The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-19

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46mp6on- Lundin attempt to elect
I xate ticket and secure control b.
~ slais government was MERCK
ely asraigned BY Governor Frank
a Lovden in his first public ad-
800 Of the campaign here last ev-
Seine. The result OF the contest
I m determine whether 1undin
4 I'm become the de facto governor
n fjlinois as well % the de facto
/ Sayor Of Chicago. and whether or
- the socialistic, demagogic
thompson platform shall be the
slsfform OF Illinois Republicans,
~ governor said.
He rscounted the attempt to force
~ Thompson platform on the state
eonyention and told Of the effort to
intimidate him by threats OF opposi
"a to his candidacy for the presi-
11ncy in the national convention.
lrnin an effort was made to force
ia to withdraw opposition to the
reelection OF Mayor Thompson as
RATIONAL committeeman by threat Of
the hostility Of all the forces Of the
rtity government during the national
convention in Chicago.
Fight for Principle.
I This has not been q fight, SO far
4 am concerned, upon personal
grounds" the governor declared.
II has been a fight for principle
which regard vital to the welfare
81 our state and nation"
The governor said in part:
This is not a factional contest
within the Republican party. It is
j fight being waged by those Re-
publicans of Illinois, who avow full
sllegiance to the principles express
sed by the Republican party at the
national convention in June. against
those who wish to substitute for
The national platform another plat
form, partly socialistic and alto
getier demagogic.
f.That platform is known as the
Thompson platform. It advocates
the confiscation Of property, it seeks
to arouse class hatred. it imperils
\the title Of every home owner to his
home and every farmer to his farm.
Never in the history Of parties In
America has any party. save the
most radical Socialist party, ever
submitted to the country platform
% revolutionary as this so-callei
Thompson platform.
I'VE knew that the Lundin-
Thompson forces had created a
Tsmmany as ruthless, as autocratic.
u expensive to the people as had
sser existed in the city Of New
York. We knew that they had adopt
Il the principle that government
vas for the benefit, not of the gov
erned, but solely for the benefit
Of those who govern. We did not
know, however, until their platform
Vas presented to the world, that
they proposed to use this Tammany
they had created to subvert the
fundamental principles Of consti-
tutional government.
Cost LOwden Vote.
Before our state convention met
| learned that they proposed 10
force their platform upon the Re-
bublicans of Illinois. resolved to
! fight this betrayal of the Repub-
lican party with whatever power !
possessed. I was warned time anu
time again, that such opposition on
my part would cost me the votes Of
seventeen delegates to the national
convention, controlled by the city
hall. l was reminded that seventeen
delegates against me from my oYn
state would probably cost me the
nomination. l replied that there
we're many things more important
To me than the nomination to the
presidency and among them was my
duty to my own state, which has SO
highly honored me. The shame OF
Illinois was too big a price to pay
even for the presidency.
The convention assembled in
Springfield. All the state knows
what happened there. Lundin was
% the ground. in charge Of the
forces Of the city hall. The Cook
county platform was overwhelming
y defeated, and the honor Of Illi-
nois was saved. Then it was that
NE Lundin- Thompson Tammapy
! discovered what q wicked admins
ration had given to the state. For
ne committee on resolutions, al
most evenly divided between the
thompson adherents and my friends