Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-06-04
YATES MEN SECURE
Local Appointees Will Hold Jobs
Should Deneen be Elected
Governor.
L0wDENITEs MISS BAND WAGON
Pass Up Golden Opportunity to Make
Good With the Nominee
Yesterday.

The Rock Island county delegation
| to the republican convention passed
up the band wagon at Springfield yes
| terday afternoon on the ballot that
nominated Charles :. Deneen for gov
ernor, going to the last ditch with
| Col. Frank o. Lowden.
On the 10Th. the final ballot, when
Rock Island county was reached. only
! eight more votes were necessary for
| the naming of Deneen. Rock Island
had p votes. enough to do the bust
ness. with some to spare. Evidently
the golden opportunity To make good
| with the nominee was not seen, for
the p votes were pumped TO the Low
den column. where they had shown
since the assembling of the conven-
| ton in its first session two weeks ago.
Saline county. with a half dozen,
grabbed the caravan. as did Sanga-
mon. with "a votes. Rock Island was
out in the frigid zone
Figuring Where They Are At.
Now that the smoke of battle has
cleared the local leaders are endeavor-
ing o figure just where they will light
in the event of the election of Deneen
next fall. The Yates followers are
chuckling over the defeat of Lowden
| and the Lowden men are claiming that
they are satisfied over having aided in
| putting Yates out of the running.
| They say there are willing To let mat
| tiers run their natural course locally
| henceforth.
But the whole question reverts to
the unpleasantness of six weeks ago.
when the party split on Yates and
Lowden at the primaries and held two
county conventions for the selection
of delegates to the state convention
1t will be recalled that the county or
ganiZatiun with the Yates following
held forth at the court house. the Hi
nois theatre. where the convention
had been called. having been taken
possession of by the Lowden dele
gates. The Lowden delegation from
here was seated by agreement be
tween Yates and LOwden in the tenn
porary organization Of the Springfield
convention.
Yates to Take Care OF Friends Here.
The Yates followers find satisfac
ton in the fact that the nomination of
Deneen was made possible by the
withdrawal of the governor. and that
n condition of his retirement from the
race was that, should Deneen be elect
ed. Yates should control the patron
age outside Cook county. which is
taken to indicate that DR.. w. f.. Tay-
Ior. the superintendent. and Hughey
Mcdonald. the chief clerk. at the Wa
tertown hospital, and others of the
Yates appointees in this county Will
continue in their jobs if they choose
to do 50. The Lowden delegates de-
clare they will have something to say
in the determination OF local patron
age. The Yates men say they might
have had had they used little judg-
ment on the final ballot yesterday.
but when they allowed the band wag-
ON to pass them they broke their pick
with Deneen.
sherman Choice of Yates.
The Lowdeu delegates are claiming
credit for the nomination of Judge l..
Y. sherman. of Macomb. for ieuten-
ant governor. but it is denied that
they had any voice in it, Yates su%-
costing Sherman in the last confer
ence Of the leaders in the convention.
offering him the position on the ticket
personally. Another condition of the
withdrawal of Yates in favor of De
neen is understood To be that the for
mer * TO he made United States sen
ator on the expiration of the term of
Dom Shelby Cullom. who tied up with
Lowden Our old friend, Willie North
colt. with Warden Murphy, of the
Joliet penitentiary was thrown into
the basket by Yates yesterday when
it was discovered that he was flirting
with Iowden. thus causing his retire
ment from republican politics for
time.