Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-19

HolicedDie ueieSdliOn was tudi IIoEi
Warren. who allowed Everett Harding
10 pipe Eight votes for Brown 1919
times. This announcement was gener
ally greeted with laughter because uf
The peculiar nasal twang given by
Mr., Harding
Out of Politics.
Mr.. Mack has been conspicuous in
western Illinois republican. politics
for many years He was born in
Carthage and is /; graduate of Car
thage college. He Is about 40 years
old and has been county Judge of
Hancock county. He is now the
chairman of the Hancock county re-
publican committee.
He had been affiliated with the
Berry Sherman-Buck faction in the
32d senatorial district and in the
| 4th congressional district, but after
declining to make the race for circuit
judge last spring in his judicial cir
cult. dropped out of the active po-
litical game.
If his nomination had come as the
result of a combination based upon
political consideration, it might be
set down as distinct victory for the
state crowd and the influence of Gov
ernor Deneen. The official scorers.
however. under the circumstances,
charge an error to the Lorimer in
terests, and the Fulton county coun-
| ey organization, an assist to Captain
Rosenfield and the Rock Island coun.
ty delegation, a sacrifice to Clarence
Buck and the Brown candidacy. and
q case of pure unadulterated luck to
the Hancock county delegation.
simply a Huge Joke.
A staff correspondent of the Chi
cago Record-Herald opens his tele-
graphic story from Macomb last
| night as follows:
| Mine candidates for the republic
an nomination for the supreme court
| judgeship made vacant by the death
of Justice Guy C. Scott are leaving
Macomb tonight with mingled feel
| ings of sorrow and bitterness. while
dark horse who still may be un-
aware that his name was even con-
sidered. has been awarded the prize
over which the fourth district con-
vention has been deadlocked for two
| days.
David f. Mack of Carthage, for
mer county judge and for many years
chairman of the republican commit
tee of Hancock county, is the nom
inee who will oppose the democratic
candidate. George A. Cooke of Aledo.
at the special election Sept. 25.
MIR. Mack was Unexpectedly
thrown into the race on the 200th
ballot late this afternoon and while
the delegates sat idly back unaware
deadlock was smashed into smither-
Gems. A total of 65 votes was cast
for the Hancock county man, four
more than necessary for the rnmina-
ton.
THE naming of Mr.. Mack ~wah 4
fluke and politicians are laughing to
night at the queerest joke that has
been sprung in Illinois politics for
many year. The laugh is on the
hackers of Claude E. Chiperfield, in
whose candidacy Senator 'Lorimer is
supposed to have taken very keen
interest.
1.-The Deneen men who went into
the convention to carry out the
Wishes of the state executive that
some one other than Chiperfield be
nominated. are in the rarest humor
imaginable tonight, chuckling W
their sleeves to the discontinue OF
the faction with whom they have
been engaged in the hottest political
fight In the history of western Hi
nois.
"Mr. Mack comes from the same
city as former State Senator Orville
F. Berry. one of Governor Deneen's
closest advisers. who has been at the
head of the ,Deneen forces in the
deadlocked convention. Mr.. Mack ant
Mr.. Berry long have been politica
cronies and the nomination of Mr.
Mack can scarcely be otherwise thar
pleasing TO Governor Deneen. Ii
> spite of these political affiliations
; Mr.. Mack's name was brought int
, the convention by the Chiperfielt
men themselves, and the Is vote:
! from Fulton county, Mr.. Clipper
field home, were the first to be cas-
d for him. Never was there NOR
surprised crowd than these Fulton
county delegates when Mr.. Mack go
the. nomination.
Bnlioting Begins az Joke.
clarence n. Snively, head of the Flu
Iton delegation. had on one occasion il
1.-THE afternoon cast the county's Is vote
for former Judge Frank E. Blame
Menard county. but not even the dels
Igates from Blanes own county TO
lowed ND the action with additions
votes Then as Senator Berry chance
to pass by Snively in walking down L
laisle the Fulton county man jokingl
: inquired of the Deneen lieutenant wha
sort of a judge he thought forme
County Judge Mack. Senator Berry
5 townsman, would make.
First class, but he wouldn't TAX
:. lit responded Senator Berry lightly.
II "Just then the name of Fulton
fourth on the roll of IA counties, wa