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THE AEGUS. raUiskwd Dally and Weekly at 1AZ4 8ocon4 Avenues Bosk Ialaad. 111. at. W. potter. Publisher. UNIC )NI H U ARFI V Trau Daily, BOe per month; Weekly, $2.00 fetunan; in advance, $1.60. AUeonunanicatione of a critical or argnmenta- irva cnaracter, political or reunions, mast Dave real name attached for publication. No rack article wtH be printed oyer nctitiooa signature. Anonymous ecmmonieatiofls not noticed. Correspondence solicited from every township mu isiano. coanrr. Thursday. August 11, 1893. DEMOCRATIC SATlONAIi TICKET. Tor President GROVER CLKVKLAXO JTor Vice President ADLA1 K. 6TB KNSON TAT. For Governor JOH P AXTGBLD For ConrivMiDU at largre JOHN C BLACK For Congressman at large. .ANDRE w J HUN TER For Lieutenant Govtrnor JOSEPH B GILL For Secretary of State tVM H BIN RICHSK N For Aaditor DAVID GORK ForTreasnrer RCFTJS N RAM SET For Attorney General MTMALONKT For Elector, 11th Diet J. H. HAN LEY IIEHOCRATIC COXCREMSIOXAL COXVF.XTIOX. The Democratic voters lo the several eonnties cotnpilsinif the Aleventh Congressional District are requested to seed delegate to a Congress. lonai convention lo oe neid at atonmonth, lli.Dois, TBl RSl'AY, SEPT. 1, 182. at 10:80 o'clock, a. m. for the purpose of nomirjat inir a candidate for coueress. a member of tbe board of equalisation, and to transact such other easiness as may be presented for tbe considera tion of the convention Tbe several counties in the congressional district will be entitled to a representation on tbe basis of one delegate for very SUO votes snd one fora f radon of 100 votes or over, cat for Edward 8. Wiison, for state treasurer in 1890, ae follows: Counties. Votes 180 No. Del. Bock Island 4.381 SI Mercer S,0t 10 Henderson... 934 & arrtn ......................... ,234 11 Hancock 4.06 0 McDoLongh 8,25 1 Schuyler 1,4 10 Total, 98 By order of Democratic Congressional commit tee of the Eleventh Congressional district of Illi nois. J. v. PtTTEK, Ch'm. H. C. Cook, Pecy. Monmouth, 111., July , 18ti. Democratic County Convention. Tbe Democrats of Rock Island county are here by req, netted to send delegates to a convention to be held at tbe court boose in the city of Kock Island Wednesday. August 94, IrKS.at 11 o'cloca a, m .for tbe purpose of nominating cardldatea for tbe offices of state's attorney, circuit clerk, coroner and surveyor, and selecting delegates to tbe congressional convention to be held at Mon mouth, Sept. 1, and also to tbe senatorial conven tion. 1 be basis of representation at said county convention w ill be one delegate lor each town ship and upon tbe vote for Cleveland and 1 bar man in 1888 apportioned among tbe different townships, precincts and wards in the ratio of one delegate to every SO voters, and one delegate for every major part thereof, and according to which the following will be tbe representation: Cordova S Canoe Creek. 8 Haaipton, 1st precinct 8 Coe 8 tnd 8 Zoma 9 8rd Port Byron Black Hawk 4 Coal Valley I Bowling Andalnsia 9 Buffalo Prairie 4 South Moliue 4 Drury 8 Moline 1st Ward 8 8 taa .... 3 4 " Srd " 4 5 4th " 8 5th " .... 8 6 " 6th " .... 4 6 " 7th 9 4 Edginsfn-lt Prec't 9 8 Snd " 9 Booth hock Island.. B. Island 1st Ward.. " tod .. rd " .. 4th " .. Mh " .. " dxh " . " Tib .. Rural 8 Total 106 Tbe caacuses in tbe several townships will be held at 4 p. m.. snd in Holies and Rock Island at 8:0b p. m. on Monday. August 23d, 1882. T. S. Silvia, Chairman. Wh. McEsiar, Secretary. Southern democrats regard the re salt of tbe Alabama state election as the death knell of the people's party move ment in the south, so far as its control ling any electoral votes is concerned, and they think it will a bo aid in keeping a number of congressional districts demo cratic that might have elected people's part; men if that party had carried Ala-barn. Judge Altgeld says that he has made a careful computation of tbe election re turns as compared with the poll books, and flndi that an average of 10 voters In each precinct who would vote a demo cratic ticket do not take enough active interest to turn out and put in their bal lots. It is his mission to reach this 10. As there are upwards of 4.000 precincts in the state, the size of his majority, if his mission is successful, will be some thing delightful to contemplate. New York World: The civil war And the high tariffs checked the advance of tbe country, , but no measure ever placed upon tbe statute books of the United States has been such a stumbline; block to American progress as the Mc Kinley act. When Mr. HcKinley says that his fellow countrymen are unable to cope with foreigners in tbe struggle of existence, he slanders a people who have shown the highest capacity for the indus trial arts of life. At tbe last meeting of the Tri-City M. E. Lay association a resolution was adopted setting forth "that it is the duty of Methodists to give their children ad vanced education and in Methodist schools." There is no harm in this, but it indicates that the Roman