The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-09
IS Bis
WINNER IN
ILLINOIS
Democratic Chief Buries Nc
Adoo and Will Loom Large
at Convention.
BY WILLIAM HARD.

down today to contemplate the
following indicated results:
George e. Brennan Dem.), Chi
cago and Illinois boss" and Len
Small Rep), Illinois governor, &C.
cused of virtually every conceiv-
able public political crime and mis-
demeanor, are today the central
controlling dominant triumphant
figures in Illinois politics in reia-
ton to national affairs.
Brennan stands out today as one
OF the most powerful and influ-
entail personalities In the naming
OF the next Democratic Presidential
nominee in the convention in New
York next June. Brennan has
swept the State for the Brennan
local ticket and for the Brennan
Oninstructed" Presidential delegate
slate: and Brennan is for William
E. Dever, mayor of Chicago, for
President.
McAdOO Is Buried.
The managers of William Gibbs
McAdoo for President, came TO
Illinois fresh from their victories
west OF the Mississippi and south
OF the Potomac and challenged
Brennan. Brennan at that time had
nothing against McAdoo but de-
manded that the Illinois delegation
be left uninstructed" to argue out
its sentiments and decisions in the
convention in New York.
This offer the MeAdoo managers
rejected. They insisted that Bren-
nan be altogether for them or alto
gether against them. They named
their slate of McAdoo delegates at
large and of McAdoo district dele
gates.
Brennan thereupon went out
against them, not to kill MoAdoo
but to assert his control of Dem.
ocratic politics in Illinois. He has
done it. His ''uninstructed" slate of
delegates to the Democratic national
convention seems clearly on the
whole to have overcome and sub
merged the McAdoo slate.
Diminishing details, the large out
come is that Brennan, of Illinois,
now fully ranks with Taggart, of
Indiana. and Murphy, of New York,
among the individual magnetic
magnates" of the Democratic Ma
tional Convention.
McAdoo will have more than one
third of the delegates in the con-
vention. Murphy and Taggart and
Brennan will also have more than
one-third of them. McAdoo on the
one hand and Murphy and Taggart
and Brennan on the other hand,
will have to negotiate.
Brennan is closer to the area of
Western radicalism than either Tag.
CART or Murphy. He knows it bet
ter and can deal with it better.
Brennan is the natural connect
ing tissue. between the Eastern
Democrat conservatism of Taggert
and Murphy and the Western Demo
crat progression or radical;sin of
McAdoo.
Brennan now has proved his dom
nance of the Democrat politics u
the frontier buffer State Of Illinois
between Eastern capitalism and
Western farmer-laborism; and it. ID
he, above all other men, who now
will decide just who the next Dem
ocratic presidential nominee will be
That is the first sure great ma
tional result of the Illinois primary
election. Brennan becomes the key
man in the Democratic National
Convention IN New York next June
The second result is that Len
Small. discredited but renominated
Republican governor of Illinois. has
opened wide breach through
which George Brennan and the
Democratic Party may enter to con-
quer Illinois and thereby perhaps
to conquer the whole country in the
next election.
Small Is Reelected.
Len Small, the most hardened pc.
litical arranger and contriver in the
whole United States, giving hard
roads to such counties as will vote
for him, giving pardons to such
criminals as will go to the polls for
him, using public funds to finance
his reelection, has been reelected.
Defying the whole public service
moral sense of the Republican party
of Illinois, he has been able, by an
adroit use of many sentiments, such
as the labor sentiment, and such as
the Ku Klux Khan sentiment. and
such as the sentiment against a GER
tain dominant morning Illinois news
paper, to give himself a majority
in Illinois and to give a terrific
Presidential vote to Hiram johnson
against Calvin Coolidge and a ter
rifle United States Senatorial vote
to Charles s. Deneen against Medil
Mccormick.
The johnson vote for President
in this State Is not instructively a
Johnson vote. It was emphatically
made by Small and by Small sup
porters to show their contempt for
the Federal machine" of Senator
Mccormick and Of President Cool
idge.
The big Deneen vote for United
States Senator, which may possibly
defeat Senator Mccormick for the
Republican nomination for re-elec
ton to the Senate, was not a
Charles s. Denen vote primarily. II
was primarily vote by the sup
porters of Small to evidence their
hatred for the Federal machine
and for Senator Mccormick.
Small was the effective center OF
everything that has happened in
Illinois in this election on the Re
publican side.
Small put up the vote for Hiram
johnson, and Small pulled down the
vote for Senator Mccormick.
Illinois is now divided effectively
between the Democratic forces OF
George Brennan and the Republi
can forces Of Len Small.
The Republican trouble then
energies that the Democratic forces
are quite united under George Rren
nan and the Republican forces are
deeply split under the allegedly
corrupt and immoral leadership OF
Len Small.
This gives George Brennan a
chance to carry Illinois for the
Democratic party this fall while al