The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-05

A bystander nut in: "But the Republican
states are for Blaine, and its those who
have no electoral votes that are opposed to
him.
1--WE come here to help nominate the can
didate 1t amt our fault we have no elect
oral votes Are We to be excluded from
acting as delegates on that account! Give
US the money you squander in Indiana and
we'll roll you up the biggest kind of Re
publican majority
Senator D. r. Corbin, of South Carolina,
said to the interviewer: II can only speak
for myself, but b lleve it is the sentiment
of tie whole s.,ssth that we will not have
Blaine unier any circumstances. We are
not 50 will after Arthur; we will take Logan,
sherman, Edmunds, anybody but Blaine.
Ii he is nominated, will not vote for him !;
will stay at homa and Pm sure he'll run
short thousands of votes this fall"
"Whyf'
"liecause he has done everything in his
power to defeat southern Republicans as
against Democrats. When the force act of
III was brought up, the act under which all
the prosecutions for southern outrages have
been conducted, Mr. Blaine, who was then
speaker, came down on the floor and beat the
bill out of sight until the next session, when
he repeated the same tactics but failed.
could name dozens of other measures which
he has opposed. When Hamburg Butler
was contesting the seat in the senate with
me, he and Blaine vera very intimate. The
caucus hal determined to take up the con-
contested seats in alphabetical order and
Blaine had agreed to do this But he sprung
Al nf I l,a
posely to get in what amounted to two Dem
ocratic votes against me- was defeated
ABOUT THE LoBBIEs..
The Arthur men still say that the Blaine
boom was severely shattered by the tenn
porary chairman business The adherents
of the "plumei knight" are apparently not
a bit scared and confidently predict their
mans success
An Ohio man says his delegation will go
for Blaine when it appears that Sherman can
not be nominated.
Tom Ochiltree was of the opinion that
Arthur stock was rising, but thought a
formal ballot would be necessary to settle
the fact
Ben Harrison, in view of the fact that his
name is to be formally presented to the con-
NGublOu as d Has lSlG
Gen. Kimball. of Utah. said he was al
Arthur man, but would not be sorry TO see
Gen. Logan come to the front. A Massa-
chusetts man said Logan did not seem to
MIN big enough for president big
enoughl" shouted the old white-haired
veteran, 'he was big enough the day
Mcpherson fell. Walt Gresham had been
wounded in the leg, and Gen. Mcpherson at
tended in person to his removal from the
field just as though he was his brother Nc
Pherson went back to the front, and
in less than an hour was killed John
A. Logan took the head of the Fifteenth
corps as it was recoiling from the
fierce onset of the rebels By his own
personal courage and dash he led the
Fifteenth corps right up to the walls of
Atlanta and drove the rebels before him like
the wind Big enough He is as big as the
boundless prairies of this western country,
and can carry the country from the Allie
ghsnles to the Pacific ocean just as sure as
he led the old Fifteenth into Atlanta"
A dispatch from Washington City say
The National Republican claims the defeat
of Clayton as very bad black eye for Blaine.
The Republican is an Arthur paper. 1t also
says that If the contest can be narrowed down
to Blaine and Arshur there is no doubt OF the
latter's nomination