and Lutheran churches, against whom there has been such a tremendous boul raised for hav ing parochial schools, are not so en tirely different from other churches in the idea of tbe sectarian training of their children. The Louisiana sugar planters and the Vermont sap boilers are special objects of government favor. For eyery pound of sugar they produce in addition to the fair price for which they sell it, they re ceive a bounty of 2 cents from the gov ernment. Was there ever such an out rageous imposition? Can any one ex plain the thine? What special virtue is there in the cultivation of sugar mora than the cultivation of corn or wheat? If sugar is to have a government bounty why should not corn and wheat bare a overnment bounty? Thx Peoria Herald says that the At tempt to create a tin industry in this country is costing American consumers from $10,000,000 to fl5.000.000 a year. Tbe sheet iron and steel concerns were the chief agitators for the higher duty on tin plate. What they want is a prohibi tory duty on tin plate so as to increase their sales on galvanized iron and get higher price. They are getting higher prices, and their employes are not getting higher wages. The protected manufac turers get all the benefit of protection. the consumers have to pay for the goods they need, and the workingmen can't even keep their old scale of wages with out striking, and often can't keep then. GOV. FIFEE'S CLAIMS. Thk commutation of tbe sentence of CoL H. Clay King, to life sentence in the penitentiary, is an unpleasant comuaen taryon the ways ofjjostice in this country. King's murder of D. H. Posten was as deliberate and cowardly as was ever a crime committed. He was fairly tried, convicted and sentenced to die. Every proper legl tribunal bad oppor tunity to pass upon the case, and none saw sufficient cause to reverse the find ings of the lower court. The interference of the governor simply because King was a man of learning and influence, and an authority on legal problems is rightly re garded by the majority of the people of Tennessee as an outrage. King should baye been hung tomorrow, the same as any other cold blooded assassin would have been under the circumstances. Sfkastsg of the fact that President Harrison was nominated at Minneapolis by office-holders, a correspondent wishes to know how many of tbe president's relatives are office-holders. The list is as follows: 1. The president's brother. 2. The president's brother-in-law. 3. The president's sister-in-law. 4 The president's father-in-law. 5. The president's son's father-in-law. 6. Tbe president's wife's cousin. 7. The president's son's wife's cousin. 8- The president's nephew. 9. Tbe president's daugnter's brother-in-law. 10. Tbe president's brother's son-in-law. 11. The president's wife's neice's hus band. 12. Tbe president's son's father-in-law's neice's husband. 13. The president's brother-in-law number 2. Toai 51. Ifirklnaon. Qalney Herald. The campaign committee of the demo cratic national organization has selected as its chairman ex-Postmaster General Don M. Dickinson of Michigan, who, next to William C. Whitney, is Mr. Cleveland's most valued and trusted counselor. The choice in most respects is a model one. Mr. Dickinson is a man of keen intelligence, who commands re spect and confidence whereyer his head appears. He has a high reputation in tbe legal profession, and was accounted tbe shrewdest and wisest cross-examiner of witnesses in his state. It must be confessed that just such abili-y as that is demanded in a campaign manager. He is quick and aggressive, and carries a full head of steam all the time. As chairman of tbe democratic central committee of his state be demon strated bis aptitude, and tbe organ ztion perfected by him has resulted in demo cratic ascendency in Michigan. Although the latest comer in President Cleveland's cabinet, he ft; one of the executive's most confidential advisors, and was of Instant value in affairs of government. His ready hand and active brain were already fully enlisted in the cause, but he will now have opportunity to exert them with greater potency than before- Oae Werk's Labar Krrard. The Iron Trade Review gives two col umns of its current number to a brief re view of the strikes in progress at the time of its publication. It is an inter esting study. First there is an account of the state of affairs at Homestead, supplemented by the announcement that there was "no prospect of an early agreement" between tbe Pittsburg manufacturers and the Amalgamated association. In Philadelphia locked-out men were organizing a boycott upon tbe product of their former employers. In West Superior, Wis., a similar sttte of affairs existed. In Pittsburg the sheet iron and steel manufacturers were asking their men to accept a reduction of 20 per cent. In Joliet. 