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,THE ARGUS. MOXD AY. MARCH 9, 1908. THE ARGUS. Publlshed Dally and Weekly at 1624 Second avenue, Rock Island, IlL En tered at the postofllce as eecona-ciass matter. BY THE J W. POTTER CO. TERMS Dnily, 10 cents per week. Weekly, $1 per year In advance. AU communications of argumentative character, political or religious, must have real name attached for publica tion. No sucn articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. , Correspondence solicited from every township in Rock Island county. CTRADES fflg? COUNCILS M Monday, March 9, 1908. Call For Democratic Primaries uml Convention. Notice is hereby given that primary eli-itiuns for democratic voters in the city or I tuck Island will be held in the several wards of the city of Rock Is land, between the hours of 7 and S p. m., Saturday, March 7. l'JOS, for the fol lowing purposes: To nominate a can didate tor alderman for a period of two years in each of the wards, to se lect delegates to the democratic city township convention, and to select ward committeemen, two from each pre cinct. The places of holding said primary elections will be as follows: First Ward Mold's barber shop, Fourth avenue and Fifth street. Second Ward City barn. Sixth ave nue, between Ninth anil Tenth streets. Third Ward Sheriff's otlice. Third avenue and Fourteenth street. Fourth Ward Frlck's livery stable. Third avenue, between Nineteenth anil Twentieth streets. Fifth Ward Old hose house. Twenty second street, between Sixth and Sev enth avenues. Sixtli Ward Old hose house. Twenty sixth street, between Sixtli and Seventh avenues. ' Seventh Ward Allars' restaurant. The ratio of representation will be one delegate for every 15 votes or frac tion thereof east for Alton B. Parker for president in 1!M4. which entitles the different wards to delegates as follows: First Ward 5 delegates Second Ward 11 delegates Third Ward 1"' delegates Fourth Ward ! delegates Fifth Ward 10 delegates Sixtli Ward 10 delegates Seventli Ward delegates The delegates elected will meet at Turner hall in the city of Rock Island, at S p. m., Tuesday. March 10, 190S. for the purpose of nominating candidates for township offices, as Ifollows: One assessor one year tine collector one year One supervisor two years Three assistant supervisors ... two years One constable (to till vacancy) two years Also to elect a chairman of the city township committee, nnd to transact such other business as may properly come before said convention. JOSKriI OROTKOtT, Chairman. Ralph W. I.amont, Secretary. Why is (be county "broke?" Why is the county bankrupt? Think it over. Did you hear the spring birds this morning? How do you like the democratic ald ermanic nominations? Scan the list and see. , With the advent of spring, the ap plication once more of Rock Island's boom motto Is propitious. If you can't boost, don't knock. Boost, and the world boosts with you; knock, and you knock alone. The Ogle County Reporter does not like the "favorite son" idea that Joe Cannon is striving to buckle on to himself. Perhaps none of Uncle Joe's cigars have come this far north up to date. Within a week side by side in nu merous papers appeared photographs of the richest member and the poor est member of the United States senate. Even since then the richest man has died and the poorest still lives. The democrats of Rock Island have made a splendid start in the spring campaign in the aldennanic ticket named Saturday night. It is strong throughout the city. Back it by township nominations that will appeal with equal force to the people. It is said that 12,000,000 acres of land in the United States can be con veniently irrigated, and that 80,000, 000 acres can be redeemed by drain cge. The government is making a move in the former, but in the latter the country has as yet to make a be ginning. The Pullman Buffet. It is stated that the Pullman com pany will gradually dispose of its pres ent stock of Intoxicating beverages and eventually none will be served in the company's cars throughout the United States. It is expected that this can be made effective March 10 in s'ew England and the middle states. .. This is the result of local option and state prohibition, and to escape an noying perplexities caused by these laws. Officials of the company say hIfo that for several years there has been a tendency upon their part to ward a discontinuance of the sale of liquor, as the result has been at times