The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-03

judge, treasurer, ETC., will have to be held
this fall is creating considerable comment.
The republicans generally announce that
they must put in true-blue republicans in
those offices; that democrats have already
too much of ''the fat of the land here. A
county that gives 226 republican majority
should haye more than one republican Off
cial,"- News. We should think that Mr..
Joy and "the republicans generally" had
learned something at the last county cleo
ton 1t is impossible that they can have
failed to observe what the people of the
county think Of dragging national
politics into county and city
affairs, for they expressed their will
in manner that ought to penetrate to the
understanding of the most thick scullcd
politician in the country. The result of the
election, so far as it concerned the county,
was a scathing rebuke to the republican
leaders and managers, and showed
beyond the possibility Of doubt,
that local elections must be conducted
upon purely local basis, and the national
parties must stand aloof from them. This
is right. The best interests of the city and
county cannot be conserved when party
formed for the turtherance of national
principles and without any reference
whatever to the interests of the
city or county, presumes to select
city and county officers. Local officers
should be selected according to their worth
and their fitness for the office, which is to
be filed, taking also into consideration the
views they entertain upon the affairs over
which they are to have control. The peo-
pie have SAID so, and 50 mote be. Bear
this in mind ye lorne republican leaders ~
and do not let an overdose of Joy Cat a
temporary national victory again mislead
you.
Mr.. John B. Cough, the great temper
apce orator, with whom our Reform club
has opened a correspondence with view
to securing his presence here, was in Ok.
ford, England, some time ago, delivering
his Enthusiastically powerful temperance
lecture to the college students there
and, upon one occasion, 1t is
said the students sent him word
that they "would not have any temperance"
and advised him not to persist in ecturing
but he went to the hall and for twenty
minutes he spoke in pantomime amid the
deafening cat-calls of the boys Finally he
stepped forward demanded British fair play,
and offered to whip every one Of the five
hundred students singly This offer was
loudly cheered, and promptly accepted, and |
big six-foot athlete was sent upon the
stage. Cough, who is little man, backed |
off as the big fellow approached him, and
explained: "My friends, you evidently
misunderstood me. This is to be an intel
lectual contest, not prize.fght.' The |
students cheered again at this evidence of |
the Americans shrewdness and ordered |
debate to proceed The college lad was,
therefore, obliged to discuss with the tenn
perance champion, He was at dIsadvan-
tage, but he quoted scripture, and reminded
the pucky lecturer that it was one of the
apostles who wrote to Timothy young
man, too, like themselves-to take little
wine for the stomach's sake, and for his |
other in6rmities. The lads shouted vocife-
rously at this. Cough slowly examined the
sixtootcr from top to toe, and then said,
"My friends, look at this athlete, this fell
low with muscles like steel, who can WELD
the club Of Hercules; who can bend an
English yeoman's bow; who could knock
down an OK with the blow of hammer.
He is the personlication Of health and
strength but he thinks he needs a little
wine for his stomach's sakem Coughs
manner of saying this had a
tremendous effect. The students fairly
yelled with delight and their defeated
champion rctrcated. Another was sent up.
He was the intellectual giant of his class,
in contradstinction TO the six.footer. He,
with much self-confdence, made a finished
for liquor drinking, based on
Christ's changing the water into wine at
the wedding feast. His comrades cheered
him to the echo, and thought his argument
unanswerable, and Cough was chaffed for
his defeat. "Young men," said he, solemn
ly. II admit that your champion has
forestaled me- He has said to me Just
what came here to charge you to do
drink all the wine you can find that is
made entirely out Of water"
Yesterday afternoon, about 23O
o'clock, City Marshal Robinson, while
standing near one corner of Eighth street
and Commercial avenue. had his susnicions