Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-04-28
GOT ALL THEY WISHED.
Rock Island County in two Import
ant Conventions.
Cong ressman Cable Highly HOnOreG-
The Matter Of instructions
The Republican District
C0nfab.

AS far es Rock Island county is con-
cerned both parties have reason to con-
graduate themselves on the results of yes,
terdaY's conventions. In the democratic
state convention the Rock Island delega-
ton, and in fact the entire Eleventh con-
gress onal district, was particularly ia
voreo. As indicated in yesterdays dis
patches to THE ARGUS. the caucus of the
Eleventh district as preliminary to the
convention, mapped out course which
subse quent events show was pretty close
~ adhered to. This provided for the
appo intment of Hon. E. W Hurst as a
mem Der of the committee on resolutions,
j. W. Potter as state central committe-
man. j. 81. Hanley as elector, with GUY
c. Scott, of Mercer, and Truman Plantz,
OF Hancock, as delegates to the national
convention, and NJ. ]. McEnlry. of Mo-
line, and Matthew Houston,
of Henderson, alternates. The
convention made no alterations In these
preferences 8, but it did mora for the Elev-
enih. When it came to the appointment
OF committee to select delegates at large
George Dyson, of Schuyler, was
chosen for the the Eleventh.
and Congressman Ben T. Cable was
elected one of the delegates at large
for the state of Illinois, one Of the
highest and one Of the most important
positions psrty can delegate to one of
its repre- sentative members, and fitting
horror to Mr.. Cable, too.
MR. CABLE AND THE PRESIDENTIAL IN
sTRUcTIoNs.
Tie prominence taken by Mr.. Cable in
state politics has excited the wrath of a
mum Der of small fry republican organs. in
GLIDING If course, the Union of
this city, which takes it upon itself this
morning to attempt to show that Mr..
Gable was snubbed by Senator Palmer in
the telegraphic CORES pondence between
Senator Palmer and Congressman Cable
relating 10 the instructions for the presi-
denoy. This because some of the Chicago
papers In their first edition failed to con-
tain the entire correspondence between
Gen Palmer and Mr.. Gable, owing to
the fact that those papers went to
press before the complete reports were in.
but he associated press sent out the corr
res p ondepce in full. and it appeared in
Yesterday mornings Davenport Demo-
crst, and in fact all the morning papers
cont aiming in one edition the full Spring
field report. The Union basis its assump-
ton that Mr.. Cable was subbed by Gen.
Palmer by first quoting this dispatch sent
by Mr., Cable from Springfield to Senator
Palmer Tuesday:
When l left you in Washington you
charged me 10 say to the delegates and to
your friends that you neither expected
nor desired instructions for you, but that
you fel: you had right to ask the demo-
crscy of the state to pass resolutions ex-
pressive oftheir confidence in you. have
thus stated your position in accord
snce with your request. 1t is as
serted now, however, that you have
denied any such conversation with me.
While know that this cannot be true
you will see at once in what position of
embarrassment these reports place me.
and will hasten to relieve me by verifying
what have said concerning your posi-
ton in telegram over your own sigma
ture. May 1 not ask you explicitly
whether you desire Instructions or not?
The friends of Cleveland oppose them.
BEN CABLE.
And to this the Union adds:
Did Palmer hasten to relieve the young
, mar g embarrassment? Not he. He allowed
our Ben to suffer under the double
NOR LITIGATION of having his word disputed
and being snubbed.
But when Delos P. Phelps telegra phed.
"Cs BILE asserts you don't wish instruc-
tiops-is bis understanding correcip'
tile senator FASTENED an answer show
ing that however it might have been last
week he was in for instructions this week
If he could get them:
my letters, one of which Cable read,
exp aims my position. The committee
has control of the whole subject, and
must do what it thinks best. have full
con 1dence IN your Judgment.
The old man. evidently too foxy for the
young man, allowed our Ben to stay in
the hole which his zeal to defeat instruc-
tions for Palmer so that the Illinois DEL
egates might favor Cleveland. led him
into.
But had the poor old sleepy morning
paper had either the enterprise. or energy,
or. the sense of fairness, to have obtained
full parti culars before venting its animos-
ity toward Mr.. Gable it would not hsye
made the ass Of itself it did this morning.
for instead Of the garbled report of the
telegraph messages between Mtssrs.
Palmer and Cable, it would have found
the following reply sent by Gen. Palmer