for passengers to become unruly and obnoxious owing to - free indulgence. There has been a growing opinion that It has been unprofitable to serve liquor owing to many passengers re fusing to patronize" buffet cars on this account At tho eamo t(mo Ihora sri . ... . . . , ... . . v. . m.v. many habitual travelers who demand . certain beverages when they dine andl who will carry with them their drinks if " the company declines . to furnish them on their cars. Thhr is realized by the Pullman company, who cannot make up its mind to decide definitely upon a puuuy. The solution Is to make part of the dinner for prohibitionists and the mainder for those who desire the same as they would get at their own homes. Rryaii'H Answer to Korgai. James B. Forgan, president of the First National bank of Chicago, in a statement published in the Chicago papers in opposition to Mr. Bryan's plan of guaranteeing depositors in banks against losses by requiring the banks to create an insurance-deposit fund, under government supervision, was quoted as saying that this plan "would make all banks safe," and that this would be unfair and unjust to banks that by careful and conservative management had established a solid reputation. Mr. Bryan criticised Mr. Forgan's statement, and in doing so used the words as coming from Mr. Forgan, "make all banks equally safe." This quotation Mr. Forgan denied hav ing made, and in an open letter to Mr. Bryan which was published in full in the Chicago papers, stated that he did not say government guarantee of de posits would "make all banks equally safe," but that it would make all banks equally good. In the issue of the Com moner dated Feb. 28, Mr. Bryan re plied to this open letter of Mr. For gan, and ells him that banks are for the people, not the people for the banks. Mr. Bryan says in this letter that, as he understands it, Mr. Forgan objects to a government guarantee be cause it puts all banks on an equality. This he declares is selfish and unfair. Among other things Mr. Bryan says in his letter to Mr. Forgan: "Let me make the charge so directly that there can be no question about what I mean. I charge that you put the interests of your stockholders above the interests of your depositors and that you put the interests of tli-j big bank above the interests of the various communities and of the public at large. You admit this when you insist that the guarantee of all bank3 vould deprive your stockholders of a value which has come from wise management. "The people who deposit money in your bank do not, as a rule, know any thing about the management of the bank. They do not know anything a-bout your methods of doing business. "They do not know whether the di rectors are using the deposits for their own interests or carefully guarding them. They do not know any more about the interior workings of your bank than they did about Mr. Walsh's bank or than they knew about other banks that have failed. They take it for granted that your bank is safe be cause they trust the government and have confidence in the regulation, re striction and inspection of banks. If you had rented a room and announced that James B. Forgan would accent money on deposit and carrv on busi- ness as a private banker without any rrP"M ITT 1 f ill X rnct f t inn n e n V. manner of conducting the business you might have claimed credit for such reputation and standing as you might 1 1 lit nrT li-fc V O. T VMl r L'nnn ntn.l miM ... . n,yl Ies.usu ""a .cpmuuou utpenu more upon ine law and on the presumption given by the peopie io uie law man on your su- perior care or management. ! "When the laws were made the law- makers thought they had provided for the security of the depositors, and it is not only unfair to you to count as en- tircly personal to yourself or your di rectors the confidence shown by the public in your Dank, but is is selfish to insist that the people have no right to obtain further security, even if, as a result of that, your bank loses some of the advantages which itnow has over smaller banks. The bank exists for the benefit of the people. It is a mistake to 'assume that the people exist for the benefit of the bank. The iaws regulating banking are made for THE LOCAL PROHIBITION QUESTION. A Plea for Rock Island. BY TUK PRESS COMMITTEE OF TIIE ANTI-PKOIIIBITION LEAGUE. Rock Island for Rock Island. Not Rock Island for some other city. Rock Island business for Rock Island busi ness men. Rock Island employment for our