The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-31
POLITICAL.


/ The protection organs are. still bringing
up the old, played out argument, which
farmers know to be false, that the protecsz
i've tariff gives them the market for their
wheat. yFhe@pqieea of wheat isSregulated
IN thefprice ID the EuelislI markets The
crop his yeax isses tiniatedbak sc, coo, 900
bushels; The manufacturing states in 1880
consumed only 81, 1862, 5s1 bushels, the
other states 276, 534 600. Does the home
market take the large residue?
The president ''does not suppose that
there-iszaag ol@sesien .stosShe occasional
preseaee ina he par<aentasa persons
Fcalleeking vol aataT dsatrabatiens." That's
tie kind of a president Arthur is, and he
refuses to learn that it is not the kind of
president the people respect
q Nice thing it is to hold government
clerkship from Virginia. Mahone's orders
are out for a second voluntary contribus.
ten of fiFe percent IN asldihons to Jag
Hubbel's two per cent e
l j The national trsasllry via have sur
plus of &c 0,O00se0N this year. More
taxes ought to be laid to please the protec-
tionists who appear before the tariff com
mission" says the Springfield Republican.
sdrcasticaIly.
Republican consultations are numereas
y
They -ges anna oritsAof tbs hsirseA xviii make
such fools of thelnst Ives that the country
win be sure TO ''go right in 1884. Perhaps
i wound be bestnotto be too sure on that
POINT The last revolution swept the coun-
try in 1874, and it took the republican
party six years to recover FRONT OF
course it does not 1expectsto Acaunt in a
president in 1884, as it did in 1876. More
over, many seductive issues which led off
the demecrats4fter strange gods in that
period, such as silverism and greenbackism,
are now pretty nearly disposed of, thanks
to the combined forces of tie best men sof
both parties. The democrats will have
fewer opportunities go astray than be-
fore Springfield Refsa11icam.
.aa-Arahi Huhhell has thaswn off all dis
guise, and since Ohio's Waterloo is looting
the department clerks right and left. To-
day he took occasion to call on the secre-
tary of war and request him to bring up
the dclinquehts in THAI office vita around
turh. The lhfest sclFeme of extertfen is
this: A black list has been prepared by the
secretary of the congressional campaign
cemmittee, giving the names of the en-
ployes of each bureau of the several de-
partments who have failed to respond.
Thisslist is handed 80 the chief clerks In
each bureau The Aforesaid officer sesads
for The delinqueht, and after casual cues
ion says, incidea tai BY the way, have
you seen this?" handing him the black list
OF course the clerk sees his name on the
list. andamakes an excuse He is then Civ
en- TO understand that his position will be
much safer if the assessment is paid. -
Cancsn7ldts Enquirer, IS
Secretary Folgers attempt TO scare help
TO dandiaate Belger by pointing TO the
Gould or Vanderbilt to put up
or put down the stock market, interferes
with the desire of decent people to hold
his personal and official character IN high
And when Mr.. Depew pipes in
aeeqmpaniment "inepsase your. margins |
and Yote for BE rep6Rlionn fickets's the
disgrst offnteiligeut people cannot well |
be increased. The assertion of the New
York gamblers that 1--WE are all for Fol-
gen. receives unwonted continuation
JsicE Herald.
) The trouble with the republican party is |
not that some thousands of its members |
are indifferent" or in pet it is that |
the party has been betrayed by selfish and