Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-10

taken after the committee on creden-
tials reported at o'clock this after
noon. The roll call of precincts gave
Judge Gest POS votes to 147 for Mr..
| Wood
Upon motion of Mr.. Wood himself,
the Endorsement of Judge Gest was
then made unanimous.
The convention was called to order
at 1880 by Mayor b. F. Knox in his
official capacity as chairman of the
county central committee. q. L. Pc
terson, of Moline, secretary of the
county committee. was absent and in
his place c. +. Battles, also of Moline,
was chosen tc fill the Office temporar-
| ;ly. After the reading of the call the
chairman himself nominated f. d..
Sweeney, of this city, as chairman of
the meeting, declared it seconded and
| put the motion. The Rock Island and
part of the country delegates voted
aye and the Moline delegates. whose
breath was taken away by the sud
denness of the move. did not vote at
all. Mr.. Sweeney accordingly took
the chair and duly extended his
thanks to the convention.
Mr.. Sweeney then called for nomi-
nations for a secretary and the name
of Mr.. Battles. who had just been
chosen to that Office. being proposed
he was selected. the vote being par
ticularly strong from the Rock Island
section of the room
Tilt on Committee.
y motion that the chair appoint
committee of five on credentials
brought up an objection from the Mo
line quarter and an amendment that
the number be made nine instead.
three from each of the two cities and
one each from the lower and upper
ends and the middle of the county
wrangle ensued over the matter and
on vive voce vote the temper of the
delegates was not plain. So a divis-
ion was called for and the amendment
was lost by Il comfortable margin.
The original motion was then put and
carried on a division.
As members Of this committee the
chair then appointed j. l.. Haas and
C. j. Searle, of this city. p. \. Merri-
man. of Moline. f. ID. Fisher, of Sears,
and Adam McBurney, of Bowling.
a motion to appoint committee
on permanent organization was next
made, put and carried and S. j. Col
Inns, William McConochie and II. G.
Hudson, of this city; w. T.. Bailey, of
South Heights, and William Parmen-
ter, of EdgingtOn, were named, Moline
being left entirely out in the cold.
BY this time some of the Moline
delegates. were getting slightly upon
their respective ears and when the
Il -, Il n
the report of the committee on ere
dentials, accept the delegates as
seated and proceed to business
out of order there was a rum
BILE of wrath There was a loud pro-
test developed about this time also
against the appointing of a commit
tee on permanent organization, which
had already been done, and some of
the Moline delegates insisted that the
was already permanent,
having been generally accepted as
such when the second chairman and
secretary were elected. The chair,
however. ruled that the permanent
could not be effected till
the committee on credentials deter
mined who the delegates actually
were.
motion to adjourn till 1880 this
was next made and put.
The Moline members tried to down it
with a vocal demonstration, but the
chairman declared it carried.
Afternoon Proceedings.
The convention reassembled at las
this afternoon and the report of the
on credentials was read
and approved, few changes being
made in the lists as originally APP
pointed. The committee on perma-
nent, organization then reported, rec
that the temporary or
ganization be made permanent, which
was done.
A motion for the chair to name
on resolutions prevailing
Mr.. Sweeney appointed as such NJ. Z.
Sweeney and j. K. Scott, of Rock ISL |
and; Rufus Walker. Jr., of Moline; f. |
III. Caldwell, of Milan, and Martin
Schoonmaker, of Reynolds.