The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-31
Governor of Illinois DenOnnces
Bipartisan Combine in
Vigorous Way.
HOLDS MEN in COMBINE
DEVOID OF PRINCIPLE
Demands That Lawmakers Who
Disgraced His State Shall
Be Defeated.

TAYLORSVILLE. Ill, Aug. 30.-Gover-
nor Deneen tonight opened the cam
paisn against return TO legislative power
of the bipartisan combine. which domi-
mated tho last general assembly In an
address in this city he said:
THE men who opposed the right to
honest elections, the right TO primary
elections, the expressed wish of their
party on the United States senatorship.
the election OF Republican candidate
for speaker of the house OF represent
tives. and the organization OF the house
by majority OF their party, are now
asking the people whose Wills they have
deaed and whose confidence they have
betrayed. TO entrust them once more
with the direction OF public affairs. They
are running on platform OF three
planks:
Flrst-We announce no principles,
'Sccond-We express no regrets.
''Third-We call for vindicatlon."
Explains Jackpot.
The speaker defined the term Jack
pot" which has figured in the Browne
trial In Chicago declaring that those
who have been exposed are not the only
ones implicated. To make n Jackpot ef
fective requires the participation OF a
considerable number OF such rs can be
held together by the cohesive power of
public plumber and an organization that
must be able TO control to some degree
the course of legislation in the general
assembly.
This coalition, In Its last desperate
stand against popular government,
deemed IL necessary to control the poll
tics of the state in order to prolong its
power and j. whom they had villihed
through their spurious investigation OF
my election, whom they had opposed
with vltuperative rancor at the, pri-
In the election by arraying against me
the special interest from which they de-
rive their strength. whose policies they
had organized the Legislature to defeat
by a trumped-u contest, was offered
their support for the United States sem
atorshp, an office OF high honor when
honorably bestowed.
Straight From Shoulder.
''Tbese efforts TO defeat ME, unseat or
promote me, would serve the same pur-
pose They carry with them their own
commentary When I refused TO accept
the proffered senatorship, the bipartisan
coalition determined TO select Il senator
strengthen their position and 10 make
safe the election OF their choice as my
successor
such being the situation in our state.
what is the next step forward2 Mani
testify behind the jackpot stands the or
ganization OF the general assembly and
the control OF Its business. which the
present rules Of the house place In the
hands OF the speaker. The next step
forward. therefore, is TO restore repre-
sentative government to our house of
THE essential condition of honest leg
islation must be the right 10 have bills
heard In our general assembly This is
OF what avail is II to make
a campaign for wholesome measures if
they receive no consideration in our leg
islative body?''
Would Pledge Candidates.
Governor Deneen declared that every
man seeking support of Republican vot-
ers at the September primaries should be
pledged TO stand for good government, |
and, continuing said
1.-The men who created the unusual
and disgraceful conditions in our state
should not be given power to prolong |
them. They have dened instructions and
their party platform; they |
have stood against representative gov |
ernment and for special privileges and |
private interests. The extent OF their
nalieasance in the last general assem- |
ply Is not vet known. but is under in
sestigation by grand juries and by our !
courts. The issue In this campaign then
s: Shall their records. their organiza-
ion and the results of their work be ap-
proved? Upon that Issue there should |
oe no differences of opinion among good
citizens"