Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-13
Unions Editor Has a Desper-
ate Experience.
RANTS IN woEFuL FASHION
And loLashes the Double
Faced Corner"
Discloses Hidden Secrets of
Local Politics.

late last night. The world 10 todsy
sharing the burden of his troubles
II there are any more miseries peni
up within the narrow recesses Of hii
soul he had better let them come
out. We know the worst and the res,
will do no harm.
The dissertation, to the indulgence
Of which the Union gives itself COM
Pletely over this morning. Is charac.
terizsd chiefly by the rawlings of q
distracted mind, and the deviations
from the truth which are plsinly
discernible in some of the instances
are probably excusable on that ac.
count. The points wherein reference
10 made to the interest and CORE.
spondence of one Walter johnson in
the postofice fight, and to the
skulduggery in republican manipu-
lation in the interest Of Carse, may
probably be taken for granted, but
the diatribe about THH ARGUS article
of last evening in disclosing the
antics Of the anti-''corner" element
having motive to promote the can.
didacy of any applicant for the post
Office is purely bosh. The Argus
simply published the msneuvers Of
the -.'corner" wing of the party,
which the editor of the Union, it il
painfully apparent. takes entirely
to himself. He is the whole thing ss
far as the opposition to "the corner
is concerned, the consolidated can
didate, as he puts it this morning.
While The ARGUS did not either
mention or think of Mr.. johnson in
the statement to which such
violent exception is taken, il
is accused of having for its
main statement that s.Walter John.
son and his friends sought to delay
the selection Of postmaster by Mr..
Prince" Then follows q confession
on the part Of the aforesaid MIR.
johnson, of how he had induced
Mayor Knox to write for him to Mr..
Prince, and how he had written him.
self, all asking him to hurry up with
his appointment. This being the
fact. and Mr.. johnson imagining
that he is the only oyster in the soup
beside "the corner" concludes that
no opportunities went to Washing.
ton from Rock Island cautioning de-
lay on the part of Prince until after
the spring primaries. Much to the
contrary. however, the facts were as
given in last nights ARGUS. The edi-
tor Of the Union should post himself
before preparing his next exposition
Of the workings of the inner circle,
and in justice to the Thomas crowd
It should be said that The ARGUS Il
under no obligations to 1t for in
formation of . political character,
such Is the Union alludessto.
The "Corner"- Made Candidate.
After unburdening himself. the
editor Of the morning paper gives
way to the highly entertaining spec
tacle of trying to show that while
Carse was nominated finally through
treachery practiced on Kennedy in
the Sixth ward by Searle and McCon-
ochie. both Of "she corner crowd
the emulation Of "the tricksters" of
which republicans. the Union in the
same connection Gays, "despise, ~
the same Carse is not after all a
.corner".made candidate. In other
words, il maintains that he was big.
ger man down town than s.the cor.
ner." but was nominated by decep
ton practiced by the ''corner crowd
in the Sixth ward, and then it seeks
to smooth over the friction in the
party by declaring that ali true re-
publicans should vote for this fraud
ulentiy-made '.corner-contracted
candidate.
Bat the most unreasonable and in.
consistent portion Of the Unions
article is the attack on ex-Mayor Me-
dill, which is as unprovoked as it il
maliciously false in every particular.
The comparison, however, which the
Union invites between the admins
trations of Medill and Carse cannot
fail to prove advantageous to Mr..
Medill. His administration wal
clean. honest, public-spirited and
Straightforward; indeed was one o.
the most distinguished in oil the
points mentioned in the city's his.
tory. There were no Irregularities,
there was NO skulduggsry to dis
grace his administration, and hi
direction of affairs was not marked
by indifference as to what swas goinf
on. He was mayor in all that term
implies, and he will be so again.