Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-17


get the Mitchell strength in one state
and put a candidate on the national
ticket who might swing another state.
The work that is being done for Rep
resentative Francis Burton Harrison is
being conducted something along this
line. Mr.. Harrison is able and de-
servedly popular. His family is one
of the best known in the south, his
father having been secretary to Jeffer-
son Davis and having been arrested
when the deposed president of the
''lost cause" was captured. Mr.. Harri-
son is well known on the Pacific coast.
The Fight For Congress.
Chairman Lloyd OF the national Dem
Ocratic congressional committee has
opened headquarters in the Union
Trust company building in Washing
ton and is prepared to send out docu-
ments to ail Democrats or others de-
string information on the issues of the
coming congressional campaign. Mr..
Lloyd has begun his work with vigor
that argues well for its outcome. In
deed. the situation politically is such
as TO encourage a sturdy Democrat
to fight for the next house. There are
almost forty congressional districts in
each one of which a change of very
few hundred votes would substitute a
Democrat for the sitting Republican.
and Lloyd proposes to make that
change. The chairman is stanch
r1end OF Mt. Bryan ana was elected
to his present position by the united
vote of the militant Bryan men in the
house of representatives. With the
chances for a Democratic president 50
| good as they are now every effort
should be made to keep in congress
men who are known to be in accord
with the principles of the probable
| Democratic presidential nominee. For
example, there is Henry Il. Rainey in
| the Twentieth district of Illinois. Al
one time he was the only Democratic
member in congress from that state
He has fought well and ably for tariff
revision against the wood pulp and
print paper tariff and for free raw ma
terial to be used in shipbuilding
select the case of Mr. Rainey as az
illustration simply because | have
some reason to believe that the pro
tected industries and some of tn.
un-Democratic Democrats within the
party are likely to make a fight upor
him. There are doubtless other in
stances of the same sort. 1t behoove:
Democrats who hope for Democrat,
administration, backed by a Democrat
ic congress. to fight for the return t,
the house and to the senate of the mel
who in the days of adversely which
we believe, are now passing have stood
for the party and for the cause.
Bryan and Ryan.
The malignant effort of New Yorl
paper to make 1t appear that in 100
Mr.. Bryan received $4,000 from
Thomas +. Ryan as the price of hi
support for Judge Parker has fallel
exceedingly fat The charge was ex
plicit at the outset. and the assertio.
was made that the money was handle,
to Mr.. Bryan's brother-ip-law by w. +
Sheehan, chairman of the executive
committee of the Democratic nationa
committee. Now, Mr.. Sheehan is no
and never has been political frien,
of Mr.. Bryan. yet he met this situa
ton as any man of honor and self re
spect would. He wrote TO Mr.. Bryal
a letter. which he gave to the press
stating that the $4,000 sent to tn
state committee of Nebraska for us
in that state was taken from the gen
! eral fund Of the Democratic nationa
! committee. to which there were man
contributors. He did not say whethe
: Mr. Pulitzer was contributor, bu
Mr.. Pulitzers contributions to Demo
J cratic politics have been chiefly cor
; fined to attacking Democratic cand
dates. There was no more reason t
, believe, according to Mr.. Sheehan. tina
this was $4,000 from Thomas f. Rya
. than that it was $4,000 from thirty t
, forty different contributors, and finalI
the chairman Of the executive co4llni