Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-10-20
Bundles of Lies Told in Making a
Statement.
Contemplate Falsshoods TO Bolster
Up Dastardiy ActIon-The Organ
Trying 20 Wiggle Out or a Dirty
Job.


to pass in the community as elements Of
deceDcy-couid have got The dirty Job of
their hands without being caught the,
would have thanked heaven or the other
place for the concealmeni, and they coult
have still walked in open day without
being pointed at as whiteed sepulchers
Dirty and damnsble as was the piece OF
business il had well defined object
Cable must be beaten if we sell the rem.
nanhof our souls TO do it. We Will steep
our very selves in filth and degradation
to accomplish this thing. Talk 10 us not
of fairness nor manliness, nor decency.
nor reputatiou-we have done with such
the need of the moment must receive
Intentionally every means known to dis
graceful politics we must elect our man.
Honesty will not do it, then dishonesty
must be our weapon. We will do what
we can to purge ourselve after election,
but the moments now are fleeing and
though damnation be our portion the deed
must be done. We will cover ourselves
with slime and surround ourselves with
sickening odors, it matters not.
In this spirit was the secret circular
hatched-each plotter dropping some
vile thing into the stewing pot, like the
witches in Macbeth. This nauseating
mess was to be kept from every eye in
this city except the eyes of those who
had hand in its preparation or a pre-
vious knowledge of its existence and in
tentlons. A copy was to be given those
who could be trusted to countenance or
encourage the dastardly action. and it
was expected that they SHOULD keep their
own counsel. Mr.. Gable nor his friends
were not to know of its existence, and, as q
consequence, they could not contradict
its treacherous falseh oods. Those who
hac received these vile sheets and pond.
cred over them would be again sp
preached. and if they felt inclined to dis
believe such outrageous statements the
plotters could assure them that they were
correct, and would point to the fact in
confirmation Of the assertion that Mr.. Ca
BILE nor his friends had nlver denied them.
Such in direct language was the means
employed by these hirelings to wound
and even slay. if necessary. a highly re-
spectacle fellow townsman-smanw whose
character is irreproachable, and who
would scorn to lend himself 10 discred-
liable action, no matter what the provi-
cation. 1t was known that not word of
this shameful sheet would be believed in
this city. but other places must be sup
piled, and perhaps the end might be &C
accomplished.
1t was the pitiable excuse of the horse
thief. Better 1t would have been to have
made an open acknowledgment that as
the last hope had gone they were driven
to 1t. To the sin of theft, the most uu.
psrdonstle theft of sll-the stealing of
character-they add another sin, that of
vicious lying. But the one blackeued
act begot the other.
What sorry plight the UaiOn pitched
itself into in the attempt at justification.
Just As if BLACKBOARD deed like that
would under any pretense admit of JUS
LITIGATION. 1t barely mentioned the dis
graceful matter and in weak wsy. The
Union attempted the day after the pub
licstion in the ARGUS of this self con.
victinG screed to Justify the act, but the
attempt at self-exoneration had no
strength of soul. then it left it and went a
thousand miles away to change the sub
Jet. Ii spoke of corruption and
bulldozing in the opposite party In the
name OF righteousness, how could il have
uttered the words. Corruption, With
its own carcass reeking with filth; with
the hands of every alder aud abe,tor
stepped in corruption. Not year, not
month now yet day separated from the
crowning infamy and still it had the har +
ihood TO speak of corruption. Could II
not have spurted out a defiance and told
the world that such was it, metho9. in
stead of trying to have look of virtue.
still bearing the face of Jezebel.
What evil thing was it that led the I'm
ion to say this is not South Carolina, and
that republicans could not, if they had
the disposition. compete with their op-
ponents in bribery and debauchery, and
that they proposed TO explore the inioui,
tous methods. and more to the same
purposes In what liquid was the brain
stepped that prompted such wordsY
Was it undue excitement or desper-
ale effort to plunge into somethiug-auy>
thing-in order to rid itself of the sitting
effects of being found employed in such
Shiny work. Whatever il was it showed
dispsiring attempt to keep out of sight
the very fact it was touching upon with
so much reluctance.
Short as were the remarks concerning
the miry business il closed by saying that
the ARGUS is to be thanked for publish
ing the circular. for il is desired that it
reach every v,tar in the district" Could
it not see the dimensions of its own
barefaced lying9 Could it feel no
touch of conscience in thus
piling up iuiquity upon its own headr
Were its senses SO completely dulled by
fraud and fostering impurities that it
could not see the effects OF its own wordsP
II was glad the ARGUS published its
stealthy circular WHAT barefsced Hei
1t did not publish the circular itself. Is
1t like the ostrich that sticks its head in
the sand when pursued and thinks its
body is not SEEM What a silly. con-
temptib!e. lying statement to makei A bow
caught robbing blind man could
have made better one. The whole
tIibe that handled the dirty thing are all
guilty alike-sll tarred with the same
stick. The river can rise no higher than