Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-06

La0ka Favorable.

The Chicago Herald OF the Ord inst.
has this to say Of the meeting Of the
democratic state central committee, and
the political significance attached to it:
The most important meeting ever held
by democratic state central committee
in Illinois came to harmonious end at
Springfield Wednesday, when it was re,
solved to attempt to carry the next leg>
islature.
The results of such a victory at the
polls may be partly and only partly out
lined. The republican press already
sounds the alarm when it refers to the
increasing influence of Gen. John M.
Palmer as a leader; TO the fact that a
democratic legislature would send him
to the United States senate; and to the
further fact that 1t will fall to the gen.
ersl assembly of 1891 to reapportion this
state on the lines of the eleventh census
and the new reapportionment of the
house of representatives. Unless the
Fifty-first congress shall vastly increase
the number of representatives in the fed>
eral house-sn unlikely thing rela>
tive Importance of states like Illinois will
vastly increase in the electoral college,
and it may be seen that a democratic ap
portionment of the congressional dis
tricts would have far reaching effect
on the politics of the entire commons
wealth.
The Illinois democracy prepares for the
next onset with the feeling that the last
of republican administrations Is now at
the front. The leader of the western
idea of popular reform resides at SPRING
field. II ne should be sent to Washing
ton as senator, il is indubitsble that his
entrance IN the upper chamber would
cause national sensation. The thought
that the west is aggressive is we'll seated
on the people. The election of this con-
spicuous leader Of hope that was once
forlorn would strengthen the truth in
every heart. The protective system of
war taxation is so wicked that it dcfies
human reason. How long can such a
regime endureI How long could it endure
with Gen. Palmer in the senate from the
once republican state of Illinois?
To elect Gen. Palmer, with the aid of
minority representation. would not be
startling triumph. The democracy, there
fore begins the propaganda calmly. II
Palmer fails of a majority in the legisla-
ture, 1t is as plain as daylight that he will
increase his following in the west. 1t did
not disappoint him to lose the battle OF
last November, with Chicago safe for pc.
rennial democracy. 1t does not make him
afraid when he notes that majority piling
higher at our spring election. Thrice
armed with the truths of Thomas Jeffer-
son. he enters an engagement which the
republicans must win TO escape ruin; but
he needs not to win to assure the even
tual conquest
As Palmer stands for Illinois, so Hi.
nois stands for the west Illinois is the
agricultural commonwealth which is
soonest to forget the hatreds of war and
repudiste the engagements of false pa
triots. When this state shall enter on
conditions of peace, denying the drafts,
billetings and reclamations OF CONNER.
cial conspIrstors who care nothing for the
civil war, save as it has made them rich,
then the neighboring states of Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota will be found
in close accord-as it was 113 years ago
on the Atlantic seaboa-d.
We have been treated to fireworks
representing the fathers of rs in the act
of visibly refusing to pay oppressive
taxes. The same spirit today would at
once destroy $3.50, 900, 900 of the protec-
tive tariff assessed by greedy manufac-
turers. That 80 many people in Illinois
know this fact, and are led by John NJ
Palmer, is the solace Of democrscy-the
rain bow of its promise.