Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-19
BLANKETS AND COMFORTERS
Lot Gr3y Blankets
defense ola Salary Grabber."

Under the above heading the Chicago
Tribune devoted part of the third and
fourth columns of its fourth page in its
issue of May 3, 1892, to the following:
&C. w. Pavy, the salary-grabb
state auditor. Is not wise in permitting
his relatives and hypenated henchmen
to rush into print for the purpose of set
ting up a technical but untenable de-
Tense against one of the minor and the
least important of the charges preferred
against him. Such course directs fur
Their attention to the graver charge that
Mr. Pavy had annually grabbed So 600
of insurance fees in defiance of the law
and the constitution. 1t also tends to
bring into notice his secondary grab of
1925 each year from the state board of
equalization.
THE technical defense set up by Mr..
Pavy is that he reported the insurance
fees collected by him and that he turned
over certain sum us fees to the state
treasurer. This he admitted. But he
did not report tile fees as required bv
law, and he held out-grabbed, hooked,
fobbed, whatever he chooses to call it
So 900 of these fees for his own private
use. Mere pet,ifogging by the salary
grabber's organ cannot meet the accuSa-
ton.
Does Mr.. Pavy deny that he hooked
the SO. 600. Does he deny that he col
lected fees as eX-o!fico member of the
state board of equalization contrary to
the law and the constitution? Does he
deny that he resorted to lobbying. to
wire-pulling and to more reprehensible
methods to defeat the bill recommended
to the general assembly last year by
Governor Fifer which was intended to
prevent the misnlanSement of the audi
tors office by Mr.. Pavy and illegal
grabbing by him of fees and other per-
quisites?
"These are the questions that Mr..
Payy will have to answer in order to
obtain the hearty support of the Re-
publicans of this state for reelection
1T would be criminal folly on the part
of the convention which meets this week
at Springfield to nominate Mr. PAW
until he has refuted the grave charges
pre- erred against him. The convention
cannot afford to load down the ticket
with the name of a law defying. consti-
tution-ignoring salary grabber. 1t cam
not afford to nominate a Republican
state officer who sought the aid of
Democratic committee chairman to pro-
tect him in his misappropriation of the
public funds and in defeating neces-
sary legislative bill recommended by the
governor of the state. 1t would be RI
diculous to place the name of Pavy on
the same ticket with that of Joseph w.
Fifer, for the latter can be quoted from
every Democratic platform in condem-
nation of the methods of the former.
''The Republican convention is not
called together to continue salary grab
beers in office, but to nominate honest,
capable, law-abiding, faithful men for
state officers. 1t is its duty to condemn
salary grabbing and repudiate salary
grabbers. There ought to be no place on
the ticket for Mr.. Pavy. He may drag
it all down to defeat if he gets on it; for
the ticket will be no stronger than its
weakest, and if the convention renom-
mates Pavy it will be in the position of
apologizing for and exeusing this salary
grabber."