The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-07

FOR BAT lie 70
CRAB II SEATS
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- LEGAL Issuess CsEning Fights
to Keep Llsusr.

,anDched In East St. Louis last
v,,d.y evening by Senator Thad-
1.,s II. Caraway. Arkausas,> 9nd
"A Senator Mccormick alSEady
= he road in the midst Of . tour
p, Rspublican candidates, the 1872
syAt for Illinois "a seats In the
,eee house has started in good
esrnegt.
Il vas announced here today that
usybert Hoover, secretary of com
-s,ce. has been tentatively en-
s1sed to speak in Springfield Oct.
n mis- meeting IL being arranged
81 the Republican congressional
emmittee's speakers bureau here
IA has not yet been finally con-
Sfmed.
On the whole, the campaign In
Illinois this year 10 not to be 80
GATED as in many neighboring
iates, due to the fact that neither
~ governorship nor the senator
stip are at stake next month. Only
few state officers are TON chcs-
a and the contest ID therefore con-
aned to candidates for the lower
house.
Il is apparent from activities at
fha Headquarters of the Democrat
Il congressional committee here
fhat the Democrats are being EN-.
harrassed from lack Of funds. This
las curtailed the sp$aking pro-
ram downstate and 1t is unlikely
that more than half q dozen out
!, tide speakers will invade Illinois to
speak for the Democratic candi-
dates.
The East st. Louis meeting WAS
arranged at the request Of L. N.
Perrin, Belleville, members OF the
Democratic state committee, and E.
z. Campbell, Alton. Democratic
candidate for congress from the
Twenty district. They have
asked for another outside speali-
er, Oct. 16, and the headquarters
here have agreed to furnish an ora
tor for the occasion.
Senator's Hefl'n, Stanley. Robin
son and Walsh Of Massachusetts,,
are bearing the burden of the DEM
ocratic campaign in the northern
states and it is likely that speak
ers for Illinois may be selected
from their number. -
The Republicans appear to be
waging a more intensive campaign
but most Of their speakers are be.
Ing scheduled and sent out ovel
the downstate counties from Chi
cago. Senator Mccormick hal
done most OF the speaking himself
thus far, but he will be Joined latei
BY Republican senators from othel
states and probably by Secretar!
Hoover.
Reports reaching here indicate
that most of the congressional con-
tests are being fought out on IT,
sues which have been agitated To-
cally and that candidates on both
sides are chary Of speakers from
4 outside whose arguments might
4 not fit in with their own.
The Republican and Democratic
chieftains are watching with par
ticular interests the fights in thu
Sixteenth, Eighteenth. Nineteenth
Twentieth, Twenty-frst, Twenty
second and Twenty-third districts
Y Demos Count Victories.
n In the Twentieth and Twenty
third districts. the Democrats arr
counting upon certain victorie:
over the present incumbents, Rep
ressntatives Guy L. Shaw. Boards
town, and Edwin B. Brooks, New
ton. These have always beer
sDemocratic strongholds until re
cent years, and Henry T. Rainey
Cafrolton, represented the Twenti
eth District for two decades.
The fight in the Sixteenth dis
trict is of particular interest u
politicians here because Of the i'm
u portance Of the wet and dry ques
don as an issue. The Republican
nominee is Ed Hull, Peoria, q for
mer distiller, who won the nomi
Mton over Representative Clifford
ireland. Jesse Black. q lawyer o
Pektn, Is vagtng an active figh
-a!atnst Hull on a dry platform
while Hull has declared openly fol
nght Wines and beers. The dis
rict is normally Republican bu
" Democratic leaders at head
eearters here believe they have /;
enance to carry it. The Republi
ans dispute this claim and ais
eeclare they will win safely in eacl
q the other districts in Illinci
hamed above.
The only Illinois congressman
seo has thus far signified an in
0atlon of going out Of his own dis
a'ct to help his colleagues is vii
nam A. Rodenberg, East st. Louis
uqenberg, not a candidate for re
s,eeelon himself, will speak in tn
lWnty-fdurth district for Con
ssaman Thomas s. Williams. an,
p.ubly in TIE Springfield and De
U districts for Loren e. Wheel
9M Allen F. Moore.
Because owners of 10000 barrel
WHISKY now stored In the Corn
distillery warehouse at Peori
- the loss of thousands of gal
na OF their stock by "spillage" il
process Of moving IT, pre-ws
eks Of liquor there may remain
neir present storage places In;
- OF going to q central concen
pon warehouse.
waen the proposal for coucen
on warehouses was ffts
mAcned here. several former dis
at Peoria asked that one L
%ed Tor that city. evidently fis
s that II would make thei
sperty safer than 1t il at pres
ne Corning stock, however,
.r the largest still existing 1
ormer distiiling center. Muc
= has been aging more them te