Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-08-15
DEMOCRATS PUT
UP FULL TICKET
Name Candidates to Be Voted
Upon at the September
Primaries.
GusTAFsoN FOR SENATE
Cornelius Donovan for Sheriff and
Albert Huber, Local Attorney,
for County Judgeship.

For State Senator-Frank A. Gus
tafson (endorsed).
For County Judse-AIbert Huber,
Rock Island.
For Probate Judse-DudIey Marshall,
Rock Island.
For Probate clerk-Thomas &. Cole,
AndaIusia.
For County cIerk-W. D. Hall, Port
Byron.
For County Treasurer-Edward Cor
yn, Moline.
For Sheriff - Cornelius Donovan,
South Rock Island.
Rock Island county democrats, in
mass meeting Saturday evening at Tur-
ner hall, in this city, nominated the
foregoing ticket to be voted upon at
the September primaries. All are ex-
cellent selections, each nominee en-
joying a standing and acquaintance
ship in his home city and throughout
the country that should bring unusual
strength to the democratic ticket at
the coming election.
Who Nominees Are.
Mr.. Gustafson is police magistrate
of Moline, and was urged by his
friends in that city to stand as can
didate for minority representative, only
declining Saturday after canvassing
the situation. Mr.. Huber is a success
full young lawyer of this city, and is
an active worker in the affairs of the
German-American alliance, of which he
is an officer. Mr.. Marshall is a young
lawyer also, and is ssociated with the
legal firm of Searle & Marshall. Mr.
Cole is a well known resident Of the
lower end of the county. Mr.. Hall is
publisher of the Port Byron Globe
Mr.. Coryn is a leading business man
of Moline. He formerly conducted a
retail grocery, but of late has engaged
in the banking and real estate business
Mr. Donovan Is a contractor, and
there are few men enjoying a wider
popularity in the county than he. He
has twice before stood as the demo-
cratic candidate for sheriff, and was
defeated by narrow majorities.
H. ]. Frick, NJ. NJ. Briggs and S. ].
Stader of Rock Island and John r.
Day and NJ. j. McEniry of Moline were
appointed committee to have petit
tons of the several candidates named
at the meeting filled out and filed by
Tuesday afternoon, the last day allow
ed to fulfill this formality incident to
the primary election.
shaIIbers Not Movable.
There is CONSERVATION in the county
republican organization camp over the
insurgency of Charles E. Shallberg of
Moline, who refuses to yield to the
pressure that has been brought upon
him to induce him to withdraw his
announcement as an aspirant for the
shrievalty nomination. 1t was not in
the organization cards that there
should be any opposition to Oscar Lin
coin Bruner of this city owing to
compact reached when Edward Kfttil-
sen of Moline was nominated by the
party four years ago. Bruner was Kit
tilsen's strongest rival, and was gotten
out of the way by the promise that
he should be Kittilsen's successor and
In the meantime have a berth as
chief deputy at the sheriff's Office.
Bruner was given the deputy job, but
whether Kittilsen and the party or
ganization are to be able to deliver
the nomination to him is questioned by
republicans just now. AS one republi-
can put it, the entrance of Shallberg
as candidate has only tended to wild
en- the breach that the party leaders