The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-04-29

pissed, signed and published as required
b law, The council did nothing further
"a adjourned.
The decision OF the County Democratic
ommttee last Saturday, to hold primaries
select delegates to the County O. nven.
on, instead of calling only coun-
mass meeting, will meet with favor
mong all who take any interest in politics
IN the Democratic side. For several years
back the Democracy, in this end of the
Suite, st least, has been permitted to SUM-
per, while the Republican managers used
.very means to move the voters in every
precinct toaction, organized them thorough
y, causing each to take an active part in
he campaign, and marched them to the
polls on election day. The Democrats have
,aken only a sort of passive interest in the
larty machine. Mass meetings did the
york Of delegate conventions, and these
mass meetings were usually attended by a
few hundred voters from the immediate
vicinity of the place where they were
held, while the voters In the county pre-
cincts were probably not even aware that
the Democrats of the county were taking
my part in the campaign. But this time
here's to be change. There is to be a
general awakening of the party from the
precincts up; there is to be thorough local
organization so that every voter in every
precinct will be gwen an opportunity at
least to know that the Democrats are still
On deck and to take an active part in the
fight. Such a campaign will not be with
out its good effects; it will bring tie Dem
ocratic party out on election day, and that
is all that will be needed to insure its sue
cess.
The Current of the Goth says: "The
Ohio River flood did its destructive work
and passed away. The Lower Mississippi
River has been for two or three weeks
showing the effects of the swell in the
upper tributaries. Below the town of
Helena, Ark, on the west bank of the great
river, there is always destruction imam ex-
traordinOry rise of the water. The psnta-
ton are generally under water from the
mouth of the Red River down. There is
great danger that during some period Of
high water in this region, the Mississippi
River and the Red River may force their
way through the bayous west of the river
and flow into the Gulf of Mexico, eighty
or one hundred miles west Of New Orleans,
leaving that commercial city on the bank
of stagnan. inland lake. That would be
practical test of the outlet system, and it
would ruin New Orleans The effect of
cutting outlets above New Orleans to the
Gulf would be the diversion of the Missis-
sippi from its channel. Below the outlet
the channel would be checked up with
mud and sand, and there would ultimately
result serious of lagoons. That something
should be done to prevent the river from
destructively overlooking its banka, is a
opposition, not arguable. The responsible
ty of the Government, which exercises gu
zsrain perorgatives in other ways over the
river, is perfectly demonstrable as to the
work Of preventing overflow, and the only
question should be as to the most effective
and economical method of accomplishing
that work. 1t is not case Of psternaism,
for since the purchase of Louisiana, the
Government has had the responsibility of
river proprietorshp resting upon it. The
river should be kept within its banks
either levees or jetties in the bends or by a
combination of the two methods"
The Cairo & St. Louis IN. g. r. R. con-
tracted with THE BULLETIN for about one
hundred dollars worth of advertising for
the year 1884, in the WEEKLY BULLETS, to
be paid for in twenty-four trips for one
man over the road or any part of it, during
1884. In making this contract Col. Ham
ilton evidently supposed he was buying
The BULLETINS good will or silence, but
that was mistake. The road has had the
benefit of one quarter of the years adver-
Using The BULLETIN has had ride to
Hodges Park and back. Col. Hamilton
did not like the manner in which THE
BULLETIN criticized the petty meanness of
the road in the matter between them and
the Cairo Odd Fellows. He revokes the
contract and orders the pass returned. The
road is twenty-five dollars ahead of THE
BULLETIN in the transaction and we are
glad of it. We would be sorry to know
that The BULLETIN had beaten the pool
little road in any way. The pass was re-
turned with pleasure and the statement thai
having such an arrangement would never
prevent US censurag the management o.
the road where we believe it deserved il
nor would the cancellng of the Contrac