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6 EMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN v V.y i - . I. V. MATTUBWS. "andidate for Congress WELLMAN MADE SAME CHARGES Charles R. Whiteman in Record' Herald Shows That Paper's Inconsistency. WENT FURTHER THAN PARKER Roosevelt Made Play to Gain Votes and Another to Get Campaign Funds. In y-stfrclay's Chicago Itecoril-Her-all Charles 11. Whitman is givt-n space for tho following communication: To tho Editor: In the Record-Herald of today you editorially take Judge Parker to task because f ifs r.'1- gc insinuation, in his speech at !ad:sin t-'rjuare garden Monday nlcl;:, that Cor t"Iyo;i. as chairman of tlie republican campaign committee, is using informa tion that he secured as secretary of the department of commerce and labor to force contributions from the trusts. In conclusion you y-ny: "That he (the provident) is the b":i effciary. cs a candfdate, of large cam paign contributions from capitalists who control trulls is undoubtedly true, bul tile sami' is true also of.Jude Parker. This, however, is beside the point. The unwarranted thing is the suggest :on of corrupt which must react again made it." Evidently the sting in bargaining, -t those who .Iih1k Park- or's words lies in the intimation that some favors can be obtained by the capitalists who control trusts through liberal contributions to the republican campaign funds. No on imagines thai such bargains are put in writing. The giving and acceptance of money under proper, or rather improper, con ditions make a bargain though no words are spoken, whether it be for) the bribery of a judge, or of a juror, or of a great political party. j Ii:Im U nltrr Wrlliiuiii. I-onu b lore the nomination of Judge! Parker, your readers had been made; aware from your columns that the ben-1 clieiaries of the tariff were to be milk-; od in the interest of the r publican party. While the republican national j convention was in session in this city; Walter Wellman. in a letter to t:ie Kecord-Herald. after commenting upon the tariff plank, which he declared was "drafted by Senator Lodge, discuss ed by President Koosevek and his council of elder statesmen of the re publican party at Washington, and af ter a final revision brought to Chicago in the pocket of Senator Lodge," states: "And as it is the duty of your cor respondent to write the history of the lay as he finds it. regardless of whom it hurts or helps, if is also necessary to record the fact that a part of the program of the republican leaders is to place before the manufacturers of the country this suggestion: 'We are going to revise the tariff, at least in part. Po you want revision on those schedules you are interested in? And if you do want them revised, do you want them revised upward or down ward? We beg leave to remind you in this connection that now is the time to subscribe to the republican cam paign fund.' " Mr. Wellman cannot be charged wik partiality for democracy. Yet Mr. Wellman. your chosen political corre spondent, says that a part of the pro gram of the republican leaders is to place before the manufacturers of the country a suggestion that the size of j their subscriptions to the republican campaign fund will determine whether the schedules in which they are inter ested shall be "revised upward or I downward." nme Charcr I'urkrr Makn. Is this charge against the "republi can leaders" any less severe than the charge which Judge Parker makes against them? Is the president or Sec retary Cortelyou any more immaculate than the "republican leaders?" Appar ently not. if Mr. Wellman is to be ac cepted as authority. In a Washington letter which apnea re .1 in the Record Herald Feb. 1. ult., Mr. Wellman told OEORDE Candidate for us. among other things, that apart from the Northern Securities suit 'even the president's most bitter op ponents cannot point to another ex ample of what they have liked to call iiis reckless impetuousness and his penchant for getting the country into trouble." Mr. Wellman's letter con dudes: "Those iersons who imagine that Mr. Roosevelt is not a pretty good poli ticion on his own account may soon have occasion to revise their judgment. It requires genius of a high order to carry on a little crusade against Wall street, and though it gain immense popularity with the masses of the peo ple as the