Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-05
FIGHT CENTERINC
ON COvERNORSHIP
Leaders Of All Factions to Speed Tn
This Week in Preparation for
the FAN Campaign.
DUNE Is TO HAVE OPPOSITION
Sullivan Supporters Still Hopeful of
Inducing Raymond Robins TO
Become Candidate.

Governorship politics will throw in
the high speed this week and step on
the acceIerator. Progressive leaders
are holding a referendum among the
moose upon the q. O. +. candidate for
governor. Sullivan democrats de-
Clared yesterday that they will I'M
/ dOubtedly have an anti-Dunne ticket
| in the primaries They expect to pick
the man they will pit against Cover
nor Dunno by tomorrow or Friday. and
the talk yesterday was that the choice
lies between Raymond Robins of Chi
CagO, Judge Norman L. Jones of Car
Tollton and Bruce A Campbell of East
St Louis.
Meanwhile the Dunno democrats are
preparing to launch a state-w wide cam
paign TO be directed from the Chicago
/ headquarters, while among the repub-
lican candidates, Frank o. LOwden,
Frank L. Smith and Morton D. Hull
VIII proceed to hit it up from the
platform.
Leaders of the Sullivan organiza-
ton are 10 confer today and they NAV
decide upon a gOvernorship candidate.
With the republicans splitting three
ways, the democrats detect POSSIBLE
Iues that Saddle-SOres on the elephant
caused by the September primaries
may not be healed by the time the No
Vember election rolls around. They
are figuring that the republican party
will be more troubled by fractional dis
cord after the primaries than will the
democratic. ad with that in view the
Sullivan forces assert they are search
ing for a candidate who will not only
defeat Governor Dunno at the primar-
les, but will also be strong enough to
the tRp hold batpypr rppU Hi
can wins the nomination.
Raymond Robins, who was chair
man of the progressive national con
veEtiOn, is doomed by many of the
Sullivan leaders. Before the fOrma-
ton Of the moose party Robins was n
democrat Since the moose has shed
its horns indications have not been
lacking that Robins will support Pres
ident Wilson.
Bitter in Campaign.
In the senatOrship, fight of 1914,
wHvu 4ODlnS was progressive candi-
date for senator against Roger c.
Sullivan and /. Y Sherman, he tore
into his rivals with an intensity of
expression that has made it difficult
for the politicians to draw a picture of
Sullivan backing Robins for governor
Some of the leaders in the Sullivan
- Il
entails no fancy fight of the magma
ton for the reason that Robins is re-
garded as perhaps the most forcible
campaign speaker in Illinois. If he
came out as a candidate, they argue,
and took to the platform in his own be-
half. the result would be a statewide
speaking campaign for Wilson and
Robins that might land Illinois in the
democratic column.
All this, which has been in the COS
sip for A week or more. will be con
sidered a tOday's conference. Against
it some of the Sullivan men express 4
doubt whether Robins would enter the
race against Dunno. particularly as a
candidate of the Sullivan organization
and they argue that it might be a
strOnge~ move to put up a down-state
candidate.
If Judge Norman L. Jones Of the
SangamOn circuit court were picked, il
is argued. it would swing into line all
the old Jacksonville segment of the
anti-Sullivan following and in its train
would trot much of the remnants OF
the dyed -in-the-wOOl BTyanites. Con-
gresham Henry T. Rainey is now bit
terly anti-Dunne and in 1914 the Sulli-
van men made his "keynoter" Of the
state convention Judge Jones is a
former law partner of Congressman
Rainey. He took the place on the cir
cult bench made vacant when Owen p.
Thompson. one of the Jacksonville
group" went on Governor Dunno
state utilities commission.
Sounding Sentiment.
The progressive organization is
sounding sentiment to decide what
gOvernOrship candidate to support in
the republican primaries. Harold l.
Ickes. national committeeman, has
sent out a QUESTIONABLE TO 300 promi-
nent moose throughout the state, ask
ing their views. The returns are to
be tabulated in the next few days.
Some prOgressives are opposed to an
Endorsement of Morton y. Hull on the
ground that he was in opposition to
woman suffrage and the initiative and
referendum. Others hold his record
likewise entities him 10 support. Some
argue that it has developed into the
old fight between the Deneen and anti
Deneen factions in Cook county, and
that it might be we'll for the moose to
get behind Frank /. Smith on the prop
ositiOn Of new blood and a new deal"
What position the Anti-SaloOn
league will take is unsettled 1t has
been reported that if Mr.. Hull comes