Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-21
SAD SURPRISE
FOR SEARLEIN
CONGRESS- RACE
Painfully Grieved He Should
Have an Opponent He In
dulges in Attack.
DON'T LIKE TAVENNER
Whom He Accuses of All Sorts of
Meanness-But Still
Straddles.

The discovery that Clyde H. Taven-
a seat in congress has greatly peeved
Judge c. J. Searle, the standpat-bull
moose candidate. Judge Searle is APP
parently panied and surprised to find
cut that the democrats are actively
amusing position of a straddler, and
unable to meet his opponent on real
issues, he has resorted to mud throw
iLg and personalities in the. desperate
hope that he may divert attention from
his attitude in the present fight and
from his record as a labor foe in the
past
Judge Searle's speeches of late have
been sobby affairs. No other republi-
can in this district ever had much
more than purfunctory opposition
ard Mr.. Searle thinks he has been
sighted and abused. He can't under
stand why the democrats don't step
aside and give him clear track and
the discovery that no such democratic
plan is on foot this year has astound-
cd him.
AS a result he devotes the first half
Of his speeches to an effort to work
up sympathy for himself, and the last
half to a labored attempt to explain
that there is really no difference be-
tween the regulars and progressives.
STRANGE HALLUCINATIONS.
In his great self-pity Judge Searle
imagines that the democrats are
abusing him and using unfair means
to defeat him. In defense OF this
imaginary unfaiTness Searle has
grown personal and in his speeches at
Moline Friday night and this city Sat
Hrday night he made a number of
weird and untrue statements about his
opponent.
The most glaring of these false
Mir. Tavenner had accused him of be-
/ ing opposed to pensions for old sol
/ diers. Somebody down In Monmouth
wrote a letter to Searie telling him
| that the statement had been made in
his (the writer'sJ presence that Searle
was against the old soldiers. There
wasn't the slightest intimatien In the
letter that any such charge had orig
mated with MIR. Tavenner yet Searle,
with tears in his voice, made a great
play for sympathy on the strength OF
the letter.
There" he sobbed, you see what
kind OF stories my opponent is telling
about me" Then he went On to say
what friend he is of the old soldiers
Judge Searle must have known that
he did not have one atom of evidence
that MI Tsvenner had misrepresented
him as he alleged. Mr.. Tavennel
knows that Searle is friendly to the
old soldiers, and even if the demo
cratic candidate lacked untruthfulness
he has enough Intelligence to know
that such Misrepresentation of Searle
would hurt him and not SearIs.
SOME MORE ROT.
From one such statement Searle
went right on to another He insin
uated and by inference accused Taven
ner of using his news bureau to send
out paid write-ups of congressman al
Washington. Judge Searle knows this
is not true and he should have beer
ashamed Of himself for STOPPING to
such methods and the fact that his in
nuendos were received in absolute 81
lence by even his partisan republican
audience should have convinced him
that such mud throwing tactics are not
relished even By those of his OWE
party.
4 TERRIBLE BUGABOO.
Further along in his self-pitying tall
Searle made the statement that eli