Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-02-21
UP A JOB.
Republicans Have a Select
Meeting to Land Sturgeon
in the Senate.
PAINFUL RETloENOE PREVAILS.

A Vote End . Resolution Tha, Nd NOT
Pas, Then . Cal Tor . Meeting ss
Tarasr Hsl wsdne,dsy Evening Was
1suss-?Ayne ,mss t. Tow. ens rslts
on the sttj,c
Republicans had q select meeting
In the county court room at the
court house Saturday evepiug to
adopt course looking to the land.
ing Of one OF the designers in the Iii.
nois state senate. An unsigned,
typewriter Invitation had been sent
out 10 a Carefully considered few to
DO present. the purpose being Ito
consider the ACCESSIBILITY Ct present.
ing tie name Of Rock Island man
TO the next republican county con-
vention for nomination TO tae state
senate" There is q suspicion, how.
ever. that there were in attendance
those who were not formally hidden,
although less than three dozen in gil
participated in the proceedings. E,-
Mayor William McConc chile was
called to the chair. aud c. Z.
Gae,Ier was made secretary. The
chairman in assuming his grave du-
tics prayed for reconciliation among
The warning elements Of the repub
licsn party In Rock leland. Then c.
I. Lynde stated tine object Of the
meeting. IL had been called, he
said, ~ consider the sivisab;iity of
the city Of Rock Is!lrd presenting a
candidate fer senator to the republi-
can county convention for endorse
ment. Mr.. Lyude spoke OF the lapse
of time since Rock Island had been
honored al Springfield with u resi-
dent representative 10 the higher
branch of the law m lking body, aad
the conference, it was desired, should
determine upon candidate and
adopt united course Of action. such
as would carry him through. MIR.
Lynde invited further express
sion. Then began the periods o,
painful rsticsncs which character
ized the meeting. periods broken
only after intervals BY few who
seemed moved to speak. although o,
one time q somowha. animated col
loquy was indGlged in. The ch.ir.
man foally brose the silence. He
spoke OF Two existing factions OF tho
republican party ia Rock Island
and calmly declared his belief that
the meeting then in progress
had been called to heal that breach,
but IL only one faction had re.
sponded, the other should in some
way be reached. He thereupo1 sug-
gessed the appointment Of confer
euco committee with the hope OF
reaching "a better Understandings
MIR. Lynde said the invitations had
bsen sent irrespective OF factions. q
goodly numbsr had teen invited, bu,
not all had responded. Those who
had not done 50 were certainly no.
interesting themselves 10 the object
OF the meeting. and that being the
case. why further effort in this line;
DIR. g. l.. Eyster forthwith offered a
resolution setting forth that i: be
the sense Of the meeting that the
party in Rock Island present o can.
tidate for the state senate to the
coming county convention. The res.
olution was adopted. 2. j. Cary
followed with a motion that the
meeting proceed with a ballot to
bring out candidate for senator.
This motion was adopted and
things seemed TO be going. The
chair named Mr.. Cary and Aid. A.
r. Nelson as tellers. a vote wss
taken, with the result: M. NJ. Stur.
geon, IL; William jackson, 5; VIII
liam Payne, 2; William McConochie.
1; S. j. Collins, i; ". II. Edwards, ].
In announcing Mr.. Sturgeon as the
choice OF the party represented pres.
cnt. Chairman McConochio yentured
to suggest that this was as far as the
the meeting could 20 with propriety,
aud he sought thereupon to al.
vert The interest By inviting 80 fe.
speeches on general politics."
tn. Atkin.oa Motion.
Tha. painful reticence came on
again, aud finally Oloff Atkinson col
back on 10 the original subject by
moving that NJ. III. Sturgeon ue de.
Glazed the unanimous choice OF the
meeting for senator. Here W. Il.
Edwards mustered up sGflicien. cour.
age 70 remark that the eplb!ican
party mus. be dwindlipg down IL il
could only muster %. He would
prefer to sec more present. Aid
William Kennedy caut.oaed agains,
the doption Of the Atkinson resolu.
ton, but the mover was determined
j. n. Huntoon felt that q were no,
qualified to speak fox the entire re.
publican party, bat Mr.. Atkinson
pressed his motion and it was lost.
Mr.. Atkinson was importuncd to
withdraw his moIion, but he pres. /
1. to o standing vote. The chair pu,
1t. Those who stood up to be count
cd were Messrs. Akin on, Lynde and
Cary. The other two dozen stood
nm ON sha nshar eida IT,. -s.