The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-02

about 10000 votes. The fact 44@ that
Representative Lorimer,. long the
Republican boss Of Chicago was over
thrown at the preliminaries and also
in the convention is not counted up
on to weaken the ticket at the polls
Lorimer's followers in Chicago are
men who never bolt and who never
cut a ticket.
The Republican lineup as to the
organization in Illinois this year does
not differ materially from the organ
ization lineup Of four years ago,
when Yates was elected governor by
a plurality of CT ,232. The Republi-
can ante-convention fight in 1900
started with Eldridge Hanecy, of
Chicago, as the machine candidate
for governor, and o. y. Carter, of
Chicago, as an anti-machine candi-
date. Representative Reeves was the
gubernatorial candidate OF the Fed
eral offlceholding crowd. and Richard
Yates entered the convention with
quite large personal following.
The first fight was over the indorse-
rnent Of Senator Culom for re-eiec-
ton and in that Federal crowd won,
most OF Yates delegates voting with
the Reeves delegates. Carter, whose
candidacy was really an annex to
that of Reeves, ultimately withdrew
hut I r,r,1 q
| was engineering the Hanecy boom,
| withdrew his Chicago candidate and
| STAN peded the convention to Yates.
| Therefore, in that campaign the
I State machine men had the ticket,
I the Federal crowd so called, being
outs.
| This year a new State machine has
the most of the nominees on the
ticket and the Federal crowd, OF
which Senators Cullom and Hopkins
| and Speaker Cannon are prominent
leaders, are outs. Charles S. Deneet,
the Republican candidate for Cover
nor is a creature Of Representative
| Loriruer, who made him States At
torney in Chicago Out of that office
Deneen has earned, legitimately, to
be sure, about 100000 in fat fees.
He rapidly built up machine of his
own, and defeated Col. Frank 0. Low
den, the candidate OF the Federal
crowd at the Chicago primaries.
/ Gov. Yates made his campaign for
! denomination largely against the
EChfcago newspapers, who, in spite
of all the ridiculous things the GOV,
ernor did, treated him roughly in
many particulars Yates spoke in
95 of the 1o2 counties of the State
crying out against the misrepresen-
,ation of the Chicago press.
! The prolonged deadlock at Spring,
field is still fresh in the public mind
1t is said that the convention in the
first days would have been stampeded
to Yates but for a clever trick OF his
opponents in holding the credentials
! committee in session till the dele
gates steadied down a little. 1t is
also still generally remembered how
Yates, Hamlin and Sherman ulti
mately threw votes enough to De
neen to nominate him. Yates and
Deneen made a deal by which Yates
should be supported for United States
Senator two years from now and by
which he should also name three
nominees on the State ticket. He did
dictate two of those-James y. Rose
for Secretary of State and Len Small
i for State Treasurer Yates other Sc
lection was defeated because Deneen
Sherman and Hamlin did not sup
port him.
But it viii be seen that the State
machine and the Federal machine
are opposed to each other about the
same as four years ago. Speaker
! Cannon, Senator Hopkins and Rep
resentative Lorimer, with the State
: machine, are now lined up with Sen
atOr Culom and the Federal con
tingent, Attorney General Hamlr
and ex-Speaker Sherman, of tht
State Legislature, who have beer
} abusing Yates more or less during
the past four years, are now lined III