Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-30

could tell what the outcome might
be- He afterward told me his wife
was not very well and the position
was open to him any time. This
must have been true for he after
wards accepted it. After the cleo
tion the ARGUS made it so hot for
him he came to the conclusion, after
a careful canvass of the aldermen.
that he could not be confirmed, and
so informed me and asked me not to
consider him as a candidate any
longer"
Very Kind to MIR. Harris.
He then goes on to tell about how
Mr.. Harris afterward came forward
and pressed him to appoint him, and
the mayor finally consented to do so,
on the day the appointments were to
be made, .'but" he continues LATTER
taking my seat / found on my desk
petition signed by seven or eight al
dermen asking me not to reappoint
Harris as they did not want to be
put on record if possible as voting
against my appointment" And this
was the reason the mayor did not
appoint Harris. The mayors mem
DRY for details is sadly at fault on one
hand, while he is exceedingly mag
NATIVE on the other. While convey
ing the mistaken notion about the i'll
ness of Mr.. Harris wife-Mr. Harris
informs us his wife has not been i'll
for II years-he has lost sight entire
ly of the fact that he repeatedly
| urged Mr.. Harris not to accept the
Chicago offer. and assured him up to
) O'Clock in the afternoon of the day
OF the appointments that he would
name him: and furthermore, while
! referring to that petition he found on
! his desk, he has failed to recall the
| fact that it was prepared in pursuance
| of his cunning, that prior to the
time for the appointments to be made
| he suggested to an alderman that he
| get up petition addressed to the
mayor and signed by half of the aid
| ermen. protesting against Harris aP-
| pointment. The suggestion was car
ried out and seven aldermen sub
| scribed themselves to the petition.
| 1t was Just what the foxy mayor
wanted, and after the council he gave
it to Mr.. Harris, who still has it..
There was no duplicity about that,
| not at all.
The mayor touches very briefly on
the health commissionership APP
pointment, evidently reaffirming his
dislike to take sides as between the
two schools of medicine" On the
question of superintendent of water
works. he speaks of Mr.. Murrin's fit
ness for the position, saying, he
classes as Il good man for the place.
The public generally look upon the
waterworks plant as too valuable to
| H., 81, 10 h %
coming MAYOR. What | have done
for Mr.. Murrin L have done for the
public welfare against the advice OF
my political friends" This view OF
the matter evidently slipped the
mayors attention at the moment he
appointed Mr.. Rettig in Mr.. Murrin' s
place, Immediately after his last
election, and it is only due to the
fact that Mr.. Reddig was not con-
firmed that Mr.. Murrin has since
held over from time to time, though
the mayor has never thought enough
of his own convictions of public feel
ing to appoint him.
strange Ideas of Loyalty.
The mayor goes on in a disconnect-
ed sort of way to explain how he has
happened to do so and why. He tells
about how two years ago when on
the day of the convention the ARGUS
announced that he was to knife
Koehler. he went into the convention
with the declaration that if koehler
was to be done up he was to be
| counted out, and that he would have
| refused to run then had his col
leagues on the ticket been slaughter
ed. but he neglects to say why he
did not again display the same loyal
ty to his colleagues by going into the
convention for Koehler or to die this
wear. The ARGUS had previously
announced that McConochie was
Strengthening Koehler, but yet this
wear the operation went on without
| the MAYORS interference. Circum-
| stances seem to have altered cases
| wonderfully.
However the public has witnessed
| the innovation of seeing the mayor
| show his hand at last-but such a
| hand.
4 plain Talk About Facts.