Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-05
c. Q. FRACTIONS
|NB|T7ER CONTEST
Chicago Is battle-ground,
With Terrific Pace Set, as
Primaries Draw Near.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

PRIMARIES UrdW Near.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
! CHICAGO. September 4.-This city
| is now the battle-ground for Illinois
bitter republican campaign. and local
politicians stand aghast at the ter
| rifle pace that the different factions
are setting as the primary election
draws near. Never before has there
been SO much mudslinging in a. cam
paign. and it will take years to re-
| move the scars Of battle. Though not
candidates Gov. Lowden and. Mayor
Thompson are by mutual consent the
! factional leaders in the contest. Both
, are taking the lead in the speech
making, and never before have such
| crowds attended political rallies in
this CITY,.
Thompson Likely to Lose.
Indications are that the Thompson
state candidates are on the toboggan
| outside of Cook county, while they
seem to be holding their own in Chi
cago. This should give the victory to
the anti-Thompson republicans who
are backing Lieut.. Gov. John G.
| Oglesby for governor, Representative
William B. Mckinley for United
States senator and Secretary OF state
L. l. Emerson for denomination. The
Idownstate women are expected to
vote largely against Thompson. while
in this city they probably will go as
| their husbands or male relatives vote.
| The debauch of money Is something
astounding. There seems to be no
limit to what the city hall organiza-
ton has to spend. The mails are clog
eed with Thompson literature, and
| the expenses of all factions may go
l to the 81. 0OO, 900 mark before the NO
| vember election.
! Governor Gets Mayors Goat.
| It is evident that Gov. Lowden has
got Mayor Thompson's goat, for never
before has Thompson shown such pit
terness in his public utterances.
choice epithets that the mayor hurls
at Lowden. He never fails to refer
Ito the Lowden scandal in missouri
/ and offers little that is constructive
unless there arel good points to be
found in his platform. -.
can national platform into the waste
basket and is campaigning on his own
lutterances, and the candidates who
ARE going along with him have to
swallow the Thompson platform,
which was cleverly constructed for
the purpose of catching votes. The
mayor assails the league Of nations
and says vote for Harding and Cool
lidge, though it is considered that the
city hall leaders are not very enthu-
siastic over the republican national
ticket.
Gov Lowden is going to stump Chi
cago next week and give his version
Of the break between himself and the
mayor. To the average politician it
is evident that Thompson is still
smarting over the two successive de-
feats handed him by Lowden. first
when the republican state convention
rejected the Thompson platform and
second when the mayor was defeated
Nor republican national committee
man. He had builded for year to be
reelected to the national council of
the republicans, and it was bitter
dose for him to take.
L0vvden Shows Even Temper.
Lowden is showing a more even
temper and at times is humorous in
lreplying to the verbal assaults of
lThompson. He never loses his dignity
but he doeb put on the emphasis in
asserting that the Thompson admin
,istration has looted the city treasury
|of Chicago. is now broke and wants
to get its clutches on the millions in
the state treasury and the many more
millions that the next governor can
|expend in road improvements.
Incidentally. there is a county cam
paign on. and the Thompsonites are
lighting Just as hard to put over their
county candidates as to nominate
their friends on the state ticket. For
the first time the factions headed by
Charles S. Deneen and Edward J.
Brundage are united and making
tcommon war on Thompson. Their
local issues are high taxes, high rents,
an empty treasury, a city unable to
meet its obligations and the proposal
to further increase taxation in Chi
lcago through legislation. The re-
sponsibflity for the high taxes and
lrents are thrown on the Thompson
administration. The-city hall organ
ization is making the state utilities
commission its chief target.
| Inconsistencies Noted.
There are many Inconsistencies in
the campaign. Representative Frank
L. Smith, the Thompson candidate for
senator, is backing Frank H. Funk
for Congress, and Funk is a member
LOT the state public utilities commits
sion which the Thompson organiza-
Ition is bitterly attacking. Senator
Barr. the Thompson candidate for at
torney general, has a record for get
Iting the state commission to boost
!rates. and is held responsible for the
lten-cent fare in his city, Joliet
JOHN r. BUTMAN.