Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-06
Deliberate Misrepresentation
of M. w. A. Facts.
DESIGN TO DAMAGE ORDER.
Outrageous Tactics Carried
Beyond Whiteside.
The Cambridge Proceedings
and the Status.

The Fulton prosecutors OF the Mod.
ern Woodmen order have succeeded
in carrying the outrageous practices.
which are part Of the i'll will they
feel for the order outside, of White
side county, and have gotten into the
columns of today's Chicago Times
Herald shameful Misrepresentation
of the proceedings had at Cambridge
yesterday. The Fulton dispatch
reads:
IA decision III chambers by Judge
Bigelow. Of Henry county, today con-
firms the injunction against the &C.
moval of the office of head clerk of
the Modern Woodmen of America
from Fulton to Rock Island. The
fact that Fulton was intended as per-
manent headquarters in the begin
ming; that the citizens Of this city
gave the services of head clerk and
office room free the first year AND
purchased the furniture, the official
seal, and paid for the charter, all
cut figure in the decision. The
case will probably be carried to the
supreme court"
The same unwarranted telegram
is likewise smuggled into the col.
umns OF two other Chicago papers Of
today, whose reputation and conf
dence are thus imposed upon.
The entire article thus sent out is
deliberately, viciously and mali.
ciously false, designed with but q
single end, and that to do damage
to the order the people Of Fulton are
seeking to restrain from getting
away from them. In other words,
they are resorting by one means to
keep it helpless in their hands, while
they pound it, and at the same time
are resorting to lying and SANDER
ling. The proceedings at Cambridge
were correctly set forth in last
nights ARGUS. Judge Bigelow rem
dered no decision. Being i'll and
indisposed, he dismissed the pending
master in chancery injunction before
him and also the one set for hearing,
and both were docketed to come up
before Judge Gest at Cambridge
next Tuesday.
| Judge Bigelow in Diminishing the
cases as far as he was concerned at
Cambridge yesterday. stated the
practice of the master in chancery
in granting a separate Injunction be-
fore a pending one was disposed OF
should not be encouraged by the
lcourts, and he said that were he to
sit in chancery on further proceed
Iings all iDjunctions subsequent to
the original one would be CONSOLE
dated, and heard and disposed of as
lone.
Absurdlty Of Fulton's Position.
The absurdity of Fulton's claim
that the inJunctions we're sustained
is no more clearly established than
in the fact that the ground on which
the manufactured ruling that it an
nounces is based on that Of the ell.
LEGGED obligation to the people OF
Fulton, which is the argument set
up in the second master in chancery
Injunction, was not heard by the
Judge at all. The spirit of the Full
ton people 10 seeking merely to de-
lay the removal on the theory abso-
lutely without merit until il is
dragged through the courts is clear
ly shown in the concluding sentence
of the quoted dispatch.
The master in chancery straw in
Junction is a subterfuge based upon
ale cations as bsseless as the report
sent out from the town of Fulton,
whose people having succeeded in
manufacturing injunctions and pro-
duciDg the source from which they
emana,e have bran ched out into the
man ufacture Of court rulings on the
came. II when this tcandalous
course Of procedure is at an end the
great order of Modern Woodmen
does not find redress in damages to
all concerned in these prosecutions
at Fulton there will be reasonable
ground to doubt the opportunities to
obtain Justice in Illinois.