Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-06-18
THE UNION AGAIN,
Doing Heap Of Kicking When the Mis-
chief Ii Done.

Doing Heap Of Kicking When the Mis-
chief is Done.
The Union Of this morning refer
ring to The Argus remarks that it
should have been up and stirring
when the stone men we're here die
tating the plans, says: 1.-THE ARGUS
was up and stirring with such effect
that it made every supervisor mad
and ugly. The Union did all it
could to appeal to their pride. their
reason and common sense to give the
people the material they had right
to expect, and had every reason to
believe that the best stone available
within the limit of the amount au-
thorized by the popular vote. $780,
600, would be chosen. Not until
The ARGUS undertook to bully and
browbeat and bulldoze the board did
it fear the outcome. The matter
and things that caused The ARGUS to
do its stirring belonged to last
years board, and its wrath should
not have been visited upon the new
organization until the new organiza-
tion at least evinced disposition to
offend. The new building commit
tee opened the bids in public and
called the board together to act upon
them. The board started in all
right to annul its limit of $4,000
SO as to give freedom to consider all
bids, but when it rejected the Port
age red sandstone and ignoring all
intervening classes jumped down to
Bedford limestone and adopted it, it
did a thing that outsiders find hard
to square with broad intelligence and
com mon honesty"
Not Intended to Make Them Feel Good
The ARGUS course in condemnipg
the methods of the board as regards
the plans was not calculated to make
the supervisors feel pleasant. The
fact of the matter was that an out
rage was being committed on the
public in the way the plans were
adopted behind closed doors and the
seclusiveness employed to all but
certain stone interests, and it IS not
a pleasant or commentary on the
board to accept the intimation that
the members became "mad and
ugly" at The ARGUs-aud would not
do right anyway. Perhaps it has
never dawned on the Union that the
favored plans for the court house
were never adopted for anything
but light stone-not Bedford at
that particular time, maybe-but
that the design was picked to
exclude red stone at all events. 1t
was in realization Of this that The
ARGUS uttered protest after protest
against the way things were going
on. and that it continued to protest
when it saw the plans that had been
previously laid materialize as the
time approached to consider stone.
What difference does it make wbeth-
er another board adopted the plans.
from that settling the stone. so long
as the same men figured in both.
And it was the same men who we're
..mad md ugly" last winter because
of The ARGUS course who the other
day Ibid thing that outsiders find
hard to square with broad intelli-
gence and common honesty"
As to the feelings of any Of the
supervisors toward The ARGUS, let
it be said that it has never believed
in dealing with wrongful acts other
wise than in a vigorous and out and
out spirit. The supervisors turned
a deaf ear to the taxpayers prayers
and petitions in more than one way
in reference to the new court house.
they adopted star chamber methods