Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-03-03

Freed, e. II. Schmitten, g. =. Case, u.
b. McKown, Grant Pinkley, John Shell
", Frank Canedy, John O'Connor,
Joseph Stoy, 8. Lewis. n. Rothwell,
Charles Bladel, B. D. Connolly.
Fourth Charles Hanegen, ].
W. Stewart. w. Norris, Henry Ehr-
horn, DR.. E. M. Sala, s. j. Collins.
F. W. Rinck, c. E. Hodgson. w. +.
Wiesler. H. B. Dougherty. j. T
Noftsksr, Charles Hauptman, j. E.
Peetz, J. H. Liedtke.
Fifth Ward-L. Eihl, M. V. Archer,
W. J. Harold. j. NJ. Beard.ley. l..
P. Stremmel. Il. G. cleveland. G. O.
Jensen, Frank Collins, w. Lindholm.
r. West, F. Robbins, ]. N. Huntoon.
John Brown.
Sixth Ward-F. C. Denkmann, C. J
Searle, William McConochie, D. j.
Sears, Henry Banker. Thomas Dolly,
Andrew Christensen, Phillip Weber.
Henry Horn, Frank Larson, George
Nichols, Fred PAIL, Nick Lage.
Seventh Ward-C.W. Fcss, Herm an
Doerripg. Oliver Stephenson, Henry
Empke, George Archer, A. G. Ander-
son, Aleck Henke, Frank Nelson,
Henry Stelck, Ben Ide, A. B. Curtis,
w. w. Scott, E. F. Godfrey, William
Grote. Andrew Peterson. Roy Schof-
er, William Beckvith, A. G. Peter
son, W. d. Porter.
First CLASH Genes.
c. j. Searle moved to make the
organic alton permanent. II. c..
Cleaveland arose to a point of order.
He understood that the organization
was permanent when the chairman
was selected. The chairman did not
coincide with the obiector's view.
c. j. searle put his motion and ii
was carried.
DR.. G. L. Eyster moved that the
convention proceed with an informal
ballot for mayor, and that the ballots
be open. This was carried. Fred
Rincf, Mayer Roserfield and G. H.
McKown were appointed tellers.
j. N. Huntoon moved that there be
no speech making in presenting can
didates. All were with him.
The informal battle gave the First,
Second and Third wards to Carse; the
Fourth and Fifth to Knox: Sixth to
Kennedy, and Seventh to Nelson.
The vote stood: Carse, 43; Knox,
Is; Nelson, 10; Kennedy, Is And
thus the lines were drawn. The first
formal ballot did not change the re-
suit. Twenty ballots were taken be.
lore there was a break. This oc.
CURED in the Fourth and Fifth
wards. the former giving 5 to Ken.
the latter 6 to Kennedy, G to Nelson,
aud to Carse. This made the csndi.
dates stand: Carse, A; Nelson, So
Kennedy, q; Knox, 1. On the 26th
ballot there WAS another slight shift
in the vote ofthe central wal DIS, the
Fourth now giving to Kennedy, 9 to
Nelson and l to Knox; and the Fifth
z to Kennedy, 5 to Nelson
and to Carse. This did
not change the result, however.
Ga the SD ballot the Fifth came
down on .sthe corner with all the
strength at its command, but one
delegate holding out against the
deal to land the prize for Nelson and
remaining faithful to Carse. The
Fourth ward shifted the mplimen-
tary vote it had been giving to Knox
and placed it on Kennndy. The vote
at this juncture stood: Carse, "A;
Nelson, 40; Kennedy, IS. The
Sixth split on the following
ballot, giving votes 10 Carse and
turning the remaining to Kennedy.
This gave the Second ward aspirant
40, the other Six wards voting as be-
fore. On the next ballot the Sixth
switched its entire vote to Kennedy.
The Fourth gave IA. the Fifth II and
the Seventh 10 to Nelson, and the
three lower wards continued solid
for Carse, who received his usual
one from the Fifth.