The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-21
EOKUk BOY
| FOR GOVERNOR.
hate Senator Walter Clyde Jones Of
chicago viii be One Candidate
at the illinois
Primaries.
WILL OPPOSE DENEEN
democrats See Split In Party and
Figure on eobblIns up the
OFFICE at the
Election.

CHICAGO. IL, July 21.-Marriar.
progressive republicans have challenp.
led all other progressive movements
of the party in Illinois and announced
Senator Walter Clyde Jones as their
candidate for governor.
This means split in the rants 80
the party If Deneen is nominated hv
This followers. Democrats are nre.
dicting the election of former Mayor
Dunne If he is nominated.
/ With the announcement il was .. ID
Ethe active campaign for Senator
Jones nomination would be inaug,r.
ated week from Thursday in Fast
Est Louis, where Senator Jones and
Charles e. Merriam will make
| Espeeches.
Inc announcement that the Mer.
rlam forces had broken awav from
/ the Deneen progressives. the "mid.
/ die of the road progressives and the
progressive movement inaugrrated bv
the progressive members of the legs.
lature, came in the form of a letter to
Senator Jones, urging him to become
a candidate.
While the senator is not known to
have any knowledge of the commune
cation prepared By the league lead
ers, and it is not to be presented to
hin by q special committee until 3
O'clock this afternoon, it was unof-
ficially given out that plans had been
made for the opening guns of the
campaign In st. Clair county.
Leaders Of the Merriam-progres.
siyes refused to add anything to the
matter in the way of explanations for
statewide campaign against Lori
merism. Neither would they state
what, If any, other candidates would
be endorsed by the league for state
Offices.
u was understood that the Merriam
people would make a reply to the
legislator-progressives with whom
delegates from the Grand Pacific
Hotel were in conference Tuesday in
Springfield.
There is nothing to say about any
answer to the Springfield progress
slves. one of them said This letter
is answer enough
President Fletcher Dobyns of the
league, just before leaving on fish
ing trip, said the contents of the let
ter explained everything and that
other progressives, Governor Deneen
and all republican leaders, could not
Iail to comprehend it's meaning.
There isn't a thing to be said be-
yond what is in that letter. he said.
Chicago politicians were surprised
TO hear that the Merriam people had
thrown down the gauntlet in the pri-
mary fight. Adherents of the legisla-
tor-progressive movement say the
Jones boosters had stolen thunder
that was placed on exhibition at the
Springfield conference and bearing the
legislative trademark.
1t was the idea of the legislator
that "Lorimerism" and
It's near kin, "jackpotism.'' should be
the chief plank of the progressive
primary fight. They also wanted can
didates of we'll known progressive
tendencies and clean records placed
IN the field and allow their records to
take the place of long g-drawn-out ut
terances. of principles.
1t was reported later that neither
OF the two dQwnstate leaders would
listen to the advances of the Chicago
delegation. 1t is said by friends OF
the downstate men they will not al
low their names to be connected as
with any progressive move
ment that has not the sanction OF
Governor Deneen and other progress
sive republicans of the state.