The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-11-26
YATES BACKING
NO CANDIDATE
Governor Says That He Has No
Favorite for the Speak
ershiIe
DENEEN's WISHES TO RULE.
After Conference With Friends
at Illinois Building, Important
Announcement Is Made by
the State Executive.

There IS no Yates candidate for the
speakership. L have no candidate N as
far as 1 am concerned MIR. Deneen's wishes
as to the organization of the Illinois House
OF Representatives will prevail.
Governor Richard Yates YESTERDAY. in
this unmistakable language. gave denial
TO the reports that his friends were CEN
tralizing upon one of the men who have
been mentioned for the Speakers gayel
at Springfield.
Governor Yates spent yesterday after
noon IN the Illinois building at the Worlds
Fair. He accompanied Mrs. Yates down
from Springfield, arriving shortly after
neon.
AIRS. Yates was taken in charge by the
women who are member of the families
Of the Illinois Commissioners and was the
guest of honor at a reception which was
attended by all the Exposition society
women. Governor Yates became the CEN
ter Of a group which numbered perhaps
twenty-five OF ~well-known figures in the
Yates administration from all parts of the
State, and who remained in the Illinois
Pavilion during the afternoon.
Among those who interchanged %felicita-
tons upon the result of the election in
Illinois and incidentally dropped into a
discussion OF the speakership. the senator
ship and other live topics in Illinois Re-
publican politics were Doctor W. E. Tay-
or. superintendent Of the Western In
a II Hospital at Rock Island: Doctor ].
A. Egan. secretary of the State Board Of
Health; Homer T. Aspinwall. secretary Of
the Livestock Commission: A. Handy
Jones, Pure Food Commissioner: John ].
Brown. SECRETARY of the Illinois Worlds
Chester Penitentiary Commission: Senator
Henry NJ. dunlap. president of the Illinois
Commission: Senator Walter Warder and
about fifteen others.
GOVERNOR YATES CONFERS.
Governor Yates was in conference with
most Of these gentlemen during the time
that the party was in the building. Later
they called in a body upon Mrs. Yates,
who. with the women of the State Com
mission. was receiving in the reception
room on the second floor.
Governor Yates said: These gentlemen
did not meet here at my request or invi-
tathon, and they are here simply as Elk
position visitors and dropped into the
State building.
There ave been statements published
friends are favoring Il certain candidate
for the position OF Speaker Of the Illinois
House OF Representatives. Such Is not the
case; have no candidate. and there is
no Yates candidate. AS far as I am con-
cerned. 1 am making no distinction he
tween the able men who have been men
toned for the honor.
1T is my opinion that II Mr.. Deneen
has a. man in view whom he desires to
have Speaker, that man should be elected.
There should be no obstacle paced in the
every favoring possibility should be given
the incoming Governor, and will be by
myself and by my friends"
The candidate to whom the inference OF
Y Governor Yates lnnIfaQ ig Wi fred Awnn ri
OF G~alesburg. On Wednesday the Cover
nor and Attorney General Hamlin were in
Chicago to confer with the Canal Commits
sioners regarding the lowering and re-
moval of certain dams in the Illinois and
Michigan ana
Upon the same day Mr.. Arnold was In
Chairman West, Mr.. Deneen's confidential
adviser. The report followed that the
presence of the three gentlemen in the
city had 10 DO with the enlisting Of the
Mr.. Arnold was a member of the last
House, his first service in the General As
sembly. and was allied with the Yates
forces as against the Sherman ''39." He Is
the only one of the half dozen starters in
the speakership race who is an out and
out Yates man.
didate. according to the statement of Cap
tain Charles c. Craig Of Galesburg, one
Of the Illinois Commissioners. and who
was a colleague OF Mr.. Arnold in the last
n oSS,AoA 49, AsS- AAotO IN lAhdl
avowal of his candidacy. however, and has
been sick since the election.
WISH TO BE DEFERRED.
The announcement Of Governor Yates
that the wishes of Governor-elect Deneen
are to be deferred to seems to indicate
that the advisers and leaders Of the Yates
partisans have decided that with prob
lens of great magnitude facing the in
coming Legislature 1t would be inadvis-
able and unwise to permit the fractional
fight to break out with the vigor that is
| promised.
1t is also true that Mr.. Deneen will en-
ter upon his administration with a large
majority in both houses of the Legislature
entirely under his control.
Another consideration is the fact that
Governor Yates has placed his friends in
the appointive offices at his disposal, and
they do not care to be disturbed when
the time comes for Governor Deneen 70
reappoint patronage.
The position of Governor Yates in the
present affair bears out the theory that
was prevalent at the time of the COM
promise at Springfield. which nominated
Deneen. The Yates men will hold their
Jobs for the next two years. at least, Mr.
Deneen will organize his administration,
including the Legislature, to suit himself
and the senatorial row will be relocated
to the rear until the time is ripe for II
to break out in all the bitterness which
is bound to accompany the contest when
Ii comes.
The Governor will remain in st. Louis
for Roosevelt Day. and 1t is probable that
many more Illinois politicians will find
that the occasion is opportune to visit the
Exposition, while the President and the
Governor are both here.
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