Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-01-10
DEVOTION OR DUTY.
Ihs Court House Committee
ana MIR. Collins.
MORNING PAPERS SILLY WHINE.
1t Oilers Protection for the Chairman IL
pert Employee" No Matter Who Has to
Ing Up to Its Course I'm the Premises


pert Employee" No Matter Who Has to
Fay for the Music-The Com mittce WAX
ing Up to It's Course in the Premises.
The Union has had something cx-
tended Ia say about the plans for the
new Sl2J .0Ou cOnrt house which the
people of Rock Island voted at the
last election To erect. The Union
has referred IL the project before.
hut II has not had time but once or
twice to 60 into anything like elabo-
rate detail. Alter reading't this morn
ings article, however. it may be a
puZzler to some tn understand which
the Union is most interested in-the
court house or Chairman Collins.
The latter is alluded to as the COM
mittee's "expert employee" who. it
viii be remembered, ..of course -
went with the committee on all its
tours, by the special favor and grace
OF the said committee. THE ARGUS
is accused of seeking to create preju-
dice on account of personal hostility
to Mr.. Collins, and that consequent
ly a situation will be brought about
that will involve 4 much inferior
building. and that THE AEGrs
ought to have sufficient regard for
the public good to cease its guerilla
warfare AMI cooperate heartily in at
tanning the subject which all good
citizens have in view"
Union n New Role
Amusing (" hear the Union lecture
IN public good and subjects which
all good citizens nave in view. but rs
to The AEGrs' seeking To create pre-
JUDGE and having personal hostility
to Mr. Collins, one assertion is as
false n the other. aud the Unions
whine will have no effect on the
minds of good citizens. the great
mass of whom sustain The ARGUS in
its opposition to the snap judgment
Chairman Collins has attempted in
the entire court house project.
There is no personal hostility" in
THE ARGUS attitude in this matter.
1t has no personal feelings against
Collins, nor is it seeking to create
prejudice. The ARGUS has MAIN
tanned that the committee was guilty
of 4 senseless proceeding in taking
Collins with it, and that he was
taken along merely to give him the
inside track on what was to come.
and il has produced evidence to
show of how little value he has been
in practical sense, in fact it has
been so clearly shown. that the com
mittee is said to be waking up to the
situation.
The ARGUS felt that from the first
there was scheme among several
supervisors 10 give Chairman Col
ling 4 political reward out IF the new
court house. Subsequent events
have demonstrated this to be true
The ARGrs opposed such course
because it did not consider it proper
that the county should involve the
construction of the new court house
in politics, and because knowing what
union labor had done for the new
court house it should not be offended
at the very outset by the extending
of spec al favors to one who is as I'M
popular among the union labor
classes as MIR. Collins has shown
himself to be. TIE ARGUS has held
furthermore. that the committee
would not have thought of taking
any contractor with it, but for the
purpose to give Mr.. Collins posi-
ton. He has been purely a super
numerary that the county should not
lie obliged to pay for.
The COmmittee's Work
The committee is today busy with
two designs which are TO be present.
ell to the board, one of brick and
stone and one of Portage red stone.
The latter, as has been stated before
in The ARGUS. is the more popular.
and it is hoped the committee will
also face its building on Second ave-
nue. instead of Fifteenth street, as
Mr.. Collins proposed to do.
Buford Post Resolutions.
John Buford post. No. 2i3. Grand
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