Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-27
AFTER THE HONOR.
Three ornered Fight for leg
islative Nomination.
SISTER PAYHTs SEAT IN JEOPARDY.

Ex-Coanty Treasurer Campbell ana D..
psrvisor Qsayls Exceedingly ADha-
tiu1s for the PREFIX sHea. IA Inese.
estiog sqsasble.
There 10 . pretty little fight going
on in the republican ranks Just now
as to who shall receive the indorse-
ment Of the Rock Island county con-
tingency for the legislative nomina-
ton. Payne. ~ is known. is q part
and parcel of the Collins-Wa lker
combination which has hitherto been
described in detail. and has DO iden-
titled himself. The good sister and
his one-hoss shay have already been
seen in all parts of the county and
the present indications are that the
luna hustler has his outposts SO well
planted that it will be impossible to
disturb him, although the combina-
ton with which he has identified
himself and which he has endeav-
ored to further along with his own
campaign may diminish his strength
somewhat
There Are Others.
oy ~ 40 NV " NC 0lOuC tuO GU.
Joyment of the honors of member
ship in the general assembly.
Prompted by the glorious record Of
the last legislature, there are others
who would now eeek fame. IL not
fortune within the halls of the grand
old state house down at Springfield.
There is Tom Campbell, for instance,
ex-county treasurer of Rock Island
county, who having tasted of the
sweets Of official distinction seeks
now the glories of further recogni-
ton. Campbell was long time got
ting to be county treasurer. but he
kept after it, and since coming out
of that office he has been looking
with equal longing to the state
house. He is employing the same
tactics he did as to the county treas
urership. just waiting, but not go
ing backward. He is standing in
the way of anyone else who seeks
the position and will so stand until
he is successful.
And Bro. Qasyle.
Then, too. there is Bro. Quayle.
He is a supervisor now, and would
like to 90 back to the board pend
ing the completion OF the new court
house, in which he has taken consid-
cradle pride, and in the meantime he
hopes something better may turn up
for Quayle has his eye on the
Rock Island postoflice. as has been
stated before. If. however. he is not
to be supervisor again. Bro. Quayle
thinks seat in the legislature would
become him and he is now more in
terested in the fate of Payne than be-
fore, since he has found out the COM
pany he keeps. Bro. Quayle is
not for the Collins-Walker CON-
bine. not with its present intentions.
II Bro. Quayle could get to the leg
islature no one knows what it might
mean as stepping stone to him. 1t
has been whispered about that he
and Mckinley were school boys and
old soldiers together-that is they
came from the same state. and that
if the high tariff Ohioan succeeds in
seizing the presidential chair his old
Rock Island friend is to 60 into his
cabinet as secretary of the interior.
That all depends. of course. upon
Bro. Quayle meriting some distinc-
ton in the meantime, and q seat in
the legislature would give him the
opportunity.
At present the preliminaries are
on-and Payne, Campbell aud Quayle
are in for it. Later on there may enter
the contest dark horse in the per-
son of Henry Carse, and then look
ont