Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-26

carry the state. The Inter-Ocean
speaks editorially and authoratively.
On the fifth day of last May the fol-
lowing short communication was sent
TO the Inter-Ocean:
ITO the Editor:-I have been
reader of the Inter-Ocean for years,
and have generally agreed with it in
politics. But | cannot understand why
a republican newspaper should attack
a republican candidate as you do Mr.
Deneen. I think it is not fair. and so
do many other republicans l know.
a. D. F."
Following the publishing of this com
munication the Inter-Ocean replied:
The Inter-Ocean is a republican and
also a popular newspaper. Yet, as
The Inter-Ocean does not suppress
scandal. sham, and hypOcricy because
their expose would reflect upon the
people. neither does it suppress them
because their exposure would reflect
upon republicans.
Mr. Deneens campaign has been
one of false pretense throughout. He
was made all he is as a member of the
republican organization known as the
machine The two public Offices out
of which he has grown conspicuous
and rich were the gift of the ma
chine
so long as the machine continued
TO enrich him he was in it. Only when
the machine refused TO heap further
riches and honor upon him did he sud
denly proclaim himself the 'anti-ma,
chine reformer.'
Then Mr.. Deneen assumed an air of
superior virtue and began to run up
and down the state reviling the men
who have made him all he is and given
him all he has Then Mr.. Deneen had
the braZen impudence and the arrant
hypOcricy to denOunce the other men
as treating politics as a commercial
asset and to pretend that his own pO-
Iitical conduct had been directed by
other than commercial principles
Such professions from such a source
The Inter-Ocean has found unendur-
able The mere thought of them il
simply sickening.
Mr.. Deneen's public record is what
he must stand upon when seeking po-
litical promotion. The best that can
be said for that record is that Mr.. De
neen has not stolen money. However,
it is notorious that the machinery of
a public office has never been worked
harder to get money into offiCeholders'
pockets than it has been worked by
Mr.. Deneen.
"AIl the outlets of the law have been
l.
account. BY Mr.. Deneen the money
making machinery of the states attor-
ney's office has been worked full hours
and overtime.
The Inter-Ocean is not disposed TO
blame an officeholder for taking fair
advantage of his lawful opportunities
TO prosper. If those opportunities be
unduly great. that is not the office
holders fault But the Inter-Ocean
does insist that an officeholder shall
not play the hypOcrite about the meth
DDS of his money making.
THAT is what Mr. Deneen has done
and il doing and tha, is what makes
Charles s. Deneen a vhiteG sc!ulchre
filled with all kinds of dead bones.
Far better for Illinois that such a man
as Lawrence y. Sherman, whose char
acter is known TO ALL should be put in
the governors chair than such a howl
ing sham. such a brazen pretender. as
Charles S. DeneeR.
The reason why the Inter-Ocean
opposes Charles S. Deneen and tells
the truth about him is because The
Inter-Ocean is a newspaper and not an
Organ-because The Inter-Ocean tries
to stand for frankness and decency
and against sham and hypocrisy i'll
politics as observation-disclosures The
Inter-Occan has no room in its columns
for the Endorsement of whitcd sepul-
chres or pious frauds, no matter what
flag flies over them-beCause The In
teT-OCean is American before it is re
publican. and Will remain so every
day in the week and every week in
the year, not excepting the period be-
tween May - and Nov s, 1904"