Evening star., 1916-09-06
Republicans and Democrats
in Illinois Hampered by the
FactionaI Contests.
ALL TO BE GOOD, HOWEVER,
WHEN PRIMARIES ARE OVER
Republicans and Progressive Man
ayers in Full Accord and Confident
of National Victory.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, September 6-As Illinois
politicians feel about the campaign today
the state is bigger than the nation. They
viii have this feeling until the night
of Wednesday. September 49, when the
primaries will be thing of the past and
the state democrats and republicans will
know who is to be who in the party con-
tests.
Republicans in this state today are at
one another's throats and. with less
malevolence in their hearts and with less
clutch to their fingers. the democrats are
likewise. The primary fights are re-
sponsible for condition of something so
much worse than i'll feeling that to the
uninitiated in such matters it would ap-
pear that harmony and shoulder to shoul-
der fighting forever would be impossible.
However. now that the progressives and
the republicans have largely come to-
gether and the democrats of the two fac
tionS are in a mood to be good to each
other in the bigger affairs of political
life. there seems to be reason to doubt
that after the nominations for state offices
are made there will be a clean-cut en-
gagement between the two armies with
the ranks of both solidifed for the fight
Competitors for Honors.
The republicans have three candidates
for the nomination for governor The
democrats have only two who can be
in the fight. For the republicans Frank
0. Lowden. former representative in Con-
gress and a son-in-law of the late George
tVYV1a II L. C,;kh
state republican leader, and Morton d.
Hull, man of progressive instincts but
of republican regularity. are striving for
the chance to run for the governorship
against Edward F. Dunno, the democratic
incumbent.
The republican -factionaIists in this
gubernatorial contest are calling names
Also. they are throwing stones. Look
ing at the hight, one would think that
the chance of harmony had fed forever.
Every once in a while, however, there
comes from the camp of one or the
other of the candidates the promise to
be good no matter how the thing
goes" Mr.. Hughes and Mr.. Fairbanks
must rejoice in their hearts at the fine
words which their ears hear from the
mouths of the republican candidates
for governor of this state, who daily
are hurling word missiles at one an
other, stopping in the process now and
again to throw word flowers at the
heads of the republican national ticket.
The republicans also have factional
troubles over the nominations for other
state Offices, notably the Office of at
torney general. Extreme interest has
been injected into this contest by the
appearance as a candidate of Fayette
s. Munroe, bull mooser. reformer and
literally the man who saved the state
millions by tying up appropriations
which were made by the legislature
and which. as the courts have decided.
should not have been made. Munroe
-, ~
he has thrown an athletic scare into
the camps Of his opponents. and has
made one part of the primary cam
paign take on something of the aspect
Of the affairs of 1912. when standpatter
and bull mooser fought each other all
over the state and added that ginger
and other higher spices to the cam
paign- which gave it seasoned
piquancy and a nothing less than ex-
traordinary picturescueness.
So far the democratic primary
contests are concerned. Gov. Dunno
probably will be renominated.