Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-29
HULL IS IN RACE
ASA DENEEN man
State Senator Gets in Goyern0rship
Campaign Against the Lowden-
Thompson Combination.
BITTER BATTLE Is IN PROSPECT
Old Republican Foes Are Lining Up
All Forces That Fought in 1904
For Finish Clash.

State Senator Morton D. Hull OF
Chicago yesterday announced himself
a candidate for the republican nomin-
alton for governor.
AS soon as the details can be work
ed out he will have as his running
mates complete state and Cook coun-
ty slate.
Either Senator Hugh Magill of
Princeton, now superintendent of
schools at Springfield, or Logan Hay
of Springfield, likely will be the can
didate for lieutenant governor.
Behind Mr.. Hulls announcement,
which followed an all-night confer
ence at the Union League club, partic-
ipated in by both the conspicuous fol-
lowers of former Governor Deneen
and many prominent Chicagoans, is
lining up of the forces in Illinois for
a restaging, in part at least, of the
memorable battle of 1904, which re-
suited in the nomination of Deneen
for governor.
The Hull candidacy is a call for
rehabilitation of all the forces that
fought in 1904 for finish battle this
year against Frank 0. Lowden, Mayor
William Hale Thompson, and the rem
nants of the Lorimer organization
that won with Yates in 1900 and again
got back into the saddle for a brief
time with the election of Mr.. Lorimer
to the United States senate
The fight will be compromising
and with no quarter asked or given
from Galena to Cairo. In nearly ev-
cry county in the state the Hull-De-
.neen- Magill forces will get behind
county ticket as we'll as wage the
state and congressional fight in the
primary.
The conferees took the position that
neither Lowden nor Colonel Frank L.
Smith of Dwight measure up to the
Hughes standard in the present crisis.
The same opinion was expressed with
respect to Mayor Thompson, the new
national committeeman for Illinois.
Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman, who
signed up with the Lowden-Thomp-
son forces at the Peoria convention
and who since has proclaimed him
self supporter of Colonel Lowden,
is to be put in the Thompson wagon
and assailed along with the others.
Deneen Hopes Involved.
Involved in the big battle also is
the tentative candidacy of Charles S.
Deneen for United States senator to
succeed Senator James Hamilton
Lewis in 1918 The gossip has it that
Mr. Lorimer himself, in the event of
an acquittal in the federal courts of
the charge of contributing to the
wrecking of the La Sale Street Trust
& Savings bank, will seek further
vindication by trying to recover his
seat in the senate in 1918.
The anti-Thompson and anti-Low-
den forces are to have the practically
solid support of the kes-Sergel-Si-
man wing of the late progressive par
ty of Illinois.
The progressive leaders, however
still plan perfunctorily to name a
state ticket in September to retain
their party standing for this last fight
in the event of Hull's defeat in the
primary. In that event, they will go
ahead with their progressive ticket
as a third ticket, which would aid
Governor Deneen again, as in 1912,
by the leaders to be problematical.
The formal announcement of the
Hull forces that they will go to the
mat with the city hall for control of
the Cook county republican nomina
tions in September, particularly the
naming of a candidate for states at
| torney, will come after the meeting
of the county committee tomorrow.
Hull Statement Saturday.
Mr.. Hull himself will formally en-
ter the field Saturday with complete
statement of his position and an ex-
PLANTATION of why he considers it his
duty at this time to lead the anti
Thompson forces in the big fight.
Hull, who has served both in the
| lower house and the senate at Spring
| field since 1906, has been considered
| in the legislature one of the most
! forceful and aggressive leaders of the
progressive wing of the republican
side. Virtually all reform and rem
edial legislation passed by the legis-
lature since 1906 has felt his personal
! influence
Mr. Hull, who is of Independent
means, is the only son of the late
Morton B. Hull, wealthy lumberman
and vice president of the old National
Bank of America. which was merged
into the Corn Exchange National bank.
He was born in 1867, in Chicago, in
cottage on the west side of the
street between what is now Sixteenth
and Eighteenth streets.
After completing his common school
education in Chicago he was gradu-
ated at Phillips Exeter academy, New
Hampshire, and at once entered Har-
ward, where he was graduated with
| the degree A. B. in 1889, He then
| finished the law course at Harvard
graduating with the class Of 1892, and
was admitted to the bar the same year.
He is married and has one son, Den
nison B. Hull, a freshman of Harvard.
He has one sister, Mrs. Keith Spald-
! ing, who was one of the founders of
the Chicago municipal tuberculosis
sanitorium.
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