The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-17
BuLIDozrNc EXTRAORDINARY.

When candidate for an elective Office
so far forgets the corner stone of the in
tegrity of American institutions as to at
tempt to coerce poor mechanics and labor
ing men into supporting his airy preten-
sions by threats of bringing about their
removal if they do not consent to his
elevation. it would seem to be about time
to call halt, and an abrupt one, too. This
is precisely the situation in which
WE FIND BOSS MORRIS TO-DAY.
Last evening the ARGUS was made ac>
quainted with the details of the most coma
temptible species of bulldoziug to which
candidate for high Office, or indeed for
any Office, could resort. The man who is
guilty of this despicable piece of business
is none other than William G. Morrss, OF
Moline, the Republican candidate for
Sheriff of Rock Island county.
This man Morris has told several
Swedes, at work in the Deere and other
establishments in Moline, that unless they
came up to the rack and voted for him he
would see that every mothers son of them
was peremptorily discharged, and this up
on the eve of winter, too. Is this man
upon the verge of insanity or idiocy, that
he should presume to thus inaugurate the
shot gun policy right here in Rock Island
county? That he should presume to sus-
pend the Damocletian sword over the head
of every man, whose sole capital is his
labor, who dares to express himself honestly
and intelligently at the polls? The ARGUS
charitably inclInes to the belief that he is
not in his right mind. otherwise we must
conclude that he is the last man in this
county who should be elected to the Office
of sheriff
A man who would thus
ATTEMPT TO TERRoRIzE
than himself is VIGOROUSLY unfit for the
shrievalty. AS sheriff he csn be the most
humane or the most inhumau official Known
to our laws and the only way that such
an official can be reached for rebuke
for gross inhumanity in office would
be to relegate him to private life after the |
close of his term. Fortunately for the |
men of both parties in Rock Island county |
who have to work for a living in order to |
support parents. wives and children who |
are as'dear to them as if they possessed the
wealth of the Indies, they have found out |
what manner of man the republican candi- |
date for sheriff is before election and the |
ARGUS will be very much mistaken if they |
do not rally at their respective polling |
places on election day and bury such a
man under a majority so deep as to pre-
clude the hope or belief of resurrection. |
In thus burying Boss Morris out of /
sight it must not be forgotten that his bull
DOING is not aimed simply at people
OF THE SWEDISH NATIONALITY.
Given an opportunity and he would try to
entrap the German, the Irishman or the |
native American in precisely the same way.
In few words every man who is COM
PEELED to labor in the shop, on the river or
the highway for living should make COM
mon cause with his fellows at the polls in
most effectually rebuking the arrogance of
men of the William G. Morris stripe
Such men have had their way too long,
already, and it is high time thai this cow
ardly species of bulldozing should be
brought to an end.
Mechanics and laborers of Rock Island
county you cannot afford to permit Boss
Morris to thus trample upon your most
sacred rights as citizens of this free Amer-
can republic.