111., the Illinois Steel com pany was resuming work after tbe men bad "stood a cut of 23 per cent." In the Bay View Mills, in tbe same state, the men had gone back after "mak ing some concessions on the guide and 10-inch mill rates." In the most recent movement the em ployers wanted to reduce wages 20 per cent. In several cases men were still striking or locked out. Wherever changes took place wages were reduced. This is labor's record for one week only under the McKinley act. Don't Grunt about your feet hurting you when Chryso Corn Cure will cure corns, bunions, etc. Every bottle warranted at Hartz & Babn sen's. Are vou troubled with any skin dis order? " Hot Springs Sain Salve is all that the name irr plies. The salts from the evaporated waters are embodied in its composition, and it should be used wherever a salve or ointment is neces sary. Cubeb Cough Cure One minute. For sale by all druggists. Hartz & Bahnsen, wholesale druggists. HIS FRANTIC ATTEMPTS TO GET THE LABOR VOTE. tits Record! -on latnf legislation Whll Governor Shows that the Working-man la Interesting: to Him s at Voter Only Judge Altareld'aCMvnee IHlnola Dem ocratic Governor Fifer is claiming for himself great credit for having signed certain Dills passed by the last legislature. He is particularly solicitous to have it un derstood that the laws enacted in the interest of the laboring people owe their presence on the statute books to his signature. Of course he signed these bills because the lesson of last election in which the state had gone Democratic was still before his eyes, and he dared not do otherwise, but that he really favored these bills is not true, as we will presently show. For ten years or more during which the state has been under complete Re publican control, there has been a de mand from the people and especially from the working people for the enact ment of certain laws in the interest or the masses. The Republican governors and legislatures paid no head to these calls and it was not until the Democrats gained control of the lower house that there was any hope for the relief which the people were demanding. The senate was Republican by a small majority, hut it was forced by the example of the Democratic house and the pressure of public opinion to acquies in the passage of these laws and for the same reason, Governor Fifer dared not refuse to sign them. Among such bills which became laws through the Democratic house, are the following: The repeal of the Merritt conspiracy act. Forbidding child labor in factories. Allowing cities to establish and main tain hospitals. Reducing the rate of interest. Preventing private cor porat ions from charging excessive water rates. Providing for the Australian ballot. Compelling masters in chancery to make reports. Providing for the examination of mine managers. Providing for check weighers in mines. Providing for weighing coal in gross. Protecting trade marks and labels. Forbidding wire tapping. Forbidding trusts and combinations. Abolishing truck stores. Providing for the weekly payment of wages. Making room in the .National Uuards for the Hibernian Rifles and other inde pendent companies. Now, under the law it is the duty of the governor to recommend to the gen eral assembly at the beginning of each session, the passage of such laws as he may think are necessary to the well being and happiness of the tieople. Governor Fifer in his biennial message recommended the passage of but one of 1 these laws, "the Australian ballot." He J did make a suggestion in one place as to j the enactment of such laws as will give j labor its just reward, but it is purely; profunctory and might in his estimation, i mean that the price of labor be fixed at fifty cents a day. There is no definite' and specific recommendation in this di- j rection, although he does recommend . large appropriations of public money for ' almo-t every purpose other than for the bettering of the condition of the masses. How much credit he is entitled to for j A nnn.Anr -trca 1 q onrATin rni I LUC tUU.I tIXl7lAts- VI MsnoUUTVUt. AyCAAA measure. Judge Altgeld's Canvass. Judge Alteld"s town to town canvass goes 6teadily forward, and he has al ready vLsited more than half the coun ties in the state. He goes into town, visits the shops, factories and business houses, shakes hands with the people, chats for a little while, and goes to the next place. His canvass was at first ridiculed by the Republican press, then it was ignored, but as its effects became visible in the increased enthusiasm dis played for him it was bitterly assailed t a undignified, etc. Correspondents were instructed to lie without stint as to his reception and actions in the different towns where he stopped. Of course they obeyed orders, but this only seems to help him and the Democratic cause, for the people see and feel the unfair ness of such treatment. Altgeld's plan of campaign takes well. He is warmly received everywhere, and in most places the people of all parties gather in crowds to meet him. That he is win ning friends and making votes every day cannot be denied, and that he is losing anything by his trip no one can truthfully say. The people are glad to see him, for he is