Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-01


votes to 263 for De soland, the ma
jority thus being l61
There was no certain evidence thai
Il contest was on till late in the after
noon, and the name of the candidate
who was being run against Mr.. Hull
did not develop till couple of hours
before the polls closed. At that time
there had scarcely been Il hum
dred votes cast. Mr.. Hull's friends
became active when they learned of
the trick that was being attempted.
with the result that the election
judges had Il busy time of il for the
last couple of hours the polls were
open, and the voters had to form in
line and await their turns to deposit
their ballots.
The forces opposing Mr. Hufr@ did
no work about the polls, in fact did
not even have tickets there. They es-
tablished headquarters at a conven-
lent distance, where their movements
could not be so easily disccrned.
Planning the Secret Campaign. u
1t developed during the day that the
DeSoland campaign had been launch
ed in secret among few of those who
had been designated as leaders i'm va
rious parts of the city week or
more ago, and had been zealously
guarded till the afternoon of election
day i'm order that the friends of Mr..
Hull might be caught unawares. The
course taken was altogether strange,
in view of the fact that there was
1, 4,
from coming out i'm the open and maxi
ing a fair and dignifed contest upon
his merits. Such method of proceed
ure would have been more in keeping
with the character of an ollice which
it is desired shall be divorced as far
as possible from political machina-
tons
While through the efforts of his
friends and others opposed to the pol
icies of those who were back Of the.
candidate Mr.. Hull was
elected, it is to be regretted.
indeed. that the modesty he
has exhibited in the matter of his
for reelection should have
been thus taken advantage of Meth
er Mr.. Hull nor his friends suspicion
ed any opposition under cover to his
reelection. and even when first de-
tected and the source of il was made
known to Mr.. Hull he declined to be-
lieye it. Being the only representa-
tive ON the board of organized labor, |
all classes of people not moved by sell |
fish design conceded the fairness of
his claims for election to the full |
term of his office. An instance of |
this was shown when movement was |
started in the Seventh ward to bring |
out from that section of the city |
some weeks ago, but when |
the circumstances under which Mr.. |
Hull was running were understood |
the subject was dropped.
Same Old influences.
When il was discovered, even though |
late in the day yesterday, that the |
same political influences that have |
sought for years to control the board |
were quietly and systematically at |
work to accomplish Mr.. Hull's defeat, |
it brought out not only scores of Mr..
Hull's friends and fellow workmen |
from all over the city. but enlisted |
the efforts of &. W. MeCaskrin and his |
followers, and soon the
vote began to pour in that showed /
what even a late alarm may ac-
From the shops and mills
in the lower end of the city the work
ugmen hurried to the one voting
place i'm the Fourth ward to save the
lay for MIR. Hull. and with all the in
duences that were soon working in
his behalf what might by the cunning
Of the under-cover vote have resulted i