The Connecticut labor news., 1925-01-17
COY. SMALL'S FOES
 STRIKE ANOTHER
 BLOW TO GUST HIM
Illinois Executive Hit By Springfield Judge in Sweeping
 Decision.
By Staff Correspondent, International
 Labor News Service.

Labor News Service. 1 Chicago, Jan. 17.-The expected hap pened when Judge Frank Burton of Springfield, H., recently handed down sweeping decision against Governor Len Small in the civil suit instituted by Edward J. Brundage the retiring attorney general of the state. The governor has taken an appeal to the State Supreme Court, Judge Barton fixing the bond at the spectacular sum of $500,O00, with the evident purpose of impressing the people with the inpor- tance of the trumped-up political law suit.
 1 Governor Small was charged with withholding large sums of interest money due the State while he was State treasurer from 1917 to 1919. Backers of Suit Smalps Enemies.
 It is unlikely that there is person of average intelligence in the entire State of Illinois who sincerely believes that those back of this suit are really desirous of doing the state a service and are honestly trping to place i'll | the treasury money lawfully due the commonwealth It is notorious that the packers of the suit are the gov ernors bitterest personal and political | foes and that the active participants are agents of the large corporate in terests of the state, who have relent-
 
 he has steadfastly refused to bend the knee and war their collar. Attorney General Edward J. Brun- dage started out to "get' the governor several months before hte primary election, April 6 last. He brought a criminal action against Governor Small at Waukegan in an effort to send him to hte penitentiary and put him out of the way as political fac tor. The governor was acquitted and afterward overwhelmingly defeated State Senator Essington, who was the hand-picked primary Republican gu bernatorial candidate of the Manufac- turers' Association and other predatory interests.
 Deal Is Made With Democrats. Defeated in the Republican primary election, the pirates of finance went over to the Democratic camp and made deal with George E. Brennan, Dem ocratic boss of Illinois, who had groomed and entered Norman L. Jones, law partner of Judge Frank Burton, as the Democratic nominee against Len Small. Then this bipar- tisan combination started out to con summate their unholy and rotten pur- pose.
 Every political jackal and coyote that crooked big business could round up was turned loose to snap and snar1 at the governor. Billingsgate and vi1li6- cation and abuse of every description were daily aimed at him from April to November. Epithets were shouted at him from every opposition stump. There was not a man, woman or child in Illinois who did not know all that the crooked bipartisan combination had
 
 Small had stolen the states money.
 The people of Illinois. patiently lis tened to the great hullabaloo and bal1y- hoo, weighed the evidence, analysed the intent and purpose of the gov ernor's enemi es, and when election day rolled around they went to the polls and gave Norman L. Jones wal Top under the ear that knocked him knocked out State Senator Essington. the Republican henchman of all that is rotten and undesirable in politics. People Twice Indorse Governor.
 The case was placed before the people of the whole state twice within seven months-once at the primary election in April and again at the November general election-and the instance and declared that it was their will that he should serve another term as chief executive of Illinois. The powers of pillage said that this would not do and that the people must not rule.
 Sangamon County, in which Spring 1 field is situated, has been ruled by rotten borough politics for years. A bipartisan combination, of which the Sullivan Republican faction is dom inant factor, is i'll control there. The judiciary of Sangamon county is con trolled by Judge Frank Burton, who has decided the civil suit against Gov