Rock Island daily Argus., 1888-06-23
CASTEEL FOR CLERK.

The Upper End of the County solid 10
the Port Byron Candidate---E En-
courngins OutIook for the Demo
cratic Nominee.
Storms indicate which way the win,
blows, and the attitude of news paper
are, generally speaking, safe signs Il
Two years ago the Port Byron Globe
which wields more influence in the uppe
end of the county than any other repub
lican paper, announced Its determination
to support John Schafer Jr,, the demo
cratic nominee for county treasurer ant
predicted his success, The Globe wa'
right as the returns of the election fol
lowing Showed, The Globe of yesterday
again publishes its decision to support d
democratic nominee as against the ma
chine candidate and says:
Two years ago il was the GiO5e's pleas
ant duty to do what it could to secure the
election of n worthy fellow. citizen to a
public trust. Nobody felt greater pleas
ure than we of the GkObe when it was
known that John Schafer had been chosen
to look after the affairs of the county
treasury. We had donated our mite in
behalf of an honest and capable man, res
gardless of party politics; and although
we received many hard raps over the head
from the party organs down the river, We
survived. We not only survived. but we
suffered not one penuy's worth, either
socially, politically, or financially. Our
subscription list has gone on gradually
increasing, and our republican subscribers
still stick to the Globe with their old time
love. We bad justly advocated the
claims of the upper end of the county and
were respected for it,
We propose to do this same thing again
and do it with pleasure. The demo-
cratic county convention has again fa
vared our village with nomination
The leaders of that party seem to have
found out where to find sober, honest.
trustworthy and capable men to fill conn
ty Offices. In this connection we deem
it our duty to speak few words in be
halt of our fellow vlllager Deputy Coun-
ty Treasurer Casteel. nominee for the
office of circuit clerk of Rock Island
county Whatever else has been or may
be said of our county democrats. they
certainly displayed good judgment in this
selection. as they also did two years ago
in their selection of a county treasurer,
MIR. Casteel is young man of good,
moral habits. II thoroughly trained bus,
ness man, AN expert bookkeeper. a good
penman, Industrious, accommodating and
capable. He WAS for three years book
keeper in the Taylor Williams cOllicry at
Rapids Oity at time when that
great industry was doing its heaviest
business, and he gave excellent sat
isfaction. 'fle has in the past eight or
ten wears been vAriOusly engaged in book
keeping, merchandising and as travelling
salesman, and in all these vocations his |
success has been uniformly good his |
habits strictly moral and his manners
pleasing. lie ia emtnently qualified for
the position he seeks, and without hesita- |
tioh we ask all our readers in the upper |
end of the county to work for and vote
for him. BY his manly department and |
courteous manners he has won hosts of |
friends at the comfy seat during his ser
vice in the treasurer's office, aud this
abroad combined with the pat>
riotism of his fellow townsmen will go far
toward electing him.
Local pride and the knowledge that the
candidate is the proper person for the
place prompts us to place Mr.. Casteel
before our readers and ask the support
of republicans as well AS democrats. AS
we have asserted before it is not the
Globes mission to dabble in political af-
fairs, but it is ever ready to lend what aid
it can to further the interests of any local
whose record and habits are
clean and qualifications thorough. Bert
Casteel is this sort of man and we hope
to see him elected. SO do many others
Of this vicinity.