The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-05

did not satisfy the committee, and it
concluded to repeat the test yesterday
when steam would be up in the ferry
boats large boilers. Yesterday afternoon
therefore another teSt was made. Five sec
tons were put together, and were subjected
to a pressure of 305 pounds, which they
bore to the entire satisfaction of the com
mlttee. A single section subjected to the
same pressure proved equally satisfactory,
and the committee will doubtless report
tavorably with reference to the hose, at
the council meeting tonight.
Argus; "THE BULLETIN is thus early
setting up candidates for mayor, apparently
for the pastime of knocking them down.
Its criticism of Alderman Wood is not war
rented by facts, as it can learn by referring
to council proceedings. The Colonel is one
OF the most attentive and useful members
of the council, 1t is true, that he scruiini-
zes everything carefully that is brought be.
| fore that body; but this we account virtue
| instead of a fault. We assure the Argus
that, in this case, il has been "mislead by
appearances and we regret very much
the necessity Of setting it right, for it is
with fear aud trembling that we refer again
at this time to the subject of making par.
tisan political fight at the coming April
election. By our brief reference thereto
in Sunday'sissue we innocenty aroused the
win and vinegar" of an ordinarily very
swee-tempered gentleman, and brought
down upon our youthful head
a not over gentle repremand
and an injunction MOTTO do so any more.
Thisis the cause of our agitation and we
submit that it is good cause. But the
above from the Argus compells us to ig-
more the repremand, disobey the injunc.
ton and brave the 1.-THE consequences.
First, then, good Argus, TIE BULLETIN
has not set up any candidate for mayor.
With reference to Mr.. Henry Winter and
Mr.. Israel Rawins it made the positive
statement that they would be candidates,
and this was true, as both gentlemen will
testify. With reference to Col. Wood, it
said in substance, that he was spoken OF
as the Republican nominee for mayor, and
this also is true. The BULLETIN published
in all the cases only what it heard,
and upon the best kind of authority,
In justice to Col. Wood we want to here
state that, so far as we know, he has as yet
not been consulted at all with reference to
his candidacy, and that to the best Of our
knowledge and belief, he had not an ink
ling Of the movement foo. concerning
him until he read Sundays BULLETIN. But
We insist that prominent Republican DID
tell US that an effort WOULD be made by the
Republicans Of the city to have partisan
contest, and to renominate Col. Wood for
mayor, md we insist that it is our firm be-
lief that such an effort will be made by
several good Republican citizens. Whether
they will succeed in their intentions, time
and Col. Wood must tell. But, secondly,
we beg leave to differ with the Argus when
it says that THE BULLETINS few words of
criticism Of the Colonel were not warranted
by the facts The BULLETIN is ready 10
prove every sentence true, and believes
that to say they are not true would not
only be denial Of what nearly every citi-
zen Of Cairo knows and what the the Col.
himself does rot deny, but would cast SLOW
emily and grossly unjust reflections upon the
Col. The BULLETIN endorses heartily
the opinion of theArgus, that "Col, Wood is
one Of the most attentive and useful mem
bers Of the city counciI,' and it will 60
further and say. that the Republicans could
not possibly select better Republican as
their candidate for mayor And we will
60 still further and say, that the The
BULLETIN would rather beat Col. Wood as
the Republican nominee than any other
Republican, simply because we would
then have beaten whom many
believe one Of the party's best
men, and the victory would be the more
glorious-verily, for no other reason This
ought to be satisfactory all around.
EsMERAIDA at the Opera House Wednes.