Rock Island Argus., 1902-03-05

Yet the rivalry for places ON the
county ticket was by no means en-
tirely secondary. The feeling en-
gendered over the outcome was not
lost sight of in the turning down of
the state machine and the cold
shoulder that the Yates emiSsarics,
received at every turn in the pro-
ceedings or i'm the defeat of the
Deere-Dawes move to put the conven-
ton on record on the senatorial in
dorsement question.
Although Moline was repulsed i'm it's
determination TO override the con
veutiOn, not only i'm the matter of the
ruling on the Dawes resolution from
which the convention repealed and
which il reversed. that city was. too.
prevented from recording it's actual
preference for the shrieva!ty nomin-
alton. There il no room for doubt
that the majority of delegates from
Moline were for Kittilsen. Yet af-
ter the convention was over. the adj
joining city that usually comes 50
we'll organized that IL not only knows
what il wants but gets il. went home
with nothing that il came for but
the Endorsement of Mr.. Magiil for
representative that Rock Island
readily conceded. and when it came to
summing up il found that ii had cold
IL ignored the Swedish element en-
tirely. not alone i'm the general com
position of the ticket and all that had
gone into the proceedings, but in the
direct defeat of Ed Kittilsen. The
Moline chief of police has been for
years a candidate for the nomination
for sheriff. but first one thing and then
another has turned up To diSappnint
him. As far back as the days when
Parson Morgan ran To his defeat Kit
tilsen yearned and was put aside.
Four years ago when the nomination
was really within his grasp. he paid
the political penalty OF being away
from home i'm the service of his conn
try, and another Moline man received
the coveted honor. Yesterday there
was no excuse for rejecting KittilSen.
and neither he nor any of his friends
thought IL could be accomplished.
But the trick was turned just the
same. and in the interests Of another
Moline man. And the gallant Ed
again went down.
From the moment that VI. VI. Stur-
geon by his master stroke of coupling
the odious methods pursued by the
Gates-LorimerHopk state ring of
dipping into ward politics with what
the convention proposed to in the in
dorsement of Dawes. swung the dele
gates away from what was in their
minds to do-eXpress the preference
for Dawes - the Moline con-
tingent was of its feet. The
had failed To do the
bidding of MIR. Deere. and therefore
the Moline delegation had forebod-
ing of i'll. 1t was demoralized. 1t
knew not. and Judging from The treat
ment of KittiISen. cared not what il
did.
The convention results in their gen
eral nature. however. are quite as
apt to occasion as much bitterness of
feeling as the unexpected disposition
of the shrievalty nomination as far
as Moline is concerned. Geographi-
cally speaking ,ue ticket is failure.
The upper end of the county that
came down with candidates for some
of the most important nominations
was cut off without even 50 much as
a suggestion of recognition. The
lower end. although given two places
on the ticket. would cheerfully have
parted with both for the shrievalty
noRination that il cherished most
and which that end of the county
was deliberately cheated out of. af
ter combinations had been made that
seemed to assure success for Mr.. Rey-
noIds' candidacy. The south division
may naturally. considering the out
come of the proceedings. charge bad
faith against some of the other as
pirants who were more successful.
The student of politics who surveys
the field carefully may we'll wonder
how convention dominated by the
slightest political judgment could
have made so many stupid blunderS
as characterized the proceedings of
yesterday.