Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-01-13

their insistence upon organizing the
county committee in the interest of
Senator Cuilom and in opposition to
all elements failing to fall into line
for him. / have had nothing what
ever to do with the movement so far.
The truth is that the republicans of
Sangamon county, and especially the
younger element of the party, are
tired of wearing the CulIom yoke.
They have been voting for Cullom
from early manhood, until now many
of them are stopped and gray, and
they have grown tired and sore fol-
lowing a man who in his 40 years of
officeholding has never been known TO
contribute an idea or doctrine to re-
publican politics. He has succeeded
in going to the United States senate
Is years, and all that he has accom-
plished, aside from procuring Jobs to
promote his reelection, i the passage
of the Interstate commerce bill, and
have failed to find the citizen vet, in
Illinois or elsewhere. who j. right
sure he fayors the bill or not, or
whether it is for the best interests of
the country.
lin his career of 40 years office
holding he has cheated and deceived.
somewhere along the line, almost
every repu blican who has befriended
him. He is known from one end OF
the state to the other as wire
puller. foxy trader, always stand
ing ready 20 trade off his friends for
true to any principle. l have never
known him To keep faith when it was
TO his personal or political interest to
violate it. He is usually on both
sides of all questions, and favors the
election of all candidates before con-
ventiOn; fastening To congratulate
the lucky one who succeeds and trying
to impress upon him that he had been
for him candidly all the time.
In times past he has traded off, at
each senatorial election, a large num-
Der of his old friends TO get the sup
port of his enemies, and in his pres
ent attempt to go back to the United
States senate, with the exception of a
few officeholders, he has traded off
almost all of his old friends and is de-
pending upon his enemies, who have
fought and abused him and his friends
as long as | can remember. Just now
he is in 4 quandary as to what will
promote his interest most. On the
question of Senator Quay's seat in
the United States senate he has prom
ised to vote on both sides, and my
prediction is that he will have Il sick
headache when the matter comes up
and will not vote on either.
His stock in trade in this canvass.
in biS OF N trp hanl- to ba
ate, is that he is honest and he is
poor, and lie offers rs reason there |
for that he has served in public office |
for forty years. that he had opportu-
mites to steal all along the line, and !
that he never awaited himself of such
In other words, he is |
pleading the pauper act. He claims
that he was a rich man when he went |
into politics, and that he has spent all |
his money for the people in his polit-
cal service.
The truth is, have never known |
of his making political contribution. |
either to the state, county or city. |
He has always been a burden to his |
friends. He has been n financial and |
political tramp for a great many
years. i am informed that his name
has not appeared on the tax books in |
Illinois for ten or twelve wears. Yeti
at the same time in the last - wears
as governor and senator he has drawn |
from the state and nation in salaries |
in the aggregate $126,000 In add |
ton to that, his friends have put up |
an equal amount. A frugal man, with |
1 like salary, even without the contri-
button from friends, would have saved |
,nough in that time TO be independent |
from want at least. His whole finan-
eial career has been proliigacy and |
waste. 1t does not seem to me, under
hese circumstances, that the people |
Of Illinois will feel much sympathy
with 4 man who so recklesslv squan-
iers money paid him by the people.
Notwithstanding the fact that l
Senator CullOm all my po-
itical lifetime. from the time / was
elected governor of Illinois in 1896 to
low he has never mentioned nv name
)r my administration in any speech or
public document in Illinois or else
where. At the same time he well !
NEW that the canvass in Illinois, up
IN the success of which depended,
omewhat, his succession to the
United States senate. must be made
lpon the official administration of the
ffairs of Illinois by John r. Tanner,
+ governor. This was not an over
light, for the reason that Senator Gull
ON universally, deliberately writes
nd delivers his speeches from manu-
cript, therefore any appropriated
mind must know that it was inten.
ional and premeditated. Why? Be-
ause, early in my administration, he
inferred into deal with Henry Hertz
nd Jim Pease, two ward bosses in
;hicago, and the 'mugwumP' news
'apers of that city, to make common
ause in the destruction of Tanner;
hey Promising theil alleUiance TO re-