Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-04-16
KIND OF A LADD HE IS.

nation Candidate.
The Chicago Record of today de-
votes something like a column to a
write up of Hon. c. K. Ladd. the
Henry county candidate for the dem
ocratic gubernatorial nomination.
The article is written under a Kewa-
nee date, and among other things
says:
- 'Ladd will lead us is the way the
democrats of Henry county put it
when asked who will head the state
ticket this year. j. II. Mulligan, ex-
member of the legislature and a
shrewd political prognosticator, says
that it is now up to the Kewanee man
that Charles X. Ladd will be the
candidate of the party for governor.
For awhile democrats were wont to
say that Ladd could have the nomina-
ton if Carter Harrison did not run,
Mr.. Mulligan. MIR. Ladd has said all
along that if his party wanted him he
was with his party. and the man who
comes out and expresses himself one
way or another is the man who de-
serves support, and whether or not
Mr.. Harrison stands for the nomina-
ton, Mr.. Ladd is now and will be, to
the close of the Springfield conven-
ton, candidate for governor. 4
MIR. Mulligan says that wherever he
has been democrats are talking Ladd.
A Kewanee republican editor whose
democratic exchanges cover a wide
area Of the state, says there are more
favorable references to Ladd than to
any other candidate now mentioned.
The democratic central committee of
Henry county passed resolutions
favoring Ladd's candidacy as far back
as last fall, and the Kewanee man has
practically been before the state ever
since. He has refused to make any
personal effort for the place, has es-
tablished no headquarters. but from
the start has said he was willing
Charles X. Laid, it is claimed here
and at other towns in this section, is
perhaps the best known democrat in
the state, though, as he saws. he has
not been much of an office holder.
Should he become governor of Illinois
he will have graduated from the Office
of alderman of the Fifth ward in Ke-
vance. the only salary-paying office,
he SAWS, he has ever held. 1t mas
been as a campaigner that he has be-
come known to the people of Illinois, |
and made his reputation as public |
speaker. No important democratic |
function in the state has been held |
without his presence. On numerous
occasions he has filled the presiding
officers chair at state conventions. and |
been sent as delegate TO the nation |
al meetings, where he was nothing if |
not leader and debater. Mr.. Ladd |
is lawyer, and his practice takes him |
to many sections of the state where |
his talks have attracted much atten- |
ton, but it was as stump speaker that
he familiarized himself with the peo-
pie to the extent that everybody |
learned to call him Charley Ladd. |
He is said to have stumped on vari- |
Gus occasions every county in Illi-
nois.
"Ladd is not only a picturesque |
figure on the stump, but he has a |
method of warfare peculiar to himself. |
He uses the expressions of his politi-
cal enemies to cudgel them in debate
or in his speeches In his library he
has drawers upon drawers filled with |
marked copies of republican newspa-
pers, and these, he saws, he uses to |
convict them out of their own
mouths
MIR. Ladd said that both a demo-
cratic president and democratic gov
ernor of Illinois would be elected this |
year. The conditions, he said, are |
about the same as they were in 1892. |
There was some show of prosperity, |
but the people were dissatisfied and |
restless. 1t looks to me as though we
will carry the country"
Charles X. Ladd was born in New
Hampshire and came to Bureau coun-
ty, Illinois. in 1855. His early life
was spent on a farm. He was a stu
dent in the law department of the
Michigan State university at Ann Ar
Dor, and was graduated in 1866. He
has practiced law in Kewanee in the
office he now occupies since 1867. In
personal appearance Mr.. Ladd greatly |
w. j. Bryan and has been
taken for him on several occasions.
To Cure a Cold In One Day,