The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-02
BOLTBRs.
Men Who Will Not Support.
the Republican Ticket.
Reason Assigned for such
Disafection.

The republican county convention has
been held and the party nominations have
been made for the various county officers
to be elected the coming fall.
The nominations of Judge Adams for
county Judge, r. A. Donaldson for county
clerk, Prof Southwell for superintendent
of schools and David Halves for coroner,
appear to meet with general approval
among the rank and file of the republican
party.
THE SELECTION
of J. E. Fleming for county treasurer and
w. G. Morris tor sheriff, does not meet
with general favor, and many republicans
regard the nominations as unusually weak.
The disaffection is quite general and
many republicans have stated that they
will not onlyvote for the democratic NOM
inees for those two positions, but if good
men are selected, they will do all they can
to secure their election at the polls.
The majority assign as reason for bolt
ing the ticket, the ineompetency of the
nominees, while great many feel that
some underhamd work was accomplished
in the convention by which Fleming and
Morris were nominated.
THE ANKRuM MEN
are thoroughly disguised and disgruntled
with the result of the convention, and
have no hesitation in stating that they viii
not support Morris at the polls.
They state that the delegates from the
Second and Fifth wards of Rock Island
were instructed for Eckhardt, and the un-
derstanding was that when Eckhardt was
dropped the vote of those two wards should
go for Ankrum.
Some trade was made, by which Morris
agreed 10 appoint Eckhardt as one of his
deputies. if elected, and that in conse
quence of that bargain and sale the dele
gates voted for Morris, and thus secured
for him the nomination.
They maintain that the Hampton delega
ton was admitted, not because of any
right, but simply because the members
thereof were Morris men.
THE MAIN OBJECTION,
however, argued by the Ankrum followers.
is that Morris and his strikers, during the
campaign, used the Jail delivery against
Ankrum, and pretended to claim that
builders and carpenters had pronounced
the jail walls as good as before the fire.
The unfortunate release of the prisoners
was the stock in trade of the Morris work
ers, and many people were thus led to be-
lieve that the delivery was the result of
carelessness ON the part of Ankrum and his
subordinates.
They maintain that Ankrum was entitled
to a denomination by all the customs of
political parties. and that under the attend
ing circumstances they feel at liberty to
bolt the ticket, provided good man is
named for that position by the democrats.
THE REID MEN
say that only few years ago S. s. Cromp-
ton defeated Dave Reid for the nominal
ton of Treasurer by unfair means. The
Reid men turned in and elected the demo
cratic nominee for that position by good
sized majority.
They claim that the same thing will be
repeated at the coming election If the prop
er nomination is made by the democrats
against Fleming.
The members of this faction say that
Fleming is not competent to fill the posi-
ton, as no one would select him as the
financial man of any of the large mama
featuring firms, or even of the smaller
mercantile houses.
1t is also limited that he was instrumental
in defeating Ankrum, and on that account
he has excited the enmity of the friends
of the latter person.
THE DEMOCRATS
are feeling very jubilant over the turn
which affairs have taken, and they are
watching the factional strife within the
republican camp with as much composure
and competency as though it did not CON
Germ them. Before the republican conven-
ton there were no candidates among the
democrats who desired nomination for
treasurer and sheriff.
Since that event, the democratic candi-|
dates for those two positions are as numer-
Gus as could be desired
The list already includes some of the
best men of the county, with other town
ships still to hear from. The members of
the democratic party generally favor a late
convention and the indications are that
there viii be some lively and interesting
work to secure the democratic nominations
for those positions, between now and next
September
cHILLs AND FEVER MALARIA.