Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-21
BRYAN OFF ON FIRST SPEAKING TOUR
GREETED BY LARGE CROWD At DES
MONIES and CALLS ON GOVERNOR

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plans TO capture Illinois for Bryan and
10 dect Adlai e. Stevenson governor.
CooteratiGn between the national COM
mittbe and the state organization is to
be the dominating feature of the cam
paigt.
The national officers will send their
HEAVYWEIGHT orators TO help the Ste
venip movement in Illinois, while the
statd leaders will impress into service
| the dkoicest of the Illinois spellbinders
land will place them at the disposal of
the IIaiional speakers bureau.
TIL council Of war was held at the
clos3 3f the Iroquois club luncheon at
| The Great Northern hotel in honor of
Mr.. Stevenson. The Sullivan men, the
| Harrison faction, the Dunno element,
the Hobby" Burke wing. all,were pres
| ent. lohn p. McGoorty, defeated candi-
Idate ltor the governership, presided,
land Colonel James Hamilton Lewis,
| Doueks PattiSon and Charles F. Gun
| ther. all of whom also went down in
defeat at the primaries, sat at the
SDtihtlH tdblt anu III nlipi' Nt'"N -
pledged their support to the nominee.
General stevenson Talks.
In his address General Stevenson
said:
''Tht state charitable institutions
must De taken out of politics; pOliti
clans must no longer be permitted to
use the helpless wards of the state as
footballs in the furtherance of theil
ambitions.
Men of high standing must be in
charge of our helpless insane, alienists
physicians of the best schools, and the
days OF the political Job hunter mus
be ended in the state institutions.
VIII Eliminate Politics.
81 want to say right now that if
am elested governor of this state NJ
man viii ever be- appointed 10 an Office
in a charitable institution for politica
5 purposes. | am going TO take politics
: out of The asylums and the orphans
S lhomes bnd the poor farms.
"TheIrecent terrible scandals whicl
: swept through the state institution
n were Gle result of a mans adherenc
e to political rule If | am elected gov
i ernor, humanity, and not politics, Wi
/ rule.
IF ttR election were tomorrow, | ar
Il convinctd that / would be the choic
Iof the leopie by an overwhelming mf
ljority
i EVERYWHERE have spoken the den
q ocratic Eentiment for the ticket ha
If been sdidly united. and independer
IL republict tns say they will not vote fc
IL my opphent They believe it is tim
u for change in the government {
n lSpringfidld
IL Mr. Bryans campaign is also boon
ing, in spite of the fact that the re:
fight has scarcely begun. The spir
n of 80 seems to have been revive
n Conditions were never so favorable fC
lie democratic success all along the lir
lie as at the present time"
ie Chairman Mack There.
4r Among the 200 democrats who gree
ed Mr.. Stevenson at the luncheon We
S National Chairman 4>orman e. Mac
III Roger c. Sullivan, Edward F. Dunn
~ Edgar B. Tolman, Lawrence r. NJ
Gam, Francis S: Peabody, Frank
Hoyne, Robert Redfield, Rivers NJ
}. Neil, DR. James Whitney Hall, Villa
a Best, Mills Rogers, John w, Eckha
ch John j. MeGillen, e. II. Roche and Y
nd G.. Ewing.
lis General Stevenson viii plunge in
his campaign at once. He left IL
as, night for Quincy whore big rally
he to be held tonight he intends to to
nd every congressional district in I
hi state, and he will reserve Chicago
es- the last. the intention being to hold
lis big mass meeting in the metropo
ice some time during the last 10 days
ca October.