The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-02
CORRESPONDENCE.
A Republican and his Views
on Local Politics.
The Unpopularity Of Morris
Shown Up.
BUFFAIo PRrRIE. June so.

EDITORS Rock ISLAND ARGUs:-I saw
the statement made in your paper that
there is dissatisfaction in the republican
camp as to the nomination of Mr.. Moorris
for sheriff, and thinking that an opposit-
ion paper would be a good medium for the
interchange of feelings and opinions oil
our party in the county, i. beg space IN
your columns that that part of the county
may know how we stand down here in the
lower end. We are routed and thrown in
70 confusion. l think the towns of Buffa-
10 and Drury viii give an opposition can
didate for sheriff from rs to 100 majority.
and one other candidate will get the most
scratching that he has ever had At the
primary the vote stood twenty eight for
Ankrum and Eckhart thirty-one. -Four
Ankrum voters came in just after the polls
closed; and two Eckhart voters, one re
publican and one democrat; a total of
sixty-seven voters, and not MORRIS man
on the ground; but that is easily accounted
for as there
NOT A NORRIS MAN
i'm the town. There was about twenty-five
or thirty Ankrum republican voters that
were not out, beside some democrats that
wanted him nominated that they might
vote for him. And since Eckhart has
loaned himself as stool pigeon, / think
three-fourths of the republican voters of
the town are for Ankrum. Then part
of the old township machine that had
beaten the town and those individuals
that succeeded in getting hold ON the
county. Many rejoiced and said we were
done with them, but they were doomed to
disappointment, for they were on hand.
The bulldozer could not be here but little
Es.x4 H. - -H.<aN 1s..Fr -
the chief, the most prolific and scientific
worker of the lot, put in good time and he
was hard one to head off; for he looked
cross eyed and wore goggles and it was
difficult to tell i'm what direction he was
going to work. One of the machine men
is good fellow, if he could only learn to
say mo, to bad men, that make bad prop
ositions, and | would advise him to drill
himself ON that word mo" and use it when
such fellows as will not work for living,
ask him for financial aid. He had better
do that than let them get the best of him,
and have to work and scheme to get them
grip on the county in order to make
collection.
THE LAST PART
of the machine that will mel1tion is the
dirt auger. They can work it any place
not bore willingly, then they put it forward
and they say that tempers it up so that it
will bore with great fury.
Three of the four delegates from this
town were pledged to vote for Ankrum
instead of Morris. How forcibly we ar e
reminded that man was made of clay and
that clay is much softer in q wet season like
this. And again we are told how the skill
ed articles can mould and fashion il to
his notion.
see the Globe thinks all is not well,
and calls upon the rural republicans to
combine against the Rock Island and Mo
line ring, which think is all useless, for
they have forty-five votes, only six short of
a majority, and we can supply that number
from these two towns.
IN AvERDEPoIsE WEIGHT
we sent enough to the county convention
to constitute fair convention. All that
was lacking was the knowledge of
knowing right from wrong, and
the stability and boldness to stand firm and
demand what was right
In fact don't know but the Globe is
rather hasty, for | don't know that the
delegates from the rural towns asked for
anything, and if they did not, it was Ger
bainly through the generosity of Rock
Island and Moline that one Rock Island
nominee was credited to a rural town.
Milan got something, but there was policy in
hat as she had six votes which could just
turn things in favor of Rock Island and
Moline, in case the others had combined
against them. [ don't think it would
have been any trouble at all for those
silver city tongued fellows up there to
nave made some of our delegates believe
hat there was a statute compelling one
own to furnish a nominee, and three or
four other towns to claim him in order to
make it equal and fair. Rock Island and
Moline only claim four of the six nominees,
md there is a state senator and congress
nan TO be added As matter of fact,
Rock island and Moline must furnish that
.alent.
THEN ALLOWING
hat Milan is separate and part from Rock
Island, and that Mr.. Donaldson is resi-
dent of rural, that will only give Rock
Island and Moline six of the eight candi
lates. don't consider that bad for 4S
experienced delegates to handle DC
when have known one juggler
10 keep six or eight balls in the air at one
lime. There is some talk here of petition
ing the county central committee to pro
aounce the action of the convention as a
farce by making call for another conven
ion. One man says that if we swallow
ibis without making faces, that next time
they will nominate by proclamation, in
stead of acclamati0n GRAMMAR