Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-31
is GROWING WARM
Contest Between the Republican
Office Seekers of the
County.
THERE Is SURE TO BE A SPLIT
Fight Looked for Over Most of Nom
nations From SenatorA
ship Down.

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Republican candidates are becom-
ing so numerous that it is with diff
Guilty they keep from colliding with
one another in their quest for sym
pathizers. 1t is the biggest crop
known to have been sprung in Rock
island county before a grounding
day. There are too many for com
fort-even with the thermometer be-
low zero.
Each aspirant for convention hon
ors wears a smile and carries knife.
the latter up his sleeve. ready to
bring it into play whenever he sees
an opportunity of aiding his individ-
ual cause. Hence one can readily
imagine the strife that is being
waged i'm the ranks Oh the faithful of
the county.
The party is all shot to pieces, to
express ii in the language of the
street. The gathering this week
billed as love feast was more u
killing bee, each man seeking office
out for himself, looking with suspic-
ion upon every move made ostensibly
in the interest of harmony, and put
ting in plug every place it would
help himself and iniure the other fell
low-in other words he tried the old
game of killing two birds with one
stone.
The congressional nomination is
settled. II will go to Col. b. f.
Marsh. of Warsaw, barring complica-
tions that are always among the
possibilities in politics. Col. Marsh
owes his success to his personal eff
forts. il must be said for he was
working his wires months before
others, who now regret their mac
ton, woke up. Then the colonel has
that winning way of the polished
statesman that is only acquired. APP
parcntly, in rubbing elbows with ma
tional lawmakers.
Trouble Begins Here.
II has been agreed, So goes the
official announcement, that in the
Thirty-third senatorial district Rock
Island is to have the privilege of
nominating the senator and one of
the two representatives. the other to
go Ia, Mercer county. and Henderson
dcrson, by the way. has not had Il
voice in the legislature for several
decades, So il is said. and the people
of the county are growing SO veXcd
ii would not create Inuch1of sur
prise tn see the whole republican
population turn out at the next Scna-
torial convention and force the del
egates To say IS o'clock"
So far as known nve are entered i'm
the senatorial race up to date. They
arc: l.. 5. McCabe and Il. +. Knox.
Rock Island; +. w. Rank ana G.. W.
johnson, Moline, and j. w. Simon
son, Port Byron. Such an array of
talent would have made Bill Payne
dizzy i'm the days ne was tagging his
neighbors at the cross roads and
mesmerizing them with his special
brand of chcroots. The Zumaite is
not in the struggle this year. He is
filling Il promise that some of those
with longing eyes on his seat at
Springfield eNacted from him before
his last nomination. Any way, he is
just as well satisfied that he isn't
running. on account of the "allfired
complicated situation in the district"
as he puts il.
Two Out for Representative.
For representative only two can
didates have come to the surface. They
are Christian +. Gazetteer, that earnest
party worker, who never shirked Il
call To lead procession. furnishing
his own horse power and limelight,
and w. IL. Whiteside, of yuma. The
nominations for senator and repre-
sentative will to great extent be
regulated, from geographical stand
point, by the results of the county
convention, which is to he held the
4th of next month, the senatorial CON
vention not occurring Until April 81.
Mayor Knox has not had pretty
things said about himself as yet in
the announcement column of the
party organ. and therefore he chr
not be considered as having formally
come up to the starting line. but his
friends say he will have that part of
the program attended to as su',n as
he finishes the address he * prepnr-
ing to submit to the city council
enumerating the wonderful strides
the municipality has made in the line
of improvements, etc. during the
past year.
Real Fight for Sheriff.
The real fight i'm the county will be
over the shrieyalty. Four have en-
tered the fieId-W. George Heider, of
Moline. who is now serving as deputy
sheriff; Elmer f. Reynolds. of Buff
falo Prairie, another deputy sheriff;
Frank \. Andrews, of this city, also
u deputy sheriff, and an alderman in
the bargain, and Oloff Atkinson. of
this city. Ed HittiIsen, of Moline,
has been a standing candidate for
sheriff for several years, and wheth,
err he will rally his forces again is a
question that is causing the other