Evening star., 1920-10-01
.HARD|NG-M'K|NLEY
VICTORY IN ILLINOIS
SEENAF TER FIGHT
G. o. P. "TidaI Wave to Car
ry Both In"- -GubernatoriaI
Situation Doubtful.
BY n. o. MESSENGER.

CHICAGO, October 1.-Your old
friend. James Hamilton Lewis. as we'll
known and liked in Washington as
in Seattle. New York or Chicago, who
is now democratic candidate for gov
ernor in this state. looks with great
satisfaction at the pretty kettle of fish
the republicans of Illinois have cook
ed for themselves He strokes his ia
nous aauburn whiskers" carelessly,
mods his head approvingly and allows
that most decidedly he proposes to
have Took in" on that governorshlp
fight.
He observes with delight the re-
publicans trying to dig themselves
out of the mass. Of charges of fraud,
misuse of money and all kinds of rep
rehensible things in the primaries
which they heaped upon each other.
They said the things about one an
other the democrats did not say
them.
"Let Me Assist
T Can't you imagine hearing him say:
my dear fellows, allow me to assist
on the other chaps" and. whereupon.
he calls in Attorney General Palmer
and the Department of Justice, with
a staff or federal investigators. to as
sist the republican factions, against
their will, perhaps, to prove a true
bill.
Meanwhile the republican factions
are trying their utmost to unsay '''those
cruel words" and to bring peace to
the family. There is candle in the
window to light the erring daughters
return to the old homestead, which
is attended and trimmed sedulously
by the republican national committee,
now thoroughly exercised at the
alarming condition of affairs in state
politics.
Harding Not in Jeopardy.
The national committee does not
apprehend that the trouble among
the republicans over the state offices
will affect the presidential ticket.
The factions always pause long
enough in their tomahawking of each
other to assure the national leaders
that the . presidential ticket is all
right, and whatever betides the state
ticket the republican presidential
electors will get the combined repub-
lican vote of the state.
This promise was given practical as
surance by the meeting in Chicago
yesterday of the two state commit
tees and the agreement upon slate
of electors Representative Frank
tion for United States senator, will be
the dominant figure in state politics.
and, of course. will assist the national
ticket in every way.
Thompson Must Help.
1t is pointed out that Mayor Thomp-
son of Chicago must OF necessity see
to it that his friends put over the ma
tional and state tickets. SO as not to
endanger the county ticket, which is
of more value to the mayor and his
friends than the presidency. governor
ship and senatorship combined. The
election of county judge, who controls
all the election machinery Of Cook
county (Chicago), is of more import
ance to the mayor than the United
States senatorShip.
With such a large preponderance of
! uneducated voters in the big city it
| would be diffiucit matter to instruct
! in discriminating cutting of the ticket.
So the rank and file will probably be
/ told to vote the straight republican
| ballot.
| Split Is UnOrganized.
| At any rate. there is no organized
movement for a split among the repub-
licans at the ballot box, and without
| such definite organization for that
purpose it is admitted to be unlikely
| to make a split effective. Moreover
| the men who are playing in with Mayor
! Thompson. :terate and reiterate that
/ they have no animosity against the ma
| tional ticket ana Tor tne leaders TO Tor
get it, and consider Harding as good
i as put over now
The factional fight over the governor
ship nomination takes on a more serious
aspect by the threatened resort to court
proceedings. on the part of the sup
porters of Candidate Oglesby. This
move is deprecated by many repub-
Icans, who had found satisfaction in
the division of the nominations as came
about in the primaries.
The nomination of Representative Nc
Kinley as the republican candidate for
! United States senator. assured the sup
mort of the Mccormick faction of re.
nnblicans to the senatorial ticket be-
vond shadow of doubt If Small
should be declared the gubernatorial
candidate it would mollify to degree
the Cook county republicans and would
be accepted by downstate republicans
as the fortunes of war. and he would
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