Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-28
CANNON FEELS SECURE
Not Worried Over the Attacks OF
President Gompers.
GENERAL CAMPAIGN is SLOW
Speakers of National Prominence May
Help Some.
LOCAL AND FRACTIONAL FIGHTS
Senator Cullom's Reelection is Prob
ably Safe-Republicans Should
Have a Fair Majority.
LOCAL AND FRACTIONAL FIGHT'
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, October 27.-With keen ana
experienced politicians guiding the two OLD
parties and active amateurs looking after
the prospects Of the new and minor political
organizations, the present has Deen the
quietest and most apathetic campaign ever
known in the state of Illinois.
The apathy is general all over the state,
both republican and democratic managers
finding 1t almost a hopeless task to rouse
enthusiasm among their partisans. In
whatever place the meetings have been
he'd local issues and the chances of the
candidates of the particular locality have
been predominant, eclipsing almost COM
pletely the fortunes and fate of the state
ticket. This has been notably the case in
Chicago.
1t was only this week that some of the
more prominent state leaders of both the
old parties came to Chicago to try to in
fuse some life into the long-drawn cam
paign and stir up the voters. In the contest
over the state offices the only actual fight
seems to be for the treasurership.
Up to the current week the republican
managers have conducted their campaign
along the 'gumshoe'' methods but in the
big guns in the state come to Chi
cago to crate at midday lunch-time meet
ings and indoor gatherings at night, their
most important speakers being Lieut.. Gov.
L. Y. Sherman, Former Lieut.. Gov. North
cote and Ex-Representative Fred Kern Of
Belleville. Next week there will he a lit
tie more ginger In the party meetings in
and around Chicago. at which the chief
speakers will be Secretary OF War Taft,
United States Senators Cullom and Hop
kins, Gov. Deneen of Illinois. and some OF
the republican representatives from the Chi
cagO and the country districts. The demo-
tt,A nIilnv,
gram, will have John Sharp Williams.
leader of the minority in the national House
of Representatives former Representative
Charles A. Towne and other lesser lights
here about November 2, to shake up the
recalcitrant partisans and get them into
working order for election day. With all
the apathy prevailing up to this time the
Old party leaders express themselves as
sanguine of success.
f, Charges of Corruption.
There has been no particular or distinct
i've issue involved in the state fight, but
as the campaign is nearing the end the
democratic managers have worked up some
thing in the form of an issue by raising
the cry against dishonest republican Office
holders in Cook county, which really means
Chicago, the biggest political part of the
state of Illionis With true charges about
republican derelictiofls in the county offices,
W 81. Item by item allegations are made,
the main assertion being the statement of
the Citizens Association "a so-caAed po-
ltical reform organization) that republican
office holders have stolen s. 900 from the
county in the last few years. The true
charges hold good against two of the ac-
cused officials, who have been convicted,
one being in the penitentiary and the other
on the way, an appeal being pending to
a higher court, while third Is under in
dictment and awaiting trial, though he is
believed to be scapegoat for some one
higher up
The charge that Gov. Deneen. while
states attorney of Cook county~illegally
pocketed about quarter of a. mlffon dol
lars in fees which belonged. ito the public
school fund has been effeSxhaly disposed
of by Adhesion of the state supreme court
that he was entitled to the money. Yet this
is the strongest part of the democratic
issue in the contest for state control. Such
tactics, Of course, have the republican coun-