own people. Yet there is a movement to cripple the city and to drive some of its busi ness houses away and throw hundreds out of employment, and perhaps cause them. to leave the city where they have lived so long. Whatever local option may be else where, it would be a misfit in Rock Island. By all means, let there be bet ter regulation of the business, but do not stop the progress of this city in I making toward being the business cen ter of the tri-city community . It is sit uated geographically in such a manner that with a continuance of the spirit of progress now displayed here, it can ' be only a qifestion of a few years when ! this city will ne preeminent in this locality, the metropolitan district for a I community of already over 100,000 peo ple. Do you want to throw 489 men out j of employment, now directly employed In tn 1 ;..i, r I it, uic 1 1 14 1 1 vi l uuaiiit.a2 utric, IliUilUiac turing, wholesale and retail? Do vou want to mntoriniiv. rmipn the employment of1 a thousand others' ! the depositors rather than ; for the J stockholder 3; because the stockholders are able to protect themselves, while ithe depositors are helpless. , I "What security do you give your cie- ovu..w . positors mat otner Danns ao noi give re-their depositors? Is it that the officers! of your' bank are better men? They may die, and inferior men take their places. Is it because your directors are better than, other directors? The , board of directors may change. Is it because your stockholders are better 1 man omers; iour siuc. is sum the market and a change may take , place any day in the ownership of the stock that will entirely change the character of the bank; and if such change takes place, who will know it? "The fact is that the country is suf fering today from lack of confidence in banks more than from any other cause. The money cannot be drawn from hiding and hoarding unless the depositors are assured of the safety of the banks. The amount of the tax on each bank would be little com pared with the benefit which it would receive from its share of the increased deposits, and as for making banks un safe, the guarantee system will in sure safer banking. "I thank you for yourjetter. Your position in the banking world is so prominent that I can assume that you have said all that can be said in op IKisition to the guaranteed bank, and when you fail so completely to make out a case and show so conclusively that you take a one-sided view of the subject and ignore the welfare of de positors and of the country at large, I need not expect that any stronger ar guments will be produced by any one else. I think your letter will make an excellent campaign document because I it shows that the depositors must look out for their own interests and secure legislation for their own protection." Her Exalted Petition. "Ye needn't think because ye see mo goin' n:i' comiu' be t!i" back door iv Mr. Malcolm uoldUorough s mansion that Oi'm wan iv th' common servants lv lb' house," said' 1 lie haughty cus tomer to tlu. uncivil butcher. "Oh," ejaculate;! the fat little man. abruptly turning obsequious, "are air you a family connection of the great Goklborough's, ma'am V" "Oi'm more than a mere connection, sir." 'Tardon ne," added the butcher, gaz lug patronizingly at this personage, "you're or.e of the family that's been abroad and whom I haven't had the pleasure of meeting Itefore perhaps V" "Ye'll have t' go higher than thot." "Not Mr. Malcolm's new wife?" gasped the fat little man. -"I didu't have a suspicion that he" "Higher, mon. Oi'm higher." "Higher?" uttered the perfectly "be wildered butcher. "Yis. Oi'm th' cook:" Bohemian. Drua Store For Hcrses, I came across a queer little drug store the other day," said the city sales man. "It makes a specialty of vet- erinarian prescriptions. According to tbe Proprietor's own account, they don't " in that store except ret li - i 1 horse medicine. "' "'ore or at than any other drug store in town. . , . , , . - uwiihiu iii luiii Mure, vri course me place s fiMe;1 up with the usua, drug store rar,herimlla. There la a soda watpr fountain, a cigar stand, postage stamps can be purchased there and drafts and doses for human beincs will be compounded upon request, but those familiar and supposedly primary func tions of a drug store are in this case a superfluity, because about all that drug- gist doos Is to put up cures for equine ailments." New York Press. Best Healer in the World. Rev. F. Starbird of