Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-03

Lorlmer and Durborow Fight.
The political battle between Billy Lori
mer and Allan c. Durborow in the sixth
congressional district of this city is still
the center of public interest. 1t is growing
fiercer daily. The blond boss is reported
to be spending money with a lavish hand,
and that hundreds of outsiders have been
colonizeu in the territory, presumably to
swell his vote. Many influential democrats
are quietly aiding him in his campaign, and
that he will get a large democratic vote
from the tougher portions of the district is
certain. He is charged with trading the
rest of the republican ticket wherever he
can for votes for himself and he has ceased
entirely his efforts in behalf of other can
dldates on the ticket, spending his whole
ume' almost night and day, in rounding up
the voters of the district. He is making a
desperate uphill fight and is getting but
cold comfort from the press.
Boutell on Defensive.
Lockwood Honore, the new democratic
candidate in the ninth congressional dis
trict, has put Representative Boutell on the
defensive on the matter of the latter's rec
ord He has brought up the Porto Rican
tariff law, and asked Mr.. Boutell why he
obeyed the mandates of the sugar and to-
bacco trusts in voting for that measure
when all of his constituents, regardless of
party, were opposed 20 it; when it was op-
posed by the President and by the public
and press of the country generally. He de-
clares that even the majority of the con-
sressmen who voted for the bill did so, not
because they thought it right, but because
they We're forced to do it by the tariff
protected giant monopolies that at present
control the government of the country"
Mr. BouteH answered that the Porto Ri
can\question was threshed out before the
last presidential election; that the tariff
law WIS wise and necessary measure had
served its purpose, and had passed out of
existence. He then retorts with few en-
barrassing questions himself.
Mr.. Honore was an ardent BRYAN sup
porter, and Mr.. Bouten asks him if he still
stands on the Chicago and Kansas CITY
platforms If he still is in favor of free sill
Yer and bitter opponent of the colonial
policy of the government. Mr.. Honore has
not replied to these queries yet, but has
promised to state his position on the dem
ocratic faith before the election.
Other Fights in the State.
In the state outside of Cook county, al
though the republicans concede only three
congresSional districts to the democrats,
they admit that they have some pretty
fights on their hands. The district from
which democratic congressman are sure to
be elected are the twentieth, the twenty
first and the twenty-third. In the eleventh
district the election Of Howard NJ. Snapp of
Joliet, boss of one of the strongest republic
can county machines in the state, is certain
The twelfth district is safely republican
by 10000 majority. Representative Robert
X. Hit of Mt. Morris is opposed in the
thirteenth district by Louis Dickes of Free
port. The republican majority there is also
lO,0o0 or over, and Mr.. Hit is sure of re-
election. Representative Benz. F. Marsh of
Warsaw has no democratic oppouent and
~ouldn know there was a campaign on
II 1t were not for the prohibition and social
list candidates.
Another member of the present delegation
in Congress, who is having an easy cam
nfI 70,
district is republican by about 5000 ma
jority.
One of the Close Districts
One of the close districts of the state and
one in which the democrats are claiming
confidently that they will win is the six
teenth, or Peoria district. John NJ. Me
haus an able and very popular lawyer, is
battling against the present representative.
Joseph V. Graft The city of Peoria dorni
mates the situation. With heavy German
population, great part of which is indie
pendent in politics and a still larger part
gold democrats, the odds seem to favor
the democratic candidate although the re-
publ1cans vigorously assert that Graft will
be reelected. The district gave MCKINLEY
majority of 2,4S4 in 1900, but it is esti-
mated that the gold democratic vote in
larger than this majority and if Niehaus
can hold 1t In line his friends figure his cleo
ton as a certainty.
Cannon Working for Lorimer.
Uncle Joe" Cannon of DanviIle. scandi
date for reelection in the eighteenth dis
trict. is spending a good part of his time
on the stump here in Chicago in the inter-
est of the blond boss" Lorimer, he de-
clares. was one of the best representatives
that Chicago ever sent TO Congressman he
meant no reflection on Chicago, either.
when he said it. He is not worrying about
10 6iStr ri ut fc
c. Bell of Marshall The present watch
dog of the treasury, according to his con-
stituents, has ''lead-pipe cinch," to put IL
graphically, on his seat in the lower House.
His majority will probably be about 5000
just enough so as not to make 1t look dis
gracefully large
The democrats are claiming the re-elec-
ton of Representative Fred. j. Kern of
East st. Louis. In the twenty-second dis
trfct. The republicans are equally positive
that VIM. A. Rodenburg will defeat the lat