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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

Oh. N. Wheeler in the Quincy Journal
Yesterday I had lot of kind things
to say about Ed. King, the republican
representative in congress from this
district. l have never drawn party
lines on good men, and never shall.
Politics isn't all there is in life, not
by million times. We are brother
humans all the time; we're politicians
on the side, now and then.
Having said good word for a good
man Yesterday, a republican, l am
going to say a good word for another
good man today, democrat. L have
Clyde H. Tavenner in mind, the con-
gresham from the Fourteenth district,
adjoining our district.
Henry Rainey is the representative
of the Twentieth district-and I'm not
going back on Henry Rainey, either.
He's a good fellow, too.
To tell the truth, / don't know just
where Henry Rainey stands on the
question of preparedness and on gov
eminent manufacture of arms. | pre-
sumo that Henry has taken stand,
but l haven't been reading the papers
much during the past five months and
l don't know where Henry stands on
the big, live, vital questions Of the
present day.
! But l do know where Clyde Taven-
ner stands, believe me- He has made
himself heard, not only in his district
not only in the state of Illinois, but
throughout the country. Not on the
! face of the earth lives the man that
can sweep aside the facts that Clyde
Tavenner has presented concerning
the grab and graft Of big business in
| the manufacture of arms and mum
tions and armor and armor plate, Ind
all that. At tremendous expense OF
time and labor, Clyde Tavenner has
dug up and set forth the indisputable
facts concerning the big grafters who
are making merchandise out of their
pretended patriotism. Clyde Tayenner
at tremendous expense of time and
labor, has dug up the incontrovertible
facts concerning the questions of pre-
paredness and as to who is pushing
the propaganda of preparedness, and
who will profit by preparedness to The
tune of hundreds OF millions of dol
lars-Clyde Tayenner has dug up an(
set forth the facts, and no man, any
where. has swept them aside or ever
tried TO sweep them aside. Men might
as well deny the facts of the multi
plication table as to deny the fact;
set forth by Clyde H. Tavenner. TIL,
only thing that any man can do wht
wants this country to spend hundred;
of millions a year on the army anJ
navy is to ignore the facts dug up ant
presented by Clyde II. Tavenner. A
conspiracy of silence concerning
these facts won't stand, for Tavennel
has way of going to the public Hi
not only expresses his views ON tbs
floor of congress and has them repro
duced in the official Congressiona
| Record. but he sends them out Il
thousands of papers all over the Uni
ted States, These letters of his go into
every state of the union. Millions O
copies of his letters are printed in tht
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
THE. MODEL CONGRESSMAN

United States; and the people who
think that they can smother or silence
CLYDE H. Tavenner have got another
guess coming. He gets a tremendous
hearing in the press, and it is con-
tinuous hearing. My recollection is
that he is supplying over 5000 news
papers with his letters. Don't you
magine that they can destroy Tavenner
with a Conspiracy of Silence" Inc
newspapers that print his stuff are
glad to get it, and the people are glad
to read it.
In Washington Clyde H. Tavenner
has compelled them to sit up and take
notice of what he is doing: so that TO-
day he is one of the best known rep
resentatives in Washington, and one
of the most influential. The people OF
Illinois, the people of the United
States, canoti afford to spare CLYDE
Tavenner from congress. He is TOO
capable, too industrious, too efficient
and too straight and true, too true 10
the people, to let him drop out OF con-
gress. We must keep him there. we
need his honesty, his industry ana MS
efficiency in the house Of representa-
tives, We must not draw party poil-
tics on such a man as Clyde ii. Ias7
enner-for Tavenner belongs TO the
people more than he does to any party
If the people of Illinois don't keep
Clyde H. Tavenner in congress, tne!
deserve to be robbed and looleu'
! humbugged and run over. Wnen inc
people have a genuine, true man III
congress, they ought TO keep hiiD
there. quite regardless of what party
label he wears. And if | find II nee
essary l am going to say the same
! thing for Ed. King. If Ed. hlnS' ihe
republican congressman from 'ne
| Quincy district will get into the run
ming on the side of the people, isi,
and square and true. he's gooa
enough congressman for me.
That's the kind of democrat ! am
I'm democrat to the backbone W.
l put my country above my party
| did it from 1861 to 1865, and III w
! it again If it becomes necessary "hn'
I'm alive. Party's all right. beile'e
in party. But l put my country aoo's
my party, every time. That's the khu
| of a democrat l am.
We can by no means a1ord W ~
Clyde Tavenner out of congress. az
/ has done too much good work 70 y
! Continued on Page Tenl
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
The Daily Story
Her Gift-By F. A. Mitchell

