Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-04-17
MACHINE MANIPULATION.
0'Mara and Gamble Head the Re
publican Ticket.
The County Convention ut the Court
H0use---The slate Goes Through
with n Whoop and without BIem-
ish---Crawford for Representative.

on this April day of 'SS, each delegate
was up and dressd in store clothes o
something else, and bound fog the con
vention town, where all the 'bz" Is don't
UP brown. They came in ones, in two
and threes, except from Moline, where {
score or more came down to hear the
lion roar; and these same men when the
sun is set, if they don't get Gamble, vii
go home mad and swear by the big
horned spoon that the candidate will
meet the parsons doom. The states at
torneyship was Rock Islands chief aim
four lawyers in this way sought riches
and fame. A queer shapen fight, this
quadruple boom, for tue success of the
one, meant the three others doom. For
the clerk of the court there were likewise
four in the fight, who for long time had
worked for it both day and night. On
the office of coroner several ambitious
ones fed, oil religiously anxious TO sit on
the dead. AS to county surveyor, there
seemed httle spleen, and the Office was
again awarded to Proud Moline.
THE CONVENTION.
1t was promptly at 10 o'clock that
Boss Wells, chairman of the county com
mittec, assembled the rostrum with di-
vine step and called the Rock Island
county convention to order in the circuit
court room of the county court house.
The evening paper in Rock Island, Boss
Wells said. stated that this was to be
great menagerie and he intimated that
the paper was about right, for he said
that the animals were all there and had
the appearance of having been well win
tered. They looked as if they were
ready for a good tussle now and this
summer. In fact he said "our name is
Eli" The boss proposed the name of
Capt. W. G. Bennett of Moline, for
chairman, and he was elected unanimous
ly. Capt. Bennett on assuming the
chair, returned thanks for the honor con-
ferred upon him. He appreciated the
honor and hoped the convention would
be patient, forbearing and considerable
with him. Upon the suggestion of
the chair. Secretary Kohler read
the call. Mr.. Fred G. Denkman,
of Rock Island. was proposed by
the chairman for secretary and the
was ratified by unanimous
uota ITnnn notiop tho oh a ;r onn,;,to1
a committee on credentials composed of
Messrs. E. d. Sweeney, Of Rock Island
E. II, Sleight, of Moline; }. c. Johnston,
Of Milan; Geo Wait, of Yuma; and w. S. |
Parks, of Edgngton. The committee |
-etired and the chairman announced that
he convention might consider itself at
ease during the committees absence.
THE DELEGATES.
The committee on returning reported
he following delegates as entitled to
eats in the convention; the delegates
rom Port Byron, Andalusia and Canoe
jreek having failed at that time to ar
i've, but we're reported this afternoon
uu are luCIuuGu III inc llsJ' |
ROCK ISLAND.
Delegate at Large-Howard Wells
First ward-G f Bladel,, f ] Hodges,
ames McGarvey.
Second ward--A II Hampton, ] X
'ooke, William Baker, J L Fleming. {
Third ward-J F Van Horn, E G Flick .
lcher Lee Gait, George Perry.
Fourth ward-E d Sweeney, T. Fl
'homas, G E Bailey, c F GAZETTEER.
Fifth ward-Dr G L Barth, b f Knox,
' J Pratt, Conrah Schneider.
Sixth WANDERED G Denkmann; T F
AIRY. John J Reimers.
Seventh ward-W Giles, G w Foss,
William Gamble, H H Holland.
MOLINE.
Delegate at Large-C o Mason.
First ward-H A Ainsworth Swan
ropp, A G Swanson, p II Peterson.
Second ward-W II Ball. L F Cralle,
scar Peal, Peter Lind. William Evans. {
Third ward-P II Vessel, A Ii Arp, i,
has Kneeberg, John Pears, N Chester =
nd N r Zeigler.
Fourth ward-E H Sleight, b G Keator, L
A Smith. VIM Clendenin, E E Vince
'ck and w Entrikin. 3
Fifth ward-C W Lundahl and H ,
ase.
Sixth ward-W Stevens, Henry Lut. s
IN and w r Moore. b
Seventh ward-W G Bennett, E B
Gator and Chas Rodelius,
South Moline--J B Cornwall, M Y
ady, Harry Sutley, VIM Wilson and L t
Eastman. n
Cordova-W r Freck. G II eager and n
go P brennan.
Coe-W Ziegler, P F Cox, Jno Eng U
lhl and Jerry Pearsall. l
Zuma-John L Noah, Leslie Hanna 6
Id Geo. C Starke. h
Hampton--Ge Vincent John Devin>
~, Danl Mcneil, F Baker and Clark q
OrbIn. A
South Rock Island-Thomas Camps r,
III, Cornelius Graham and G Massey. n
Black Hawk-A r Brown, J G Johns
n, w T Kerr, M Goble and + M Tin
IL. Il
Coal Valley-W Adams and D Lyons tt
Rural-A Faileing, A EMcMackin and a,
Dbt L Bollman.
Bowlng-S W Heath, Cyrus Miller, III
10 Clark and II Ohaver.
Buffalo Prairie-Wm Drury, Geo W
ECKER, Jno Bruner and Chas litter. III,
gton, Jr.
E H Bowman, r L &C
.ede and Alex Hayes. d.
Drury-J Wray, F NJ Siever, P
lett and A Dutiield.
Canoe Creek-Arthur Goodrich and N u,
Blackman n
Port Byron-J W Simonson, H II 10
endt, E Rogers. y.
Clark, at large; Dan Nc