Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-10

iag up and down Second avenue for an
hour previously and had just arrived at
the court house in hilarious state. hav>
ing imbibed as many as three glasses OF
pop. As soon as the delegates had fled
into the court room, Boss Wells mounted
the rostrum. and in rather forcible but
inelegant manner called the convention
to order by saying "the time has arrived
for the republicans of Rock Island coun.
ty to nominate ticket to knock the stuff
fin out of the democrats as we did two
years ago." A dead silence prevailed for
few moments. and the applause the
Boss expected failing to manifest itself,
he told the delegates where to sit. Then
he hoped down again. and in few mo-
ments reappeared and announced that
Capt. W. c. Bennett mad been selected
by the county committee to act as chair
man of the convention. Putting the
question to the convention there was
feeble respond of ''ayes." and the Boss
declared Capt. Bennett. elected chairman
without putting the negative vote. Capt.
Bennett felt Sorry there was no one else
in the. pstty who could fill the position,
as he had been chosen so often. but he
would consent to serve once more.
On motion of s. s. Hull, Mr.. Fred j.
Kinney. of Rock Island. was elected sec
rotary by reclamation. A committee on
credentials was appointed. consisting of
Z. F. GAZETTEER. Rock Island; Andrew AM
derson, Moline; John Johnston. Black
Hawk; J. W. Slmonson, Port Byron; Ell
mer Young. Drury.
Boss Wells bobbed up again to move
that a committee of two from Rock Is.
land and Moline. and one from each
township in the county be elected to select
delegates to the various conventions,
which was carried, and the following
committee was chosen:
Howard Wells, l.. S. McCabe, =. C. Hemen-
way, Oscar Peal, J. b. Cor nwall, Geo Drennen
C. Wait, F. Titterngton. VIM. Leach, VIM. Sears,
NJ. Goble, T. j. Murphy, A. Failing A II La
hin, c. Hayes C. Titterington, ]. f. Wray.
The chair then ventured the sugges>
ton that whoever were selected as dele
gates would be expected to support the
senatorial and legislative candidates as
indicated by the instructions of the ooun>
~ convention. Some OF the delegates
hadn't their ear trumpets along. and
asked for repetition OF the statement.
and even after they heard it ag ain they
failed to grasp the intimstion that no
kicking" would be tolerated.
A motion to adjourn until o'clock
was then voted down, as WAS also mo
ton to adjourn to 80 and 2 o'clock
When motion To adjourn until 80 was
made the chair got a little mad and inti>
mated that the delegates were making
darn fools OF themselves. This motion
was also lost on an aye and nay vote, but
division of the house showed major
iiy in its favor. The adjournment was
practically victory for Moline over
Rock Island. as the latter delegation OPP
posed the motion solidly.
Boss Wells again took occasion TO let
ii be known that he was still on deck by
requesting that the committee to select
delegates adjourn Ito the Harper house as
everybody wanted to get dinner anyway"
Of course this little advertisement of the
Harper entitled the Boss to free soup.
At 10 O'Clock the committee on creden-
tisls were still in session and had the
court room to themselves with the ex-
ception of the two contesting delegations
from the Sixth ward, who were present
to log roll with the committee.
GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS.
1t was nearly l 80 when the convention
reassembled. 1t had been whispered
about that the committee on credentials
had tn rown out the second set of Sixth
Andrew Bladel and Fred Denkmann-and
there was good deal of feeling over the
result. as the men denied admission had
always been active and leading members
of the g. o. p.
When order was restored. Chairman
Gseijer read the report of the committee
on credentials. which was adopted as fol-
lows:
ROCK ISLAND
First ward--John Blsdel, Foster Coyne.
August Peterson, E B McKown.
Second wsrd-Simon Kerns, W T
Sugden, W 81 Jordan. w J Pratt, C
f Johnson.
Third wards S Hull, Timothy Webb,
F G Hemenway.
Fourth ward - G F GAZETTEER, d F
Krell. R c Willerton. ] Kinney.
Fifth wsrd-B F Knox, Frank Col,
Inns. c E Evans, M Cullingsn.
Sixth ward-J FL Lloyd, VIM Levy,
VIM Glass.
Seventh ward - Fl Fl Holland. L
McCabe. w w Scott, Leander Ritchey.
MOLINE.
First ward-Nelson Pierce, II A Aims
worth, George Oldefest, L Mccoy
Second ward-Oscsr Peal, G NJ Ford.
Andrew Anderson, Peter Linn, Henry
| Werlich.
Third ward-Audrew Vessel. N r
Ziegler. Charles Kneeberg, ] FL McPhel-
son. John Pears.
Fourth ward-Milton Mckinley, Arthur
Stephen. Ed Cumpson, Col Clendenin,
| w Ell Hatch.
Sixth ward-C w Reed, G F Heinen-
way.
| Seventh ward-W & Bennett. w Fl
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