The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-15
STATE PROTEST
IN PRIMARIES;
DEMOS CHARGE
CopIey and Ireland Vote Indication
of Failure Says Harrison;
Tariff Fight
Washington News Bureau.
Rock Island Argus.

Pausing in its debate on the agricul-
tural appropriation bill late this
week, the United States senate took
time off TO analyze the results of
the general primary in downstate
Illinois. as it affected sitting mem
bers of the present congress.
Senator Pat" Harrison, Demo-
crat, of Mississippi, dragged the
Illinois election into the discussion.
The Mississippi senator, who was
one of the managers of Governor
Cox's campaign in 1920. claimed
that the results of the primary
down-state showed distinct trend
in public sentiment against tho
members OF the sitting congress in
Illinois,"
There was one very distinguish
ed Republican leader, a member of
the ways and means committee of
the house, Endorsed by the admins
tration in all the papers of his dis
trict of which he owned three"
Senator Harrison declared in his
speech in the senate.
Il refer to Representative Ira C.
Copley. Practically all of the pa
pers in this district carried the en-
dorsement of Mr. Copley by Joseph
w, Fordney, author of the tariff bill
which recently passed the house and
which, after being redrafted by the
senate finance committee, has Just
been reported to the senate 1 I'M
derstand there was Republican,
Frank r. Reid, running in that pri-
mary against Mr.. Copley, who criti-
clSed some of the administration
policies, and was unsparing in his
structures of the votes cast by Mr..
Copley. The result was that Mr..
Copley was defeated by more than
four thousand majority. One of
the other sitting members of the
house who was up for denomination
and who had a contest was Clifford
Ireland of the Sixteenth district.
He was. of course, defending his
record in that contest as a friend
of the present administration. He
also went down TO defeat"
Republican members of senate
end house, particularly of the Hi
nois delegation, scofed at Harri-
sons speech and pointed to the vic
tory of Representatives.
Richard Yates, who swept the state
with large majority against half
a dozen aspirants.
Farmers Dissatisfied.
The Democrats here insisted,
however, that it was significant
that the only two sitting members
who had opposition in their own
districts were decisively beaten on
their records during the present
congress. Senator Harrison and
other Democratic leaders claimed
that both Copley and Ireland re-
lied upon support in rural districts
To offset majorities fer their op-
pOnents in the cities and that i'll
both instances the farmers failed
TO support the sitting member
Ex-Governor Yates was showered
with congratulations by his col
leagues in the house. The results
of the Illinois primary were slow to
reach Washington but they created
stir in the house as we'll as in
the senate. Chairman Fordney of
the ways and means committee,
who had written a letter of en-
Corsement for both Illinois con-
gressmen, expressed regret at their
defeat.
Senator Capper. Republican, Kan
sas, head of the farm bloc" in the
senate had also written a letter of
endorsement for Copley, with whom
be is on close personal terms.
Il am well satisfied with the re-
turns" Senator Mckinley declared
when the results of the fight be-
tween Republican candidates for
the state central committee were
called to his attention. Senator
Mccormick hailed the results of the
primary fight in Cook county as a
victory which will aid him in his
contest for denomination in 1924.
Wholesale and retail merchants
of Illinois. who have flooded Wash
ington with petitions against a tar
if based on the American valuation
plan apparently won their fight this
week when the senate received the
tariff bill from the finance COM
mittee.
Illinois manufacturers generally
Ia fOltu tue aiAGl lIdA
plan, filing petitions TO that effect
with Senators Mccormick and Nc
Kinley, but the bill reported to the
senate is based on foreign valua-
tons.
The Illinois senators are prepar-
ing to offer amendments when the
bill is under consideration by the
senate, increasing the tariff duties
on certain Illinois products which
it is claimed are not adequately pro-
tected under the bill. Knit goods
manufacturers of Rockford and
chemical companies of East st.
Louis, are among the concerns
which have asked for higher duties
than the bill provides.
The national capital is about to
take a leaf out of Illinois book in
road building. according to Major
+. s. Besson, assistant to the en-
gineer for the District of Column
bia, who has just returned from a
trip to Springfield.
Major Besson went to Illinois 10
observe tests which are being con-
Quoted on a state road two and a