The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-02
He Is Unanimously Endorsed fol
Mayor
HE ACCEPTS AND MAKES 4
SPEECH to- THE MEETING!
Other Speeches, Cheers, Enthusiasm
Etc, Etc, Etc.

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Stoddard to the chair, and appointing
Fred Conway secretary.
The secretary then read the list of dele
gates, published in THE ARGUS of Tuesday
evening, as follows:
FIRST WARD.
j Fisher, CIV Negus,
S B Stoddard. Peter Farrell,
Thos Corcoran, VIM Young,
Peter Scherer
SECOND WARD.
Andrew Hoffman, Fred Conway,
Jacob Riley, j. Mosenfelder,
John Mehan, Aug. Huesing,
James Kinney. Julius Stranle,
Henry Woltman, Henry Burgower,
THIRD WARD.
B. D. Buford, F. Lucas
P. r. McElherne, Geo. Simmon,
Daniel Daily, j. Swanson,
Gus Stengel, Ed Murrin
NJ. j. Murphy, Danl Broderick,
Matthias Schnel Michael Pinder.
FOURTH WARD.
Moses Bowen. John Driscoll
Joseph ii. Kerr, Chris. Baker,
j. Hughes, Geo. Wagner,
d. Brennan
FIFTH WARD.
George Lamont, John Scherer,
James ST. Clair, John Bladel
John Nolk, W, II. Pierce,
There were four delegates absent, but,
on motion, their places were filled by those
present.
B. ID. Buford moved that the convention
now proceed to an informal ballot for
mayor Carried.
The chair appointed Gus Stengel and
Moses Bowen tellers.
aThe informal ballot resulted as follows:
Bailey Davenport. Al
Calvin Truesdale. /
On motion of B. D. Buford Mr.. Daven-
port was then declared the unanimous
choice of the convention for mayor.
Voted that the chair appoint a COM
mittee of three to wait on Mr.. Davenport
and inform him of his nomination and re-
quest his acceptance of the same.
The chair appointed Messrs. B. ID.
Buford, Henry Woltman, Alderman DAILY,
and Andrew Hoffman said committee.
The committee then retired
NJ J. Murphy offered the following reso
luton and asked that it be read by the
the secretary:
ResolUed. That the honesty, incorruptlbility and
faithful public services OF Hon. Bailey Daver port
command our warmcst admiration, We commend
his unceasing efforts to save the peoples money
and to administer their affairs with fidelity; and
| especially commend his efforts to keep down the
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promote their efficiency. and to increase their
| enues. In our opinion no man in the city, either
Democrat or Repub lean, is better quail fled to in
teigently and faithfully discharge the delicate and
responsible duties of Mayor than Bailey Daven
port, We know that the peoples interests are safe
| Il his han DIS.
On motion of Peter Schlemmer all
present were invited to vote on this re-
solution, and it was adopted by IN.
animous vote, and amid great applause.
August Huesing Was then appointed
chairman of the city committee.
Loud calls were then made for "a speech
from McElherne." 'McElherne. etc.
and that gentleman took the judges
stand amid rounds of applause.
He spoke Of the unnecessary and enormous
expense of our water works as managed
by our water board; reviewed the Boyntor
difficulty. and said that neither Mr.. Daven
port or Mr. Boynton had any persona
feeling in the matter; Mr.. Davenport was
only doing what he thought was his dut,
to save the peoples money; the opposition
to him is only the work of spite, by thu
members of the water board; the people
have tried several men as mayor but they
have not been able to resist the pressure
of the water board eeches; thu
people wanted somebody to throw
this heavy burden off thei
shoulders and reduce the expenses Of tht
water works, and the only man who hat
exhibited the courage and would accep
the Office of mayor was Bailey Davenport
1t may take one, it may take two, or i
may take three years to shake thes,
leeches off, but the people say they mus
and shall come off-and that Bailey Daven
port is the man who is not afraid to at
tempt the job.
i Mr.. McElhern was frequently inter
rupted during his speech by yells of APP
prevail and cries of that's so, :" you
right" etc.
Mr.. f Lucus was then loudly called for
He said that VIM. I'll. Gest, in his speech
before the water board convention las
Saturday night, had stated that ''some
thing had stuck in his throat and choke,
him ever since he voted for Bailey Daven
port as township collector" Mr.. Luca
wanted to know if something stuck 10 hi
throat" when he went into the publ
library to get book, probably purchased
with money given to the library by Mr.
Davenport when he was collector; or i
something stuck in his throat when b,
was in Chicago, on the Union Square suit
and hired Judge Wilkinson to do tn,
work, while he sat by and done nothing
or if something stuck in his throat" whel
be had the cheek to charge 5000 for hi
services there, for work which lie neve
performed, but which was allowed by tn
water board council. alderman Mosenfeld
er-"Yes, aud his $40 lunch bill besidesr'
Mr.. Lucas then referred to the extravaganza
: OF the water board and how they had bur
dened the city with an enormous debt
!, He said, IF you hire man to do you
work and he makes botch job of it, wi
you hire him over again?' Oar waite
| beard ring first said that the water work
would cost only $S000o. What did the
cost? The first bonds were $4,000, an,
additional expenses never shown In the ae
counts. 1t was botch job at that, Tt
: pipes froze up; people shuto their water
the water works could not begin to pa
running expenses. and was increasing tn
debt every day, while the people attempt
ed to shake off these water board leeches
out were defeated by those who couldn
take hint when asked to leaye The
the water board said: THE work wi
have to be done over again, but it will onl
cost about $4,000" What did it cost
E About $4,000, including extra street'wor
caused by the job. Besides this, on
streets were left in a worse condition tina