Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-02-20
BIG TIME COMING.
When the Republican City Con-
vention Assemblies.
CANDIDATES IN GREAT PLENTY.

The Congressional Campaign Intervening
Most Inopportune for All AspIrants-
Long List of wouid-be Mayors-Others
Who Are Willing to Pose Before the
Public Politically.
The contest for congressional pre-
ference, which engendered so much
prejudice and i'll feeling within the re-
publican party, has left 4 nervous
feeling of uneasiness and irritation
and uncertainty among those who
had previously trained their guns on
the republican mayoraitv nomina-
ton. The sins of commission and
the sins of omission are both to be
accounted for. BY virtue of the
Gest-McConOchie combination, it be-
comes the ex-mayor against the field,
with all the Offices within his gift
promised in return for caucus votes
for Gest-Miller. bunker, Hull and
the rest of them have been appointed
already to municipal places by Nc
Conochie. The offices of chief of po-
lice, health commissioner, chief of
the fire department, waterworks sup
erintendent, street superintendent,
all have new incumbents through Nc
Conochie's grace. and are but await
ing the beginning of the McConochie
regime to assuming their respective
functions. McConochie has the Gest
pull, Notwithstanding the fact that
all the other would be republican
mayors nearly lost their heads
scrambling into the Gest band wagon.
There was Carse and Frank Knox,
Magistrate Schroeder and Aid. Fred
Schroeder, and last but not the least
ambitious, Aid. Kennedy, all earnest
ly DESTROYS of wearing the crown
municipal. All hoped to better their
chances by getting in with the Gest
pull. and are looking upon the willy
Mac from the Sixth with green-eyed
envy.
As to Other Offices.
As to the other city Offices, there
are abundant candidates. Hugh A.
Mcdonald would like chance to re-
trieye lost. honors. Aid. Charles
Bladel thinks he has been long
enough in the council to know how
city affairs are run. and he would
like the records entrusted to his care.
Then, too. off in the distance there
comes a quiet sound that Conrad
Schneider is willing, and that he
would like the party to in some way
square itself for the way it treated
him on the shrievalty nomination
last summer. j. T. Munger has had
an idea in his head for some time
that he would make model city
clerk and he felt sure by going to
the Third ward caucus and voting
for Gest that he would get the NOM
ination.
For city ttorney J. L. Haas, who
ran the Fourth ward caucus with
high hand, and imagined himself for
the time the Tom Reed of Rock ISL
and, thinks he has done enough for
Gest to have his term of office ex.
tended. But then there is Marion
f. Sweeney, who walked up town
with Gest arm in arm the morning
after the caucuses, who had the
audacity to want to be judge last
summer. and who imagines it is time
to turn his picture from the wall and
place it in the council chamber as
the reflection of the city's legal ad-
visor.
AS far as the treasury is concerned
r. c. Chamberlin and Charles Spen-
Ger are the candidates. while Asses
sor j. l.. Freeman is almost fright
ened to death for fear he will not be
renominated, as j. H. Cleland and
Martin Prick are right after him.
For Aldermen.
In all the wards McConochie has
his candidates picked out, although
there are other candidates, the list
comprising Horatio Wood in the
First; Louis Eckhart. Jr., and j. q.
Hetter i'm the Second; Frank Eek
hart and W. H. Jordan in
the Third; d. Z. Noftsker.
Charles Fiebig and c. F. Gaetjer in
the Fourth; c. F.. Evans (temporar-
ily) in the Fifth; AID. Cramer in the
Sixth, and Aid. c. w. Foss in the
Seventh.
On the township ticket the main
contest is for collector, and the I'm
ions announcement column bears
witness to the rivalry that exists.