Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-21

ed to him that Tavenner had put up /
6.000 bulletin boards, instead of Goo as .
had been reported"
While the Tavenner bulletin board I
is not an issue it may be said that out /
side of Rock Island and Moline not a
single Tavenner bulletin board was put
up until the latter part of last week, ,
while Searle was here in the city. He
therefore could not have seen a Tav-
enner bulletin board while he was
travelling around the district" and his
sole purpose in telling his audience
that he saw 5000 such boards was to
make it appear that Mr.. Tavenner mas
unlimited money. The TaveRner bull
Ietin boards, of which there are 300,
cost the democratic candidate six cents
each and the special messengers" who
change the bulletins "at great ex-
pense" are good democrats throughout
the district who have volunteered to
do that trifling amount of work for
nothing.
In Moline and Rock Island Judge
| Searle opened his sob talks with IT,
rade against an alleged misuse of the
| franking privilege. He made the state
ment that Mr.. Tavenner had got thous-
ands of his Taylor system articles
printed free of charge at the govern
ment printing Office in Washington,
thereby cheating local printers out Of
a lot of work Searle made this state
ment without the slightest evidence to
support It, The democratic congress
sional committee, convinced that Mr..
| Tavenner's articles against the Tay-
tor system were good campaign mate
rial, paid $500 to have several thous-
and copies of them printed at the gov
eminent printing Office. and this COM
mittee is today sending these articles
all over the United States, just as the
republican committee is sending SINH
lar excerpts from the Congressional
Record to the voters.
If Judge Searle really imagines that
any member of congress can run to
the government printing office and
have pamphlets printed free of charge
he is sadly mistaken. 1t costs exactly
rs much there as it does in any other
first class union printing office to have
excerpts from the Record printed for
general distribution.
AS to the local printers, Mr.. Taven'
ner has given them at least five times
, as much work in this campaign as they
have got from Judge Searle, who has
had only few cards and hand bills
{ printed.
A WEAK DEFENSE.
60 tnh I'd.
Searle as he floundered around at the
Turner hall Saturday night in Ia
: bored effort to explain that he did not
r put the holders union out of business
/ He said that he had not written the
| statute which the molders were al
legged to have violated and that any
criticism those workmen have to make
should be directed against the legis
J lators, and not against the attorne!
e who conducted the case for the cor
4 poration.
! He did not go on to tell those o
the molders who were in his audienc,
that nothing in the statutes required
him to use violent language agains
n the workmen. He did not attempt Il
explain the venom in his method O
e conducting the case; or why he re
ferred to the molders as near-anaT
Q chists and traitors, all for the simpl,
/. reason that he knew no explanation
b he could make would suffice.
n Judge Searle was all right when h,
n emerged from the maze of explanation
r in which he lost himself during tn
D major part of his speech. After h,
d got on to the old familiar ground o
C tariff to cover the difference in cos
l. of production" he was all right. Wit
his arm around old General Prosper
If ity," the standpat-bull moose candidat
k was secure. He then sailed off eN
It plosively into a discourse on the his
n tory of American tariff making and al
e that old familiar stuff about the gran
old flag and the party of Lincoln an
Logan and Grant, but with never
"a word about the martyred Mckinley
@ whose picture he turned to the wall.
IS STILL UNANSWERED.
IS Meanwhile republicans and progres
IS sives are still asking where Scarf
SlduuS. NOIu GAME yesterday lTOI
= Monmouth that Searle had made tn
:, fiat-footed promise down there that b
would make a statement, before tn
- campaign ended, that would SCI a
:, doubts at rest. So Ear no such stat
a ment has been made. On the col
i tTaTy he now deVotes his talks to
n foundering effort to make 1t appea
=, that he Is satisfactory to both the req
in lars and standpatters. According I
10 the Searle philosophy there isn't pa
70 tiCle of difference between standpa
40 tism and progressiveism. He woul
a. have his hearers believe that Speak'
q Cannon and Senator La Toilette al
AZ crusaders in a common cause and thi
~ the principles the Cannon crow
stands for are exactly what Eighth
at Bob is fighting for with might al
40 main.
Az They are all republicans, accordir
g to- the stTaddler; all nurtured at Il
ar knees of republican fathers; all prol
"a OF the achievements of the grand o
ed party, and all a lot of political lam
: | when IL comes to shaDinR DOlicies Wi