foe of the trusts, and then to turn round and gain the approval and possibly the help of a considerable share of Wall street itself. There ap pears to be every reason to believe that when the proper moment arrives the friends and political managers of the president will have little difficulty in raising a campaign fund of sufficient magnitude to carry on the party af fairs, and that some of the biggest financiers in Wall street will be con tributors thereto." To the candid observer these condi tions afford ample warrant for Judge Parker's declaration: "The spectacle of demanding cim- pa-gn funds now presented to this country is. when rightly regarded, of a character to shock the moral sense." CHARLES R. WHITMAN. HENNEBERG EXPLAINS ' r AS TO THE QUERIES Speaks of His Interview With Repre sentative Cooke Circumstances At to The Latter. Ref -rring to the niati- r of ih- coin mimical iopn addressed by him to Hon. Crorg? A. Cooke, democi-iiie Candi da' e for minority representativ. vu'l to which he comp.ains reply, and which Mr te rcf cived n Cfok' star s the bin t!i: t 'i T t-1 abo::i wa.; erg Mi'te 1 t ) be did not answer beca Mr. Henneberg qw rie ? not enclosed .M;. !i i.:. The Argus. Saturday rvening: I sent tr Mr. Co K.e v. as a 'What !: i:ii d form of blank sheet, containing printed euestions referring to o rlai;i meas ures. What I sought t- convey t him was that I wanted trie answers filled in after these specific printed questions, which in substance '":e as fellows: Are you in favor of the eigut hour law? Are you in favor of the anti-injunction bill? Are you in favor of the initiative and referendum? And r The P eerier "Knahe." The "Simptejc TianoTlayer" 1726-1728 Second A-Vcnuc J . 3 .... XV- K----- A. COOKE. Representative if so in favor of instructing hold-over United States senators to vote for these measures? "I saw Mr. Cooke a week ago. ex plained to him the matter on which he seemed to have a misapprehension, as to the nature of my letter, and call ed his attention to the fact that the circular spoke for itself, and that it was not necessary to enclose th? bills. He then told me that as soon as he reached home he would look at the matter again, and let nie hear from him. When the answer did not come Thursday night I took the matter into the Labor congress, not as a candb date for the legislature myself, but as a member of the committee, to ascer tain the views of candidates on these questions." It should be said, in view of Mr. Henneberg's explanation that Mr. Cooke did not return to Aledo between the Saturday night that he had the conversation with Mr. Henneberg and the Thursday following. He spent Sunday and Monday in Chicago, and then came to Rock Island, going from here to Sherrard and Cable and reach ing home yesterday for the first time since the interview. Under these cir cumstances, it would seem that Mr. Henneberg. himself a candidate for the legislature, would in acting the part of a committeeman, have shown a lit tle more courtesy for a political oppon ent had he been certain to ascertain the true circumstances affecting Mr. Cooke before inviting criticism of him. ARGUS WILL DISPLAY THE RETURNS BY STEREOPTICON Figures Received by Associated Press and Telephone Service Will Be Shown. Tho Argus, as usual, will tomorrow night Hash tho election returns from v.M over the country, by means of a stereopticon light on a screen on the Rook Island house directly opposite The Argus building. The scope of the news of the battle will pertain both to the country at large, arrangements having boon made through the Associated Press and the Postal Telegraph com pany for a complete bulletin service and to Rook Island county, and this senatorial an 1 congressional district, tho returns of which will be received by long-distance 'phone via Central Union and independent companies. The Central Union Telephone com pany has arranged to display the re turns by stereopticon. Tottteos9 Music House THE ARGUS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1904. 