The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-27
TANNERS IRE UP.
Illinois Governor DenOunces
ChicagO's Peace Jubilee.
Greed For Gain, He Says, Is the
Inspiring Motive.
TO OPPOSE MOVEMENT.
Chicago Kissed and Insulted
Tanner on Logan Day
And He Has Not Recovered From
the Shock.

Chicago, Aug. 27.-Chicago's peace ju-
bilee does not meet with the approval
of Governor John R. Tanner. The
chief executive of the state of Illinois.
always in an unpleasant frame of mind
when anything connected with Chicago
is mentioned, remembers Logan day
and it's attendant Kisses and thinks he
sees an opportunity to be revenged.
The peace carnival, promoted by the
leading business and professional men
of the city. will be the first great event
since the Logan monument dedication,
and Governor Tanner now comes out
squarely in opposition to the project.
Seated at a table in the headquarters
of the Republican state central COM
mittee at the Grand Northern hotel last
night, the governor uttered some warm
criticisms of the projectors Of the ju-
bilee
IF those people want to put me in the
attitude of antagOnizing them may &C
cept the gage of BATTLE he said. 81
am IN favor of anything that the good
people of Chicago really want, but am
the good people of Chicago.
From the start I have thought the
money to be wasted in lavish street
decorations and the absurd Inummery
or dumb show of pageantry could be
better expended in caring for the heroes
who have shed their blood in the ma
lIOn ) cause ana whose disabilities from
wounds or fevers will cause many poor
families to feel the pinch of hunger
during the winter months. Not wishing
TO oppose any considerable element of
the community, have hitherto re-
Trained from expressing an opinion in
regard to the mooted jubilee.
But L was not more than twenty
minutes in Chicago when discovered
that the gain to be derived from a
spasmOdic boom in shopping was the
true motive inspiring the promoters of
TINS jubilee No, sir, the project will
not have my support"
When asked to specifically deny or
affirm the rumOr that his motive in de-
string the Illinois volunteers mustered
out at Springfield instead of Fort Sher-
ldan was to cripple the peace carnival,
the governor adopted the parable style
of utterance, saying: well, you must
understand it is my good luck to have
Tor my personal enemies some of the
most contemplate and unscrupulOus
Spectators in Chicago. These sharks
and sharpers have their price and by
supporting them in their projects I
could win their Endorsement But their
schemes are too suggestive of the sand
bag, and when a man in my position
will have nothing to do with them they
forthwith become aSSassinators of his
character
When the news that the governor was
in Chicago on his way to Washington
became noised abroad among the poll
uclanS there was cOnSidera BILE SDecu-
latiOn as to the motive underlying the
trip. Nobody believed his ostensibIe
mission to collect unpaid commissary
bills from the war department for
Springfield merchants was the real OBJ
ject of the journey.
In well informed circles the belief pre-
walls that Tanner goes to Washington
for the purpose of doing what he can
to induce President Mckinley to decline
the invitation to the jubilee. To this
end the governor may work, not direct
ly with the administration, but through
Senator Cullom or others of his close
friends at the national capital. 1t is
considered doubtful whether in any
event the governor will be present in
person at the jubilee.
When the substantial business men
who are backing the project for the ju-
bilee were informed of Governor Tan
ner's attack, they recalled that the ex-
ecutive has never forgiven Chicagoans
for kissing him during the Logan day
parade, nor for the criticisms of his
motive in signing the Allen bill He
will oppose anything favored by Chfca-
go, they say. In fact not one promi-
nent business man could be found who
was not avowedly of the opinion that
the governors opposition would be Of
decided benefit to the project and would
materially aid in making the jubilee a
great popular success.