Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-31
VOTE TT STRAIGHT.
And Be Sure of Three for j. n.
Mulligan.
IMPERATIVE DUTY OF DEMOCRATS

IMPERATIVE DUTY OF DEMOCRATS.
Ignore Soreheads- acknowledgement Support
the Ticket Nominated-The Long Hon
ored Custom With Reference to Repre-
sentative and, the danger of Departing
From 1t in q Single Instance.
Every democrat should vote his ticket
straight one week from tomorrow. 1t is
dangerous to make the least deviation
from it. The safest plan is to simply
mark the circle at the top of the column
reading Democratic" and let it go at
that. This is the safest and best plan to
pursue.
Vote Three for MuIligan.
More particularly, if possible, how
ever, does THE ARGUS desire to impress
the importance of such course with ref
erence to the legislative ticket. See thu
you cast three votes for j. H. Mulligan.
the democratic nominee. He is the
choice of the convention Of the Twenty
first senatorial district. and is entitled to
three votes from every democrat true to
his party. The ticket headed, "Inde-
pendent Democratic" is a snare, and the
candidate, George W. Vinton. whose
name appears under such heading. is not
entitled to the vote OF democrat having
the interests of his party at he art. Mr..
Vinton is a sorehead, and q bOlter from
the convention. He is not the choice of
the party in the Twenty first district. and
he should. as no doubt he will. be taught
at the polls that the democrats have no
use for men of his disposition.
Horny County's Right.
As all democrats know. there has for
years been tacit understanding be-
tween the counties of Rock Island and
Henry that each county should alternate
in the choice of the candidate for minor
ity representative. Rock Island county
could at all times control the nomination
were it disposed to. but it has never vio-
lated the good faith existing between the
two counties but once. That was in
city. insisted upon having the nomina
ton that should have gone to !. ii Pad,
dleford. OF Henry, for a second term, and
contrary to the advice of the ARGUS and
other representative democrats of Rock
Island county, Mr.. Kenworthy went
ahead and captured a nomination that
Rock Island was in honor bound to lay
no claim to. The folly of such move
| was fully shown by the defeat of Mr..
Kenworthy and the election of Mr.. Pistt,
id frou tU
| Democrats learned lesson then that
| they should not soon forget. When
| after the expiration of Mr.. Piatt's term,
| it became Rock Island county's two
| terms to choose the nominee, Henry
| county came around loyalty and pledged
| itself to support the nominate of q
| Rock Island county man for two terms
| Hon. E W. Hurst was selected and true
| to it's promise Henry county supported
him handsomely. At the expiration OF
Mr.. Hurst's first term he declined a re-
nomination and Mr.. Viuton was nomi.
mated with the express understanding
that he was to have but one term anG
withdraw when it became Henry county's
choice again. That time came this yeal
and Henry county presented the name OF
J. FL. Mulligan, who was the unanimous
nominee of the convention and the Rock
| Island county democracy, as well as thai
of Henry, is by the rules Of preces
dent and honor bound to support Mr.
Mulligan's candidacy.
| As to MI. Vinton.
But Mr.. Viuton did not abide by tn,
understanding of the party of the TWEEN
ty first senatorial district. or by the I'M
Outstanding under which he was nomin
ated. Instead he has permitted a SELLS!
disloyal spirit to override the true spiri
of democracy and party feslty. and ha
bolted the conventions choice, and come
forth an independent candidate. He j
not an independent democrat, and tt
assertion that he is acting in accordsnc
with the instructions of the Democrat
state central committee, stands for har
mony and does not recognize men O
| Vinton's stripe. Had Mr.. Vinton acte
in obedience to the wishes of the stat
central committee, had he respected tn
wishes of the democracy of the distrio
and his friends he would have supporte
the democratic ticket with the same 10y
atty that he was supported two yesI
ago. AS it is he has by his own att
tude proven himself bolter and a pc
li,ical outcast unworthy the SURFACES {
either party or any citizen.
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