Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-15

l is going about its regular business
l quietly and securely. thanks to the
wisdom OF the leaders of the admin
istration.
/ We are in the beginning of new
! times. Congress, in response to pub
! lie demand. opened the door for
amendment Of the constitution of the
United States, and gave the people of
/ the different states the right TO choose
by direct vote their representatives in
the national senate. So. for the first
tine in Illinois history, candidates for
/ United States senator in this cam
paign submit themselves directly TO
the people.
Il am the candidate of my party for
{ United States senator. The nomina-
tion having come to me by a direct
vote of the people. cannot regard it
as personal triumph. l look upon it
as a call TO public service.
We are emerging from an era of
hypocrisy and cant. When the his
tory of our country is written for the
I &c years preceding the present nation
al administration, il will show that
period to have been time of stand
ing pa and pulling back: time when
4
ed for more. careless of whose rights
he invaded: a time when the strong
we're encouraged to band together 10
keep what they had and take what
they could So inten: were they on
getting that they sometimes robbed
each other and picked the pockets of
their own kind, as in the case OF the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad.
1t was an era of economic rever-
SIGN to the law OF tooth and claw
Cant and Hypocrisy Supreme.
Cant and hypocrisy. say, were ev-
erywhere. Those in nigh places talked
much and loudly of robbeT barons and
malefactors of great wealth. then
winked at railroad rebates TO the bar
ons and looked the other way when /
the malefac;ors were az work They /
;old US the trusts were the great en-
omies of the people, and were fostered !
Icy an exorbi;ant tariff. and they gave |
W. relief by revising the tariff-up- |
ward They said our currency law 1
was antiquated. inadequate and unjust,
permitting control Of cur finances by /
favored few-aad they gave us the !
panic OF 1907 to prove it-bu: they
left the law untouched of pen or pen
ell. They pointed on. the wickedness
or .nteriocking directorates, of stock
watering and of unIawfl! combina-
tions: but they helped along the Ten
nesse Coal & Iron deal. and permitted
;he Mellsn regime TO go as far as It
liked in wrecking the railroads OF
New England. They held up to us
the justice CT an income tax to equal
lie the cost of government by shifting
a part of the burden of those who car
ried the tariff load 10 those who prof
tied by the tariff, but they didn't give
us the law.
They gave us half a generation of
promises made to get votes, and bro
ken 10 get campaign contributions
They preached one thing ana -prac-
ticed another until the nation was sat
urated with hypocrisy. even as the
government "a Washington. And the
vices of cant and hypocrisy trickled
downward from the national govern
msnt into our business life and into /
our social life.
AT last the people sickened of
iiet of cant: they revolted agains: the {
al tASd=4Sulp Alde Adu a
regime OF hypocrisy: even those who
we're most earnestly believed in the
)enefcelce OF the party that had been
90 long in power, and who most hon
sstIy glorihed its history. turned in
surgent upon the eliminating hypoc- I
-isy of tariff revision upward. Then !
anne the Baltimore convention, and
Illinois made it possible TO elect to the {
presidency the greatest constructive
statesman of the age-Woodrow VIII {
CT.
Election Marks New Era.
His election was no partisan vic !
cry: # was a victory for RICH: and
Justice and sincerity. l. was vic =
DRY for the people of the United
states. With that even: dawned a
lew day Cor our country. Honesty
md fair dealing with the people took
he place OF chicanary and deceit The :
iu5lic learned that campaign prom
ses could be kept; that a party pledge
made before election Secame Party
litigation after election.
President Wilson's election was a
epudia:ion OF cant. so that the day of !
hypocrisy is passing. We are coming
o a new understanding Of the word n
honesty BY i: We do not now mean /,
mere dollar honesty: re mean mentai I
Icnesty as well. We a-e upon a tine
yhen the people demand mental hon O
sty in all their public officials; when v
nen IN big business All little business I,
viii find that they coEEot succeed &
trough misrepresentation. chicanary
r dsces: We are at point where or r
anized society must understand that q
Re shall be fair. free and open race. c
-ithout special privileges for anyone +
nd without exemptions from the pen n
lilies of wrong-doing- o
We are upon a time when efficien- r.
= is taking the place of sham in gov II
rumental affairs and in business af q