East Richmond Maine, says; "I have used Bucklen's 'Arnica Salve for several years, on my old army wound, and other obstinate sores, and find it the best healer In the world. I use it too with great sue cess in my veterinary business." Trice 25 cents at all druggists indirectly interested in the same line Use common sense in arriving at decision. Stick for Rock Island now and in th future. PRESS COMMITTEE ANTI-PROIIIBI TION LEAGUE. Stokers Way Down! in the boiler-room of the steam ship shovel in the coal night and day that gives her power to make a record. The best coal jives the best power. That is why cott's Emulsion produces flesh when other things fail. It contains more power. It is truly a body fuel. Many a man. woman and child have broken their records for weight by the pounds of flesh gained from SCOTTS EMULSION. x It is a powerful flesh-producer. AnDniKcUtel 50c. an4 $1.00. . SljeTIrgus Daily Slort Story 'Two Hermits." (Copyrighted, 190S, "Find me," Orville commanded, "the , most isolated farmhouse in your dls whepe x comfortable ac. commodation8 for tm? summer and In no Wfly nampeml jn the creation ol tne book that at nrcsent exists In em- bryo within my brain.' ltVf within hfnin After much skirmishing and scouring of the country Murray found what be thought be wanted and wrote his friend to come on. Orville came by next train. Murray met him at tiie station in bis big red car, and they sped down a broad, dust white highway. "Looks thickly settled," objected Or- lllo anxiously. "We have only started on our road to nowhere," laughed Murray. "I'll cure you of your desire for solitude, I think." Six miles farther he turned Into a rossroad with farmhouses few and far between. This is better," declared Orville. It will keep getting better from your standpoint," retorted' Murray. On they sped until the car swerved and turned iuto what looked to Crville like an overgrown copse. You don't mean this is a road?" he aid as the car bumped nnd jtrotested gainst the ruts and underbrush. 'No; just a lane, the only house on which is the one where I have engaged HE PAUSED BEFORE IT FOR SOME TIMJL quarters for you. The Gliddeas live there, but rent out their ground, so there will be no help' even just Glld- den and his wife; not a rural route de livery to break the monotony. I be lieve a peddler passes once a year. Yon can be lost to the world and, like the little girl In thrf song, have 'nobody nigh to hinder.' " "Murray, this place was made for me: ejaculated trie young autnor as the car swooped down upon a white house nestled among the trees. Murray helped him carry his belong ings Into the big airy liedroom nnd then returned to town, with a curious smile lighting his face. The place proved ideal for Orville's purpose. ine farmer ana ins wire were quiet people, little given to speech. They never disturbed him when he was at work even to the ex tent of summoning him to a meal. When hunger drove him from his work. no matter whtit the hour might be. food was prepared without an objec tion. A beautiful winding river with Incurving Siirc3 swept through the farm, aud here at eve Dick Orville was wont to repair for inspiration. Un der these blissful conditions his ideas developed aud unfolded charmingly. Then there came the inevitable ending. "I am sorry," faltered his landlady one morning, "but Hiram went to the postofiice today, aud he found a letter from a youug lady in the city. She 13 an artist and wants to come here to paint and to be alone." "Well, write to her that she can't come," replied Orville quickly. "I'll pay you double" "It's too late," said Mrs. Glidden. "You see, the letter was written a week ago. We don't get our mall only once In awhile. She said if she didn't hear to the contrary she'd come today. But I'll try and find her another place near here. The Aliens take loarder3. I may have to keep her overnight if she comes. Would you like to hear her let ter?" Before he could politely decline this proffer Mrs. Glidden Iregan to read the letter, which was girlishly written. She said that she longed for a place where she could be quiet, some place that was remote from neighbors, where she could paint and dream at wi!!; that a friend In passing the Glidden term had thought it would be just the kind of place she craved and had written her about It, Some of Orville's Irritation vanished upon hearing the letter. There was a bote of appeal in It, a reflection of his own mood, that touched him "She evidently