--ne said: Its fundamental
prlnc PIES were hostility 70 the further ex-
tension o. slavery, and g the ldoctrine Of
with Abraham Lincoln atsits head. made
war uncompromisingly againstzthose false
snecs 100 OF government. lin the funda-