The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-09-28
A REVIEW OF THE JOINT DISCUS
SIONS AND THEIR RESULT.

Inc last OF the JOINT discussions, arrang
ed in so arbitrary and unjust manner by
Capt. Thomas, came off at DuQuoin or
Thursday.
Our readers remember the manner ir
which Capt. Thomas acted in regard.to the
discussions. How Mr.. Albright challeng.
ed him to jointly discuss the pending polit
ical issues and their own respective records
and asked Mr.. Thomas to meet him and
mutually arrange times and places; how
Mr.. Thomas did not meet him, but gave
Mr.. Barr an informal answer to deliver to
Mr. Albright, telling NJ. Barr that the
chtnmen OF the congressional committees
would fix the times and places for the dis
cussions; how Mr. Thomas, on finding Out
that Mr.. Albright had made arrangements
to canvass Randolph county from the 10Th
to the Goth inst, Immediately changed his
mind about the congressional committees
arranging times and places, and then and
there fixed those times aad places which
would compel Mr.. Albright to drop his
Randolph county work, and would best pro-
mote his Thomas interest. How in his
speeches, here and and at Mound City, he
ridiculed Mr., Albright's sickness, and
spoke in a manner of the death of Mr.. AL
bright's father, which was considered out
of place by Republicans as we'll as Demo
Gratis; also how he called Albright cow
ard, and otherwise personally belittled him.
These things, we say, are familiar to our
readers.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Albright's letter to
Capt. Thomas, showing that he had acted
unfairly in arranging dates aud places,
and informing him of his inability to meet
him on certain of the dates named on ac-
count of other engagements, Mr.. Thomas
proceeded to fill the dates set by himself
Blu: our representative in Washington So
ciety was brought to halt on last Satur-
day a week ago. He had been fighting
bravely with his enemy over seventy five
miles away.
Mr.. Albright, as soon as his business
AID his health would allow, started after
Mr.. Thomas, and met him at Marion
Here the Capt, had not so much to say
about his great deeds for the district; he
saw that most formidable and dreaded wea-
pom, the Congressional Record, in the hand
of Mr.. Albright. Without going into the
details of the Marion discussion, it wa;
generally conceded that Mr.. Thomas wa:
fearfully worried, and found Mr.. Albright
to be the hardest fighting towards he haG
ever met. All reports from there say the
| Democrats are in high spirits over the dis
cussion at that place.
Mr.. Albright WAS with him again a
Jonesboro. Here Mr.. Thomas was severel,
cut up by his own record, about which b
made statements that Mr.. Albright proves
by the Congressional Records to be mos
glaringly false. Here he was confronte,
with his continued neglect of duty a
Washington, his failure to vote on many
important bills, by his obnoxious records
on many questions-as the bill to gram
pensions to Mexican soldiers ON which
question the Capt. fixed up very nice
statement; but here Mr.. Albright was fore.
ed to draw the Congressional Record on him
again and prove that Mr. Thomas was eth.
er ignorant on the subject or had made 9
misstatement. For nearly all his acts in
Congress he was cumpelled to give lengthy
and unsatisfactory explanations, and il
many cases Mr.. Albright proved his state
ments to be false and his explanations
flimsy. The victory was certainly accord
ed to Mr.. Albright at Jonesboro.
From there the disputants proceeded t.
Murphysboro. Here Mr.. Thomas endeav
ored to convince the miners that Mr.. AL
bright had a bad record as a Senator, anC
that he was not the friend of the miner
But Mr.. Albright's manly labors and untir
ing energy for the good of the miners wert
so well known to them that Mr.. Thomas
talk without proofs was of little avail. HI
was asked for proofs but none came. Al
old Cairoite, who is we'll acquainted witt
the miners and who heard the, speech, re
marked that it would take as much skill
and exertion to prove Mr.. Albright ar
enemy of the miner as to prove our late
Mr.. Stafford an enemy of the poor. Witt
the exception of this break, Mr.. Thomas
speech was substantially the same as thu
| one delivered here when he commenced
From all we have heard of the rejoicing o.
the Democrats and the "ifs" and excuses o.
the Republicans of that place, we can safe
| ly join the Missouri Republican, by calling
it Waterloo defeat for Thomas.
AT Sparta Mr.. Albright did as we'll Of
better than at Murphysboro. His particu
lar hit WAC the MAILING of the Renubllcar