craves solitude as much as I do and so she will avoid me," he thought "We might try It Mrs. Glidden," he proposed, "and if I find her presence Interrupts my work in any way we can ask Mrs. Allen to take her in. They have other boarders, and I Imagine she wouldn't get the quiet there that she so evidently wants. ITL tell you what Til do. I'll move" my writing table and books and things down to the little; cabln on the .river bank and do iuitaininS the delegates to the large con- I work there." - He proceeded to carry out this plan By Belle Maniates. by Homer Sprague.) I and regained in his new" quarters the rest of the day. It was dusk when he came to the farmhouse for something' to eat. j "She's upstairs,' volunteered Mrs. Gliddeu. "She's awfully young and , pretty. I told her I had a gentleman : boarder who came here to le alone, and she said she wouldn't disturb you In the least." But Orville wasn't Interested In hear ing of the newcomer. His mind was! intent on n complicated situation in his: book, and he paid no heed to wJiat hif landlady was saying. Three days nnd nights Intervened without nn encounter of the two would le hermits. Once Orville came upon au easel down in the orchard. He paused before it for some time, lost In admi ration of the talent displayed. Then he walked on to the river. That night he was unable to write. Memories he was striving to stifle were awakened by the bit of landscape he had viewed. The next morning as he was seated at his writing table in the cabin mak ing heroic efforts to concentrate his thoughts on his work, he heard the sound as of some one running. He went to the door and saw a young girl carrying a tin pail filled with artist's materials running toward the cabin In great alarm. "Oh," she gasped, with a half sob. "save me. He'll follow me In here!" In an Instant Orville's strong right arm was about her shivering form "Kathie! Would I let any one or anything harm you?" She lifted a- white face. "Oh. Dick! You? Why-you are not Mrs. Glidden's boarder the one I've been hiding from "Yes; but tell me, what frightened vnn''' "The bull! ne chased me down here through the meadows." Orville placed her in a chair and stepped outside. In a moment he re turned with the pail of paints and brushes. "It's all right, Kathie," lie said reas suringly; "the pail, supposed to con tain nourishment, was the attraction. The gentle creature I found sniffing suspiciously and disapprovingly at your paints was a young, hornless thing commonly known as a mulley cow." Kathie's eyes were downcast. The silence that ensued was profound and eloquent. Then fhe looked up nnd met his steady gai with a half smile. "Dick," she said faintly, "did Tom Murray by any chance know you were here?" "Tom Murray! Why, he found me this place. I wrote him to look me up a farmhouse where I could be quite alone and write. Why?" "I saw him the other day and told him I wanted a farmhouse where I could be quite alone and paint. Dick!" "Dear, Tom was far wiser than we. Shall we profit by his vision and let his plan work out as he intended? Can't we forgive and forget, Kathie V" Later, when Mrs. Glidden saw her two boarders coming slowly up from the fields she sagely remarked to her spouse: "Well, pa. that's a man and a worn an the world over!" REPUBLICANS WORKING WITH THE DEMOCRATS Everybody in Denver Boosting to Make the National Convention There a Big Success. "It is a strange sight to see republi can and democrats working together in harmony, but that is what is taking place in Denver nowadays." said a vis itor to this city, from the west to a newspaper reporter yesterday. "There will be a meeting of first importance to Colorado held in Denver, July 7 when the delegates for the national democratic committee meet there to nominate a ticket. Denver citizens without regard to party are working hard to make everybody who comes feel at home. There was a compact between democrats, and republicans before the convention was secured that makes it the duty of every citizen io live up to his best behavior while the convention is here. ' "The citizens of Denver sent a com mittee to the east to secures either the republican or democratic convention for this year. The residents of Den ver guaranteed the expenses of the convention to the extent of $100,000 and it was stipulated that if the re publican convention, which meets first, could be secured the committee was to go after the democratic convention, (o be held at a later date