The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-11
POLITICAL POT
DOWNSTAIRS
SET SETTLING
Rum0rs. Denials, Candidates. and
Refirements FIJI Air; "Uncle
Joe" Fights for Danviile.
Washington News Bureau.
Rock Island Argus.

!
tricts from Chicago to Cairo are
still wagging as the result Of i'm
1 portant announcements this week
/ touching several leading downstate
congressman.
Announcement by Representative
Rodenberg, East st. Louis, that he
is not a candidate to succeed HIM
self, the emergence of Ed Hull, Pc
oria, as a primary opponent of Rep
resentative Clifford Ireland OF the
same city, an official denial in
Washington by Loren E. Wheeler,
/ Springfield, of the. persistent ru-
mors that he has retired, and the
departure of Henry T. Rainey for
Carrollton where he will sound the
/ Democratic keynote" for the con-
gressional campaign this week are
Jew of the events of the week
which greatly interested Illinois
ans at the national capital.
| Friday was the first day for the
filing of petitions for the April
+ primary. Representative Ireland,
Peoria, was the only downstate
member who expected primary OPP
( position, but the lists are open
until March 10, and until that date
| arrives several other DOWNSTAIRS
will be on the axious seat.
Representatives Charles E. Full
Ter, Belviderej Guy l.. Shaw,
Beardstown; Allen Moore, Monticel-
10; Loren e. Wheeler, Springfield;
Thomas S. Williams, Louisville;
! Edward j. King, Galesburg; Frank
H. Funk, Bloomington; and John
! C. Mckenzie, Elizabeth, are not
counting on opposition in the pri-
mary.
There has been talk of an oppo-
nent for Ira c. Copley. Aurora, Hi
nois member of the ways and means
committee, who was nominated by
a narrow margin in 1920, but 1t is
thought now that Copley has elm
mated opposition within the Re
publican ranks in his district FL
forts have been afoot in the -Four
teenth district to get a man out
against william ]. Graham, Aledo,
but it is now reported in Wash
( ington that the plan has been def
initeIy abandoned. Representative
I Wheeler nipped several prospec-
tive Republican candidates in the
bud last week by denying report
, to the effect that he would not again
| be a candidate.
Probably the hottest primary
! fight in the state will center at Pc
oria, in the Sixteenth congressional
district, where Ed Hull, delegate
from Illinois to several Republican
conventions and for many years an
organization leader in central Illi-'
nois, announced himself openly
early in the week against Ireland.
Raise SWEET Issue.
| Hull is a former distiller and un-i
| doubtedly the wet and dry issue will
! be projected prominently into the
primary campaign. Ireland is pre-
| pairing to return homo soon to wage
an active fight for denomination.
/ Hull himself has been making an
active canvass of the district and
the Republican organization is split
wide open by the impending cam
paign between two Republicans who
have heretofore been in close al
! lance.
State Treasurer Ed Miller has al |
ready announced himself formal
| ly as candidate for the nomina-
ton to succeed Representative
Rodenberg in the Twenty-secondl
district. He was secretary to Rod
enberg here for more than a decade, |
and is known to most of the down
state members now in congress.
Representative Rodenberg laugh |
ed today when confronted with re-
ports from Illinois that he had been
considered as minister to Switzer
land, successor of Will Hays as
postmaster general, and governor
of Haiti He has declined to dis
close his future plans which he
declares are unsettled, but the po-
litical gossips are specializing on
his statement last Tuesday in which |
he declared that his retirement does |
not mean the end of his "active par
ticipation in politics"
Beaten this week in the vote TAX |
en- by the. senate judiciary commit |
tee. Uncle Joe" Cannon has not yet |
admitted final defeat in his effort |
to get an additional United States |
district judge, sitting at Danvllle, |
in the eastern Illinois district.
The senate committee this week |
Topped off nine of the % district |
judges carried in. the house judi |
cial bill, reducing the number OF |
additional judges to IS. Illinois was |
allowed only one additional judge,
to sit in the northern district, the |
Danville judge being eliminated.
Uncle Joe" has set his heart on /
obtaining an additional Judge for !
Danville, which lost the seat of the |
eastern district court by the recent !
removal of the court to East st. (
LOUISE
Uncle Joe is the pet of the house, |
and this is his pet BILL" Represent |!
ative-at-large Yates commented re-
Gently on the judicial bill, and it !
went through the house with fly !
ing colors. 1t has encountered OBJ |
stacles before the senate commit |
tee, but Senator Mckinley of Illi- |
nois has agreed to do what he can !
to have the Danville judgeship re-
stored when the measure reaches /
the floor of the senate.
II have nothing to say" Mr.. Can
non remarked here today, when ,
asked for his view of the legislative |
situation, "but we are not through |
yet"
Representative Joseph Walsh, one
OF the high ranking members of the
house judiciary committee and /
chairman of the subcommittee !
which drafted the house judiciary !
bill, declared he believes the Dam
vile judgeship will be restored in |
conference between the two houses
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