Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-03-01
FOR ALDERMEN TOO.
Plans Made by Executive Com
mittee of Citizens Association
for Ward Nominations.
COMMITTEES ARE APPOINTED
Meetings Are to Be Called in 10 Days
to Select Candidate - Crcu-
late Platform.

| late Platform.
The executive committee and Other
officers and candidates of the Citizens
Non-Partisan association met last even
| ing at s o'clock at the association
headquarters. room II of the Masonic
temple building. for the purpose nl
making arrangement TO place alder
manic tickets in the field in every
| ward in the city. Chairman H. H
Cleaveland presided. The conditions
| in the various wards We're very thor
| Oughly canvaSSed. The reports receiv
ed were, it is claimed, of an optimistic
character
The proposition that candidates for
all city offices should be nominated
and elected on their merits said
Chairman Cleaveland this morning. ~:
making new friends every day. Per
| haps ii would be more correct 10 say
that those who believe in this principle
| arc hCSlSll ia lui =
numbers each day"
Committees Are Named.
| Committees were appointed to make
arrangements for meetings TO be held
in the various wards of the city within
the next 10 days. and Chairman
| Cleaveland states that before the meet
ings are held there will be number
of aldermanic candidates available fol-
nomination in each ward. Ii was an
nounced at the meeting last evening
that in every ward in the city there
are two or more excellent men WHIT
will be willing to accept non-partisar
nomination
Another meeting will be held Mol
DAY evening. at the headquarters. t,
receive reports of the ward commit
tees appointed last evening, and t.
perfect the final arrangements befor,
starting in on the real work of tn,
campaign
Circulating Platform.
For the last two days Mr.. Cleave
land has had a force of clerks at worl
mailing TO every voter in the city CO
IpieS of the platform of the association
\ copy of this platform will be place,
in every voters hands within the mex
few days Other clerks have been a
work making a complete copy of tn,
polling lists of the city.
The candidates present at the meet
ing were urged TO do everything pos
sible to make the voters of the cit,
acquainted with the principles of tn
form, and in particular to dwell upo
these paragraphs in the platform:
Points 10 BE Emphasized.
: I'VE believe that candidates for IL
) city Offices should be nominated an
elected on their merits. irrespective c
their past or present political or rel
giOus affiliations. or their nationalit
or station in life. and with the singl
end in view of securing honest an
capable official servants.
I'VE believe that partisan politics
. the selection of city officials by part
r organizations or rings or factions wit
$ in Enthusiastically leads to inefi
cient government Politics should b
divorced from every department of OF
city government. Party rule has fir
lquently led in the past. and if contiI
;, ued. will lead in the future. to the y
+ ward of incapable. irresponsible an
dishonest party workers at the eXpens
of the people. Partisan rule has SUI
stituted government by party, tactic
u or ring for government by the Peep
:, in the interests of the city.
I'VE condemn without reservatiC
> every political ring or machine mai
: tanned or formed TO promote polite
or machine interests at the expense
IL the people We believe that local
: such partisan organizations have he
together principally through the dist
- button of plumber. eXacted alike fro
& helpless vice. from those seeking il
Ultimate. if not criminal, profits f
81 themselves, and from the city's hone
but practically helpless business
III terests.'
st Davenport Falls in Line.
IA Davenport, like Rock Island, is
II have nonpartisan movement in mu
u. cipal affairs. Hibernian hall has be
1T engaged for meeting Friday eveniI
" March s, when it is likely some acti
NC will be taken looking TO a definite p;
III in the spring campaign. Nathan
French, John Berwald, H. B. Bet
ID Captain Lon Bryson, and Isaas Pete
IN berger are among those who have be
nv asked to address the meeting. A
ri port will be made at the meeting
nd those who have been circulating a
,te tition for nonpartisan fire and pol
cid departments.