The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-27
THE ARGUS vs.. THE LINEGAR
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1t says, that The BULLETIN intimstcd that
the governor would veto the Linegar bills.
The BULLETIN merely suggested that it
was very foolish in the Argus to indulge in
INTERPRETATIONS in anticipation Of GER
tain very evidently, unthoughtful-of &C.
ton under the bills before they we're even
read. The Argus knows that it misrepre-
sents The BULLETIN when II insnuates
that THE BULLETIN said it "kncw there
was no danger Of a change of grade for
ten or even fifty years" THE BULLETIN said
that at present it could "see no reason for
believing" that there would be such time.
The Argus is evidently trying sto re.
treat from fight in which it has figured
very ludicrously, under the cover of mis-
representations and evasions. THE BULLE-
TIN allowed it to rave until there seemed to
be some reason to believe that such rawlings
might work mischief among few citizens,
when it deigned to protest against the con-
tinuance of such foolishness. The Argus
anticipated and bewailed a condition of
things that its own senseless wailings alone
were slowly bringing about, and then,
cowardlike, sought to throw all the blame
for such growing condition onto innocent
shoulders. For this the Argus ought to be
ashamed Of itself, but it isn't. On the con-
trary, it insists that 1t had good cause for
alarm; 1t insists, by inuendo, its favorite
weapon, that Mr.. Llnegar's bills were the
connection of pack Of scheming rsscals,
who had conspired to rob every property
holder of every foot of ground within the
levees and had bound themselves together
by oaths to keep this gigantic infamy a
profound secret among themselves and to
carry it out uufinchingly, if not discover
ed And it appropriates to itself alone the
credit of discovering this Infamous plot,
AMI of exposing it and driving the plotters
from the field utterly demoralized.
Now, if we didnot know Mr. Potter to be a
man of good sense, who would not indulge
in triAing gibberish about so important a
matter as this,w should dismiss his charge
with the remark that his utterances were
ths idly vaporings Of very active imsglna-
tiCn and that he was a formidable rival to
Miuchousen or to the local editor of the
P.ducah News; but this would be doing
Mr.. Potter grievious wrong, hence we sub
NIT that his charge is worthy of serious
consideration, and this brings us to this
admitting that Mr.. Potter is right, then
Mr.. Linegar must be one of the men who
compose this rascally gang, or he must
have been their conscious and willing tool
Ignorance in matter of this kind, on the
part of man of Mr.. Lnegars mental
calibre and experience, cannot be admit
ted; we insist. that he must have been a
conscious and willing tool. This is the
inevitable conclusion every sensible man
must draw from Mr.. Potter's articles it is
a charge made with the force of positive
knowledge and couched in language that
can not be misconstrued. II is a serious
charge, refecting upon Mr.. Linegar's honor,
denying his faithfuluess to the trusts re-
posed in him by the people of this district;
it is made in all seriousness by maa of
standing; it demands from Mr.. Linegar q
prompt and complete refutation.
The BULLETIN has sought to defend
Mr.. Linegar and his bills against the I'M
demanded attacks Of the Argus, because it
believed him to be honestly and ably Ia
boring for the good of his constituents and
his bills to be of great value to the people
all the property holders Cairo. 1t has
insisted that house bill AIT would be q
source of relief to property holders, in case
any public improvements of the nature
contemplated by the bill, should be ordered
by the city council; and it has insisted
that, as this bill gave to the city council no
important power which that body did not
possess before the bill was passed, (Which
fact the Argus also grudgingly admits)
therefore the Argus, persistent and extrava-
giant predictions of ruin and distress that
would be wrought by the city council in
exercising extraordinary powers assumed to
have been conferred upon it by this bill,
were very much worse than the most con-
sumate damphoolshness In fact, ut
terances calculated to provoke serious
breech of the peace and harmony and
prosperity of this very peaceful, very har-
monious and very prosperous community.
THE BULLETIN still adheres to this be-
lief, and it is satisfied that the thinking
public is with it, but it believes that Mr..
Linegar owes it to himself to refute the
grave charge 80 earnestly aud persistently
made against him by Mr.. Potter, and it of
fers him its columns for anything he may
have to say for himself and his bills.