Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-11
HARD UP FOR A FLING,
Fhe morning Papers Inconsistency
In ITS Effort TO say sonnet ing DE-
rogatOry OF Congressman cable.

In It's Effort TO say sonnet ing De :
rogatOry OF Congressman cable
On the editorial page of this mornings
issue the Union enters into long article
IN which on the one hand it attacks the
democratic congress for passing the river
and harbor bill, accusing it of being false
to Its professions of economy in passing
the bill by the decisive vote of 1856 to 65,
and then it turns around and commends
the party for aprropriating the proper
amounts for the maintenance of rivers
and hsrbors.
But on another page it gives endorses
ment to an article from the Moline Dis
patch which credits Congressman Hen
derson with securing the half million for
Hennepin canal work. Let the
republican organs keep within the
bounds of consistency at all events.
When the republican congress appropri-
ated half million to start the canal it
was all Gest that did it, and the idea of
crediting Gen. Henderson with any part
of was indignantly resented, but now
that democratic congress has appropri-
ated like amount to carry forward work
that the former republican congressman
| had kept at standstill, and prevented
thereby the expenditure of any portion
of the original appropriation by
| favoring course that would put an
| eXorbitant part of it into the pockets of
his friend Robinson. the republican
| papers shout give the credit all to Hen
| derson. That republican congressman
of the years of service In the house Of
Congressman Henderson, man with a
record that The ARGUS has no hesitancy
in saying is in the highest sense cred
liable, should fail to get from his own
| party in power, tie first half million,
whereas a mere pigmy should strut in and
secure the amount which Henderson hsd
failed after years of work to obtain, and
then that the same Henderson should 60
into democratic congress and secure q
half Tillion more, is an assertion burden
ed so heavily with inconsistency that it
is out of the line of righteousness
| generally undertaken in cam psign falsity
The river bill does not include the appro>
priations we would all like, the provision
| for the examination of the harbor at Mo-
| line being with the additional appropris-
ton for the canal, the only special
provisions we have received, the me-
cessitated policy of retreIchment on the
part of the present congress being respon-
sible for that. and Congressman Cable has
succeeded in doing as well as any other
member of the house under these circum>
stances, the thought of Gen. Henderson
being more successful in this congress
than he was in the past, being Of course
too absurd for serious thought.
1t is on par, however, with the
Union's slur On the prominence Mr.. Gable
and his family have taken in Washington
social circles and the publication by that
paper twice in succession of an article re-
ferring to the efforts of ex, Congressman
Gest to hurry the Rock Island public
| building along. Mr.. Gest will no doabt
| have the credit of putting up the building
| whenever constructed, his desperately
frantic labors-the only hard work he
ever did at Westinghouse have the
canal course shifted to benefit Capt.
Robinson having been attended by such
wonderfully successful results.