The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-10-15
GOOD GOVERNMENT.
CHICAGO MEN CAMPAIGNING I'M
STATE IN INTEREST OF
LITTLE BALLOT.
Voters Asked to Favor Measures
Which Will Break Up "Jack
Pot" Government in
Illinois.

| a discussion Of three important ques
lions 10 be voted upua al tae coming
election The melting was presided
over by w, 3. Huette, president of
the Cairo Commercial Club. and was
addressed by two gentlemen from Chi
cage. Raymond Robbins, Democrat,
and Herbert f, Fleming, Republican.
These gentlemen have been
making tour of the state in a 40
horse power auto, travelling SGT miles
in their machine and stopping at
lscores OF points TO make addresses.
They had large audiences every
where They nai to abandon their
auto at Murphyshoro because OF the
heavy rains had made roads too mud
dy ana flooded them Their auto
bears banners telling the public that
it is Car No 2" in the Good Gov
eminent Campaign of the Commit.
zee OF Seven OF the iTeoria Confer
ence-a non-partsan gathering The
addresses last night were closely lis
1 t6Heu 10 Oy the audience.
Raymond Robbins, a member of the
| CONN ttee Of seven created at the
Peoria conference, called upon the
people to vote for the three little
ballot propositions approved by that
conference. These are state wide
| civil service corrupt practices and
Initiative and referendum acts. Mr..
| Robbins is man who has devoted
his time during the last ten years to
working for philanthropist and pro.
| gRessive labor leg Station He has
| been in position to watch the work.
| ings OF the Jackpot crowd of crooks
at Springfield He has national
reputation as public speaker. Mr.
| Robbins laid greatest emphasis on
the in tiatiye and referendum as the
means for providing popular check
on the Legislature and for removing
I from Legislators the temptation to be
come grafters. He said in part:
To-day in Illinois you do not gee
laws YOU don't want and you can'l
get laws you do want. Let's see ii
can make good on tnat Ike to
specify. Take for example the mat
ter of express rates. You pay much
more on every express package you
receive than you should: but you
| have been unable 10 get from the
legislature law regulating express
rates. With the initiative the peo-
pie could secure such a law by start
ing petition and having the people
vote 1t through.
| Then as TO laws you don't want:
| Did any OF you want the legislature
to sell your land down on the lake
front in Chicago for $4,000 an acre
when it was worth 100000 an acre?
With the referendum you could have
stopped the law which made the sale
TO three rich corporations"
Mr. Robbins was a spectator in
the house gallery on the day of the
great delivery" OF the senatorship
to Lorimer, a Republican, by Demo
Gratis and by Republicans instructed
at the primaries for Hopkins. He
cited this of an illustration of the
way in which dishonest Republicans
and dishonest Democrats unite to
promote the interests OF a political
boss and of corporations seeking spe-
cia privileges. He said:
Since crooked Republicans and
crooked Democrats unite to pass
crooked Legislation isn't 1t time for
honest Republicans and honest Demo.
Gratis to unite for honest legislation?
90 we want sou TO unite for the
initiative and referendum.
Now as to the civil service propo-
'tion: a state wide civil service law
will make the state employees free
men, not wearing any bosss collar,
1ot forced to go out and do dirty
politics for boss to keep that boss
in power
What will eorrupy practices mean?
Simply that every candidate for
elective office will have to publish |
under oath the name OF the contribu-
tors to his campaign fund and the |
amount OF their contribution, so that |
YOU may know whose man ne Is when |
YOU vote for him"
Mr.. Robbins urged his hearers to |
form little ballot clrb, to pass the |
word around in the locality to vote
for the three little ballot PROPOSE
tions. He invited them to sign adj I
dressed cards which We're distribute /
ed. He promised to have the commit
tee Of seven send to the signers /
Senator Burnes speech on popular
government and other literature on
theNthree propositions
For Civil Service
Herbert Z, Fleming, secretary of
he Illinois Civil Service Reform AS
ISOLATION, urged the voters to vote
Yes" on the little ballot question,
November Sth next. He said in part:
1.-THE Lorimer Senatorial committee
hearings and the Browne trials
brought out evidence showing how
patronage in the public service may
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