Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-10-20
Has Mack Been onensiveIy Partisan?

Complaint has been made at re-
publican headquarters in Chicago
against the Carthage Pplitician, j.
Mack Sholl, and so strenuous have
been the objections that have been
filed to Sholl's political activity that
there is some talk of the possibility
of his losing his position as national
bank examiner. Sholl was formerly
deputy internal revenue collector for
this district. The place was hardly
commensurate to Sholls political SER
vice, especially as he had been prom
ised a place on the state railroad
and warehouse commission. but when
the time came to redeem the promise,
Sholl was obliged to content himself
with the deputy revenueship sop. He
took his disappointment good natur-
eddy, however, and when the campaign
of two years ago came around he
was assured of the revenue collector
ship of the Springfield district.
the comfortable berth held by Dick
Yates up to the time he was elected
governor. and in the control
of which he has since remained.
Mack was doomed to disappointment
again and given n bank eXaminership
in lieu of what had been pledged %
him. Now it seems even this is in
danger of being taken from him. The
charge is that he persists in keeping
up fight in the Twenty-second sena-
torial wistrict on o. F. Berry and
Lawrence Y. Sherman. republican
candidates for senator and represen-
tative, respectively. Senator Cullom
has been appealed to, and it is known
that he advised Sholl to cease his ac-
tivity, but, according to reports in
the the hands of Chairman Rowe. he
has not taken that advice. Others
who were supposed to have some in
fiuence with Sholl went to see him.
1t was stated some days ago that
ShOll was simply carrying out the
wishes of Gov. Yates, but that is
strongly denied by the governors
friends in the state committee.
The complaints against Sholl are
that with ten or fifteen republicans
I'm Hancock, Warren and McDonough
counties he has formed an anti-Ber-
ry-Sherman faction and is going
through the district urging all the
voters he can approach to vote
against the two candidates. The
managers assert they have affidavits
that SholI and his crowd went after
certain democrats who had declared
their intention of supporting Berry
and Sherman and pleaded with them
not to do it.
\ member of the state committee
expressed an opinion of that body
yesterday in the following interview:
''As Sholl is holding a position that
pays him $4,000 year, it is hardly
the right thing for him to be so act
publican candidates for the legisla-
ture. If he cannot help to elect them
he should at least attend to the duties
of his Office and keep his hands out of
the campaign. Berry and Sherman
are the regular nominees of the re-
pubIicans in the Thirty-second sena-
toriaI district and are entitled to the
united support of the republicans. 1t
certainly i'll becomes a republican
holding an appointive position TO be
out doing what he can to defeat them.
The republicans in that district only
have a majority of 9O0."
If the republicans persist in perse
cutting Mack, they will make a demo-
crat out of him yet. In fact. such a
change in his political constitution is
about all that is necessary to make
of him one of the best qualified men
to serve his fellow men acceptably in
any position in this section of Hi
nois.