The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-25

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A few Of THE BULLETINS exchanges,
GALL Republican, however,, have discovered
evidences OF unfaithfulness 20 the Demo.
cratic party, in THE BULLETINS utterances
in favor Of Captain Thomas, for the Repub-
| lican nomination for congressman from this
district. The few Republican papers are
wiltully decoiving themselves The Bull
LETIN is Democratic paper and proposes
to remain 80, But it is not "moss back
Journal, nor is it a bit cowardly. 1t does
not believe in denouncing all men and all
things simply because they are Republican
nor does 1t believe in pursueing policy of
entire neutrality, miscaled "indepen-
dcnce, when fierce contest between right
and wrong, the result Of which may serious
ly affect the general public, is raging either
upon Republican or Democratic ground.
Quiet neutrality on the part of a
newspaper at such time is strong
proof Ofeither cowardiness, criminal care.
lessncss, or designing mercenarincss. Dur.
ing all this fierce contest between the Re
publican aspirants for congress in this dis.
trict, THE BULLETIN has said nothing that
can be distorted into relinqishment of its
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claims TO Democratic sentiment and if
any there be who claim otherwise, and
hope otherwise, they shall have ample time
and reason to recover from their delusion
before this campaign is over.
In his speech before the Republican
county convention in this city last Satur-
day, Mr. Crews, of Mount Vernon, INDUCED
very freely in praises of the good, old Re
publican party and his chief argument
for Mr.. Stratton, and upon which he dwelt
with tiresome persistency, was that Mr..
Stratton was a firm adherant of the Re.
publican party. To this no objection can
be made, except that there are some CON
foundedly mean Republicans, Of the tes-
timony Of Republicans here themselves is to
be believcd), and they are, mot all in penlten
tiaries either. But, in the course of his
wild eulogy, Mr. Crews made the asser
tion that the public schools of our land
were the recruiting Offices Of the Repub-
lican party This is bold admission for a
Republican to make, but it is glarmg, out.
rageOus truth, Not only is the civil ser
vice and the public money used in the at
tempt to perpctuate Republican supremacy
and Republican plumber in the land, but
even the public schools, maintained by the
people Of all parties and conditions for the
education of the youth, are prosttuted to
the vile purposes of Republican political
demagogues and by what righti What
authority is there, either in law or equity,
for making partisan politics a branch OF
the common education offered IN our com
mon schools, at the expense of the common
peope' None but Republican determine.
ton TO control at all hazards
and, as amply proven in the
presidential campaign of 1876 and by
the political events in this county during
the last few days, honesty, patriotism, yea,
even majorities, must give way to this
base determination.
BY the courtesy Of Mr.. Miles w. Par.
ker's, efficient deputy, Mr.. George L. Ohm
sted, we are enabled this morning to place
before the readers of The BULLETIN the
following statement of the assessed value
of town and city lots in Alexander county,
for the year 1889, The city of Cairo, with
its various additions has 1872 lots valued
by the assessor at 81, l20922. The old city
OF Thebes, formerly the county seat Of this
county, is now content with 2G0 lots, the
moderate value Of which is $3.50. Santa
Fe claims to have "local habitation and
name her l2 lots being valued at
S2,733. Clear Crcak, u town Of some pre-
tentions few years ago, now only claims
to have Is lots which, at u fair valuation, are
worth not more than $720. Unity place
that was at one time the termini of the
Amsterdam railroad, is now mostly owned
by our sheriff, Mr.. John Hodge. He pays
taxes on A lots, valued at 1905, which is
all Of this delectabc city. Jacks" name
sake, Hodges Park, is dong much better
than in Unity, For a number of months it
was the stopping place Of the st. Louis and
Cairo railroad, and has 1875 lots which are
actually worth $5,722 OF anybody's money.
Elco is also on the Amsterdam railroad |
bu, has less pretentions than Hodges Park
being further from Cairo. She only has
Al lots that her citizens say are not worth |
to exceed $500. Sandpsky, another pros.
porous village, with fine country surround