wait for first proposal, and II IA .o..,
ly obligatory for hin to wait -. "a.
second.
And now Lueila on the ann,vr,.,
Of her refusal-the date WAS a.
fixed in her mind as her Birthday.
sitting on the porch wondering, =.
had wondered constantly since he, ,sN ~
er's departure-what could havs ~.
him so stupid. And yet had bs -
through her game what would ne.
been the pleasure in her playing n, :.
had not occurred to her that shs h.s
better have RETAINED from thu A..
and acted on the principle that : Ma
in the hand Is worth two In thu hnsh
Who is that tall figure coming :,
the road? There is something fam,,,.,
In the walk, something In the ort,,r.
something intangible, indescr,hsh,.
about the whole. Luella's heart stoos
still. Yes, 1t Is Henry. He is heav,s-
than he was. his step Is a triaa H..
quick than 1t used to be, but Il !.
Henry, the man she refused five wear.
ago, to her regret ever since.
Was he coming to renew his nroco
sal?
Lucia had had fts Of anger esx,r..
her lover for being so stupid. Now n.
stead Of hope springing In her hear
that he was coming to tell her that h.
could not live without her, with A eon.
sequent throwing herself into i,is arm.
she was seized with desire to pun,,h
him For what? For having taken NJ,
refusal seriously.
Henry came on. Luella, pretendins
she did not see him, looked up At tina
sky. He stopped before the houss
then mounted the steps. lucia for.
ed smile. He looked as gloomy a
the day he had left her.
"Why, Mr.. MacMillanv' she exctsim-
ed. What long time since 1 have
seen your"
"rve not been in this town sincs I
saw you last" he said.
Game back to see your mother. I
supposeT
Yes; to see my mother, but to sea
you, too. I've passed an unsatished
FIVE years since left here. I've coma
back to try to persuade you to recall
what you said to me just before Left
you"
There was something so miserable In
his appearance and tone that her de
sire to punish him for his stupidity
broke away. Asking him to wait q
Bit" she went into the house and
brought out the smoking cap she had
kept so long.
81 had intended to recall what said
the next day, but you didn't give ND
an opportunity. l had been making
this gift for you for months and ex
pected to give 1t with my consent"
She spoke through tears.
The man-only a genius could por
tray the mingled emotions expressed
On his face.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

A girl was sitting on the porch Of
hei home thinking Five years before
on that very day Of the month she had
refused Henry Macmillan. She was
then eighteen years old, and the in
direct method in love affairs appealed
to her. If a man proposed to her and
she refused him she expected him to
return the next day and the next and
so on till she accepted him. MacMil-
Ian had no conception Of this sort Of
lovemaking. He never said anything
lie didn't mean and couldn't under
stand any one else doing SO. But his
experience with women was not ex-
tensive.
On this summer afternoon Luella
Travers was thinking of Henry Mac
MILAN. She had not intended to refuse
him more than once. When he came
back the second time-which she nat
urally expected he would do-she In
tended to accept him and at the same
time show him how long she had loved
him by giving him smoking cap, on
which she had embroidered wreath.
He had no use for smoking cap and
no ambition to wear wreath about
his head. but Luella couldn't think Of
anything else to do for him.
Henry was as stupid about some
things as he was wise about others
II a dozen persons had witnessed the
refusal he received every one Of them
would have known that Luella was
refusing him with her tongue, while
she was accepting him in her heart
Henry heard her words, but saw not
their denial. He had received a bust
ness offer In distant city and wished
to learn II Luella would marry him.
/ II so he would consult with her as to
| its acceptance; II not he would accept
it without consulting her and go where
| he would not be near her and conse-
| quently the better able to recover from
his desire for her.
| Luella was bit surprised that
Henry should have taken her reply so
seriously, should have bowed, though
reluctantly, to what he considered the
| inevitable. He left her without muir.
muir, and she was somewhat fearful
that he might not give her an oppor
tunity to recall her refusal. She had
half a mind to call him back. But halt
a mind is not whole mind, and she
let him go. expecting the next time she
met him to draw him to another pro
posal by those winning ways she I'M
derstood how to apply.
She did not see Henry for several
days, then she was greatly shocked tc
hear that he had gone to another city
to engage In business and make it his
home. Why she did not write him tc
| tell him that her refusal Of him was
only temporary does not appear. Per
haps it was for the same reason that
the myriads Of other temporary re
fusals are not recalled. a woman must
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

