Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-12-07
ROLE OF ROASTER.
A Political Surprise in Rock
Island.
THE UHIoK's ENERGETIC SALLY.

Found After Many Years That the Sins Of
the World IRE Committsd By the Polit-
cal Boss Of Repobiican Psrsuasion-Hot
Shot From m Unexpected Source.
The tranquil slumbers of the Union
having been disturbed by vision.
and, aroused abruptly from its leth-
argy, it presents . sorry spectacle
of the species somnam bulism, and
ever and anon there are heard ejac-
ulations of the terror that has been
struck to the soul by the revelation
that has been presented. After
laboring under the celusion for years
that the sins of the world reposed on
the shoulders of the democratic
party, the discovery that the repub-
lican boss is the fiend incarnate, the
ambassador direct of his satanic
majesty, the evil spirit SO described
is not only repudiated, but denounced
by the Sunday morning paper
in terms that are a. shocking as
they are vehement. Yea, the curses
that the gods are petitioned to bring
down upon the head Of that misera-
BILE affliction upon society, the repub-
lican boss politician, are much more
severe than have ever escaped its
lips in denunciation of the mortal
enemy of the republican boss, the
democrat. The public is pleased to
witness this reformation AID new
light, although it's commisseration
may be aroused by the e1hibi-
tion the effect has produced. The
opinion of The ARGUS of 1.-THE
corner" would be super fluous,
we're it not that in it's irreconcil-
able anger the Union accuses it Of
having been contaminated by the
iniquity that abounds in "the
MUSHROOM growth that spraug from
primaries befouled," and of having
communed with the evil spirits that
revel therein. Hence it becomes
this paper, in Justice to itself. to
solemnly avow upon the strength Of
its reputation for truth and veracity
Of the past. present or future, that IL
is not guilty. The information
which was Published in The ARGUS
Saturday night. as to what is now
going on in the city was not gained
from any one source. but was merely
CLEANED from the general talk that il
INDUCED in about town. 1t was not in
spired by anybody and none of 'the
mushrooms around the corner" had
the slightest intimation OF what was
to bs published until it was printed,
or were they in any way directly or
indirectly concerned in the source of
information.
So Much In Exoneratlon.
So much THE ARGUS feels it is in
duty bound to declare as means OF
exoneration from the diabolical
charge which is laid at its door. The
plagiarism which the savage editor
now employs in his reference to the
corner machine and to the vascillat-
ing disposition of an ex-mayor, both
OF which characteristics and trait.
were first discovered by TIE ARGUS
and both energetically defended
by the Eighteenth street organ, is
most reprehensible. A reference to
its files Of four years ago will
find another song footed in de-
Tense Of the disposition which it now
denounces in the ex-municipal execu-
tive. So it was when THE ARGUS
originally denounced the machine
methods Of what yesterday morning
was termed 80 weak and pulling in
FAINT" Yet that was q free-for-all shot
that included condemnation of the
ex-mayor. who formerly contrib
uted so literally to the columns of
the sheet which now assails him.
one that hits 1t republican bossism
in general, and quite properly. too.
let it be said. 1t struck from the
highest to the lowest, from the high
and mighty apostle on the corner
even unto little Willie Baker, who
once told the editor of the morning
paper what was what.