The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-16
ILLINOIS GOVERNOR
| At Washington
HAS CONFERENCE rssTH PaESI-
DENT WHICH WORRIES aTATE
POLITICIANS.
STATE JOBS At STAKE
VOID Wreo. Federal Patronage
From -ulIon,-L Lorlmer Control
is Factca in Fight For
Scratorship.

Chicago, Apls 15 Governor De-
neen furnished an absorbing mystery
for Illinois politicians yesterday By
departing. for Washington without
anncQncing his plans or tie object OF
his visit.
Deep secrecy mant;sa the reasons
fof the "trip. Attaches Of the execr-
tive office In Springfield were in tho
dark, and the assembly leaders, state
officers and politicians were driven
| by their curiosity almost 10 the verge
OF pervous collapse.
| While in Chicago, on his way to
the national capital. the governor
told several of MS friends that his
trip had to do with the waterway
legislation pending In Springfield.
| Politicians, however, were not con
| tent with this explanation, and In
| sisted that state or national politics
| was al the bottom Of the mystery.
New gt,esses as to the nature OF
he governors mission were put into
| circulation at the rate of one a min
Lutte. The most popular supposition is
ti'at the trip is In connection with
| federal patronage in Illinois. An
other theory widely circulated il that
| the Loiimer case Is tie reason for
| the trip.
States - .ical coad tlors.
] The conjecture that federal jofs
| are tse cause OF the governors trip
lis 1issed on political conditions iii
illinois ana the fact that Senator
Loriner held a recent conference
with Senator Cuaom oil patronage.
i II is NnoNn tsat senator Cullom will
positively Le candidate for reselec-
tion, at the primaries In 1912. L he
lis IN physical condition.
i With this in view the senior seaa-
or Is said to b. preparing to
strengthen himself with the federal
| naagonage as far as possible.
I-ofimer is under deep obligaifsns
10 'cullom, for the latter's vote in his
sayor saved Lorimer's seat, it h-ing
generally estimated that from eight
10 twelve senators were influenced
by the Cullom vote.
/ Under these conditions 1t Is con-
siderpd presrmabIe that a working
agreement might easily be reached
Between both senators to swing all
j the Illinois patronage to the support
i OF Culom so far as they can control.
i Taft Seeking Light.
! One conjecture is that the governor
has been called to Washington to
inform the administration what erect
such disposition of patronage would
have on the Republican party In Illi-
nois Another guess is that the gov
ernor, learning that such move IS
lin sight has taken the initiative and
: has gone TO try to head 1t off.
At present the Republican party I'm
Illinois is said to be in worse shappe
than It has been at any time In the
: last twenty years. Even since the
Democratic victories in Cook county
last November the state leaders have
been seriously considering growing
I possibility that the Democrats may
J repeat what they did in 1892 and
2 elect their state ticket in 1912.
II This premcnit!on Of impending dis
: aster for the Republicans was inten-
| sified by the ortcome OF the mayoral
: campaign in Chicago When the In
!. dependents nominated Charles II.
n Merriam AGAINST two organization
candidates Feb. 2S they sent cold
chlls down the spine OF the organi'
zatlon