Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-19

Second-We want to see every working
| man earning ten dollars per day and every
| capitalist doubling his money.
Third-We favor any sort of tariff which
| will please the crowd.
| Fourth-Durn the ChineSei
Fifth-We are pledged to a low rate of
| taxation and a high price on mules.
| That's about all up to date, but we stand
ready to answer all further questions. We
shall go into this campaign on different
| line from anything heretofore adopted.
Our opponent will probably be the Hon.
| Joseph Merriman. We have had his rec
ord for the past six months. While he
| was yet a youth his mother eloped and his
| father went to prison. AS he grew up he
robbed store, burned a school house, stole
a horse and got fifteen years for man
slaughter. He broke Jail to come west and
has had moose around his neck twice in
| this territory. He is avoluble liar, a mag
nificent deadbeat and tricky rascal in
general. All this, however, we shall care
fully suppress during our canvass. Neither
on the platform nor in our paper shall we
allude to him as anything but an honor
able gentleman. We do not believe in
campaign ISLANDERS and vituperation.
Heretofore it has been the habit of can
didates to put old red shirt, SLOUGH
| hat and corduroy trousers and go among
the boys as one of them and liquor has
meetings in a plug hat, boiled shirt, regu-
lar collars and cuffs and Prince Albert
coat. Now and then we shall have our
shoes blackened with regular backing
We owe it to our dignity and to the dignity
of the Office we hope to fill. Some of the
opposition will probably take US for a
squirt and attempt liberties. All such
will only have to spit on our low cut shoes
to find two guns ready for active service
We shall do no treating as regular thing,
no matter what course our opponent pur-
sues.
If elected we shall have considerable
patronage to dispose of. There won't be
any civil service about it, however. 1t
will be given to those of our partisans who
have yelled the loudest for our election,
and we shall make it as fat as possible
You can't begin to yell too soon. Any one
wanting bill put through the next legis-
lature should call or write to US as soor as
possible
During this campaign we shall not edi-
| torially advert to our narrow minded,
small souled contemporary. He has sworn
| to do all he can to defeat us with his 400
circulation, but as we can always buy up
| ass copies of every issue, and the others are
deadheads to some New England state
we prefer to do that way. In his last is
sue he affirms that we killed our mother
and fled from Vermont, but the canard fell
as fiat as his old wallet on pay day.
We have been asked if we shall do any
shooting during our canvass. We hope to
| avoid it, but the opposition must not pre-
sumo too far We are willing that others
| should be heard, and we propose to be
heard ourself There are towns where they
don't like US, but we shall appear and be
heard just the same. We have heard of
| candidates being tossed in a blanket, but
| we have no fear of such an occurrence hap
ff, no Iyp1
about our plug hat, ridiculed about our
| boiled shirt and probably menaced because
of our generally genteel appearance and
humble demeanor, but we hope we shan't
be obliged to attend any coroner's inquests
| and thereby interrupt our programme.