Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-05-24
FIGHTING MAD.
Is The Union Over TUESDAYS
Convention.
REPUBLICAN LEADERS ATTACKED.

The Treatment OF the Committee on Hcso.
iations Condemned and individuals Told
What the Morning Paper Thinks of
Them-Right ON the War Path.
The Union is hopping mad over
the sensational elimination of Tues-
day. republican county convention.
and the manner in which the COM
mittce on resolutions was treated and
its report smothered. The morninr
paper acknowledges that the entire
proceeding was put up Job. the
primary purpose OF which was to
knock out Gest, and it proceeds
to strike right and left at
all concerned in the move
ment. 1t speaks its mind OF Ben
Realtors little clique" as it calls it.
which may be taken as q passing
compliment TO the entire Moline del
egatiOn, assails Capt. Bennett
Tor the part he took in the
procedure. and then attempts to
smooth the matter over as to him
later on, by saying:
"fhc Union has had such n hiph
opinion OF Capt. Bennett that it can
not believe him party to the Keator
conspiracy. The hour was late; the
chairman worn as much as the dele
gates. ii may be said in all fairness
that an honest man. not posted as to
mems relations, would have no ex-
pectatiOn oil an Interior motive from
the source the motion came from, nor
suspect n trick until too late There
was SO much to be done, and the con-
vontion was so uuwieldv. that the
very situation had forced upon the
chairman unusual celebrity in pushing
his part Of the work from the begin
ming TO the close"
The Most Vicious Attack.
The most vicious attack. however.
is directed at William Jackson. of
whom il says fair treatment was not
to be expected, who is classed
Is the instrument Of the ..Kea-
,or intriguants. and Of whom
it is said he was the pick OF the Kea-
| tor fellows for chairman. but was
headed of. What has Mr.. Jackson
done to merit such re5uke, and such
= roastingas the Union has net been
guilty OF giving anyone before, much
less one high in the councils OF lis
own party? Is not the morning pa
| per going further than it intended to
! in IT. devotion to Gest. and was il
not warned that its Gest enthusiasm
would We: lead il into trouble if per-
sisted in? Further than this. as be-
tween jackson and Bennett for chair
man, did the heading off, process
sion yet any OF the best OF it a. far As
G,st j. concerned lv electin- Bennett
lin place OF Jackson According to
| the Union Mr.. Jackson played about
as important 4 figure on the heor in
>quelchin- the Gest boomlet in its
premature stages rs hc could pos
siblv have done in the chajr-and
who can say that he did it in a
manner at all dishonorably, as the
Union intimates
The Union had better make the
best OF = bad thing. Il was simply
outwittod in its attempt to force
Gest on the convention, ana il this
it, hour Of bitter rcmorse and cha
| grin il should seek with Charley
Walker the pilot house Of the ferry
boat, aud in riding peacefully to and
fro over the placid waters Of the
father Of streams. the two may find
consolation in each others company
| ~ weeping together between the in
terv@ls Of teeth guRshir- nj Bennett,
kcator. Jackson, Thomas and the
rest OF those naughty fellows who so
quietly, and yet so neatly, sent Gcst
to his final resting placc-Politically
speaking.