Rock Island Argus., 1902-03-15

Assessor. l.. FREEMAN.
Collector-WILBUR TUBES.
Justice of the Peace-DUNCAN II.
McFARLANE
Above is the list of city-township
candidates set up at the republican
convention at Turner hall last even
ing as targets for the people on the
first day of April. The story of their
one, the convention being character
lied by general lack of interest in
the business before it.
The affair was, billed to begin at
1880, but il was nearly before
Chairman ii. \. Mcdonald removed his
sky-piece and modestly promulgated
the suggestion that something ought
to be done. +. W. Schoedc. who had
been waiting with his breath drawn
in for this instant. popped up and
nominated w. +. Schroeder as tenn
porary chairman. There was no op-
position and the squire took the
chair. After little sllirmishing Sam
Ryerson was corralled to push the
pencil and, after the reading of the
call, business moved on.
On motion the chair named Pat
Cary, John Bladel and c. +. Gaetier
a committee on credentials and those
gentlemen, after adjusting their
glasses. fixed up the lists. There be-
ing nothing worth contesting for,
there was no trouble and the lists re-
turned were accepted by the convcn-
tion without reading. The temporary
organization was made permanent.
The delegates:
First ward-G., Elmer Blakseley. {.
+. Killmer. Dan Lucas. John BladeI.
J. c. Buck. j. ii. Gardner. j. ID. War
mock, George Wittick. Alfred Peter
son. George Hastings. Charles
Sehnert. Carl Nretman. Lloyd Stamm.
Second ward-M. II. Mckinley. Will
Gilmore. j. Il. Eckhart. II. ID. Folsom.
John Dahn, Walter Johnson, William
Eckermann. Ezra Wilcher, John
Thomas. DIR. G. l.. Eyster, August
Lindbloom. J. Lefstein, w. II. Sugden,
Z. j. Wagner.
Third ward -C C. J. Searle.
1. L. Vanderslice, Frank Lar
son. Ralph Haverstick, +. B.
Kreis, William G.. Pittman. Fred
Schroeder. F. O. Van Calder. W. p.
Quaylc. J.. G. Eddy, L. {. Handing. +.
:. Brough. Don Shaw, Add Gest.
James GofT, Z. II. Schmitten, Ben
Rinck.
Fourth ward-Dr. Z. NJ. Sala, Jo-
seph Rosenfield. Henry Stelck, Will
lam Stengel. Arthur Judson. Fred
ID II l. T.
j. +. Noftsker, j. ii.
Liedtke. F. w. Rinck. c. +. Gazetteer,
Z. ID. Sweeney, y. c. Campbell, {. Z.
Adams.
Fifth ward-H. II. Cleavcland. FL
more Stafford. David Noftsker, Frank
Kelly. Russell West, Thomas Dolly,
DIR. y. II. McCandless. NJ. Colligan,
Cordt Voss. Louis Stremmel. w. ii.
Paul Cleland, Mic Brueser,
Will Ullemeyer.
Sixth ward-W. +. Schroeder, c.
Herman. John Schoessel. u. j.
Cary. Henry. Lange, s. Mcmahon,
Ir.. f. p. Welch. James SfcVuaid. +.
c. Schnitzer, Henry Frank, Robert
McConochie. Ed W. Schoede, w. y.
Giles, John Mohl.
George c. Wallick. Charles Morrison,
Samuel Ryerson, Andrew Soderstrom,
4. l.. Nelson, Peter Rasmussen, j. y.
BexelI, James S. Mcbride, c. \. Hall
berg. Joshua Brooks, Earl Hutchin
son. Carl y. Anderson, John c. Wei
gand, Chris Danielson, j. *. Scott.
James \. Muse. Frank Sperling, An
drew Peterson, Frank Miller, Felix
Henke, c. II. Heuck.
Nominating Begins.
1t was then time to nominate can
lidate for supervisor. {. j. Searle
presented the name of David Don and
after failure on the part of the
First ward delegation to jump an OPP |
posing aspirant Mr.. Don was nomin- |
lted bv acclamation. For assistant
supervisors there were placed before
The convention the names of George |
l.. Schmid. George Schneider, l.. c. |
pfoh, Charles Hodgson and Ezra Will
her. On the first ballot Schmid re-
.eived 81 votes, Schneider 81, Pfoh |
". Hodgson 81 and Wilcher 65. On |
notion the three receiving the high
st number were declared nominated i
md the convention breathed sigh
IF relief ,at having gotten out from
Inder the heavy part of it.
NIssen and Cox Mentioned.
j. l.. Freeman was nominated for
assessor Immediately upon the call
or names, and after n painful pause
\. ID. Cox and George u. Nissen were
brown in. Chairman Schroeder
uined the chances of the last named
!
he polled only eight votes.
freeman received 81 and Cox 81.
There was sign of life when the
'ffice of collector was reached. VIII
,ur Tubbs and Edgar Cronk were the
hief aspirants with Willard Baker
Ianging around the edges of the
Irena looking for chance to break
n. The first named was nominated