Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-15

AeuueOy-1. y. A'empSeY, W. V,
stafford, william Totten, F. A. An
drews, John Williams. ST., A. Nell
son, Henry Potts, Charles HcKinstry.
Carse-W. H. White. John Trena
man, Frank Eckhardt, Tom Ran
son, W. H. Jordan. C. Connolly. John
Montgomery. William Bean. The
Schroeder delegates were elected. the
vote resulting: Schroeder, 112; Ken
nedy, "A; Carse, p. w. V. Stafford
was selected ward committeeman.
The delegates will meet at the sher-
IFS Office this evening to come to an
understanding.
Fearthrward.
''Well. let us open up and see what
we have before u.s." said Fred
Appelquist when the Fourth ward
caucus had assembled. Whereupop
Ward Committee Mattison read the
call. William jackson and George
E. Bailey we're proposed for chair
men. The former had the call and
was elected. J. J. Ingram was chos-
en- secretary. Thereupon Chairman
S. j. Collins, of the republican coun-
ty committee, took the floor. with q
motion that none be allowed to vote
except those who were duly regis
tered, and that three challengers be
appointed to insure the enforcement
of the rule, one for each ticket for
delegates.
The suggestion was met with a
responsive mo" from all parts of
the room, whereupon NJ. NJ. Stur-
geon arose to q point of or
der and moved that the caucus pro-
coed to elect 10 delegates, and that
the 10 receiving the highest number
of votes be elected. e. l.. Walker
protested and offered a substitute
that the vote proceed and the
10 receiving the majority of the vote
cast be elected. This process. inter-
rupted Mr.. Sturgeon, would involve
q vote until doom's day without re-
suit. He renewed his motion with
the addition that only republicans
expecting to support the entire re-
publican ticket be allowed to vote.
This carried. But things did not
satisfy the Collins crowd, and Dele
gate Norris moved that Charles Fie-
big register everyone as he voted.
Mr.. Sturgeon declared such ac-
ton Unprecedented, that honor
was the only test of q mans
politics under the statutes. Any
other test or any other machinery
was contrary to the statutes and lille
gal. and intended only to put in ques-
tion some mans word of honor. j.
I. Nofstker upheld the motion and it
was carried, much to the glee of the
Collins element. Then three chal-
lengers we're ca led for, and George
E. Bailey, w. P. Tindall and G. H.
McKnown were selected. w. A.
Norris and Spencer Mattison were
made tellcrs. 1t was developed that
there were four tickets in the field
instead of three as follows: McCon-
ochie delegates-William Jackson,
G. H. McKown, Charles Feibig. H.
ID. Mack. w. w. Clark. Frank Latin,
W. A. Norris, Martin Frick, William
A. Bruner, Spencer Mattison. Carse
delegation-M. NJ. Sturgeon, George
+. Bailey, G. +. Gazetteer, Fred Bleuer,
Sam NJ. Arndt, T. H. Thomas, q. A.
McKown, Frank S. Latin, ID. E.
Noftsker. F. J. Kinney. Knox dele
gates-S. j. Collins. c. Hansgen, H.
Daugherty, DIR. c. G. Carter, w. +.
Tindall. Henry Erhorn. John Ingram,
DR.. Z. NJ. Sala, j. E. Peetz. J. H.
Liedtke. For Kelly for city attorney:
F. Thompson. N. Sargent. William
Jackson, F. Bleuer, F. B. Latin, J..
Darnell, George Eckhardt, John
Coyne, H. w. Dusinberre, John j.
Myers.
1t was ordered that the hall be
cleared and all return in single file
and pass by the challengers and tel
lers and deposit their votes. 1t was
found necessary. however, to appoint
C. L. Walter and c. +. Gaetjer a
committee to clear the hall. and then
City Attorney j. l.. Haas, Steve Col
Inns and others evaded the rule by q
very neat bluff that consisted of
simply walking around in q circle
near the door until the voting began.
mo go out. NO VOTE" proclaimed the
chair, but the voting was finally
begun. and while not half the votes
were registered by the expert Fiebig,
all seemed satisfied with the subter-
fuge-especially Collins. The result
of the ballot was the selection OF q
delegation as follows: William
Jackson, q. H. McKown. +. B. Latin.
F. Bleucr. j. E. Peetz, j. H. Liedtke,
E. NJ. Sala. j. j. Ingram. w. p. Tin
dali, H. Ehrhorn. The delegation is
supposed to be five for Knox, three
for Carse and one for McConochie
The names of d. E. Noftsker, w. p.
Tindall and John Martin were pre-
sented for alderman, but Noftsker
withdrew and the vote stood: Tin
dali, SS; Martin, 20. The newly
arrived citizen from Black Hawk was
nominated. G. H. McKown was
elected ward committeeman.
4 Fifth ward.
In the Fifth it was q farce, with
enough sensationalism to make it in
teresting rs well as laughable, J. F.
Robinson portraying to perfection
the hero, while Tom Cox took the low
comedian character Each ran.