The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-10
CURRENT COMMENT.
Poughkeepsie News Dem,) }, June 5.

Poughkeepsie News fDem.), June D.
There is a faint impression in the COM
munity that John Kelly has been left.
There is also a decided conviction that the
legislative portions of the contingent"
have reaped a rich reward. These two
statements are in the nature of an anon
aly But Mr.. John Kelly has been ostensi-
bly, represented in Albany by a board of
regents This board of regents was COM
posed of sensible men. They recognized
that the present was the only hereafter
which they would have, and they made hay
while the sun shone. The plumber was
supposed to pass through their hands, but
it didn't pass-it stuck.
baltimore Day (Dem.) June 81
Remarks upon the sturdy defense" of
the ''onion skin ballot" by democrats are
being made by the Philadelphia Press. It
cannot be that our contemporary means
the 1874 tissue ballots cast in the Eighth
Alabama district for its friend Lowe, which
were so transparent as to read equally well
on both sides, and so count twice. 1t must
have been Mackey's ballots. which were
much more clumsy than loves, and still,
perhaps. Mahone's were meant. he being
the inventor of the scheme, and, of course,
deriving no benefit from others experience.
The Press should be more particular.
Selma Ala Ilmes (Denl1, June 81
The trials of Virginia and South Carroll
ma have excited the sympathy of the whole
South and have done vast deal more to
define and strengthen party lines than ever
did failure North and Garfields liberal pol
icy to obliterate and weaken them. The
southern people were forced to see the
emptiness of anything less than democracy,
and the hopelessness of quiet and prosper
/ ifxr frnr1 nt ha Sntifh io
solid now from necessity, and is likely to
remain so until the republican party is
purified by defeat
Nashville American (Dem.) June 3.
We warn the people of this state and
wherever the Amerfcan has influence, that
we are treading upon perilous times, and
that the greatest possible necessity exists
for shaping matters, between this and the
elections for the next Congress, SO that
that body shall be Enthusiastically practically
democratic. At no time since the day
when the republican party, claiming the
credit of suppressing the rebellion, set
itself up as the beacon for all good Amer
leans to follow, has there been greater
need for the SOLDERING weight of a democ-
racv cleansed from the stain of contact
during these wearisome years with the
other party with it's encroaching innova-
tions.
Charleston News Oem.) June 3.
It is our firm belief that the acts of the
majority, in what they have accomplished
and what they propose, will be condemned
by many republicans at home as well as
by the united democracy. But the broad
truth stands that in the contests in con-
gress the democrats arc the champions of
free speech, an impartial judgment and the
rights of minorities, while the republicans
nuilify the law. scout precedents and seize
every opportunity to be tyrannical and I'M
just. The south has nothing to expect
from nothern republicans in congress.
This lesson has been thoroughly taught
once more.
Boston Herald, Qnd }, June 81
What has become of Mr. Blaine7 Two
weeks have now elapsed since he was ad
vertised for repetition of his great per
Torrance known as ''pulverizing Ship
herd Vague reports of his railroading
exploits in the west have reached us, but
there is danger of his being forgotten if he
does not soon pat in an appearance. Mr..
Shipherd has SO effectuaIly pulverized him
self that it is like killing the dead for Mr..
Blaine to tackle him again. But there
is wider field open for the author of our
late brilliant foreign policy" in rehabil
itating himself in the public esteem as a
really ''smart man.