humping of the back half way down
the spine would relieve him for time.
There is the spot to apply counter-ir-
ritation for troubles in the colon and
the small intestine.
Every woman knows that heat ap-
piled to the feet will relieve conges-
ton of the pelvic organs.
Cold applied to the back of the neck
will stop moderate nosebleed.
Sometimes the "old women" after
all, display an uncanny intuition. They
have learned where to apply the mus
tard even if they don't know a nerve
from 'bronicle" tube.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

Oversee expeditions" says Cen
eral Nelson A. Miles, always have
been very expensive, and as rule dis
astrous. To cross the Atlantic or Pa
cific oceans to land in the United
States would be very serious under
taking" 1t is very evident that the
general does not worship at the feet
of Colonel Roosevelt or read the II
cent magazines or attend certain
movie shows or he would know the
overseas expeditions were dead-easy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
Continued on Page Ten.)
Daily History CIaSS-Feb. ~

1S0S-Bonaparte's famous Miiah ue
cree placing an embargo on Iu
fish trade was laid before the on''
ed States congress.
1913-The deposed president ana va
president OF Mexico, Madero Az
Suarez, killed while under pF''0e
guard by unknown ASSISTANTS
l9l5-Great Britain declared tha1 -,
American ship Wlhelmina "V'.s
be sent to prize court: also W
held the use of neutral nags
shipping. italian mohs demah'ss
from parliament intervenIloh y
the side of the allies
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
Arson Phelps Stokes,

A reader Of the Christian Science
Monitor writes: Il took my handbag
to a lot of leather stores, where they
all told me it could not be cleaned
but l learned from a friend that a
tablespoonful of oxalic acid dissolved
in quart Of cold water cleans cow
hide, pigskin and sole leather very
satisfactorily"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

II the republicans should nomi-
nate Theodore Roosevelt for the
presidency, will they not by that act
repudiate republican principles de-
clared in the platform Of 1912 and
in every platform since the birth of
the party, and indorse the principles
of the progressive party as enun-
ciated in the progressive platform
of 1922
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

GEORGE Washington is fortunate in
having his birthday follow Lincoln's.
Most of the orators are so fatigued by
their Lincoln eulogies they are not
sufficiently recovered by the time
Washington's anniversary rolls around
to make another delivery. You can
we'll imagine what George escapes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

French army officers have ruled that
their soldiers shall cease holding So
cial converse with the German en-
envy. 1t developed that shameless
privates of both armies have actually
been exchanging friendly gossip be-
tween gas bomb attacks in the
trenches.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

Mice gnawing matches caused
26 fires in Brooklyn in six weeks,
with a loss of six lives and 100000
worth of property. If it is not pos
sible to reform the habits Of rodents,
is it impossible to diminish human
carelessness?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

JAMES. you'd better get out my
spring Benjamin. Pretty seedy, is it!
Who's been wearing it! And, James,
tell Cornelius to cut the corners with
the car. l guess John D. is going to
build another flock of churches. Gas
cline is hell these days.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

The British are talking about boy
cotting the United States provided
armed merchant ships are not given
clearance papers. We are not only in
position to return the boycott but re-
turn it in mans size.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

ARTHUR Brisbane, who has been
lecturing in Iowa, evidently did not
have his press agent tell the folks in
advance what big fellow he is and
that his salary is equal to that of the
president of the United States. For
instance. the Washington Democrat
said: "Brisbane looks exactly like
Frank Rogers, our bus man. II they
were twin brothers they could not look
more alike, indeed"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
Rock Island-From River to
River.

