The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-30
DIURNAL DEBATE
On the Questions that Agitate the
American People.
Editor Curtis Answers Some Ques-
tions-RevivaI OF Tilden-Tariffi In
the South-Palmer,s Views
Campaign Chat.

CHICAGO, June 30.-The Times publishes a
letter from George William Curtis to Will
liam j. Youngs, in which, in answer to the
questions ''whetherI did not regularly attend
ats 1.-THE Republican national convention'sl
sessions and take part in the deliberations 10
the end; whether l made any open protest
against the nomination of Mr.. Blaine and Mr.,
Logan by voting against making the nomina-
ton unanimous and whether, if the eandl-
date whom l preferred had been nom
mated, should have considered it honorable
or consistent for those delegates who did not
agree with me to bolt the nomination. In
further series of questions you ask me what
principle of the Republican platform is not
exemplified by Mr. Blaine?' and whether do
not think that the Republican party is more to
be trusted than the Democratic party.
Mr. Curtis says that when man is elected
delegate to a convention he does not cease to
be free moral agent, and that no honorable
man in convention or out Of it would per
nit majority to bind him to course he
morally disapproved. Consequently MI.
Curtis says the manner III which a man ex-
presses his disapproval is matter for his own
decision, and he can either express it at once
OF wait until after the work of the
convention is completed, he taking
part therein to the end. He holds that man
who viii not support certain probable or
possible nominee of a convention has a right
to accept and exercise the privileges of dele
gateship in order to do what he can to save
his party from the commission of blunder
or worse, and says that if it he
held that the vote of the majority
sa
the individual delegate the action of the con-
yention may be, This is position SO IN
manly and intolerable that few persons ex-
cept the most unreasonable partisans would
care to defend 1t. reply, therefore, to your
specific question: whether if the candidate
whom preferred had been nominated
should have thought it honorable or consist
ent for delegates who preferred another can.
didate to bolt, that, if in their deliberate and
conscientious Judgment the candidate whom
preferred was one who onght not 60 -
supported and whom they could not honestly
| support, it would have been their duty as
honorable men and Republicans to bolt in
slch manner as they might determine for
| themselves"
Mr.. Curtis further declares that his refusal
to support the action of the convention is
wholly because of the record of the head OF
the ticket and has nothing to do with the
platform.
Organizing for Tariff fn the South.
| CHICAGO, June 30,-The Inter Ocean has a
special from Nashville which says: Col. A s.
Colyer is organizing an effort to bring the
protection press of the south together in Chi
cago with a view of forcing the Democratic
convention to adopt high-tarif planks. In
the letters which he has addressed to about
twenty editors of representative papers, in
GLIDING The New Orleans Times Democrat,
| Picayune, Mobile Register, the Memphis
papers, and others, he urges them to be in
Chicago in person, and not be represented
by 'mere reporters" SO that the men
who represent what he terms 1.-THE
| new SOUTH will insist upon having
q tariff plank adjusted so as to encourage
| home industries. He goes on to say that aside
from certain defeat of the party on the Wat
| teTsonian theory, it is paralysis to the new
south He believes that the presence in Chi
cago of the persons addressed car
present the. case of the south in such
strong light that the convention must
listen Il propose" says he, that we gel
there in time and organize to work for plat
form on which we can carry the states wher
the battle is to be fought. believe that aftel
we confer we will find TINT several southern
states will be at least made doubtful by thu
| Wattersoniau theory if it is adopted