Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-12
BISHOP OF THIS DIOCESE OF EPISCOPAL
CHURCH WHO is A FREQUENT VISITOR TO
THIS CITY MAY ENTER CONGRESS RACE

u. EDWARD FaWcett, OF the diocese OF
Quincy to which the Episcopal
,hurches of this section are attached.
or congress. The bishop is popular
lot only in the diocese of which he is
he head, but throughout the state and
las many close friends and ardent ad-
mirers in Rock Island, which he fire.
luently visits in the performance Of
his ecclesiastical duties. He is hard
churchman and brilliant or
ator,
At the outset OF Americas entrance
into the war, he was chaplain and
captain, went into the
training camp with the regiment OF
which the company of Quincy was a
and hoped to remain through
the war and was deeply disappointed
when through new alignment OF the
troops, he was relieved Of his duties
The last time he was in Rock Island
was at the conservation of Bishop
Granville Hudson Sherwood, and he
came then in his soldiers uniform
which he wore beneath his robes Of
Office. He is an earnest supporter o.
this country's part. in the great wal
which he declares is the fulfillment o
the nations highest, noblest and mos
righteous mission.
Now the Quincy Herald has brough
the bishop out for congress. 1t its is
sue of yesterday it says:
Bishop Edward Fawcett!
1t has a mighty good sound to
the ears Of thousands of persons
in western Illinois!
How would Congressman Ed
ward Fawcett sound?
A good many people in this part
of western Illinois think it would
sound mighty we'll. SO well, in
fact, that they believe that he
could sweep the old Fifteenth ILL
| nois district, despite the fact that
| it has a Republican majority OF
from 5000 to 1000.
Is Bishop Fawcett candidate
| for congress? He is not. Will he
make a hard fight for the con-
gressional nomination? He will
not. Will he make campaign II
nominated by the Democrats on
straight-out Woodrow Wilson
fight-the-war to the finish and
standby the administration plat
form? He probably will. He will.
if convinced that he can thereby
become of the greatest service In
putting into definite form the
principles for which he stands.
Naturally, he is rather backward
about committing himself on such
an important step in his career.
Scholar that he is, he wants to
consider every side of the ques-
ton before making a decision. He
. is, by no means. an offlce-seeker
and the movement to nominate
him for congress came as the
greatest surprise to him. But
: once in the race, watch out for
him. The fighting bishop will be-
come the fighting champion OF
Americanism on the stump, and
where's the man who can stand
up against him?
1t is known to be fact that
many of the most prominent and
2 influential Democrats of this cOun-
] ty and district have urged Bishop
D Fawcett to accept the nomination
and oppose Edward J. King. The
bishop has been most outspoken
y in criticism of Mr.. King for his
1 anti-war and anti-conscriptior
: votes and his decision at the time
D when the nation should have beer
united on the greatest problem
that ever faced it. The bishop
5 has been the most outspokeI
J. champion of out-andout Ameri
S canism in this section of Illinois
and gradually the sentiment ha
grown that he would be the logl
7 cal man to oppose Mr.. King. h
! is probably the the best know
| man in the district and woul'
| make a candidate around whom
| all those forces who believe II
! fighting the war to the hnis
! could rally with confidence tina
!, the Fifteenth Illinois would b
III represented by one of the bigges
III men in congress. The Flfteent
- Illinois needs man OF Blsho
Fawcett's courage, vision, lntel
~ lect and standing.
~ At any rate, many Of the bigges
20 men in Quincy today are talkin
~ Fawcett- for-congress. If Edwar
~ J. King is renominated they thin
u that Bishop Fawcett is the logici
III man to make the race on the-Den
ocratic ticket. In addition
~ Democratic support he would al
- peal to every voter in the dlstrl'
~ who believes in his sturdy an
ns outspoken type of Americanism.
'u Bishop Fawcett preached serI
to the Quincy Rotarians in the ca
>. dral Sunday, taking his text from
VI Matthew xx-27, whatsoever Will
eh chief among you, let him be your
want" and in the course or MS
mon the bishop said:
Leadership waits on service, pr
q increase with service and servic'
- the test value of any mans lie
any mans pretensions and OF
he mans business.
IT, IAN honor to the champions
SO righteousness in the ranks. VINO
ial their willing service are winning
n gratitude and praise OF all the
be ing generations.
10. "Back of our front line OF figh
nd men. and essential to their supper
ar the army of labor. Thankful we
CT we'll be. and the world may BE-
nd the Loyalty of American labor.
BY England and France have lea
am that those who serve the indus
ms arc unite as important to mill
en- Success as the fighting forces.
yer surely there should be no re
why some men should be aske
The give their lives. while other
erumble IL asked to give their tax
va eve are not Democrats and he
l;cans and Progressives ana FRO
ccc;olicts any more.