one of themselves, and no one resents his visits, for his object is not concealed. In a town where he stopped recently, a Republican business man on whom he called said afterward: "I had seen Altgeld's picture and did not like his looks very much. I won dered how he had succeeded in getting the nomination for governor. After our interview my wonder disappeared. He came into my store, was introduced, shook hands, and spoke a few words. What he said amounted to nothing, but he looked into my face in an honest, straightforward manner, and I felt that he was an honest, reliable man. It is his honest eye that catches the people, and no one can meet him face to face without being favorably impressed with him. I shall vote for him, as a matter of course, and shall urge all of my friends to do likewise. Illinois la Democratic Illinois is a Democratic state. Her electoral vote will be cast for Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson if a full vote of the people is polled, and that the Democratic state ticket will be elected, well-informed Republicans Ad mit. While the Democrats of Illinois are in the majority, that majority will not prove effective unless the full vote of the party is cast and counted. If but one Democrat in etuah. school district of the state stays at home on election day, the party will be short full 12,000 votes, and this is a very faLr majority. We want all tne converts we can get, for we want to make the result as near unanimous as possible, but in looking for converts let us not overlook our own voters. Organ ize closely and see that every Democrat votes and you will find a Democratic majority all down the line on election day. Republicans may claim the state and ridicule predictions of Democratic suc cess, but they dare not go into details tc prove the faith they pretend is in them. Select a well-informed Republican from each county in the state; get him to give you a conservative estimate of the result in his own county. Add these estimates together and it will give a Democratic majority in the state. Their claim is a general one founded on the results of previous elections. Oun is based on reliable reports from nearly all the counties in the state, and will be verified at the polls if we do our duty. Democrats should all vote this year. No matter if your majority is large in youl county, your senatorial district and youi congressional district. No matter if in these subdivisions you are in a hopelest i minority. Your vote will help the state and national ticket, and you Bhould se that it gets into the box. KNOWNOTHINGISM- The NATI0NALHYM6SaTHE WORLD'S FAIR. SANTA ULAUb bUAP My Country: 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing ; Land where our fathers died ; Land where our Mothers cried. Over the wash-tub tied Let freedom ring. My native country thee Land of the noble, free Thy name I love; I love thy tucks and frills But oh: what laundry bills; My soul with horror thrills; When I think of thee. Let music swell the breeze. And blow through all the trees Hail SANTA CLAUS: Let tired mortals wake And gladly try a cake. Let all for cleanness sake. Join the applause. NKfAIRBANK&Co. eSSS "So" Its Revival In this State and Its Probablt Effect on the Klection. The Republican party in Illinois is de pending for success in the coming cam paignn pon certain secret societies which call themselves American, and who art opposed to allowing any foreign born 01 Catholic citizen to hold an ofhee. Curi ously enough these societies were found ed and are said to be controlled by for eigners, mainly Canadians. In Chicagc they number several thousand and in several of the smaller cities strong or ganizations are reported. Of course th bulk of the membership is Republican, for the average Democrat is too broad in his views to allow nationality or religion to deter him from voting for an other wise worthy candidate, but an occasion al Democrat is drawn into the organiza tion through thoughtlessness or through the specoas suggestion that America le longs to Americans. The Republican party is backing this organization and hopes to get its solid vote, but it seems unlikely that Democratic members will allow themselves to be led away from principles in which they believe by the sophistry of those having only selfish ends to serve. As the Knownothing party's rise marked the death of the Whig party, so the rise of this new Knownoth ing party will mark the death of Repub licanism. e warn Democrats to keep out of the organization. Its objects are undemocratic. Is He With Is? The Virginia Gazette has always been regarded as a reliable Republican paper, and its editor and proprietor Charli Tinny lias been recognized as a stalwart memler of the party. Therefore, the following from his paper will creat some surprise, and indicates that Bro. Tinny has experienced a change ol heart. "The "World's fair is a dirty Re publican scheme. If it succeeds it will give some sort of a foundation for the claim that this is a preat country