Now that the Russian government
has captured 100000 Turks the ques-
ton arises, what are they going to do
with them?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

ONE suspects that society women at
Palm Beach who keep under parasOls
while parading on the beach in bathing
suits don't want OnlOokers to observe
their facial attractions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
Pointed Paragraphs,

Bluff doesn't go as far with us as
it used to.
OF course you mean we'll, but that is
a poor excuse.
Many mans success at poker de-
Ponds on the way he is raised
If man praises his wife's cooking
he may never have to pay alimony.
In states where beauty is taxable
no woman ever tries to dodge the as
SCISSOR.
Most of the crazy people we know
have managed to sidetrack the asy.
lum so far.
A man is sometimes his own worst
enemy, but he is more likely to be his
own best friend.
What a wonderful old world this
would be II the men who think they
know it all could only prove 1t.
THE dispatches say that pickpockets
robbed two actors of $4,525 at Mattoon
III. Probably stage kale.
REV. Fihbs preached last Sunday al
the Baptist church in Foster, III.
J. NJ. G.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

nessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. Died
in 1915.
s. s. Palmer.
S. S. Palmer, 5. Wall street, New
York, another of the 10 founders OF
the Navy league, was interested In
many concerns which would proht
from preparedness" He was presi-
dent and director of the Harvey Steel
Co., recipient of royalties from all
armor plate manufactured here and
abroad; president and director OF the
Empire Zinc Co., Mineral Point Zinc
Co., New Jersey Zinc Co., Empire
Zinc Co. of Colorado, New Jersey Zinc
Co. of Pennsylvania, and director of
the Lackawanna Steel Co., which has
received enormous orders from the
allies, and the Empire Zinc Co. of Mis-
souri,.
John Jacob Ast0r.
John Jacob Astor was fellow d.
rector of j. P. Morgan on the Western
Union Telegraph Co. at the time he
/ became one of the founders of the
Navy league.
Colonel John J. McCOOk.
| Colonel John j. McCook, another of
the 10 founders, was the senior mem
Der of the firm Of Alexander & Green,
120 Broadway, New York, counsel for
large railroad, financial, insurance and
other corporations. Died in 1911.
George westinghouse.
George Westinghouse, another of the
founders of the Navy league, was pres
ident of 80 corporations with an aggre-
gate capital of $12O,000,O00.
The Westinghouse corporations have
profited enormously from war orders
Financial America on Aug. 2, 1915
said:
Actual orders on the books of the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur-
ing Co. now total between S65 100000
and $7O,O0O,O00, and the company also
has options on sufficient additional or,
ders to bring the amount up to over
100000.
! Jacob W. Miller.
Jacob W. Miller, another Of the 1!
Navy league founders, was at thai
time the general manager Of the Mar
ion district of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad Co., OF
the board Of directors of which sa
]. P. Morgan Mr. Miller is also presi
dent of the Costa RIGA Development
&c., of which Colonel Thompson, pres
: ident of the Navy league, is a direc
tor.
Robert S. Sloan.
Robert S. Sloan is trustee of tn,
American Surety Co., 100 Broadway
: New York, and has as one of his fel
low trustees William Nelson Crom
well, who is also a director of Colone
Thompson's International Nickel CO
Mr.. Sloan is also president and direc
tor of the Fitzgibbons Boiler Co., O
Oswego, N. Y.
Arson Phelps Stokes.
Arson Phelps Stokes was a partne
in the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co
: merchants with large copper minin
: interests. This firm is now one of tn
largest copper mining concerns in tn
United States and is we'll representa-
4 on the Navy league. Arson Phelp
=. Stokes, son of this founder of the Nav
league, who is secretary of Yale uni
versity, is vigorously opposing tn
propaganda Of the Navy league.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

SELF CONSCIOUSNESS, timidity
fear and shame are some of the men
tai states which cause blushing," ex
plains Doc Evans. Then there is the
drug store blush, isn't there, Doc?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

CORSET sales in the United States
reach S50,000,000 year. 1t would
seem the more our women tighten up
the more they spend.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
Just So It's An Office.

