Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-03-28
INJUNCTION ASKED
Looney Appeals to Courts to Aid
Him to Defeat the Demo.
cratic Ticket.
ACTION In NAME OF sTAUDUHAR
Hearing OF Application Before Judge
Graves at GeneseO This
Afternoon.

An application for an Injunction was
filed before Judge Graves at Gene
SEQ by G. u. Stauduhar, through
John p. LoOney, this afternoon. re-
straining Town Clerk Schaffer or any
member of the town board from hay
| ing printed GA the official ballot at
the Forthcoming election the names of
the candidates nominated by the reg
ular democratic convention held at
Odd Fellows hall and presided over by
T. j. Medill as chairman and j. p.
Sexton as secretary.
1t is set up in the application that
the town board had no authority to
act on the contest heard last Friday
at the city hall, and according to law
lshould not have interfered in any
manner with the objections or with
the nomination papers; that the only
proper and authorized body, accord
ing to law. that can act upon the con-
test is the mayor. city clerk and one
alderman selected by lot.
Return Too Late.
Stauduhar further states in his APP
plicatiOn that he has filed in the cir
cult court a mandamus proceeding
mayor and clerk to select an alder
man to act with them and to hear
and determine the contest. but that
the election occurs April ), that the
ballots are about TO be printed and
the clerk, who has full charge of put
ting the names on the official ballot.
insists, and declares and claims it his
duty under the law to print the names
of the candidates of the Medill-SeXton
convention on the ballot. and he in
tends to do so. Stauduhar sets forth
| that he will be deprived of the right
of having his name printed on the Of
| fetal ballot as the nominee of the
democratic party; that until the
mandamus proceedings are heard he
is without remedy, as the writ is not
made returnabe until next Satur-
day. and therefore prays for the in
junction TO issue, as it is the only
means of preventing the printing of
the names of the nominees of the
regular convention on the ballot.
Looney Plan Exposed.
The exposure by The Argus Satur
day evening of the plan of Looney to
seek to defeat the regular democratic
ticket by master in chancery injunc-
ton proceedings without due notice
evidently broke seriously into the-I
scheme of the Looney-republican
combination, for Il hasty conference
was held. with the result that evil
IDENTIFY it was determined it would
have better effect to come out in the
open. and the following notice was
served on City Clerk Schaffer at Z
o'clock in the evening at his home:
ITO Henry Schaffer. clerk of the
city and town of Rock Island, H.;
David Don, supervisor; II. NJ. Schriver,
ID. Il. McFarlane. J. II. Cleland, William
f. Schroeder. j. f. Witter, Justices of
the peace of the city and town of
Rock Island, III.
You are hereby notified that the
undersigned, George p. Stauduhar, will
on Monday morning apply to the Hon
William ii. Gest, judge of the circuit
court of the county of Rock Island.
ILL.,. or some other Judge of said court
and in case of their absence or inabil-
| ity to act. then before Frank III. Kelly.
master-in-chancery of Rock Island
county, for an injunction re-
lstraining each and every one of you
from printing, or ordering or direct
ing anyone to print on the official bal
lot for the coming election to be held
in the city and town of Rock Island.
ILL.,, on the 5th day of April. \. d.,
1904, the name of VI. w. Battles for
supervisor. Louis y. BOurleau, James
II. Lamont, Edwin Ward. for assistant
supervisors; George w. Henry for as
SCISSOR; John p. Auld for collector. or
from distributing or giving out any of
fetal ballots with the said mentioned |
names printed thereon, when and
where you can appear and defend, if |
you see fit so to do.
Rock Island. March &c, 1904.
GEORGE p. STAUDUHAR."
Saturday evening Looney Informed |
counsel for the regular democrats |
that the application for an injunction
would be made before Judge Graves |
either at the latter's home in Geneseu
or in Rock Island, likely in Geneseo. |
this morning. The attorneys prepar-
ed their answer and were ready to
start for Geneseo this morning. but
last evening word was received from
Looney that he would not be ready |
until this afternoon. Messrs. C.. j.
Searle and s. II. Kenworthy. Of cOun- !
SCI IOT the ECSHitE tChiOtidtSs l. ~ |
MediH. and j. =. Sexton. chairman and
secretary of the regular democratic
convention. and a number of repre-
sentative members of the party left
on. the /: 50 train over the Rock Island
for Geneseo this afternoon.
Looney Candidates Decline
Formal destinations were filed with
City Clerk Schaffer today by Nalen-
tine Dauber. for supervisor: L. y.
Bourdeau. for assistant supervisor.
and George w. Henry. for assessor
candidates selected by the LOoney
convention. This indicates how Loon
ey stands with the democrats whose
names were used by his convention
without their consent leaving his