Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-02-28
ELECT DELEGATES
Republicans Choosing Represen-
tatives for Next Weeks
County Convention.
RIVALRY IN THIRD AND SEVENTH
Party Lights Of the Fourth Burn
Midnight OiI-KnoX
Showing Hand.

The republicans of the city are
holding their primaries for the choice
of delegates to the county convention
today. and the aspirants for offices
whose opportunity to- run will be set
tied March 4 are exceedingly ubiquit-
/ Gus. l.. :. McCabe for state senator is
apparently having things pretty much
his own way everywhere but in the
Seventh ward. where G.. W. johnson,
of Moline, is making Il fight. and of
course there are two lists of dele
gates being voted. Down in the third
there are also two lists. the contest
being on county Judge. and both sides
are confident. The other wards are
having comparatively quiet time 'of
it so far as the county officers are
concerned. and each has but one dele
gate list.
IL. +. Knox is apparently not in the
senatorial race. and the question that
is presenting itself forcibly to many
of the faithful is just what he is af-
ter and whether he himself knows.
His friends seem to be holding him
back and at the same time they have
been stuffing the delegations. In the
final roundup if there is nothing else
left for him il is understood he will
be set up for another term as figure
head of the county organization.
The carriages were busy in the
Third and Seventh wards all after
noon and the opposing factions ran
in all the republican voters that could
be drummed up. The police kept a
man at the voting Place in the Third
ward to prevent personal violence be-
tween the lunches.
AIx-Tp In the Fourth.
There were high times in the
Fourth ward last night and many of
the staid republicans who do not
ordinarily get very badly tangled i'm
politics failed to see their beds till
well toward morning. Everything
had been seemingly harmonious in
the Fourth up till last night. but
there was a smoldering fire beneath
the surface. Last night il blazed up
IKE lighted gas well and the pipe
men had busy time of it.
In the first place Il list of delegates
had been fixed up that pleased all
parties. as il was believed. supporting
Adams for county Judge, McCabe for
senator and Gaetier for representa-
tive. Then some of the KnoN-In-
gram crowd began to make a few
changes in the interests of ''har-
mony." cutting off here and adding
there till the general run of rcpubli
cans i'm the ward grew suspicious. Re
monstranceS were met with other
changes of doubtful nature and the
machine contrived to hold down the
escape valve till last night.
Then n band of insurgents met i'm
the downtown office of lawyer to
talk it. over. The word was passed
and the meeting grew In the mean
time the machine men cOngregated in
another quarter for defensive action
and the two factions negotiated back
and forth till early morning under
flags of truce. l.. :. McCabe was
caught by scouting party from the
insurgents and led into camp.
The delegation patched up is as fol
lows: Walter Rosenfield, $. j. Col
Inns. j. j. Ingram, Il. c. Clarke,
James II. DarneIl, George w. MeCas-
krin. DIR. Joseph Deilva, w. j.
Sweeney. John Rincll, Philip j. Mill
err, William II. LANCE, James Peetz.
NJ. VI. Sturgeon. August Moeller, DIR.
G.. G. Craig, Sr.. F. W. Weisler.
The ''unpledged'' ticket in the
Third is headed by w. l.. Ludolph.
David Don is the head of the other
ticket.