Announcement am a candidate
for any office which the democratic
party may confer on me at the pri-
maries, from a squirrels jump to the
top of the ladder. F. NJ. Haines, Col
chester, Ill. - Adv. in Macomb By
stander.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

YOU may or may not believe there
is something in a name, still Water
proof, La, was flooded this week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

THE Russians are headed for An
CORA. Well, they have been trying
these many months to get the Turks
mamie.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS

ALL apparently is not harmonious
with the Chicago Grand Opera com
pany Bernard Ulrich, the business
manager, has resigned.
MISS Josephine A. Huddleston
of Chicago has been chosen from
a list of one hundred candidates
as the girl whose form and
features will typify womanhood of the
north in the cement monument on the
Dixie highway near Mason and Dixon's
line. 1t was declared Miss Huddleston
came closest to the pace set by Venus.
For those who suspect that they are
giving Venus a run it might be stated
that the latter tipped the scales at
1922 pounds. If you want to know
further details as to this much en-
We'd persons proportions you may
have same by sending your photograph
accompanied by a self-addressed
stamped envelope, to the pilot of this
column.
MORE dirty work is on tap in Chi
cago politics. 1t is reported an at
tempt will be made to impeach Mayor
Thompson in connection with garb
age contract letting.
| "BROADWAY made an artist of me,
confesses Vernon Castle. But you re
call that he was in the air for spell
before he got safely back to earth. Thu
difference between Vernon and Others
who have stood the siege of Broadwa.
is the latter stay up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
BENJAMIN T. Tracy.

Benjamin F. Tracy, another of the
10 founders, was secretary of the navy
from 1889 to 1898. AS secretary of the
navy Mr.. Tracy made contracts with
the Carnegie Co. and the Harvey Steel
Co., and after his term expired became
the attorney for both concerns. Mr..
Tracy was a director of the Cornu-
copia mines of Oregon and the Ten
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
Has His Nights OFF.

in the afternoons.-AN.i in University
Daily Kansan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

THE Rock Island municipal COM
mission is to demand of the incoming
official fair assessment of property
in the city next year, which may be
taken by the modest property owner
as support of his suspicious in the past
that he was carrying part of some
ones else burden. But it was ever
thus, and likely ever will be unless
the people generally evince greater in
terest in their own affairs.
ROCK Island county undertakers are
demanding $40 for burying pauper.
II they get their price it won't be such
Il disgrace to die minus the money
needed to pay for the haul. One ought
to get fairly respectable demOnstra.
ton for $40.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19

Member Audit Bureau of Calculations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
THE ARGUS.
By THE ]. ". POTTER co.

Rock Island Member Associated Press
Full Leased Wire Report.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-19
Robert S. Sloan.

Robert S. Sloan is a trustee Of the
American Surety Co., 100 Broadway,
New York, and has as one of his fell
low trustees William Nelson Crom-
well, who is also a director of Colonel
Thompson's International Nickel Co.
Mr.. Sloan is also president and direc-
tor of the Fitzgibbons Boiler Co., of
OSWego, n Y.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1916-05-12
PLANTED
SELF IN BED AT BENSON HOME
AFTER GATHERING FRONT
DOOR DoWN-FINEo FOR in.
ToxicATIoN.

Noise of a falling door attracted
the attention of neighbors of Name
Benson in the Buckeye addition Wed
nesday night and Sheriff Woolison
was summoned who observed that the
portal of the Benson home had been
battered down.
Entering the house, the officer
found nobody at home and was on the
point of returning TO the city when
he walked into an upstairs bedroom
and there found young man lying
sound asleep.
The man, who resides in the east
ern part of the county, was very much
intoxicated, had evidently wandered
to the Benson home and, finding the
door locked, concluded that this was
no barrier and then acted accordingly.
A SOLDERING up in the county jail
Wednesday night restored the young
! mans senses and he felt quite re-
, morseful over his experience. He
was arraigned before Mayor Mitchell
on a charge of intoxication and fined
SIS and costs. He is said to be a very
popular young man and possessed of
many lovable qualities. but has
spree tendencies at intervals.