Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-24
DESPICABLE TACTICS.
The Unmanly Policy Adopted DS inc
Monopoly Organ TO Influence Mem
hers OF the council. ore Insults

The UnmanIy Policy Adopted by the
Monopoly Organ TO Influence Mem
beers OF the Council--More Insults
The Union, the helpless representative
of the monopolistic influences which
alone are attempting to retsrd the march
of progress in opposing the street rail-
way. and which first attempted by hattery
then by accusation of having accepted
brides to influence the aldermen, but to
no avail, came out yesterday with clip
pings from the ferry organ on the Daven-
port side of the river, one of which it i'm
pertinently addresses to six of the alder
men: Messrs. Scott, Gray, Edwards,
Hampton, Schafer and Winter. In
inserting these paragraphs and
singing out each alderman sepa>
rately as it does, it applies an
other insinuating insult. In Saturs
days issue il intimated that the aldermen
had been bribed. Yesterday morning it
showed its idea of the intellect of the al.
derman whom it addresses by laying be-
fore them items from the Democrat Gaz.
cite. Does the Union suppose for a
moment that anything the Davenport
organ says on this subject will
have any more weight with them than
anything the Union would sayf Does it
not know that the aldermen are fully
aware of the fact that each paragraph
the Union uses in this despicsble way was
written for the very purpose of being
used in just such a wayr Does it fail to
realize that the aldermen know that the
Democrat Gazette, while on its outside
pages and outwardly is in favor Of the
bridge road, inwardly and on its inside
pages, where appears the marks of the
pen that guides its policy and
makes its influence felt, it is violent
ly opposed to the bridge roadf Has it
not intelligence enough to know that
every member of the Rock Island coun-
Gil knows that the Democrat. Gazette is a
stakeholder in the ferry, and there is a
self-interested purpose and undercurrent
in everything it says regarding the extern
sion of rights to the Chicago syndicate
But as long as the Union has seen fit to
call these aldermen out by name, let the
ARGUS with all due respect and consider
| alton, address few words to them on the
particular articles to which the Union has
referred to them respectively:
We have no doubt whatever that the
aldermen addressed and all the member.
of the council have seen for themselve:
that the bridge street railroad is one Of
the inevitable improvements bound IL
come in the near future. We are conf
jority of the citizens of Rock Island ar,
in favor of the road being built, and tina
our merchants are in no way frightened
at Davenport competition. Neither d.
we think the council will lend itself I,
any ferry scheme of killing the immediat
building of the road by hssty Legislation
in regard to visducts or other improve
ment that will come at the proper time
and need not be rushed upon us in he
haste because of certain corner lct hav
ing been bought at high price to defes
the bridge line. which, being now LEI
out, wants heavy viaduct damages to &c
even.
} The people are well aware that 10 spi,
of all the many speeches about fencin
2 in the town, ETC., the councilmen al
! now to have the first opportunity of e,
| pressing themselves on this question
e The power is with the council to give Il
t people for the first time this winter OF
po:tunity to cross the river in comic
!, and safety, without being robbed
a hackmen, and to see that no one is -four
freezing on the bridges or drowning ne
/ the shore.
8 The motives of the Rock Island bus
ness men who secured the passage of Il
: bridge charter, were quite as pure al
: disinterested as were the motives Of tho
who first attempted to secure law ma
is ing toll bridge and thereby forcing I
4 teams to the ferry. and failing in tn
made an effort to secure their charter (
j their own benefit. How mnch pub
# spirit has the ferry company ever show
We don't believe that any of the aide
= men, individually or collectively, are
IT need of any primer lessons such as q
weak and struggling newspaper combi
e would have the people believe. 7
= skillful efforts to arouse i'll feeling
# tween residents and business men in t
tri-cities, apparently having failed, an
m tempt is now made to set some trap a
lg different one for each alderman-o
y alderman is told indirectly he will ne
move to Wagnerville to do business
I'd the same reasoning the ferry landing "
re in few years be in Moline instead
n Rock Island. Boshl We have not /
ticed heretofore that this alderman's vo
Is, in the council were for his own wa
be and we believe in this bridge railrt
es question he will take broad view, a
one looking to the interests of the mass
Biz and such view as will lead him to "
or for what he will ever regard as pul
es. benefit and be proud of.
One of the aldermen will see in
no particular paragraph addressed to
'or the skillful tracks of that same old Co
til almost defunct, yet making one last eff
as it is being crushed by the onw
,er march of public opinion and public
ay provement.
isit As to all the aldermen, the ARGUS
C. only to say that it is not its purpose
desire to influence them. either by b