Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-10-26
REFLECT SENATOR LEWIS.

Senator James Hamilton Lewis in.
augurated his active campaign for re.
election by issuing. as a statement.
the speech which he had expected to
make in Rockford last night had not
the influenza prevented political meet.
ings.
In the preliminary portions of the
statement, Senator Lewis argued that
political and factional lines, as well
as sectional divisions of the country,
have been eliminated by war condi-
tions and other involved matters OF
domestic affairs, reaching the argu.
ment that support of President vii.
son and the present Democratic ma.
tional administration is an immediate
essential to win the war, prepare for
the rehabilitation of the nations that
are at war. and for the solution of
economic questions that confront the
United States.
Senator Lewis, in dealing with the
direct political situation in Illinois,
presented this claim for his own re-
election and the, defeat OF Congress.
man Medill Mccormick, the Republi.
can nominee.
II ask my fellow citizens should
not the administration have the same
aids during those two years to whom
II has confided its policies in the past
and to whom II has committed In con.
fidence the execution of those policies
In the legislative councils
"Will we not aid the president to
keep his faith and TO execute with the
American people utterly the promises
he has made them and to carry out
the policies for which they have been
fighting II we will enable the presi.
dent to continue as his aids for the
future course in the pursuit of these
policies those particular men whom
he has tried and proved, and who,
by their acquaintance with every sub.
ject that has been taken up, are
equipped with all knowledge neces.
sary TO the complete service of the
president and of their country along
the lines of those policies which these
particular trusted aids helped shape
in form and helped express In legis'
lative declaration?
dSh my VI NY S'u''
what possible aid could it be to the
president for them to select a gentle.
man with whom he had never coun.
seled, who, for reasons which the
president had never had the conf
dence OF the president or the conf
dence Of the administrations gen.
tleman who confessedly has remained
a critic OF all its political policies
and never AT any one time could find
anything to praise in any achieve
ment of any of the departments of the
administration in the execution OF its
war policies?
II concede that my opponent has
the right 10 be opposed to the presi'
dent. He has the right to be his
critic. 1t is his right to oppose the
administration. II is his privilege
10 do all he can 10 obstruct it and
10 inaugurate and carry out any de-
sign with any help he can summon
that can prevent its success in the
things that it undertakes. These are
matters for eachN mans personal
standard
But | ask my fellow citizens if
such a man, having neither influence
with the administration nor conf,
dence of the cabinet or any member
nor the trust of the president in any
purpose or object, and who in ad'
dition 10 this is wholly ignorant of
the policies and purposes which the
president and the administration may
have. and who in the nature OF things
must ever remain sO-One to whom
none OF these personal condolences
can ever be communicated
a gentleman in such situation be nov
chosen by Illinois, where there is no
political issue nor political party and
where the only question is, What
servant can best serve the govern,
ment at Washington and the state OF
Illinois in the United States senate al
this particular crisis and for the par,
ticular things which our countrymen
have decreed Wilson and his admin,
istration shall execute?
Il answer; Only those men
whether called Republican or Demo
crat-who in the senate or in the