Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1914-04-11
THE SENAT0RShIP

essary. Only those candidates will be
permitted to have their names appear
on the leagues little ballot who have
openly affiliated themselves with the
league and are in accord with the anti.
Sullivan propaganda.
AT present. Congressman Stringer
Is not eligible as a referendum candi.
date because he has not signed up. Il
was learned at anti.Sullivan headquar.
ters: nor Is james G. McShane, unless
he becomes full.fedged league ad.
herent."
The fact that league" like this
Is permitted to run at large is a seri.
Gus reflection on that portion of our
city and state governments TO which
the care of detention hospitals is COM
mitted.
The Sherman.Deneen senatorial
fight Is warming up. Ever since that
famous banquet of the Thirty.second
Ward Republican club where Sher.
man praised Deneen. Sherman has
been under fire.
Deneen men allege that after the
election Of Mr.. Sherman his friends
began fight upon Mr.. Deneen and
his friends. The first attack upon Mr..
Deneen alleged was made under the
guise Of recalling Roy O. West as
chairman of the state committee, and
an effort was made to convene the
committee for that purpose. This
failed. Next the 1916 club was organ.
lied with Edward J. Brundage at its
head. Mr.. Brundage was the bitter
enemy of the former governor
throughout his administration, and
Brundage's friends and supporters. II
IL charged, did everything they could
to oppose the governors measures In
the general assembly. to oppose his
denomination at the primaries OF 1908
and later to defeat him at the elec-
ton. MIR. Brundage's speeches were
published In the Democratic campaign
book after the nomination Of Mr. DE.
neen In 1908.
Mr.. Brundage now Is apparently In
open alliance with the Lorimer Repub.
leans, It Ia alleged, and Is doing ev.
erything no can to defeat the former
governor and his friends, and Senator
Sherman's most intimate friends and
campaign managers throughout the
state have been making an effort to
build up a statewide organization
against Mr.. Deneen. say the cham.
pions of the former governor.
Oh, this Illinois senatorial battle Is
rich one. A New York dispatch
says: "Barratt O'Hara. Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois, is also candidate
for United States senator, and Is head.
ed toward a Massachusetts, mill town
with his wife. where both will go to
work as mill hands. Temporarily they
are enjoying luxurious quarters In Ho-
tel Broztell.
"I'm going to get the best job In a
New England factory that can get,
said O'Hara, and SO Is my wife. be-
cause we want to find out what our
respective economic values are In the
eyes of a mill owner
when this question has been an.
swered for the lieutenant governor
and Mrs. O'Hara they will 60 to fac
tory town In the South and get the
best day laboring jobs they can corral.
Mr.. and Mrs. O'Hara then will return
to Illinois. where the lieutenant gov.
ernor during the four months of cam
paigning for the senatorship will use
on the stump his practical knowledge
of factory conditions"
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FRANK Gates Allen OF Moline, who IL
a wealthy pillow manufacturer. is the
J only Progressive prominently men
toned by members Of his party for
United States Senator. He is man
of high character and splendid attain
ments.
Harry Woods friends call attention
to the fact that at the 1912 primary
Woods received SASS votes more than
Barratt OHara's and Frank Conner
fOrd's votes added together, in the 1O1
counties In Illinois outside of Cook
They say he will double discount them
In the Senatorial race.
The Lawyers Association of Illinois
has elected the following officers fol
1914:
President-Edward Maher.
First vice-president - Newton Wy
eth.
Second vice-president-A. A. Wors
ley.
Secretary-Frank N. Moore.
Treasurer--Harry Brown.
Resolutions were adopted deplorini
the death of Miss Mary Miller, an at
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