Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-03
HARD UP FOR MEN.
The Republicans as REGARDS
Congressional Timber.
THAT Is, WHEN THEY TOOK MARSH

Ago Aroused the Ire of His Own PARTY
Organs, Including the Rock Island
uhion-His Fate Then VIII be Repeated
Next Tuesday-What Sort of n Specimen
He Is.
IL is not pleasant commentary ON the
merit of the republican congressional
timber in the Eleventh congressional dis.
trlct that in the selection of a candidate
Tor the lower house it could not have
mustered the strength to have overcome
the manipulations of the Marsh machine,
and found Il man It does not speak great
deal Tor the republican idea and estima-
ton of the stock of its other candidates
suitable for the high honor to be be-
slowed to see that young or old, it could
find none other entirely qualified but the
weather worn old sristocrat, who 10
We trs ago precipt4t 4 n rev tuition in the
party and caused his own and his party's
defeat. Marsh, who has again thus im>
posed himself upon the party. is
chrou C office seeker whose single idea is
- hold office. regardless of his fitness or
capacity, or the propriety of his candi-
dacy either to his party or to himself
Ten Years Ago.
Ten years ago, the last time he ran for
| congress. his Candidacy resulted in open
| rebellion within the ranks of his party,
the most violent that has ever attended a
campaign in Illinois. For the three terms
preceding the year 1882, Marsh had oc-
| cupied seat in the lower house and he
had done so little for his district except
to draw his pay that his own party be-
came thoroughly sick Of him. and when
| he refused to stand aside and permit the
nomination of a more suitable man, such
as Maj. McClauohry. sudinsisted on a re-
nomination that he was not entitled to,
/ the party simply went into the court OF
last resort and won its sui, through the
medium of the ballot box. 1t was sup>
posed then that the party had ridded it
self of the Marsh losd-but not so. Ten
years afterwart it finds itself incumbered
| with the same burden, heavier but cling
ing more generously than ever before
This time it will probably be relieved of
the load in d manner that will free it of
it for ell time to come-this as far as
Marsh is concerned.
Newspaper Opposition.
While the party indignation ran high
10 years ago, there was no more open
ami pointed opposition than that CARR, d
| on by the newspapers. The Union Of
this city Was particularly scsthing in its
attacks upon the chronic and its rebuke
of the convention for renominsting him
In its comments upon the nomination it
said IN its issue Of Aug. 20, 1892:
The action of the repu blcan congress
, siOnai convention on the Hancock COUNT
contest is very generally regretted by
Rock islanders. as not only being a viola
iatiCn IF the rights of the people, but as
Sc ting & precedent which will invite
simil AT Disturbances and contests in The
future b, desperate and unprtncip pied pOLt-
ttcidns. The MCCisughry men of Han
cock county were so clearly in the right
that the committee on credentials should
have had no hesitancy in unanimously re-
por;in @ in their favor. The committee was
made D of four Marsh sdhereuts and
two others, and the Marsh majority aoere
more bent on making certain the nonaind-
tiOn of their candidate than on UindicGtin0
tie majesty Of the people. Ii was their
duty to report in favor of the regular
delegation, even if in doing so they sac
rificed heir favorite's chances.
and tie duty was GER
tainly no less imperative though far
easier to see and perform, when it did
not change the assured result that they
are seeking. but merely lift the majority
nearer than was desired. By uoing the
right thing at the right time the commit
tee and the convention had the opportu-
nifty TO remove all cause for serious diff.
ferences and dissffection in Hancock
county, and put ell possible boilers on
the defensive By perpe;rating an iner =
! cusGble 1crOng the convention not only
| Invited bolt. but placed the rightful
! Delegation il a position where they could
) only viudicate the people who seat them.
and their own self-respect IA Withdraw
| ing.
| TIE Carthage Gazette. the leading re-
publican paper of Hancock county,
| Marsh's own county, openly refused to
support Col Marsh's candidacy, and in
explanation of its course said:
We Can recognizes and admit the posi-
bility of a regularly nominated candidate
being so obnOrious that no obligation to
gote for him can rest upon any man aoho
has DarticLe Of mantiness or indeperd-
ence We cannot vote for him with
! out loss of self-respect and sacrlnce OF
con science; as our sense of manllness
and Independence forbids our so voting
we asstt.e the right to bolt
The Aledo Record spoke Of the omlna-
ton of Marsh as preci pitsting "seplora-
BILE state of affairs which theRecort sought