Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-22
ILLINOIS CAMP IGN
State Believed to Be Sure for
the Republicans.
TO WORK VIGOROUSLY
SPECIAL ATTENTION TO BE. d.
RECTED TO INDUSTRIAL FORCES.
About 800 Speakers to Be Employed
and Much Literature to
Be Sent Out.
TO WORK VIGOROUSLY
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Illinois republican leaders declare the
state is safe for their party, but despite
their confidence they are planning most
j aggressive campaign, in which special at
| tention will be directed to the industrial
| forces. both employers and toilers, and to
| the instructors and students of educational
| Institutions of the state.
Hold fast to republican prosperity Will
be the slogan, and workers of the state Will
be asked to compare existing conditions IN
industrial affairs with those prevailing
| under the last democratic administration.
Republican statistical arguments and
| copies of strong addresses will be sent to
| owners, managers and employees Of every
| mill and factory in the state, from the
| largest to the smallest. Every voting stu
dent and every instructor in the various
universities. colleges and schools Of the
/ state will receive similar direct personal
| appeals and arguments in behalf Of the
| national and state ticket.
oratorical Preparations. ):
| A strong fighting Organization is to be
perfected in each county. and when the
state campaign opens about September 10
| 300 spellbinders will make o general ora
| torical assault on the voters. 3D.. s
States Attorney Deneen. the republican
| guberratorial candidate. and number Of
| platform speakers will have a special train
| at their disposal, and Mr.. Deneen will en-
| deavor to speak in each of the 1O2 counties
! In the state.
| Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner
A. L. French. who Is chairman Of the or
! ganization committee said today: Il ex-
pect Illinois will be carried by the repub-
leans by the usual majority. Possibly the
majority will be little above normal, but
I take no stock in these stories that the
mn
"They will bear watching all the time.
and we shall take nothing for granted but
organize as If we expected a hard battle.
| Up to date little interest has been shown
| In the state campaign. The people are
busy and prosperous, and do not seem dis
posed to engage in politics at this time.
Our energies will be concentrated on the
task of getting out the vote. We have no
fear to the issues.
1.-The German-American voters will not
go back to the democratic party contin-
| ued Mr.. French Il have talked with sew
eral of the leading Germans in Morgan
county, for example, and 1 do not find any
| who voted for Mckinley who will go to
Parker.
There is dissatisfaction among the demo-
Gratis on account of the way the state con-
vention was run. and the leaders will have
hard work trying to keep their own men in
line without attempting to make gains over
their vote in the campaign four year ago.
Secretary of State James A Rose was in
town yesterday on his way to Minnesota for
a brief vacation.
1.-The democrats cannot carry Illinois,
even if they should carry Cook county by
30 900 ma jority," said Mr.. Rose. The DEM
ocrats will lose some votes they got in 100
| In the strong silver and Bryan counties
| there is much feeling among the democrats
on account of the way the gold men ruled
the democratic state convention. NO doubt
some of the gold democrats will vote for
Parker. but they cannot change votes
enough to give them the state 800
Rally at Old Soldiers Reunion.
Probably the greatest republican rally
of the campaign in southern Illinois VIII
be held at Du Quoin, Perry county, Sep
TENDER 10, 16 and IT, on occasion OF the
annual meeting of the southern Illinois
Old Soldiers Reunion Association Sena-
tors Cullom and Hopkins, most of the
representatives in Illinois and republican
and democratic candidates on the state
ticket will be invited.
According to reports at the national
headquarters the state committee will have
available a long list of prominent republic
can orators, who will speak in the Illinois
campaign some time before the battle
closes Among them are:
Senator Fairbanks. Senator DolliVer.
Speaker Cannon. Senator Foraker. Senator
| Beveridge. George A. Knight of California,
Representative Bede of Minnesota, Senator
w. p. Frye of Maine. Representative Wat
| son. Senator Spooner, Senator Quarles,
Senator Depew, former Senator L. f. Nc
Comas of Maryland, Senator Cullom, Rep
resentative Foss. Senator Burrows of Mich
isan. Representative Charles Lands of In
diana and Gov. NJ T. Herrick of Ohio.
| The democrats have not announced their
| plan of campaign in the state, but 1t is &c
| c!ared they will meet the onslaught of re-
publicans with one of equal vigor a PROM
| .se has already been obtained from Judge
| Parker to make speech III chicago II ne
| decides to take the stump at all. Both
vice presidential candidates are scheduled
| to speak in Chicago, probably more than
| once Senat tor Fairbanks and former SEN
| ator Davis have been invited to speak here
| on Labor day. September D, but 1t has been
learned that Mr.. Fairbanks cannot be here
on that date. Instead he will probably
| speak at the big meeting planned at East
ST. Louis on that date.
James H. EckelE former controller of
| the currency under President Cleveland.
president of the Commercial National Bank.
has been elected chairman of the finance
committee of the democratic state central
committee and it is expected that he Will
be able to swing the moral and financial
support of such gold democrats as Marshall
Field Franklin MacVeagh. Judge Lambert
Tree, S. S. Gregory. Judge Thomas A.
Moran and others back to the party In this
campaign 1t To- planned to raise at least
| $50 COO for the Illinois fight. and 1t Is be-
| lieved MIR. Eckels can get the funds if any
one can.
The election of Mr.. Ekeis was in line
with the policy that has been followed in
| the east of placing sound money democrats
who declined to support Mr. Bryan in
charge of the campaign 1t is still expected
| that Mr. Eckels will also be made MEM
Der of the national finance committee.
Senator Fairbanks came to Chicago this
week to discuss plans for his part of the
| campaign work. He will open the Kan
sas campaign with speech at Marion,
| September l. September IA he will speak at
| Saratoga Springs. N Y. at the celebration
of the fftieth anniversary of the founding
| of the republican party, to be held there.
Bryan's Editorials and Speeches.
| Editorials of VIM. ]. Bryan in tn, Com
| moner and his speeches against Judge Par
ker will form an important part of the re-
publican campaign literature. Vice Chair
| man Harry S. New has ordered 80 900 cop
| les of Col Bryan's speeches and editorials.
| The collection will include Colonel Bry-
| ans anti-Parker speech at the Second Reg
| iment armory, this city, delivered prior to
| the st Louis convention; his anti-Parker
| statement issued after the national dem
| ocratic convention, and anti-Parker edi-
| toriaIs published in the Commoner.
The Bryan anti-Parker utterances con-
| stitute the first distinctly political Itera-
| ture to be ordered for the of the re-
| publican national committee in the west.
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