The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-10-26

men, DESTROYS Of upholding the hands
of the law and contributing to the well
fare Of their country, would know
when they were infringing upon the
statutes of the nation; and now anti
trust legislation has been passed by
the congress of the United States and
awaits the signature of the president.
After this great problem of reform
had been accomplished the president
and his administration were not popu-
| lar. ! believe it was the temporary
! unpopularity with which surgeon is
viewed by his patient. The patient,
| when the anesthetic is being applied,
when the sore is being cut out, when
! the wound is healing, when the band
| ages are put on and taken off day
! by day, when the necessarily slow
| days of convalescence are upon him,
| considers the surgeon the most I'M
! popular man in the circle of his ac-
| workmanship; but, after the wounds
| have healed, after the blood again
! flows freely through the arteries, after
] WI AhPticli bho itAb tIio pobSp oItNA
strength and health and vitality once
more flow through that human body,
! the surgeon is numbered among the
! best of his friends in the category Of
his friendships. Certain things had
| to be done, not for the Democratic
party, but for America; not for a
group of men. but for all the people
of the country, and President Wilson,
a patriot and a statesman, in the short
period of two years has accomplished
these vital things for the people of
the nation.
IF we as citizens, without regard
to party, are proud of our president
and his accomplishments you of Hi
nois should be doubly proud, because
to the people OF Illinois and their
delegation in the Democratic conven-
ton at Baltimore is due the credit for
the nomination Of Woodrow Wilson
for president Of the United States.
Tells of Baltimore Convention.
"You will not have to guess why
am in this campaign, for l shall frank
ly tell you. | was at the Baltimore
convention. l was fighting with hun
dreds Of men in that convention and
with tens of thousands of the younger
men In the Democratic party through
out the nation to keep my party and
its leadership strong for progressive
candidate, a progressive program and
clean leadership all through that
great convention with it's honest rival
ries.
when 1t was apparent that the
great speaker of the house OF repre-
sentatives with the support Of his pa
triotic and loyal followers could not
be chosen an effort was being made
to make a combination which would
defeat the nomination of Mr.. Wilson,
which combination was ready to advo-
cate any candidate not a progressive
and other than Wilson.
"At this critical stage in the con-
vention, when the fate of the Demo
cratic party was hanging In the bal
ance, and, after the delegation from
Illinois, faithful to her pledges by the
primary instructions, had cast AZ con-
tinuous ballots for Champ Clark for
president, I saw a sight that | shall
never forget. This was what l saw,
and as l recollect the facts, a feeling
of the utmost gratitude rises in my
heart to that great leader of Illinois
Democracy whose cause | have come
to Illinois to champion.
after the Illinois delegation had
fulfilled its loyal pledge, in the judg-
ment of Mr. Clarks own managers,
saw the Indicators, and the agents
for financial interests at Roger Sulli-
vans table in the hotel restaurant, in
the Hobbies and the corridors of the
hotel. and in the center aisle of the
Baltimore convention, by every kind
of personal persuasion and political
duress try to lead him away from the
progressive candidate and the pro-
gressive program, and they failed, and
say to you that the Illinois delega-
ton under the honest, wise and patri-
otto leadership of Roger Sullivan,
brought lasting credit to the people of
Illinois by bringing about the nominal
ton of Woodrow Wilson for president
of the United States.
Would End Hypocrisy.
"The Democratic candidate for
United States senator in this contest
Roger c. Sullivan, is opposed be-
cause Mr.. Robins and Mr.. Sherman
: say he is boss. Let Mr.. Sherman re-
: member that Penrose is still in the
Republican party and Cannon still
lives in Illinois; and let Mr.. Robins re.
member this, the same Robins who,
) in the early part of the campaign Of
= 1912, stood with me to advocate Will
: son, and then Topped over to Roose-
) welt, let Mr.. Robins remember this,
: that his idol, Mr.. Roosevelt, tried to
boss his own Progressive party in the
2 state of New York this year by having