Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-17

throughout the entire country, and his
friend IN New York who have come here
are moved by desire that no mistaken
idea about New York may influence the
action Of the delegates Of other states"
= 1E TYPOS AND WHITELAW REID.
\ @:"t ment of the Case From a Printer
" b" Was in the Negotiations.
New YORK, June l7.-Fx-President
O'Donnell, of Typographical Union No. G,
yesterday made statement as to
the relative position between Hon.
Whitelaw Reid and the union,
over which there has been so much
discussion of late. He rehearsed the vari-
Gus difficulties between the union and
the Tribune and the hard fight made by
both sides. With the coming of the polit-
], al campaign in -Ss4, O'Dounell said, the
union saw an opening with Reid as his
relations with James g. Blaine and the
Republican party were of an intimate
nature.
The Union Goes Into Politics.
The union sent a committee to Chicago
and the Republican managers of Blaine
attempted to adjust the trouble, but Reid
was stubborn. O'Donnell claimed that
the union vote in the ensuing election was
large enough to turn the scale. In 1SS5,
an agreement was made with the then
president of the union. but it was rejected
by the union at an oDen meeting. The
Itch occurred over the disposition to
made of he nOn-uniOn men. The union
wished their discharge, but to this Reid
would not consent. Since then negotia-
tions have been on foot three or four
times lllr a II off On tho npirnr
Was Only Coincidence.
Last October, through the efforts of
Thomas b. Platt, both parties were
brought nearly to an agreement. Then an
envoy was sent to Paris, carrying an agree
ment from the union do Reid. The nego-
tiations dragged, and the occurrence Of
the settlement and the Republican CON
ventiOn was entirely accidental. The
politics in the agreement We're not per-
sonal to Reid, and the charge that he
made a settlement in view Of possible
nomination to the vice presidency cannot
be sustained.
Spoke Only for Themselves.
ODonuell then spoke of the Minneap-
oils committee. The committee. he said.
had been criticised on the ground that it
exceeded its powers, and that it promised
/ the support Of the union to a political
party. The committee he declared, did
not guarantee the support of the union.
! The language of the resolution adopted
I 10y the committee had been misquoted by
some newspapers The co mttee re.
/ qucsted Reid's nomination, and not the
union. The resolution referred to stated
! distinctly that "this committee request
4 that Reid be nominated for the vice presi-
dency.
The Union Goes Out Of Politics.
O'DonUelI said that the union. for the
first time in nine Years, is out Of politics
and is under obligations to no political
party. \ dispatch from Philadelphia
+ gives an interview with William J. Bren
/ nan, former president of the Topographic
{ cal union and a member of the Minneap
Oils committee. He said that in 1881 the
union sent committee to the Republic
/ can convention in Chicago to notify il
/ that there was trouble between the union
and the Tribune, and the union thought il
/ but right that it should send committee
to this years Republican convention K
/ inform it that the trouble was at an end
He further corrOborated O'Donnell'.
/ statement.
/ Endorsed by 10th Parties.
! y statement is printed in The Tribune
! this morning which has been end orsed by
the union and Editor Reid. The frs
thing agreed on is that the settlement haC
nothing o do with Reid's nomination. be
ing simply coincident thereto. Severa
| propositions were made and rejected by
| either the union or Reid within the pas
two years. \ feature of the negotiation.
was the difficulty lying in the fact tha
! The Tribuns was not an ordinary printing
office, buta linotype office, the operation o
the machines not requiring any knowl
edge of cOmposition-in fact an absolutel,
different trade.
In Sympathy With Good Wages.
Reid points out this fact and says tha
/ with the exception of the wages question
there is not line in the unions PROPOSE
tion that applies to The Tribune office
As to wages he says he is in sympath
with the union as TO keeping them up. an,
that the weekly pay in his office is as higI
or higher than the union scale The dill
ficulty was finally overcome by propos
tion that Reid put union man in as fore
man, and list of names was given hin
to choose from. He agreed and chos
| William Brennan, an eX-president of tn
union, who is now on deck in the office
Voorhees, to Nominate Gray.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 1.-THE anti Cleve
land delegates began to arrive here Wednes
day night and yesterday it was though
they would hold a meeting today. Wednes
day night Charles Jewett and Hug
Dougherty, delegates-at-large, held a cor
ference with Ex-Governor Gray at tn
Denison. The strength of the Gray force
was discussed and some plans mapped ou
for the friends of the ex-governor to fo
low. Senator Voorhees, spent an hou
Wednesday in consultation with Gray
and the friends of theex-governor say tha
it was definitely arranged that Voorhee
shall present the name of Gray when Ir
diana is reached in the cal of states, will
out any regard to what other states ma
conclude to do.
The Kansas Peoples Party.
WICHITA, Kan, June 1.-THE fusio
element in the Peoples party succeede
. iurinu Yesterday in oartipu cor