Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-17
REPUBLICANS co
INTO A CL|NCH
Three Ballots for Supreme
Court Justice Are Taken
Without Result.
HASS LEADING THE FIELD
Governor Deneen and Senator Lori
mer Jump Into the Fight on
Opposite Sides.

Macomb. ILL.,, Aug. 17.-(Special.D y
The convention TO nominate a repun-
lican candidate for the supreme bench
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of the late Guy Scott of Aledo WAS
called to order at the McDonouSh
county court house at IL O'Clock, by
Chairman Thomas Camp. W. A. Meeoe
of Moline was elected temporary
chairman, and G.. l.. Merrill of Nor
gan county, Ed Wilson of Mason and
L. B. Kirkpatrick of Adams were
elected secretaries On motion Of
Senator Berry the temporary ORGANIZE
ton was made permanent.
The counties were called for COM
mittee on resolutions, and the call re-
suited as follows: Adams, Percy Z.
Ellis; Brown, A. G. Ravenstrobe:
Cass, C. n. G. Martin; Fulton. H. C.
Moran; Hancock, Philip Dallan; Hen
derson, J. o. Anderson; Mason. w r.
Stone; McDonough, Henry Terrell;
Menard. G. E. Nelson: Morgan. W. T.
Graham; Rock Island DR.. Joseph
DeSilva, Schuyler, B. o. Willard:
Warrep, f. ]. Clark
Eliminates Speeches.
On motion of L. NJ. Magili of Rock
Island. it was ordered that nomina.
tons be made without speeches, and
that no counties be passed on the roll
call. On motion of Mr.. Ellis it was
ordered that no change of vote be al
lowed during the progress of a roll
call, and no change be allowed in the
vote at the~conclusion of roll call
Nominations were then called for,
and nine of the II counties placed can
didates iii The field. Henderson, Han
cock and Mason having no candidates;
Menard county seconded the nomina-
ton of Mcclure of Cass county w. A.
Rosenfield. chairman of the Rock Is
land delegation. named J. l.. Haas.
Three Ballots Tuken.
Three ballots were taken, all result
ing alike, and with no choice. The
Rock Island county candidate leads
the field, but has but % votes, while 81
are required to nominate.
The three ballots resulted as fol
lows: Haas. Rock Island. %: Wall.
ADAMS. is: Mcclure. Cass, II; Chip
perfield, Fulton. 1G Switzer. McDon-
ough, IS; Brown, Warren. 10; Worth
ington, Morgan. 10; Church, Mercer,
1; larman, Schuyler. 4
The convention then took an adj
Journment to $50.
The old Deneen-LOrimer- fight is
breaking out. and has injected mich
bad feeling into the convention The
quarrel OF the governor and the SEN
ator has become the chief issue. and
the deadlock which has developed as
expected on all sides. promises to set
tie down to a plain contest between
the administration and anti-adminiStrl-
ton forces, with the supporters of can
didates not allied endeavoring to wedge
their men i'll as compromise.
Governor Deneen and Senator Lori.
mer are both accused of mixing in the
fight personally. 1t is asserted that
the tip has gone straight from the
executive Office that any candidate but
Chipperfield will be satisfactory to the
governor. This is based on the fact
that ChipperiieId'S brother. b. NJ
Chipperfield, deserted the governor III
critical point in the speakershig
fight in the last legislature. going over
to the Shurtleff camp. On the other
hand it is charged that Senator Lori
mer has brought all influence possible
to bear on the side of Chipperfield. and
il is said that postmasters have beer
threatened with loss of their positions
if they work for any one but the junior
senator's favorite Neither Brown q
Chipperfield showed great strength NJ
the first ballots. hut the general opin
ion is that they will be the strong mel
in case there is break anywhere ii
the deadlock.