Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-10-04
SMALL. THE NOMINEE, SHOULD
BE SUPPORTED.

Never has state been more men
aced by the Vaccinations OF jour
nalistic warfare between big" dailies
than is Illinois at the present time,
Sending the commonwealth to bow
vows, while their pet scrap is being
imposed upon the people the Chicago
Tribune and Herald Examiner, in a
bolshevistic attempt to rule or ruin
are building up house OF cards,
which. as surely as sin, will some day
come crashing down to crush them
both, while they air a lot of nonsen-
steal prattle which is as silly as it
is mendacious.
The governorship is the puppet they
are booting about at the will of some
instructed editorial boobs who would
write political wreckage for Illinois
to gain their own selfish ends.
The attitude Of the Chicago morn
ing sheets in the latest developments
of the gubernatorial primary election,
shows that neither has any sincere
hope of harmOnizing republcanism of
Illinois. The battle of before Sep
TENDER Is, il appears, has reached the
swapping and snarlng stage, like two
dogs starting friendly enough over
? a bone, tnen matching strength to
see which of them got it, until one or
both of them died in the attempt
The republicans spoke on Septem
her Is. On that date Len Small, while
not to the liking of thousands Of vo
ters. on the official returns secured
a majority over John G. Oglesby.
Oglesby too, had his legons of enc
mics who fought against his winning
the gubernatorial nomination.
As far as the two men go, the vote
shows there was not much difference
between them in the esteem of Hi
nOs folk Neither occupied the to-
be.envied position of a popular" can
didate-one the whole state could get
behind, and because of his trust
worthiness, ability and stanchness of
purpose be depended on to give Hi
nois for years Of efficient rule Fifty
fifty" describes the popular estimate.
Now comes the Tribune with a
cheap, wardhcaling plan Of political
intrigue for disrupting the party to
heat the Examiner, which, in sim
liar move, agrees with its contempor- /
airy on the single point Of rule or ruin, |
no matter what penalty Illinois pays.
There is a concerted move the Trib I
une and Examiner being agreed there
in. to make James Hamilton Lewis .
the governor. God save Illinois from
that. The whip and his pink Whisk /.
ers were burlesQues enough in the
United States senate without moving
falI IN t1ly
grim tragedy out of the states bust I
ness and executive branches Then .
there is the Northumberland pos /
sibility. as a result Of the idiotic in /
ternal war launched by these two big |
sheets, OF Illinois turning it's cleo /
toral votes over to the league of no.
lions without reservations and the /
democratic party and its six to one /
policy against America.
The plotting Of an independent tick ,
ct through the early stages forcb0Jcs
only total disruption of the republican I
ranks in Illinois. So serious is the +
menace it is about time the highland 4
edness was ended by Interference Of .
the national G Q. =. committee, or 4
else we will see an otherwise sure
state drift over into the Wtson-CoX .
column next November.
There i only one attitude for the .
voter to assume toward the governor .
ship fight. He has said his little piece.
That was done on the 18th OF Septem .
Der, when a whole republican ticket .
was nominated On the face OF the
official returns Len Small was nom
to head the state ticket November ,. /
The party has only one alternative, .
and that is to get out stanchly behind .
Small and elect him If two factions /
of the state are willing to carry their 4
fight into the general election. it is .
now time TO sloW any individuals they
are not nearly as big as the party.
Bury them deep; both, if necessary,
and erase them for all time to come
from any party control. Even elm
mate them from party conferences.
Reduce them to the ranks and see
that in the future they manage no
more than their own votes There
should he no partially in wrecking
the wreCkcrs. Treat EN- rough but
treat them all alike.
Talk of Irregularities in Chicago
wards don't help the situation. That
resolves itself into a case of the pot
calling the kettle black. If there was
crookedncss in Chicago, how much
effect would that crOokcdness have
on the returns Maybe geo or 1000
votes. That is not sufficient reason
for disfranchisment of great many
thousands OF honest. conscientious
folks who voted as their dictates
prompted There has been no assur
ances given that the socalled down
state" was any too regular in its vot-
ing, but the chances are better for
more crookedness in Chicago than
they are down state. There is not the
smnnnlitan idea of right and wrong