Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-03-05

and Rank 0. The nomination was
then made unanimous
MagiI on First Ballot.
For state representative there were
three candidates: {. F. Gazetteer. of
Rock Island, l.. NJ. MagilI, of Moline.
and F. j. Whiteside. of Yuma. Magin
received bare majority of 1T on
the first vote, with 126 for Gaet jer
and Is for Whiteside. Judge Luciau
Adams and +. +. Parmenter. both of
this city. were placed i'm nomination
for candidates for county judge. The.
race was close one and the result
was in doubt till the last precinct
was heard from. The country dis
tricts were generally for Parmenter
and he had rather the best of il in
Rock Island. but Moline was for
Judge Adams. ON the showdown
Parmenter counted 1874 noses and
Adams les. The secretary was in
structed to cast the entire vote for
II. b. Hubbard for county clerk. his
candidacy having no opposition.
Contest for sheriff.
| When the chairman called for nom
/ nations for sheriff there was a rustic
of interest. W. &. Heider and Ed Kit
tilsen. of Moline: +. \. Andrews and
Olof Atkinson, of Rock Island; +. +.
| Reynolds. of Drury. and w. II. Carey.
of Hampton. were jumped in such
rapid succession that the secretary
had great difficulty in keeping track
of them, and then the voting began.
Heider took the lead from the start.
the first vote resulting Heider LOG.
Andrews 81. Atkinson sc. Reynolds
-, Kittilsen a. and Carey -. On the
second ballot Heider and Reynolds
took the lead. the former lacking but
four of receiving the nomination and
the latter polling %. Andrews and
Atkinson were slaughtered. Andrews
embraced the opportunity to- with
draw in favor of Reynolds and Carey
i'm favor of Heider. The third roll
call showed 237 for Heider, % for
Reynolds. 20 for Kittilsen and > for
Atkinson.
Eight for Treasurer.
Eight names were placed before the
convention for the nomination for
county treasurer. These were David
Lyons. of Coal Valley; y. Z. Munson
and \. +. Lyford. of Moline; +. II.
Caldwell, of Milan; +. y. Wood. OF
Edgington; W. j. McIntire. Of Rey-
nolds: Thomas Murphy. of Coal Val |
ley. and +. =. Cool, of Cordova. The f.
first count gave Lyford 81, Wood o., I
Munson 81. Lyons -. McIntire II. /
Murphy IS, Caldwell 26. and Cool -. /
On the second ballot the city dele /
gates went 10 Lyons in large num- !
bers and Murphy withdrew in his ia /
vor. McIntire also withdrew and on |
the third ballot Lyons was chosen /
with 1917 votes. Cool receiving ia. /
Caldwell and Wood each Is. Lyford ; 1
and Munson !.
:. j. Ferguson was the only one /
presented for the nomination for .
county superintendent of schools and I
he was given the vote of the conyen-
tion in the usual manner.
Two Conventions Hereafter.
y motion was made by NJ. NJ. Stur-
geon that the county committee he
hereafter instructed TO call two con
instead of one. separating
the nomination of county officers
from those for the Legislature. In
support OF the motion Mr.. Sturgeon
stated that the plan that has beer,
followed in the past has served TO
slaughter the county candidate for
the Legislative candidate. He felt that
it was about time TO take the former
into consideration. On Il viva voce
vote Moline attempted to down the
to get back ut the mover
for what he had done for that city
earlier in the day. The chairman re-
fused to decide and a division was
called for. Rock Island and the eoun-
try members voted solid and Moline
sat down chaerined.
New Central Committee.
After all nominations had been
made the roll was called for the an
of the county central
which was named as fol-
lows:
Andalusia. G. +. Spickler; Black
Hawk, Wilson Matthew's; Bowling, y.
L. McBurney: Buffalo Prairie,
Humphrey Brubaker; Canoe Creek.
!. l.. Daily: Coal Valley, II. r. Martin:
Zoe. George w. Genung; Cordova. +.
5. Cool; Drury. Frank Reynolds; Edg
ngton, NJ \. Titterington; Hampton.
J. w. Parker; Moline. w. +. Eastman.
y f. Munson; Port Byron, l.. $. Pear
sail aRock Island. Il. +. Knox, w. \.
Rural, j. NJ. Hutchinson; :
south Moline, G. l.. Peterson; South
Rock Island. Thomas Campbell; Zu ,
ma. +. j. Whiteside.
Il. F. Knox was elected chairman
IF the county committee and the del ,
gates ran out of the building with
mt stopping to finish the business by
he selection of a secretary.
Convention Delegates.
During the canvassing of the re-
urns of the balloting the committees I
IN delegates to the state, congress S
ional and Legislative conventions J
ound time to report and the list of I
delegates were approved as follows: a