Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-03-09
M'CASKRIN IN A
LONG STATEMENT
Addresses Letter to The Argus,
Appropos of Mr.. Schriver's
Communication.
SETS UP MANY CLAIMS
As TO What Has Been Done by City
as a Whole and by the Munic-
ipality Exclusive.

Rock Island. March editor The
Argus: Records speak louder than
promises. An unfair and partial news
paper can do much harm. The heat OF
a campaign often spoils the judgment
of men. The campaign for mayor and
commissioners in Rock Island requires
that you treat all the candidates fairly
The voters. and people who do no;
vote, will want to know the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth
about the records of the candidates
II any OF the candidates have official
records, the people will want TO know
about them If any of the candidates
are or have been combined with graft
ers, crooks, un-American factions, or
political parties, the people will want
to know fairly and impartially about
these things. At this stage Of the cam
paign, before these facts are made pub
lie, no candidate should ask a pledge
No voter should pledge himself TO any
candidate until all the evidence is in
until he enters the voting booth, where
no one can influence his vote. l ask
the newspapers Of this city TO treat
the voters fairly and to treat me fairly
in this campaign.
I call your attention to these records,
published by daily papers, of which
The Rock Island Argus is one:
Rock Island Argus. Saturday, Dec
81, 1910.-"Rock Island S improvements
total 81 1912 ,22G; progress steady; city
upbuilding in all lines goes on with &C
CELEBRATED speed; hundreds Of new
homes; growing tendency TO erect bet
ter structures-bodes well for the fu-
ture."
Rock Island Union, Jan. l, 1911
Building activity in Rock Island dur
ing 1910 sets a new record: over a mil
lion and a half spent on improve
ments."
Rock Island Union, Jan. %, 1911
Board faces problem TO accommodate
the pupils; high school is no longer
sufficiently large for growing enroll
ment; more teachers are needed; bun
all class rooms are already occupied
may mean manual arts building"
Rock Island Daily Union, Jan. !, 1911
Fire loss not large for year; effec-
tive work of department saves halt
million dollars in property"
The Daily Times, Jan. 2, 1911.-"Po-
lice department makes great record; in
every department the force made good
and in some particulars they proved
better than under any preceding admin
istration."
The Rock Island Union, Jan. 26, 1911.
New filter plant will give city pure
water; well built and well equipped,
too"
/ have collated the following facts
from our tax records and submit
them for your consideration:
Moline taxes amounted to S131,-
235; Rock Island taxes amounted to
1901.
Moline property is assessed at
$6,o94,7S5.
Rock Island property is assessed
at $5,734,915.
Moline population is G91O CEN
sus) 24,199; Rock Island population
is (1910 census) 24,335.
Moline municipal tax rate Is $2.14
per hundred: Rock Island municipal
tax rate is $1.56 per hundred.
With a larger population the tax
payers of Rock Island pay $4O,233.-
s259,S75 less property assessed Rock
Island tax rate is SIS cents less per
hundred than Moline
Schaffer's overdraft in his last year
was 45,3O6.O2.
The receipts for the year ending
April 1, 1910, $156,35S.75; the ex-
pendttures for the year ending April
l. 1910, $135, S49.4O; saved for the
city this year $50, 5O9.35.
l claim that records speak louder
than promises of any kind That all
the voters of Rock Island may know
the personal character of my oppon-
ent; that they may know about his
official records while justice of the
peace and assistant states attorney
and that they may know about his
political affiliations, l am going TO
challenge Harry NJ. Schriver, the can
didate for mayor against me, TO meet
me upon the public platform. upon
three separate nights. to discuss:
First, our personal qualifications
for the Office.
Second, our official records and the
things we have done for the people
and the city.
Third. l will show to the voters of
Rock Island that Mr.. Schriver IS al
lied with dangerous. un-American
interests" that unfit him for the of
flee of mayor.
Personalities" are no better when