and an ad ditional $100,000 would be provided to help pay its expenses also. "The efforts of the Denver commit tee to secure the republican conven tion were unsuccessful, so that meet ing went to Chicago. The effort then made' to secure the meeting of the democratic convention succeeded and the republicans x of Colorado were bound to stand by the arrangement and make the convention a success the same as democrats would have been bound had the republican convention been secured. The Chamber of Commerce of the city of Denver com posed of democrats and republicans alike, is doing everything in Us power to insure the success of the conven tion. It is strictly non-partisan, the object -being the good that will ae Icrue to the city of Denver by enter- vention royally and having them go 'home and say tfiat they never had' A CARLOAD OF "Woodmen's Choice" Flour at the SEVENTEENTH STREET GASH STORE We have just received a carload of No. 1 spring wheat flour put up under our private brand "The Woodmen's Choice," by one of the largest mills in Minneapolis and by buying direct from the mill in car lots, we are saving the jobbers' profit. f To introduce the "Woodmen's Choice" in every home in the city, we will cell, it at $1.45 per sack and guaran tee every sack to give perfect satisfaction in every way or we will cheerfully refund your money. Price per sack, 49 pounds Seventeenth Street Cash Store Corner Fourth Avenue and Seventeenth Street Old Phone West 304. New Phone 5489. such a good time in their lives as they had in Denver. "The impression prevails in some quarters that the hotels of Denver put up the money and paid the expenses of the democratic convention. This y a mistake. Only a very small part of the money was advanced by the ho tels and consequently any statements made to the effect that the hoteis are 'lying to get their money back and are raising prices are without founda tion. The prices will not be raised be cause the hotel men regard the con vention merely as their regular sum mer business and there is no occasion to charge more than at ordinary times, the hotel capacity of the city of Den ver being ample for all purposes." ELECTION NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that on Tues day, the seventh day of April, A. D. 190S, in the city of Rock Island Illi nois, an election will be held for the following officers to-wit: City Officer. One alderman in the First ward for two years. One alderman in the Second ward for two years. One alderman for two years. One alderman in the .Third ward in the Fourth ward for two years. One aldernwn in the Fifth ward for two years. j One alderman in the Sixth ward for two years. ' One alderman in the Seventh ward ' tor two years. Tovra Officer. One assessor for one year. One collector for one year. One supervisor for two years. Three assistant supervisors for two years. One contable to fill vacancy. luextlon uf Public 1'ollcy. Shall this city become anti-saloon territory? Proposition as to the annexation to the city of Rock Island, 111., of a por tion of South Rock Island. Which election will be open at 7 o'clock in the morning and continue open until 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day. Places of registration and voting will be as follows: First ward, first precinct No. 413 Fourth avenue. First ward, second precinct No. COO Seventh avenue. Second ward, first precinct No. 1011 Third avenue. Second ward, second precinct Barn, No. 919 Sixth avenue. Third ward, first precinct County jail. Third avenue and Fourteenth street. Third ward, second precinct Sei- del's store. Seventh avenue and Four teenth street.. Third ward, third precinct No. 1115 Fifteenth street. Fourth ward, first precinct Frlck's livery, No. 1914 Third avenue. Fourth waTd, second precinct M. Levy's carriage house. Nineteenth street, between Sixth and Seventh av enues. Fifth ward, first precinct Hose house on Twenty-second street. Fifth ward, second precinct Schmidt's grocery, No. S23 Twentieth ttreet. Sixth ward, first precinct Hose house on Twenty-sixth street. Sixth ward, second precinct A. J. Reiss' barn, No. 709 Twenty-seventB street 'Seventh ward, first precinct No. 2110 Fifth avenue. Seventh ward, second precinct Pe terson's carpenter shop, No. 510 Forty-fifth street. Seventh ward, .third precinct Al bert Olson's barn, Fotfyourth street between Seventh and Eighth avenues M. T. RUDGREN. City and Town Clerk. 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