Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-17
SPEAKERS TO KEEP 1T UP
Personalities, However, Are Sup
planted by Discussion of Policies.
MIDDLE WEST BATTLE GROUND
All Parties Unlimbering Their Big
gest Guns There-Fight Begun on
Third Term Candidates.
BY N. o. MESSENGER.

CHICAGO, October l1.-There is to be
no slackening down OF the campaign as
a result of the disabling OF Col Roosevelt
beyond the withdrawal OF MS personality
from the fight. Leaders of both the
opposing parties insist that the campaign
riIst be waged to a finish.
Henceforth, however, the speechmaking
will deal less with personalities and more
with policies. There will be a let-up on
calling people liars. crooks and other inn
polite things. and the attention OF the
voters will be drawn to some Of the
essential differences between the plat
forms of the opposing parties.
View of w. J. Bryan.
William ]. Bryan. speaking at Franklin.
Ind, yesterday, said:
Neither Col. Roosevelt nor his friends
could ask that the discussion be turned
away from the principles that are involv-
ed. Ii he is elected President 1t should
be because Of what he has done in the
past and what he proposed to do. A
maniac. however cowardly and dastardly
his deed, is not the arbiter to whom to
submit a presidential contest.
1T is embarrassing to discuss Mr..
while he is suffering from the murdcrous
assault made upon him.
II would rather occupy the time in
denunciation Of the deed and in ex-
preston of sympathy for him and hopes
for his speedy recovery. but the issues
of this campaign should not be deter
mined by the act Of madman. They
must be settled by the sane rather than
the insane"
Challenge Is Accepted.
For that matter, however, Col. Roose-
welt has himself urged keeping up a
hot campaign. and Mr.. Beveridge de-
livered the colonels message correctly
at Louisville last night. The republic
cans and democrats eagerly accept his
, challenge and politics will blaze from
now until election day.
This region continues to be. the main
battle ground for the present. In op-
position to the prominent speakers
coming here for the republicans, as anr
nonnced noun in previous s!nI. dispatches; ~
their big guns. Gov. johnson OF Calf
fornia arrives tomorrow for two-day
speaking tour. Oscar Straus OF New
York will be on the stump. Miss Jane
Adams Of Hull House, addressed a
smashing big meeting today.
Gov. Marshall of Indiana arrives today
to begin a stumping tour for the demo-
Gratis, which will take him eventually to
the coast.
Edward p. Dunno. democratic candi-
date for governor of this state. left last
night for trip down state. II believe
that the ticket will bring to Chicago
plurality of from $1,000 to 10000 votes,
said Mr.. Dunno.
Majority for Wilson.
+ "For eight months 1 have been speak
ing in every section OF Illinois. Judging
from what have seen and heard during
the past months can conscientiously say
that the majority of the citizens OF the
state will vote for the democratic candi-
dates from Gov. Wilson down on cleo
ton day, November *.
The Bede-Harlan combination Is broken
up. Adam Bede spoke yesterday in mus
catine, Iowa, confining his remarks to
what he termed the achievements Of the
republican party during the Taft admin
istration and interspersing his defense OF
Taft's record with jokes. Mr.. Bede re-
Trained from the attacks which he had
made against Col. Roosevelt from the
time he and John NJ. Harlan started on
the trail until the colonel was shot in
Milwaukee. The name OF the colonel was
used only once and then 1t was only
with reference to the contest cases at
the republican national convention.
John +. Devine, acting for the repub-
terday to put all the third termer's coun-
ty candidates off the ticket at the Novem-
ber election. A protest against the ac-
ceptance of the nominating petition filed
for those candidates was entered in the
offices Of both the county clerk and the
election commissioners.
Protest Is General.
The Devine protest was general. affect.
ing all county candidates and the candi.
dates for municipal court offices. the
Judges and the chief bailiff and clerk. Also
individual protests were filed against the
petitions of all the third-termers' legisla-
tive and congressional candidates in Cook
county. 1t was understood also that
protests would be filed against the peti-
tions Of third-termers' state candidates.
but Roy o. West, the republican state
chairman. was of the opinion that those
petitions would not be protested. as only
l 900 signatures are required for them.
The protests filed against the petitions
of the county and legislative candidates
are general i'm their terms, the chief alle- !
CATION being that they are insufficient as
they do not bear the signatures Of the re-
quired number of voters qualified to sign. |
1t also is alleged that many OF the sig |
spring primar ries and OF others who are !
not registered voters. 1t also is claimed |
in the protests against the petitions OF |
legislative candidates that various sign /
erS of legislative petitions are not resi- |
dents of the districts in which the candi- |
date whose petition they signed wishes to |
run.