Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-10

cial republican ballot. 1t is said that
during the rush at the polls a. voter
substituted specimen ballot for the
official one handed him, and carried
the official ballot outside. The work
lers then had an endless chain, and
managed to always have a clean Off
fetal ballot to mark and hand to the
voters they were able to control. Each
time the marked ballot could be sub
stituted for the one given out by the
judges, once the sample ballot had
successfully been substituted for the
official ballot of the other party.
~ Is Much Confusion.
There was much confusion shown in
the voting, and the returns show
some amusing facts. Frequently the
ballots showed the. name of the can
didate for committeeman on the OPP
posite ticket, and in many Instances
there were names written for the
various places for which no candidate
was entered.
Only Two Parties.
Practically only the two parties,
democratic and republican. participat-
ed in the primaries. There were So
cialiSt and prohibition tickets, but in
no precinct in the county were there
more than seven votes cast. There
was but one candidate for each place.
On the prohibition ticket there prob
ably were not % votes cast in the
county. The only contest. on the
head of the ticket. attracted no inter
est here. In the majority of precincts
there were no socialist or prohibition
votes cast.
Elsewhere is shown table of the
results in the different precincts on
the nominations contested. and in an
other column appears the winning
ticket of each of the different parties
Below are given the precinct COM
mitteemen chosen in the different pre-
cincts, as far as reported:
Democratic Precinct Committeeman.
ROCK ISLAND.
First Ward, 1st pre-. ]. Lerch s,
II. Kale /.
First Ward, end pre.-H. Kale 5
JOHN Holzhammer 3.
Second Ward. 1st pre-Henry Kin
ner 5, John Sexton l.
Second Ward, End pre.-A Wehl-
ing 81
Third ward, 1st pre-. Grotegut
10. G. w. Henry 5.
Third Ward, End pre-. J. Smith
I52. w. c. Maucker 20
Third Ward, 3rd PRES. A. La
Vanway "A. Fred Burt 1.
Fourth Ward, 1st pre.-Bert Cor
ken II.
Fourth Ward, End pre.-Charlcs
Bleuer 6.
Fifth Ward, 1st pre.-William Coch-
ran 81.
Fifth Ward. End pre.-George p,
Stauduhar % G. S. Mcdaniel l, J. S.
Miller /, H. Simon l.
Sixth Ward, 1st pre.-Frank Me
man II.
Sixth Ward. End pre.-George
w ~ III V, y. ~. 1tiN 10 l.
Seventh Ward, LIST pre.-Fritz Han
| cke /.
Seventh Ward. 2nd pre-George
Connell 2, J. S. Mcbride /, NJ. Bull
ger /.
Seventh Ward, Bird pre- c. NJ. Gan
non 7. Henry Heuck l.
First ward, list pref. C. Charl
berg; End pre-John Dcy.
Second ward, list Pred Jones
End pre.-Con Ryan.
Third ward, LIST pre.-William G. Al
len; End pre.-Axel Lundholm.
Fourth ward, LIST pre.-Dr. R. c. J
Meyer; End prem. J. McEniry.
Fifth ward, LIST pre.-Fritz Muench
Sixth ward, LIST PREM. w. Battles
2nd pre.-James Hasson
Seventh ward. 1st pre.-Peter Sin
clair; End pre.-John Hepburn; 3rc
pre-Ed Wells.
COUNTRY DISTRICTS.
Port ByTon-W. D. Hall. n 49,
Zuma-Charles Schafer. NNkNtF
| South Rock Island End pre-. NJ
Lukens.
Black Hawk-Tie between c. d
Davis and Fred Salpaugh, each havin,
Il. votes.
| Coal Valley-G. B. Knapp.
Rural-Drew Donaldson.
Andalusia-Otto Heinze.
Edgington, End pre.-Tie between
lC. w. Davis apd James Venable..
Buffalo Prairie-M. Kelly.Id7
South Rock Island, list pre.-Edwar'
Siemon.
South Moline, list pre.-Perry Dun
bar.
| CordOva-Ed Cool.
Canoe Creek-James Martin.
Republican Precinct Comm ittemen
ROCK ISLAND.
First Ward. LIST pre-. August Klau
%. Fred Carlson Is. Charles Swan 2.