Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-11-06
THE ORGANS COURSE.
unsavory Methods Adopted by the
Union,
Lying, misrepresentation, Maiigniux
the Dead. Abusing Personal Charae-
ter and a Resort 20 Malice Helped To
swell, Nr. Cables Majority.

The Union seems troubled with regrets,
but the greatest regret that sh ould attend
it is the despicable part taken by the ed
itor of that sheet. That his conception
OF msnlioess has been long since distorted
IS known in this community but it was
not to be expected that he would forget
every principle of decency in order that
al opponent should be defeated. He
must have known there we're limits to the
most strenuous conflicts. The public
acts OF man asking for the support of
the people may be inquired into. discuss
ed, closely analysed and condemned in
the strongest terms, but there the line is
drawn. A mans personal peculisrities
his physical defects or the affairs of his
family are not public properly To be held
up TO the public gaze and to them atten-
ton directed These matters are sacr ID
to himself. A mans house il his castle
10 more senses than oue-it is 8 strong
hold against the strong arm of the Law
and should be a moral bulVsrk against
the SHIFTS Of bitterness caused by OPPOSE
ton.
II has been said of old "of the dead ssy
nothing but good. and this maxim has
been cherished for its sacred admonition
Its power has never lessened Yet in
the face of all this the Union saw fit to
drag into the mire of politics the name
of the late Mr.. 2. L Cable, and attribute
to him motives unworthy o. the man and
the record which he left behind him
Surely this was crime against the com
mandments, against christianity itself,
against decency and msnlinsss and true
worth, against everything that tends TO
build up the sweetness snd morslity of
human life. IL did not stop to consider
the depths of its degradation. 1t would
have invited compsnionship with his sa-
tanic majesty and freely cnnsorted with
the imps of perdition in or Ter that a lit
tie vantage ground might he gained. II
not only acknowledged itself as devoid
of ell semhlsnce of decency and justice
and honorable motives. but il exhibited
the cloyen hOof in such way as TO de
fest the ignoble ends for which it uulsw-
fully strived
When the Union is mentioned readers
will understand that its editor, Walter
johnson, is responsible for all it con.
tanned The reputable element of his
party condemned his course. but he had
neither the wit 10 stop Tor judgment TO
do battle in more decent and honorable
way. From first to last ne was a. sea in
sn open boat, without rndder or mast or
compass, pluneing hither and thither. in
venting schemes that we're in keeping
with his mental mske>up, stopping ST
nothing. shrieking, now IN one key now
in another. pleading at one time with the
pathos of despair and st smother time
challenging to a combat. and all the time
with the one hope that something might
be gained. The means were nothing. the
ends were everything.
bditu- tbc SaupA!AI the CittOH " IS
one continued lie-on tie tsriff. on local
happenings of poltica nature, on pub
lished letters thst were never written.
even by the anonymous names attached,
on conclusions drawn from every source
on matters moral and political, 10 the
flush of hope and the throes of despair
always, always an elon gated falshehood
Personal affairs that il no way affected
the issue before the pie were dragged
TO the front and there discussed for the
purpose of leading away the mind from
the matters in hand rs well as to vent
petty. contemplate spite.
Such was the coure pursued by the
| UAi0n through the vicious and short
sighted policy adopted by its editor 1t
ma7 attempt to find reason for the de
feat of Mr.. .Gest which is not founded on
truth, but one of the reasons that will
always stand forth is the mode of war
fare followed by that paper and It's
spi;eful editor.