The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-30
REPUBLICAN Love FEAST
Illinois Politicians Get Torether
and jolly One Another.
TANNER HAS WITHDRAWN
He Will Not Maks the Race for Governor.
Hancsy and Yates Are Candidates.
Comptroller Dawes Talks
About Trusts.

Springfield, ILL.,, Dec. 29.--The republi-
can love feast prior to the meeting of
the state central committee tonight
was held to-day at the capitol. Several
thousand republicans were in attend
ance The practical withdrawal of
Governor Tanner as candidate for re-
nomination last night precipitated an
eager scramble for the head of the re-
publican ticket. Cook county republi-
cans lined up strongly to-day for Judge
Eldridge G. Hancey.
The love feast to-day was presided
over by Chairman Charles r. Runnells
of the state central committee. The
candidates announced are Judge Hancy
and Richard Yates, Morgan county, for
governor; o. &. Berry, Hancock, and
Charles 8. Works, Rockford, for attor-
ney general, and M. O. Williams for
state treasurer.
Senator Cullom, Governor Tanner
and other state officers spoke this aft
ernoon.
Charles 6. Dawes, comptroller Of the
currency, made a speech which aroused
the greatest enthusiasm, and was re-
garded by many as outlining the policy
of the administration on two points
the Philippines policy and the attitude
of the republican party toward trusts.
After comparing the conditions pre-
vailing In 1896, when the republican
party came into power, with the pres
emit, Mr.. Dawes claimed that as the
party had proved itself able to cope
with adverse conditions, it would be
able to continue in prosperity. Speaking
of trusts, Mr.. Dawes said 1t was the
duty of the republican party to take
hold of the subject eneregetically and
without wavering. 1t was its duty to
conserve public interests. Wherever
trusts proved themselves inimical to
the public veal they must be restrained
and controlled, and If necessary laws
must be passed that would SO much
encourage active competition as to
bring about the distntegration of the
trusts. Mr.. Dawes did not claim all
trusts were in restraint Of trade but
those that proved to be such should
be iegislated against.
Rather than have in the hands OF
any corporation the power to absolutely
fix the price of a necessity of life at
an arbitrary figure, the people Of the
United States will eventually and right
fully do one of two things" said Mr.
Dawes. They will enact legislation for
the protection of the people from ex-
| tortion by governmental regula ton,
| more or less extended. as public neces-
stiles may require, or they will enact
| legislation for the enforced creation Ut
| competition by the disintegration of
| trusts. With nothing less than one of
| these two things will. or should, the
people of this country be satisfied.
THE question of the proper legisla-
| tive treatment Of these great combina-
| tons, formed for the purpose of mo-
| nopolistic control of production, and
| the distribution of some Of the necessi-
| ties and comforts of life, is one of the
greatest and most practical which con-
| front the political parties of the ma
ton, and our party must take the first
| steps in it's solution"
| Mr.. Dawes spoke at some length on
the Philippine question, asserting that
| encouragement received from anti-im-
| perialists had much to do with the
prolopgation of the war. He said that
| as President Mckinley had refused to
| be hurried by the clamor Of jingoes be-
| fore the Spanish war SO now would
| he refuse to be turned from his course
in regard to the Philippine by the So
called anti-imperialists.