The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-15

of the country have since corroborated Mr.,
Barnards statement.
Mrs. Sayers, mother of the foreman of
The BULLETIN news room, died early yes
terday morning after a long Illness Her
remains were taken to Blandville yesterday
afternoon, for interment. She leaves only
three children to mourn her loss, her hus.
band having died only about year ago
OF the children, Jack" is the only boy and
next to the Oldest and upon him his sisters
will now depend for support, as they
and their mother had done since the father.
er's death. But Jack will doubtless be
equal to the task He is brave boy; has
been connected with The BULLETIN office
for number of years, starting as "deve"
and now holding a very responsible position.
He and his sisters are deserving of all
sympathy in their great loss,
"A white man named Ed Higgins, a
towboat man, came into the city Friday,
and the following night he forcibly gained
entrance to the barber shop Of the colored
man, Freeman, on Ohio levee, and took
away satchel containing various articles
of male apparel. He took The satchel up
the levee some distance and hid it. Then
returned to the shop for more. But his
second attempt proved less successful. He
was heard, the alarm was given and before
he could take many steps he was IN the
iron grasp of Officer John P. Hogan who
took him to the city Jail. Yesterday morn.
ing he was brought before Magistrate Com
ings for examination, but he waived this
and was held to bail in the sum Of two hun.
dred dollars to answer the charge of burg
larry before higher court.
The German voters of Illinois, and of
this district particularly, like the German
voters of Ohio, have gone back on Repb.
liclnism, because that party went back on
one of the vital principles OF this govern.
ment, and have determined to support the
Democratic ticket at the coming election
They are opposed to that doctrine Of Re-
publicanism so. emphaticaly declared in
Kansas and Iowa, that nineteen temperate
men should be punished because the TWEEN
tieth member of the community gets drunk
They have no objection to just license law
impartially administered, but they are un-
alternately opposed to the principle of pro.
hibition. The German has very clear
perception of his rights as a citizen, and
very firm purpose TO resist all attempts to
to invade them. The Germans of Illinois
have learned that the Republican party
will not do to tie to always, Mr. Gauss to
the contrary notwithstanding
Says the Pulaski Patriot "Fifteen
Democrats and Republicans go to congress
from Ohio this year. The temperance
plank in the Republican state platform did |
the work, and did it well. The German
vote, it is said, went solidly for personal
liberty Ohio is not ready for tt& issue.
1t is well the Republican party found it
out before the presidential campaign."--
Which means that the Republican party
acknowledges that it dropped its mask too
soon, revealed its real nature, its strong in
clination to abridge the personal rights of
citizens WHENEVER AND WHEREVER 1T
DAREs DO 50 WITHOUT ENDANG ERING IT'S
OWN EXISTENCE, "a little too previously" in
Ohio. 1t will forthwith reassume the mask
and parade before the public a little while
longer in the hypocriticaI garb of the guar
dian ofpersonal liberty. 1t will take this
unmanlY method Of deceiving the Ger
mans into supporting the party at the next
presidential election, and theu-well, then,
perhaps, it will dare renew the attempts
made in the last federal congress by con.
gresham Joyce Republican, of Vermont
to placea prohibtory amendment to the
federal constitution. But will the Germans
and the liberty loving citizens be deceived,
by the mask, will they willingly and blind.
ly follow these assembling Republican
politicians and place them in positions
where they may crrry out their plans of OPP
pressionl In Ohio the earnest opponents
OF sumptuary legislation, assisted by an
army of intelligent Germans, have shouted
deafcning mo, and in Illinois we have
reason to hope the same answer will be
echoed back with almost equal vigor.
The Republican mass meeting at the
Tenth stand last night was not one
of which Republicans can bragg. 1t
was about as nearly a failure
as it could have been without being an alb.
solute failure. The audience comprised not
over sixty persons, and fairly classified, there
were twenty-five negroes, and the remainder
whites Of whom fourteen were Germans