The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-09-12
WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY.
Fame Of the Governor Has Gone
Abroad in the Land.
What is Said of the Candidacy of
Adlai l.. Stevenson for Governor
of the State of Illinois
The Primary.

west OF the AlleghenieS in population
and commercially the most important
1t is the chief railroad state. on ac
count both of its mileage and the has
ing of freight rates at Chicago and
East St Louis. All of the consolidated
systems. including the Southern an6
the Louisville and Nashville of the
southern group, cross it's territory. In
its relations with the Illinois Contra
railroad the state charged it was q
duty of closely studying practical rail
road problems. Chicago's troubles
have drawn the state into an equally
close study of municipal questions OF
all the executives of the Union, none
except the president of the United
States. has more to do with the well
fare of the whole country than the
governor of Illinois.
Governor Deneen has been q strong
force on the good side of American
life. During his administration the
principal questions have been the adj
ministration of state institutions
constituting a potent patronage and a
large finance-the railroads, municipal
Improvement and highways. His ac-
tive and courageous labors on these
lines have been accompanied by efforts
which have put new life into depart
ments like the geological survey, the
agricultural experiment station and
the waterways commission. In the
constructive" work, which will be
felt by future generations, Governor
Dement'S services place him at the
head of the list of executives who have
held office in Illinois and among the
most useful mel of the country. He
has been personally clean and agrees
sive III it all. The Indicated nominal
tion of Deneen by his party at the
state primaries Saturday is a cause of
satisfaction everywhere. In the ordi-
nary course of political decisions this
year he will be again elected, and the
far-spreading influence of Illinois will
be directed for the uplifting of gov
eminent standards throughout the
country.--Philadelphia Pa.) Ledger.
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Stevenson Four Years Late.
The statement of Mr. Stevenson that
he would place the state charitable in
stitutions on non-partisan basis IL
elected governor by the Democrats ap-
pears to appeal to some Of the Repub-
lican editors as joke The Rockford
Register-G Gazette reminds Mr.. Steven
son that he is at least four years be-
hind Governor Deneen and the Repub-
lican party in the following editorial:
"The offer of Mr.. Stevenson to place
the state Institutions of Illinois on a.
non-partisan basis if the state will
only elect him governor has been al
ready anticipated by the present Re-
publican administration. The institu-
tons are today on a non partisan basis.
Governor Deneen not only secured the
enactment of a civil service law for
the institutions but he respected the
spirit of the law before it was placed
on the statute books, by declining to
fill the places in the state service with
his own appointees. He respected the
men and women already in the service
as long as they showed their fitness
and efficiency in their duties to the
state. That is the very spirit of the
non-partisan basis. Mr.. Stevenson
could not do differently if he had the
power without violating the civil serv-
ice law in letter or in spirit
1t would be well for Mr.. Steven
son to read the civil service law. A
careful perusal would convince him
that he, AS governor, would have
nothing to do with the appointment OF
employees FOR the state benevolent in