The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-06
NOT HARMONIOUS.
The Endorsement Of the Republican
Ticket by Danf0rth. Bennett & Co.,
Causes o Breach in the Work.
ingmen's Ranks.
Old Joe Collars the Swag Paid Him for
the Job, but Fails to Deliver His
Supposed Followers.
A SCENE IN DANFoRTH's DEN.

controlled, owned and manipulated the
workingmen, took one step too far when
ne thought to carry the workingmen bod>
lily to the republicans. Butterfly" Ben
nett little knew when he promised TO sell
his influence for the Office of police mag
istrate, that he was knocking the under
pinning from the elaborate structure
which j. B. D. had been, with infinite
labor, been working and moulding to his
purposes, and handling as he chose for
so many years. 1t was trade which the
workingmen would not countenance, and
when Boss" Danforth attempted to
swing them into line like lot of sheep,
and by obtaining offices for his under
'bosses," make them help him, and turn
the whole party over to the re-
publicans because he would personally
gain thereby, he found himself plumb
against large snag, which had in it the
better clements of the workingmen.
1t had been noised about that there
would be meeting at Danforth's den on
Wednesday night, but nothing was inti>
mated as to the nature of the meeting
One by one the faithful began to assem-
bic, until all were present, when Boss
Danforth arose from his stool and wad>
died to the door, which he locked and put
the key in his pocket. When the old man
shutfled back to his seat he winked at his
right hand man, and the meeting was
called to order. One of the delegates
veutured to ask the nature of the meet
ing, when Old Joe took the floor. and
pulling from the innermost recesses of
his pantaloon's pocket, a dozen sheets of
closely written letter paperhe commenced
to read an address which he had pres
pared. 1t was to the effect that the work,
ingmeh support the entire republican
ticket, as he (Danforth) could not run
the democratic party. and was not allow
cd sufficient pap At the conclusion Of
reading The" address, which was intended
to completely floor the democratic hosts
one OF the boss slaves moved that the adj,
dress be adopted. A member from the
Fifth ward raised an objection, as he
thought the democratic party was the
best one to support, being more identified
with the working classes than the repub-
lican party.
Whats thIs?" said the Boss; us there
mutiny in the camp? | will have you put
out of my sanctum Che meant den) if you
do not keep STILL"
But the Fifth wardel still demonstrated
and old Joe's wig commenced to stand or
end as he yelled at the Unconstitutional Of tht
workingmen, "Who did you vote for las
fall, anyway"
"I'll tell if you dare say who you voted
for, replied the man, who did not wincc
under the scathing glance bestowed hin
by the Boss.
The question of adopting the lad
dress" was finally placed on its passage
and it was declared carried, although
several members present say that it wa
an errorous decision by the chair.
The report of the meeting sent ont wa
misleadin. in its statements with regart
to the number of delegates who wore op
posed to carrying out the terms of til,
dicker entered into by Danforth, Bennett
Il Co. with the republican ward workers
At least half of the socalled dele
gates to that convention were
: opposed to an endorsement o
any party, and instead of two bein,
opposed, at least a dozen protestei
: against the sale of the party by its self con
siituted leaders. There were only fv
regularly appointed delegates present. an
these were from the Fifth ward. Thes
were all opposed to the dicker, excep
one who probably was one of the partie
to the dicker. Most of the so called dele
gates were creatures of Danforth, Bennett
& Co., and were run in to support III
bosses. Few, if any, of them were ap
pointed at the ward meetings-in fact til
chairman of the meeting said so in tn
E presence of the bosses, Had the labo
party of Rock Island had any knowledg
of the trick by which their bosses al
tempted to turn them over as voting ca
tie, as one of them expressed it, to til
G. o. p. which has lately, according t
Danforth, Bennett & Co., shown such so
licitude for the working men, they woul
have sat down upon the scheme so en-
/. phatically that Ugh Danforth would hay
had nervous shock that he wouldn't e
over in q long time. As one of the dele
gates expressed it; "Some of the leadin
4 republicans have shown their solicitud
e for the laborers by paying them the mul
!. ificent sum of 10 cents an hour for worl
ing eight or nine hours day. Ho
would Danforth, Bennett & Co., like tht
recompense as applied to themselves? Bl
!, as long as the G. o. p sees to the pei
!. sonal comforts of the bosses, the braif
. of the party are nurished, and the trun
/, well let it rot These old manipuli
: tors have evidently forgotten none {
e their cunning of former years in comme
. cial transactions, and may possibly hav
: been influenced by the persuasive clio
: quence of other than party interest, {
:, this kind of eloquence has been known
e former years to do.
News from Springfield
u Hon. II. G. Cleaveland came home fror
: Springfield to spend Sunday and be pres
emf at the election an informal agree