and one to be proud of. We don't take any stock in such nonsense, therefore we art heartily opposed to any measure which will tend to make the World's fair a success." Their Only Argument. The only argument the Republicans oi Illinois seem able to produce in theii favor is, that this is a Republican state. Even there they are mistaken. With a full vote out the state will show a Demo cratic plurality for the national and state tickets. The Democrats are sure winners in Illinois if they poll their full vote. Men accustomed to read results in the signs of the times assert freely that Altgeld's plurality is more likely tc be above than below 120,000 and that everything on the ticket will carry the state. , Filer's Custom. It is said to have ieen the custom for Governor Fifer to request his appointees to place their resignations in his hands to be held as a matter of form. This en abled him to control them perfectly and accounts for their enthusiastic support of him in the state convention. Jacob Grosch of Oentralia, like the others had placed his resignation in the governor's hands as a matter of form. Fifer coolly accepted it one day. Grosch is now against Fifer. A Wild Claim. Joe Messick of the Republican state committee, has been giving the Chicago Tribune a pretty fairy story about gains in southern and central Illinois. His story is purely imagination. His own county of St. Clair will show a Demo cratic gain of at least a thousand, while he cannot point out a single county in the state that will show a Republican gain over the election of 1888. Naturally Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune, defends Carnegie in the employment of Pinkerton Hessians to shoot down honest American laborers. Through his long intercourse with "rats" in the Tribune office, Reid has forgotten that there are any self-respecting labor ers in this country. He will be remind ed of the fact, however, that such labor ers do exist, in a very unpleasant man ner next Nsvember. Delavan Advertiser. We notice that the Republican state platform claims the credit for that party for having passed the Australian ballot law. It will be remembered that this law was enacted by tbe same legislature that elected General Palmer United States senator. The g. o. p. will bfc claiming the credit of that act next. Curiously enough - no effort - seems to have been made to organize the third party in the strong Republican counties of Illinois. In the strong Democratic counties we find the agents of -the -third party at work. J. B. ZIMMER, -THK IKADINC M erchant Tailor, Has Jnst received a large irvclee of tbe latest Imported ar.d Domestic Spring and Summer Baitings, which he is selling at 25.00 and np. Hie line of overcoatings cannot be excelled west of Chicago. A very lie line of pants, which he is selling at $6.00 and cv. Call early and make jonr selection while tbe stock is complete. Stab Block, Opposite Harpkb House. OLD GUARD HAND-MADE SOURMASH WHISKY Only S2.50 Per Cation AT Market Square. MERCHANT TAILOR. And Dealer in Mens' Fine Woolens. 1700 Second Avenue C. J. W. SCHREINER, Contractor and Biailder, 1121 and 1133 Fourth avesne. Residence 1119 Fourth avesne. Plane and specifications furnished on all classes of work ; also agent o f rTiller'e Patent aside Sliding Blinds, something new, stylish and desirable. KOCK ISLAND, .U. THE BELVIDERE, The Finest SAMPLE ROOM in the Three cities. A lways on hand a replete line of Imported and Domestic Ci gars and Liquora. Milwaukee Beer always on draft. WM. DRESSES. Two doors west of his old place. A fine lunch from 8 to 13 every morning. Sandwiches of all kinds always on hand. m iMrjr"'s i -s.iavS5s rz. a; tasUrK" il l a .'Xrm&XT'JA HOPPE, THE TAILOR, 1803 Second Avenue. CHAS, DANNACHER, Proprietor of the Brady Street Ail k nds of Cat Flowers constantly on band. Green Houses Flower Store One block north of Central Park, the largest 1- la. S0 Brady Street. Davc.nport.Iowa. B. F. DeGEAR, Contractor eincL BiailcLer, Office and Shop Comer Seventeenth St. . and Seventh Arenue, Rock Island "All kinds of earnenter work a specialty famished on application Flans and esOmataa for all kinds of buildings fiiAKHOQD RESTORED!?' erve Seeds." wonderful remeov sold with n wria tew ruaranteo to cure all nervons diacuws. sucb as Wenk Memory, Lwtof Brain Por, Headacbe. Wakefulness. Io!t Manhood. Niehtlv Kails sions. Kervousnesa. LAaitude.alMralns and loss of power of the tienerativs Oreans in either lex cauei by orer exertion, youtnfnl ermi, or exceaaiva ' nseuf tobacco, opium or stimulants which soon lead to lnflrnjItT. Consump i: tion and Insanity. Pot np con ven rent t carry In vest pocket. SI i"?rpacfc. " 1 ace by mall; 6fortS. With every S order we git a written mwmntrt to run aavoaa o arras cause. refund th money. Circular tree. Address Aetrre Seed I., Cblraco. Ilk For sale in Rock island by Hartz & Bahnsen. 8d ATeJand 20th street. Q)avenport Business College, COMPLETE TN AT.T. DEPARTMENTS. FOR ' C&TALOGTJTXS ADDRESS -J. C. DUNCAN, Davenport.