Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-04-01
on Tuesday evening. April2. Premiums
from seventeen to nineteen per cent. E.
b. Guyer. secretary.

h. Guyer, secretary.
McCabe Bros. have imported for their
own special customers an immense lot OF
flower seeds. English lawn grass and
bulbs. which they will distribute this
week at one fourth value.
Phil Miller, Pat Cary, John Fleming,
Morris Stafford. Steve Hull. ct al. are
working desperately for the 'masheen'
ticket. Why shouldn't theyf 1t means
fat snaps for them.
The ARGUS has made no personal at
tacks upon Mr.. McConochie. 1t has
simply exposed his official record. 1t is
no particular fault of the ARGUS that that
has proved fatal to him.
Speaking about taxes. wouldn't it be q
good idea for some of the candidates on
the republican ticket to liquidate their
Indebtedness to the county. before ask
ing the SURFACES of their fellow citizensf
The advantage of electing H. c.
Wivill over Bobby" Bennett will not
only be to get a much better qualified
man, but once who can speak both the
English and German languages flu.
emily.
Guy Reynolds, son of DIR. j. A Rey-
nolds, former pastor of the U. P. church,
this city. died at Monmouth college last
Friday of pneumonia, aged fourteen
years, and was buried yesterday at Cedar
Creek, Ill.
Express by your ballot tomorrow your
l'disapproval of cut and dried politics
Let your vote contribute to the suppress
sion Of the "masheen" and the giving of
the people free. untrammeled voice in the
convention as well as at the polls
If the morning paper could DE pre-
vailed upon to print another extra edition
in order to fill out its deficient circulation
and spread it over town as it did yester-
day. there would not be a ghost of a
show for anyone on the ''masheen'
ticket.
A NotC loi tuC uhouCCu tiShCt W
morrow means vote for slate of ap>
pointive offices already decided upon.
There are very few 70 tiers in Rock Island
who will not improve the privilege given
them of silently suppressiug every meth
cd of political office grabbing.
The democrats of Black Hawk nomi-
mated strong ticket Saturday night,
with Mr.. c. CT Hartman at the head. The
republicans have put up DR.. Matthews
for supervisor. the gentleman whom
Hartman laid out last year. If the peo-
pie of Black Hawk do the right thing,
they will return Hartman to the board of
supervisors by handsome majority.
No manufacturer, merchant or tax pay
er can afford to vote for McConochie fol-
mayor. He is narrow>minded, bigoted
politician. who is the tool of self con-
stituted. political dictators. He is noted
chiefly for his sneers at the Rock Island
Improvement association and his at
tempted depreciation of the business and
property interests of the city.
If that young lady is slow to make up
her mind in regard to being your wife.
just take her Clemann s. Salzmann 8
furniture store. and show her that besu-
titul bedroom set of furniture they
have donated to the Methodist festival,
q nd will 10 friuap RI no Grcto no
applies to Mr.. Cue for msrriage-to take
place in the rink Monday evening, May
Is.
The furniture factory of Knostman,
Petersen & Company. of Davenport. was
struck by lightning Saturday night. and
damaged to the extent of $1,000; insur
ance $4,000. The fire which ensued
was quickly subdued by the fire depart
ment. and the mill is running today, as
usual Mr.. Howard Wells, of this city,
is interested in the factory.
The Union finds fault because City At
torney McEniry old not enforce the
Ninth street special sewer system. If
it will take the trouble to look up the
records it will find that McEniry did
try to enforce the same. but the court
held the proceedings, as begun by his
predecessor, wrong. The work was moi
cut out to his hand, but was cut out like
a great many other suits engineered by
his predecessors, which McEniry would
not have done.
Clerk Bloom, of the Rock Island
house, has displayed his artistic merit
and skill in the manner in which he has
adorned the Rock Island house register
in honor of the arrival of German g
spectacular minstrels. Two entire pages
are given to the decoration and the let,
tiers and coloring as well as the whole in
scription, betokens taste and originality
that Mr.. Bloom need be in no way
ashamed of. The Germans should ap-
preciate the compliment Mr.. Bloom has
shown them.
A smitten conscience is often the cause
of much unwary and injudicious talk
Thus it is that the Union, knowing as II
does, that the ''masheen" slate has been
made up for the appointive offices should
McConoehie be elected, tries to conceive
that the democrats also have slate and
that W. ii. Ladders is to be marshal. The
fact that Mr.. ladders has been a resident
of Chicago for some time. having moved
his family and effects there, shows that
there is not much accuracy about the
| Unions guess work. While there has
been no "masheen" work or slate making