4 .4 W. C. ALLEN'. Candidate for State's Attorney. STRIKE ON AMONG REGALIA WORKERS Twenty-two Employes of Ameri can Company Quit. CLAIM VIOLATION CONTRACT Non-Union Girls Have Been Employed Statement of Griev ances. Saturday there was a strike at the shop of the American Regalia com pany, formerly the Tri-City Regalia on Third avenue. Twenty young women and two men, members of the Regalia and Radge Workers' union No. 11159 left their work. This morning a communication was handed The Argus, in which the union sets forth the reasons for the present strike. The employes allege that the firm violated a contract entered into with the union, and has refused them the wages set forth in tho contract. In the communication it is stated that the employes formed a union, in July. H0o, at the instigation of tho employers. The action resulted in a betterment of trade, and a contract was entered into between tho work ers and the regalia company, provid nig that tho price for coatmaking was to be 2.1 cents, and for the pants mak ing was to bo 20 cents. Tho former prices were 1.1 and 12'i cents. on: Kiny SrrurrN IllKT Oriler. It was at this time tat the com pany was figuring on an order for .""tt uniforms, and in the agreement wa:; included a provision that this order might bo placed on time work, instead of piece work. The company had fin ished all of the campaign orders, the girls claim, and had begun on the uni form order, when the manager placed them on time work instead of piece work. This was after Labor dav, and after working a week on the big order, the manager announced that they would again resume the piece worl scale. but that the wages should bo reduced to 22l-a cents on the coats. The union charges that the employers "flat ly, unjustly, and deliberately violated the contract they had signed with the regalia workers." One by one, as the other orders were We Holvg Pleased Many We HaLve Saved Dollars for Many We Know we Can Please You We Know we Cen Save Dollars for Yovi We Ship Pianos Anywhere We Sell on Small Monthly Payments We Will Take Yovir Old Piano or Organ to Apply as First Payment Call at Our Warerooms and be Convinced, or Write at Once for Catalogue and Prices EL C EC ISLAND . : 1 THOMAS J. Candidate for finished, the girls left their work, and refused to begin on the order for uni forms at the reduced scale. The com pany has secured three non-union girls in place of the strikers it is claimed. Committer In ot Surcrwiliil. Thursday evening the matter wa: brought before the Labor congress which appointed a committee to con suit with the management of the re galia company. The committee wa: unsuccessful, and Saturday the em ployes in a body demanded that the manager live up to the firm's contract He declared that the company wa; losing money on the order, and coul not pay the price the gills demandei for the work. The union's communi cation points out that the difference on the 500 suits, between the price de manded and the price which the man agement offers, is but $37.50. The union officers asked that the differences be settled by arbitration, and this wa agreed to. on the condition that th( manager act as his own representative on the arbitration board. FALL CAUSES DEATH OF JAMES FRACAS IN MOLINE Skull Fractured by Contact With Steps in Front of Edwards' Sa loon Oct. 16. The coroner's jury that viewed the remains of James Fracas, the Moline grinder who expired at the Moline city hospital Saturday evening, return ed a verdict that death was due to injuries received in falling from Un stops of Ed Ward's saloon Oct. l'J. Fracas had been confined to tho bos pital since Oct. 19. under tho care ot Dr. Browning. It was not until the postmortem examination was made that it was discovered that h had sustained a fracture of the skull. Th" wound was such that the bono had protruded and tho brain has liecn al lowed to be exposed through the frac ture. Oct. 1G Fracas was arrested by Offi cer Starofsky, at the rear of the Ward saloon. He was in a dazed condition, ar.d Dr. Browning was called to t:ie police station to attend him. lie was taken to his hoarding house, and re mained there two days. He was then taken to the hospital. Fracas was a gTinder at Deere & Co.'?. Makes children eat. sleep and grow. Makes mother strong and vigourous. Makes a healthy family. That's what. