Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-11-21
SEEKS A SOOTHER.
Deputy Sheriff Ransom so Vexed
That He Asks a Contribu-
ton of $4,000.
BUT FOR WHAT IS NOT STATED.

Ill Advised He Rushes Into Court to Seek
the Panacea for Overwrought Neryes-A
Republican Politician, Indeed, Ill at Ease
Would Build Fortune on Intangible
Things.
The suit for SO. 900 damages. in
stituted in the circuit court by Capt.
W. j. Ransom Saturday, has occa-
stoned more or less inquiry as to it's
purpOrt and intent. The ARGUS is
obliged to admit that it knows as lit
tie as TO the nature of the allegation
as any one in the city, and the cir
cumstance furnishes one of those
few instances that develop in the
dreary round of human existence that
are not of sufficient Importance to
justify the expenditure of labor in
search for details. Nevertheless. the
suit is so much of a novelty in some
respects that more than passing ref
erence should be given to even so
much as the public is permitted 10
know, vague as it is.
Capt. Ransom. a republican politi
clan, a chronic public Office seeker,
has been SO terribly abused in one or
the other ofthese capacities that he has
rushed into that which the most SEN
sible seek TO rehabilitation 1t
may be said to be one of the unfortu-
nate things about our system of juris-
prudence that no requirement as to
justification is imposed upon that
class of people who would ruthlessly
and Unfortunately involve them
selves and others in litigation. There
ought to be those safeguards thrown
about the sacred precincts of the
court that, while preserving it as it
is, the forum where all may find an
equal and all may find justice, would
prevent feols rushing in where an
gels fear to tread. 1t is, to be sure.
the presumption of law that the
- the counsellor -
himself an officer of court, and an
swera BILE to the court, should become
the happy medium between the over
wrought, temporarily over-ambitious
litigant and the court room. But
there have been attorneys as Jealous
to vent an imaginary personal spleen
the courts as the common
run of humanity. Under such cir
cumstances unwarranted litigation is
not always avoided.
Sore at the World in General.
As to the present state of the pro-
ceedings in court, The ARGUS is
obliged to go on surmise. The most
and awe-inspiring feature
is the righteousness of it. Wherein
have those offended whom Capt. Ran
son would make the victims of his
rage?" is the question that the public |
Il
question that the deputy sheriff is
least disposed to answer just now, |
and he should not be begrudged |
the time allotted within the |
law to formulate in fullest meas
ure his grievance. At the
present time the man about the |
court house of marked soldierly |
bearing is suffering from a thorough |
ly developed case of sorehead. He
feels i'll toward the world in gen
eral, and toward certain people in |
particular, and the least of whom |
may not be those whom he has sued, |
but the sheriff-elect, by whom,
to use the dignified dsputy's own way
Of putting it, he feels that he has been
treated '.d-n mean" Hence the pro-
ceedings instituted in court Saturday |
NAV be taken as but the outcropping
Of the same temperament exhibited in
hat cigar store boast of the fate of
he republican party that is to follow
his turning down.
But it is TO be hoped more COM
prehensiVe course will be employed
N the adoption of the tactics by
which the e. o. p. is to be riven, and
hat the captain will know more fully
what he is doing than he does in the
pending proceedings.
Proud old Spain recently furnished
o the world an example of the fate of
hose who would awe by bluff, and
Iuild houses in the sand of intangible
hines