The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-11-26
CUuON AND THE SENATE
WILL HAVE TO FIGHT FOR
REELECTION.
Has President Mckinley With Him
But the Tanner-Cannon Machine
Against Him-The Present situation.

Chicago November 9.-The Record
this morning says
President Mckinley wants the re-
pubicans of Illinois to return Shelby
NJ. Cullom 20 the United states senate.
This is the word which is going the
rounds of the state. The friends of
the national administration, it is said,
are getting together to fight the Tan
ner-Cannon combination which has
been framed up to defeat Senator Gull
lOm for reelection.
Senator Culom will open fighting
headquarters i'm the Great Northern
hotel today, moving. over from his old
Office in the Monadnock building. Unit
ed States District Attorney Bethea and
Charles G.. Dawes, United states comp
troller of the currency, are to have
charge of the Cullom campaign, ac-
cordng to some of the senator's friends.
The old fight between the original
Mckinley men and the Tanner-Lori-
mer machine is to be opened up again,
and the prospects for bitter contest
in Sprinfield next January are bright.
Senator Cullom seems to be confident
to reelection. 1t is known that he
counts much on the friendly support
of Governor Elect Yates. Mr.. Yates
was one of the original Mckinley men.
He now is a part of the national ad-
ministration, for as a reward for the
earnest work he did for Mckinley in the
re-cOnvention days of 1896 he was Civ
en- the lucrative job of collector of in
ternal revenue for the Springfield dis
trict, a position which he still holds.
He now is expected to make good
by using his newly acquired influence
as governor-elect of Illinois to aid Sen
ator Culom in his fight for reelection.
The fight against Cullom by the Tan
ner- Cannon combination is to be bitter.
Cullom's opponents are circulating lite
nature designed to injure him in the
eyes of the working people of the state.
They say that when he was governor
he signed several bills which We're OPP
posed by working people, one of them
the "truck-store" bill, which was OPP
posed by coal miners.
Gov. Tanners friends declare that
Tanner has no intentions of being a
candidate for United States senator
but will leave no stone unturned to de-
feat Senator Cullom. At the republic
can state headquarters yesterday some
of the men who had been active in the
Yates campaign offered to give odds
that Cullom would not be reelected.
1t is said that if Tanner finds he can
not land Cannon he will work with the
Lorimer crowd in Cook county to elect
a Chicago man. If this shift should
be made it is said that Col. Frank o.
LoWden or Judge Hanecy would be the
candidate. Col. Lowden's friends ad-
nit he is a candidate for United States
senator, but they declare that he is not
and will not be the candidate of the
Lorimer-Tanner machine. They say he
is lookl ahead to 1908 to succeed Sen
ator William E. Mason, and has no
thought of trying for the senatorship
next year.
Charles G. Dawes, who has been ac-
tive in campaigning for Senator Gull
lom and was the Cullom standard
bearer at the Peoria convention, is re-
garded as a candidate for senator in
1903, and any proposition to select
Senator Cullom's successor from COOK
county would be fought by friends of
the national administration. The
friends of Robert w. Patterson also
would fight any scheme to elect
Cook county man, for he is on the list
as a senatorial probability in 1903.
Congressman Hit and Congressman
A. j. Hopkins are on the list of can
didates for Senator Cullom's seat, and
it is said that if Senator Cullom finds
he cannot lbe reelected he will throw
his strength to Congressman Walter
Reeves of the 18th district.
The political makeup of the next
general assembly is still in doubt. Sen
atOr Cullom received kilograms from
every senatorial district, and he said
that the republicans were certain of not
fewer than seventy-eight house mem
! bers and thirty-two state senators, Civ
| ing them 10 on joint ballot, or ma
! jority of seven.
Since the returns show the next gem
eral assembly safely republican public
attention turns naturally to the sena-
| torial fight. The claim of the friends
of Senator Cullom that he is sure of
the caucus is boldly denied by the
| leaders of the Tanner faction, who,
! however do not say that the governor
will be a candidate. They say that so
! far he has not announced himself, and
| that thew have nothing on which to
base any predictions, save one, until he
does. This exceptional prediction is
that, whoever may be elected United
! States senator it will not be Shelby M.
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