The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-29
COMPLETE TICKET.
70 BE NAMED BY ILLINOIS PRO-
GRESSlVE REPUBLICANS -
JONES FOR GOVERNOR.
viii Make Fight in Every Precinct
Of state For Control From Chi
caso to Cairo-At Sea
on Deneen.

Springfield ILL.,, april ga Doom
'or Senator Walter Clyde Jones for
governor has been started by leaders
Of the Illinois branch of the National
Progressive Republican League. Its
launching probably will be held in
allegiance until tentative candidate
for United States senator Is selected
the namHs now under tentative
consideration for this tentative place
on the ticket including Lawrence Y.
Sherman, former lieutenant governor;
John C. Mckenzie, state senator;
Congressman Ira G. Copely and Rep
,esentative Homer J. Tice.
AS disclosed here today, the plan
ST the leaguers is to start up the
campaign as soon as the assembly
ldiourns, probably in the middle OF
ext month. A full state ticket is
be put in the field; candidates for
congress and the legislature are to
ne put up in every congressional AMI
senatorial district, and in addition
he league will endeavor to wrest con-
lrol of the party machinery from the
present organization.
Fight Throughout State.
In every precinct a fight Is to be
naJe over the election of committee
ZEN, and the league will seek to
lace itself In absolute control of the
Republican party organization from
;hicago to Cairo. the plans are tc
discussed at a mass meeting &c
e held in Orchestra HAN, Chicago
Don after adjournment of the legisla
are, when Senator Jonathan Bourne
If Oregon or Senator William e
,orah of Idaho is expected to launch
We movement in Illinois.
AS the primaries at which state no
linations will be made and at which
he complexion of the Illinois dele
alton in the next national Republi
an convention will be largely deter
lined are less than year away, ths
ampaign is to start as soon as thu
reliminaries can be arranged, anC
/, that end the leaders are now bus,
Tying to line up supporters among
he legislators.
Merriam Passed BY
AS Outlined today by members O
the inner circle OF the league, Chas
&. Merriam is not to be selected b!
the league to make the race for gov
ernor. The leaders assert that th'
position he assumed on Sunday clos
ing during the mayoralty campaign
would initiate against him down
state in the governorshlp race.
Accordingly the talk is that he will
be kept in reserve, to run as can
didate for mayor of Chicago fou
years hence, by which time tn
leaguers hope they will be in full
control. .. ill.,
Senator Jones is Deneen nal
who was active in the Merriam cam
paign in Chicago, The leaguers ar
talking of selecting him to run 10
governor on his recorc as stat
senator, pointing out that he woul
find campaign assets of value in tn
fight he made for the passage OF tn
direct primary law, the leading par
| he played in overthrowing the oil
senate machine, his right for the neV
senate rules and his work in connet
ton with the working women's ten
hour law, the corrupt practices bill
civil service extension and initiativ
and referendum.
At Sea on Deneen.
Regarding the position they expec
assume toward Governor DeneeI
he league leaders are at sea. The
say it depends upon the position tai
N by the executive.
The two positions on which tn
eaguers will center most OF their a,
ention are the governorship and tn
United States senatorship. AS Jone
comes from Chicago, they declar
they will pick some downstate ma
o run for senator
L. Y. Sherman, who was mentione,
today as a possibility, is at presen
attached to the Deneen administra
ion. The leaders say it is question