Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-04-14
YATES AND DENEEN HuRLING
CHARGES AND COUNTER CHARGES
Asprans for Republican Nomination Carrying Fight That is
Full Of Interesting information for DisInter-
ested Citizens


am quite Wiling TO agree w1tn nina aiIo
consent to have him withdraw In my
favor, which. after all, would be emil
nently proper, as / once Withdrew Ia
his favor, and turn about is fair play
and it's my turn now.
'Of course, the overgrown machine.
swollen with power. laughs at all oppo-
sition. II thereby invites its own dis
aster. because proceeds on the propo-
sition that you can fool all the people
all the time, If you only know enough
new tricks. That proposition Is false
logic. q
Yates Administration Not Excelled.
And now, coming to the theories
upon which the movement, of which /
am thus far the spokesman, is based. /
call your attention in the first place to
the fact that the state administration of
1901 to 1904 mas not been excelled by
the present administration in the mat
ter of economy or retrenchment. In the
old days, twenty years ago. 'Retrench-
ment and Reform was a we'll known
and popular and very telling battle cry
in political war time. 1t has never lost
Its euphonious and pleasing effect. And
to this day, the candidate talking about
reform, also, generally, and as a usual
thing, promises 'retrenchment.' ! sub
nit that the policy of the state machine
In this particular is as much n sham
and a farce, and fraud, as in each and
every other particular. The people have
heard much about saving the peoples
Iaoai faas .rat,,r,;r,o, ,,,o,,1,.s o a..
So oo,,,,,oii,,r-r .,.e .Iii;ueiy S .iie
- -, 80 a. 80, =. MS go, al
coverof an This tbe state ms h,a ~
| ing the MAST few vearse the most ex-
pensive administration it ever had. 1t
| has not only been the most expensive,
but the most extravagant | have some
| figures to submit to you. the people, you
| eral manager, to supervise and manage
your. the peoples, business, SO far as
| Illinois is concerned, for four more
years. And / insist now. and 1 shah
-, 80 - S.,inn- aite iaNe SVEN
| 80 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. -, ~ pt;l
| iseu ieiiciiiii EN- vi ecohudly' Wntch
you heard so inuch or III dse4, before
| election, has, like everything else prom
| lSed, proved TO be a sham retrenchment
fraud retrenchment, a farce retrench-
| ment And all this fooling of the peo-
pie is the more wicked, because the
| Chicago newspaper trust and its candi-
| date rode into power with a constant
persistent, consistent, insidious intima-
/ ton that II had discovered some new
1 kind of honesty. some forand of honesty
better than that heretofore kept on hand
| better than the Dick Oglesby and John
/ M. Palmer honesty of the fathers and
of our great and noble dead. So much
| was said and limited about this new
| kind of honesty and probity and integ-
| rity that many people We're really con-
| fused and misled and went bout Won
/ dering if after all. the old kind wasn't
| out of date, q little fiy-bitten so TO
| speak. a little mota-eaten. as il were
prasant coe,,v couerr,oo,+
|
| IN the iirst place, want TO call your
attention 10 tine appropriations made by
tne 4eth' flst, 4sd. 45d. 44th, and 10th
General assemblies. Ihese appFopria-
t!ohs were made during me terms of
6 onelnoi HIN ra,lie En- myself ana GoVernor
|. Appropriations by General Assembly:
Amount Increase
ISL hair GOV tanners term I'll .lIS 900 81 ~, 00t
nan Wv T yiiei = TERM IL ass0oo lS2i wv
% baIs c. Yte, I'm 3eo ooo ,ai'oot
LIST half GOV Dement'S term IL go 909 40 az
I'd half Gov. Dement'S term %. 05sO00 4.i69, COO
These figures are taken from an Off
cial publication of the State Of IlIjnojs
The total amo,,nt Of annronriat ior
uada NV tho iast Cana,al Hr.o..li,, -,
i,isluS Wy tie ias, uei,erdi Assempiy un-
Ger Governor AllSeiu was $1U,Ooo, 100. IN
$ make it clear. il is to be said that the
State appropriations went up in all the
years from the last Altgeld appropria.
70, ,oo-
near anrronr,o i'll ~ up ,a ao .ne Mrst re.
1--WE and six million dollars. VIII While IN th,
, last two years they jumped up between
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