Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-11-01
BOTH ARE WINNERS
Outlook for Election of Donovan
as Sheriff and Henry
as Treasurer.
THE FACTS OF THE SITUATION
Snap Judgment in Republican Con-
yention to Be Rebuked
at the Polls.

Everything points to the election
next Tuesday of Cornelius Donovan
for the office of sheriff and of George
w. Henry for the Office of county
treasurer of Rock Island county.
Since the opening of the campaign in
fact, the outlook has been favorable
to the success of these candidates,
and as the time has advanced toward
election day their chances have
steadily improved. From all parts of
the county come expressions of dis
satisfaction with the course that was
pursued in the republican convention
in placing its candidates in the
field. Conservative republicans admit
that the nomination of w. q. Heider
was accomplished through snap poll
ties. of which they do not approve
while in the selection of David III. Ly-
ons for treasurer, no thought what
ever was given to the question of fit
ness for the office.
CraIIe Had His Way.
Heider succeeded in carrying away
the nomination for sheriff because
his sponsor, the present sheriff, was
not willing to yield control of the Of
flee at the expiration of the time
fixed by law, and he was sharp
enough to nominate his own man in
the face of the fact that there We're
more deserving republicans whom the
convention desired to name for the
office. but who were turned down by
Il trick pure and simple. TAX
ing advantage of the situation devel-
oped in the fight for the senatorial
and representative Endorsements,
Sheriff Cralle worked his game before
it was fully realized that il had been
done, and W. G. Heider got away with
what had been planned to give to
someone else. There was no attempt
to conceal the Indignation that attend
ed the announcement of the result. The
report that Kittilsen's friends were
aroused in Moline and that Elmer
Reynolds supporters in the lower end
of the county felt that they had been
betrayed and had not lost fairly oc-
casioned apprehension from the start
in the minds of thinking republicans.
and nothing has developed since to re-
move or to lessen that apprehension.
The assurance from Cralle that he
would take care of Moline, where he
claims to WELD more political infiu-
ence than any other republican that
ever lived there. and that he would
fix the other end of the county by
throwing the treasurership that way,
did not serve to satisfy those famil-
lar with the conditions that what had
been done would not prove fatal to
the ticket election day.
No citizen who takes any interest
in politics admires either what was
done to insure the continuation of
Cradles rule in the sheriff's Office or
the total disregard for the qualifica
ton of candidates manifested in the
choice of the nominee for treasurer
for no other purpose than to placate
Elmer Reynolds friends.
VIII Elect Two Good Men.
The people will elect Con Donovan
sheriff next Tuesday, not only be-
cause he overshadows his opponent in
popularity and is better man for
the office. but because they believe
in terminating Cradles control of the
sheriff's office when he should retire
by law.
The people will elect George W.
Henry treasurer because he is n capa
BILE accountant. and will not he oblig-
ed to entrust the responsible duties
that the people repose in him to Il