Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-21

Fred II. Pollard, Samuel Willis, Willis
Mitchell, Thomas jenkins, Harry G.
Lewis.
Fifth ward-F. L. Robbins. Frank Col
Inns, c. o. Jensen, NJ. l. Morris, L.
p. Cox, c. Oswald, p. j. Cary,
John Grogan, Robert Bennett, Jr.,
S. Conwell, F. H. Kelly, Russell
West, j. Rosenfield. NJ. T. Stafford
Sixth ward-William ii. Edwards,
f. c. Denkmann, T. a. Herzog, c. j.
Larkin, William Kennedy, ID. j. Sears.
John Mehl, Henry Lange, George Mil
Ter, George p. Nissen, Andrew Chris
tensOn, John Cramer, Frank WEIGH,
George Evans.
Seventh wart-C. w. Foss, +. NJ.
Sinnet, a. f. Soderstrom, w. w.
Channon, William Lucklum. Andrew
Peterson, Henry J. Glouck, Peter Ras-
mussen, III. S. Bollman, V. O. Peter
son, Frank Miller, Felix f. Henke,
George Scott, George w. Wal
lick, Carl a. Anderson, j. NJ. Keim,
Charles Morrison. William Beckwith,
August c. Peterson, ID. Hohenbol<en,
c. L. Ackerlind, Gustav Smith.
Order of Doing Business
1t was decided to follow out the or
der of business indicated in the call,
to dispense with nominating speeches,
call the roll by wards for nomina-
tions, take informal ballots ON all
candidates, and allow the chairman
of each ward to announce the full
vote of his delegation whether all the
members were present or not. L. B.
Kreis, Russell West and Carl Ander-
son were named as tellers and then
the convention proceeded to business.
On the call of .the wards for may
oral candidates the First turned up
ID. f. Knox, the Third William Neon
ochie and the Seventh \. G.. Ander-
son. The Informal ballot gave Nc
Conochie 81, Knox 20 and Anderson
~, the wards voting solid. Knox then
kindly Withdrew and thanked his
supporters with tears in his speech.
On the formal ballot McConochie polled
81 and Anderson 81 and the chairman
declared the former it after the usual
operation of making it unanimous.
The veteran statesman from the
Sixth arose to say thank you and
added that if there was to be any
mud singing done in the campaign
it would not be from his side of the
street. all of which was duly record
ed as a revised application of the ven
cradle adage about throwing rocks.
There was no opposition to H. {.
Schaffer for city clerk and after he
had been named by all the wards he
was chosen by accIRmatiOn.
For city attorney the First ward
proposed J. X. Scott, the Fourth ii.
NJ. Schriver and the Fifth w. NJ. Walks
er. The informal vote gave Scott 81,
Schriver 30 and Walker %. On the
next count Scott had 10, Sehriver "a
and Walker s. 1t was then made
For city treasurer X. T. Anderson
was the only one named and he was
put up on the accIamation plan. 1t
was decided to dispense with the in
formal ballot in the case of the as
sistant supervisors. as there were
four to be named. The call by wards
gave but four names. however, those
given above, and they were placed in
nomination by reclamation.
The Office of assessor was also plac-
ed with little trouble, j. L. Freeman,
4. ID. Cox and John Huntoon being
the aspirants. The informal ballot
showed that Mr.. Freeman was the
only one who was in the race, and on
the final vote the count gave him 50
to % for Cox and for HuntooH.
Only Fight of Evening.
'Fhe only fight of the evening was
made over the collectorship. There
were four names presented, William
G. Pitman. S. r. Mattison, Sr., Edgar
Cronk and Willard Baker. On this
proposition the Seventh went on
reef and parted amidships and IN
certainty oveFspread the convention.
Pitman had lead from the begin
mag and three laborious ballots did
not show much change, the others be-
ing pretty closely punched. Before
the fourth ballot was taken f. {.
Denkmann proposed that the men be-
ing voted for be put through their
PAGES on the stage so that the dele
gates might have some basis for
choice This had the desired effect
and the convention settled down to
business The fourth ballot was the
last and Pitman received 81, Matti-
son 10, Cronl1 II, and Baker II.
the nomination for justice of the
peace to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of o. f. Cramer and
he was chosen by acclamation. Then
Il was up to the Craftsmanship of the
committee. There was
a whisper and the name of +. w.
Schoede was heard, but the sound
was stilled and the name of Capt.
John Rinck became audible. All the
wards that said anything said Rinek,
and RinelS it was. Loud calls for a
speech were made and johnnie climb
ed off his chair and spoke just two
words. 'sThank YOU"
After the committee had been em-
to all vacancies the con-
sention snuffed itself out.
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