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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1882
Page
3
The Dixon Sun from Dixon Illinois covers regional happenings with notices, brief news items and advertisements reflecting life in early February 1882. Local topics, public notices and commerce are presented in a concise newspaper card style.
A large audience attended Hon. S. N. Arnold of Chicago as the third speaker in St. Luke's church organ fund lectures, sharing memories of Congress and Civil War events. He recalled Douglas, Garfield, Lincoln, and Garf ields assassination, interwoven with local Dixon and Rock River history and reflections on national unity.
The writer argues the Confederate six year term offered a respite from electioneering, noting the US four year limit creates perpetual campaigning. He suggests more than four years may be needed and cautions about Blaine and party activists influencing the scene before the next US presidency.
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