The state capital., 1892-10-08
THE REGISTER GANG.
They Have Slated Every
thing in Sight.
Editor CIendenin captur-
eg first Prize.

eS Hf6I NIA0.
The Managers of the illinois
State Register, the leading Demo
cratic Journal of Central Illinois,
IRE becoming disappointed over the
seeming ly overwhelming defeat OF
the heads of the natl ,nal and state
tickets. 1t is an old maxium that
"a drowning man will catch at
straws," and this is true with the
Editor of the Register. In his
eagerness to secure the election of
Altgeld for Governor, he has
brought religion into the campaign
by charging that the majority of
the members of the A. P. A. are
Republicans, (Which is not true,)
thinking thereby to prejudice our
Catholic friends to vote for their
ticket. We have it from good
authority that Mr.. w. FL. Clendenin
is a charter member of the orgsni-
cation and is endeavoring
| to drag innocent people into this
| society to shield himself and party.
From Democratic standpoint,
| there seemed to be some possibility
| of the success of the State ticket
some four months ago, but that
small possibility has been aban'
doned by the managers OF the party
in this district, and they are now
resorting to ali kinds of tactics and
maneuvers, to win the star cham
Der agreement which has been de-
cided upon by the Springfield
D -mocrats, and here are the aims
and prospects that these Knights
Of the Free Trade and Wild Cat
Banking Party, had in Jew.
Everyone who has been reading
the daily papers know that there
has been a jealousy existing be
tween the Editors of the Monitor
a d the Register for the past seven
years, but lately that trouble and
| enmity has been healed up, with
the understanding that the spoils
| of the office would be equally and
judiciously distributed in the 18th
| Congressional District in case o.
success o the ticket At a meeting
| in missioner Kidd's Office ont
first, there were present: Mat
D4adeHg5 -: y" CIennenen,
rkona nees, Capt. Kidd. Lawyer
Patton, Henry Schlange, Redrick
Ridgely, DR.. Wilcox, and several
more Of the controlling lights OF
Sangamon County politics, with
letter from Congressman Springer,
pledging himself to stand by the
agl cement of this star chamber OF
knights of soft snap sneaks from
the rank and file of the other Dem I
ocrats. 1t was agreed that in case
Of Cleveland's election Mr.. Springer
would have Capt. Kidd appointed
Postmaster; Thomas Rees, Internal
Revenue Collector; Major Alfred
Orendorff, Commissioner of Pen
sions; Lawyer Patton, Comptroller
of the Treasury, and DR.. Wilcox to
the General Land Office. Mr..
Ridgely, chair man of the County
Demo cratic Central Committee,
claimed that all of this could be
obtained for Springfield on the
score that s11, 900 had been raised
in this county for the State and
National tickets while in other
parts of the district only SlOO had
been subscribed and the other fell
lows would have to content them
selves with the local postoffices in
their respective localities. Ex-
Mayor John McCreary championed
the name of Mr.. Fl. w. Clendenln,
and had him slated for one of the
Railroad and Warehouse Commiss.
toner's, under AItgeld, at $500 per
annum, a d McCreary is to succeed
Sam Jones as one of the Peniten-
tiary commissioners; while Mr.
Schlange, Editor OF the leading
German Democratic Paper, is to be
Printer Expert, at Sc per day, the
smallest paying Office in the deal
These big guns are to goble uI
everything in sigEt that is paying
and influential.
i Thus the public can imagine th'
peculiar and small ideas that s
, great journal like the Register il
pursuing in trying to prejudice tn
Intelligent people against the abl
and economical administration Q
Governor Fifer.
The CAPITAL can hardly blam
the astute editor, after he ha'
brought about such Cancellation an
t reached so far and so long, an
prospects seemed so bright for tn
9 lucrative and soft things for hi
Q valuable services, in case Of tn
success of his ticket.
The Irish and Germans were Ell
9 tireIy ignorant OF this deal, an
/ they are now kicking and swearln
: vengeance against the who
ticket.