Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-01-05


thing left out of his salary. In the
great majority of cases, however, il
takes all of the $4,000 and much more
to finance an election
A typical instance is West Herts
at present held by Arnold Ward, the
son of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the nov
elist. He himself is opposed to the
payment of members, while Hedley F
! lie Bias, the liberal candidate, believes
that members should be paid. In a
| plain talk ct Watford Mr.. LIE Bas ex
planned why he believed in it. In the
! first place he pointed out that it would
cost a candidate at least $4,000 a year
| The election itself, including the re-
turning officers fees, which have to
be paid by the candidates, would cost
$4,000, to which would have to be
added the expenses of the candidate,
which he estimated at $4,000 dollars
during his four years of office. He
would therefore at the end of four
years he $4,000 out of pocket. Mr..
lie Bias added that Ward could quite
easily do without his salary as the
conservative association, of which
Lord Rothschild, Lord Ebury and 9TH
SI wealthy men hClS ., COh-
tributed $4,000 year to the expenses
of the conservative candidate.
Some of the larger constituencies
cost even more to fight. In Rom
ford the returning officers fees and
expenses alone would amount to more
than the total cost of an election in
West Herts.
The worlds congress of the Saliva
ton Army held here ten years ago is
to be repeated next summer, but on
somewhat larger scale. Representa-
tives OF the army from all parts of
the world and of all nations to the
number of several thousands will be
present and in their native costumes
will make a picturesque gathering. a
big corrugated iron building for the
seating of 5000 persons is to be erect
ed on a vacant site in Aldwych, in
the center of London, for the meet
ings.
At the conclusion of the congress,
800 of the delegates. representing as
many nations as possible, will make
a tour of the country At Noting
ham this delegation will take part in
the opening of the hall erected by
the people of that town in memory
of the late General Botha.
Representatives of the Merchants !
and Manufacturers exchange of New /
York have been explaining to British |!
the scope of the theatre for
the display of free of import duty of !
goods in New York The plan has /
been sanctioned by a special act of !
and the details will be sup
81, oh.
1ers of commerce by representatives
Of the Merchants and Manufacturers |
now in Europe.
The American representatives in
England come supplied with letters
rom the state department and they
rave been introduced at the Board of
Trade, so that they will be granted
svery facility for getting into touch
With the leading manufacturing in
erests of Great Britain.
Mexico City. Mexico-The Huerta ad-
has lately come to be
rankly on the defensive. :. month
go all the talk was of successful ex-
editions against the rebels. and al
most daily glory won by Huerta's
rms. 1t was almost reasonable to
i'm that the rebels were making head
way. but lately even friends of tho
government and II has some yet. talk
more of the presidents chances for
o.ding back the rebels than of max
ng any progress against them.
Those who have followed develop
lents will not be surprised. however.
the swinging forward movement of
he rebels slows down to logged de-
10 hold their hard earned
osir.ons, and II Huerta is able to
cid out for many months.
Foreigners, and few Mexicans,