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea does. C5c. tea or tablet. T. H. Thomas pharmacist. il NAYI.ON. County Clerk BOTH SIDES MAKING CLAIMS C Continued from Page One.) give no figures, merely reiterating their confidence of success. Qurnflon of Slap In lomi, Republican campaign managers pre dict a plurality in Iowa of 125,000 to 150.000. The democrats claim It will not be over 50,000. Republlrnnn Claim Nrbranka. Chairman Burgess expects Nebras ka to roll up for Roosevelt the largest plurality ever given a national ticket. (Onirilr Ohio by AO.tMMl. The republicans adhere to the claim Ohio will give Roosevelt the largest plurality the state ever gave a pres ident. The democrats have been con ceding the state by CO. 000 but now say the plurality will be less than 50, 000. MfrliiKfln Klitht For (iovrrniir. With Michigan conceded to Roose velt and Fairbanks by probably the largest majority ever given a presi dential ticket, both candidates for gov ernor are today making final address es of a strenuous campaign. Confi dence is expressed by the chairmen of both state central committees today as to the outcome of the contest tomor row for governor. Clnxr in 'olnrjnlo. Both parties in Colorado are con-1 hdently claiming victory on tne state ticket while the national ticket is gen railv conceded to Roosevelt. Iim Claim ;-ornln. The claim ef the populists that their j candidate, Tom Watson, will carry , Coorgia is dismissed without serious consideration. Krnlni'ky For I'nrker. The state democratic committee maintains Parker's plurality in Ken tucky will be not less than 12,0io. Many republicans declare if the na tiona; ticket is not successful they will materially reduce the plurality given j Bryan four years ago. Krpiihlimna Fven Claim Mlaaourl. At democratic state headquarters il is stated reports from all sections of Missouri confirm the estimated de-mo-: cratic victory of .Ki.OoO to T.l.uod ma jority. Similar rcperts received at re publican headquarters snow the repub licans are united as never before and n close republican victory is anticipa ted. I'tnh Cnmpiiica HIMcr. Additional bitterness is injected into the campaign in Utah by the American party managers who claim in many Mnrmnn rfistrirts rlmrrh loaders crave B?e Celebrated 6 Merrill1 6)e R COUNTY 1i V 5 DIt. CSKOKGK F. JOUXSOX, Candidate for Coroner. voting instructions to their congrega tions. The charges were stmnply ele nicd by the Mormons. Iloth Claim Montana. Both parties claim Montana today. Betting odds favor the success of the republican electors and the elemecratic state ticket. Still Bimy In Wlnt-nniiin. The political campaign throughout. Wisconsin is being wound up texlay with sieech-making by adherents of all parties interested. Ia Follette re publicans and democrats are both con fident as to the result in the stall-. The republicans are practically sure of electing six congressmen, and the democrats one, with the four euhors in doubt. The opinion is gene-ral that the legislature, which will elect a United States senator, will be a eleadlock. Ilotli Sure of IimIIiiiiii. Ineliana republican managers are cemfidently claiming the state by 20.000 te ,.5.00O. While the elemecrntic mana gers are making claims, they are usins ! no figures. orlli llnkota 'ne-l-l. The feeling ef oonfide-ncei in Roejso velt throughout North Dakota is so universal the re-publicans are claiming the state by 20,000. The de-mocrats concede a Roeisevelt victory. firrnt Conliileni-r In v Vork. In New York both parties have- en tered upon the last day of (ho cam paign with expressions ef e-onfldene-o in the success eif their resi e t ive- can elidatos. Membe-rs eif the' democratie; committee wore at headquarters e;uit? early today. Vice Chairman Nieoil ex pressed tho opinion which has hereto fore bee-n give-n that the- demoerats would have a suiuoit nt number of e-le-ctoral votes to e Iec; Parke r. Gov. Odell, chairman of the republi can central e-ommiitoe. prior to leav ing for home-, e-xpre-sse-.l absolute eein fidenee that the republicans will carry New York- stale. Asked as to bow far lliggins would run behind Koo -volt, li" said '.'.),i)on or 1ii,oni. jj,. ih democrats will have to carry Greater New Yerk by more than 1 loueu in (,r de r to win. TRINITY CALLS A PASTOR Rev. Daniel I. Odell, of Philadelphia, Invited to Rock Island. At a meeting ef the vestry of Trin ity Episcopal e:hurcli Saturday evning attendee! by Rt. Rev. Edward M. Faw ell, bishop of Ouiiify, a e'all was ex tended to Rev. Daniel I. ()! il. of Phila delphia. e the rectorship ef the local church. The actiein ef the vestry met with the hearty approval of the bithp. !99 Reliable Sohmer 99 o c K. Inland. Illinois,