The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-01
POLITICAL.

A meaner and more unpatrietic SANDER
on the government and people of the
United States was never uttered than the
| old exploded campaign fiction thata demo
cratic victory is menace to our business
interests.
! What would William Penn say if he
could revisit the great state he founded
two hundred years age, and find it under
the control of Don Cameron and Secol
Robson? Possibly if he postponed his
visit until after the November election
he wouldn't need to say anything con-
demnatory.
The latest returns elect Congressman
Wilson, democrat in the Second district
of West Virginia, by seven majority. The
republicans have been claiming both dis
tricts.
Once the rallying cry of victory in the
republican party was s'down with rebel
lion; the Union forever" Can it now
march to rev victories, under the lead of
Jay Gould, and with the watchword en-
blazoned on its banners Increase your
margins ~ Utica Herald.
Senator Cameron says that civil service
reform will put only the sons of rich men
in the clerksnips, but Captain Watmough,
of Cleveland, tells me that the English
civil service has driven the dependents of
noblemen out and put in the sons of coster-
mongers and mechanies.-N Y. Tribune
The most touching thing in contempora-
ry politics is Refers rushing to protect
his tutelar political saint" Robson,
from harm. Keifer's speeches ought to
settle Robesen's destiny. They would any
where else but in Jersey A district could
not be found in any other state that could
stand both Keifer and Robesou, with a
little of Hubbell thrown in to increase the
noxious ingredients Boston Transcript,
rep.
The Burlington Hasckeye says the demo-
Gratis have plenty of money this campaign,
and are distributing speeches and docu-
ments by the wholesale. and wants to know
where the money comes from. There is
one thing certain it don't come from Office
holders that are compelled to disgorge or
resign their offices, nor from scrub women,
pages, and wcmen teachers in the Indian
training schools Wasiang tOn Democrat.
These taxes are no longer needed. They
are maintained only to greatly increase the
number of office-holders, who, under the
pressure of Mr.. Jay Hubbell and of the
political bosses, are made to contribute
campaign funds and electioneer for their
party. The greatest practical stroke of
civil service as well as tax reform would
be TO repeal the internal revenue system
and thus discharge at once five million
dollars worth of public fuuetionaries whose
chief Mr.. Green B. Raum, has been for
months absent from his post electioneering
in Maine and other states, while his subor-
dinates have had their pockets picked by
the Hubbell committee and have then been
sent out at government expense to cleo
tioDaaP also N y Herald
Cheesequakes creek, in Robeson's New
Jersey vineyard, got 49, 900 of the nine
teen million steal which M A. McCoid's
vote passed over the presidents veto. But
Cheesequakes was probably about as good
a brook to empty $4,000 of the peoples
taxes into as any. In North Carolina a
'.heavy dew" navigation stream called
Contentia creek got $4,000 more of the
grab; but they couldn't sail box OF Dur
ham tobacco on it. A piece of sewerage
in Philadelphia got $4,000.