The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-01-19
TANNER TURNED DOWN.
The Illinois Leader Get. the 0an
from HIS Former
IIenc,smen.

In repudiating John Riley Tanner
for that is what has happencd-the re-
publican party has repudiated its prln-
ciples and traditions as well as perpe-
trated a grave injustice upon the gov
ernor. No one will believe-no one is
asked to be.ieye--that his cxcellency
is turned down" because OF his sins
OF omission or commission. The things
with which he is charged are the very
things which form the equipment OF an
ideal republican statesman. Gov. Tan
ner is an ideal republican statesman.
He is repudiated not because he has
| tran formed the civil service OF the state
| OF Illinois into political machine reek-
ing of corruption-not because his ad-
| inistration has been one series OF
scandals-but because il was feared
that he couldn't be reelected. The
statesmen who guide the destinies OF
the republican party in Illinois are
practical politicians. Much as they
may admire Gov. Tanner, they will take
no chances of losing the state by re-
nominating him.
Gov Tanner is no worse than his
party. II anything he is a little better
For he possesses one quality, AT least,
which raises him above the Hertzes and
Peases and Jamisons and Maddcns who
have taken his political scalp. lie II
courageous. lie fights where they sui;
He is an organizer of victory, while III y
are the camp followers who come VI
after the battle 10 share in the loot
Some of thenI--Hertz, for instance
hate him. but they all fear him and re
spect him, if respectabiiity can be pred
icafed of such a character. They would
al follow at his heels in hope of further
! swag, but they fear that his prestige
: is gone. Hence they turn and rend him
! AS for the governor himself, he doe
I not add TO his reputation for fortitud'
I by the manner in which he takes his de
thronement. He complains that he ha
: been abused and vilified from the mo
: nent he assumed Office. II he will tax
the trouble to reflect he will remembe
: that his immediate predecessor wa
: likewise vilifed and abused and tina
c John Il. Tanner was foremost IN IN
5 attacks. What was sauce for Altge.
ought 10 be sauce for Tanner. His e>
cellency is ,iIv last man in Illinois
reprehend and complain of abuse. II
d his main stock in trade.
II Indeed. he may charge his downfa
n to this very prediction for antagoni'
q ing and abusing people-hls carryin
hatred in o his official acts and using b
: position as a club wherewith to be;
= those whom he deemed his enemies.
N NAV safely be asserted that his co
d sistently malignant hostility TO the
q terests OF Chicago rendered his owe
y throw certain. because the camp &c
lowers realized that he could not ear
Cook county. and without Cook coun
he stood to lose the state. Hence he "
set down as unavailable. And to az
to the bitternessofhi his defeat he can nc
realize that the republican nominee
governor will probably come from
very section which caused his dow
n fall. II is retributive justice.
= Stir. tie passing OF Tanner rehe'
no credit upon the republican par
q lie was worthy of the party and !
= marty was worthy OF him. lie was
typical republican osiceholder and nc
,-agratfully aba ndoned merely beea'
he practiced in every official act !
Fundamental republican maxim:
public Office is private snap.-Chica
= Chronicle.