Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-10-09

The wish is father to the thought,
h,f the bunk that is being peddled
h, the addle-brained political dope
sisrs Of the daily papers of Chicago
= only resulting in angerlng the
friends of Governor Small and Colonel
smith, without in any way hurting the
latter's candidacy.
Labor Approved Smiths Record
Organized labor's view and attitude
toward Colonel Frank l.. Smith was
revealed when the report of the Joint
Labor Legislative Board of Illinois
vas made public at the Champaign
Crbana convention of the Illinois Stale
Federation of Labor, the week begin
ning September Ia.
detailed report of Colonel Smiths
record as member of the Goth Con-
gress showed that he had voted IL
times favorably on labor bills, had
failed to vote twice and not once un-
fayoraby. On the other hand, the
record of William b. Mckinley,
smiths opponent, showed that during
his service in seven sessions IN the
House and two sessions in the Senate
be had voted 20 times favorably, tve
times unfavorably, had failed to vote
II ines End answered present one
time.
Praise Is Given For Labor Bills
In addition to making public the
above voting records, the Joint Labor
Legislative Board paid the following
compliment to Governor Small and
Colonel Smith in reference to the en-
aetment of the injunction limitation
bill and other labor measures:
1T would have been impossible for
Us to have made this measure OF prog
ress had we not had the whoie-hearted
backing and support of the Governor
of the State and many members OF
his cabinet, especially Frank l.. Smith,
chairman of the Illinois Commerce
Commission. These men supported our
injunction limitation bill as whole
heartedly as did the representatives
of labor themselves. They Just as
whole-heartedly opposed the military
police bill, and. their action on. these
matters was typical of their ATTITUDE
on nearly all other labor matters"
Dopster Writes of Alleged Break
The very next day after this report
was made public one of the Smart
Aleck reporters that the Chicago III,
bune has on its staff as political
dopester wrote a story which told OF
an alleged break between Governor
Small and Colonel Smith. From that
day on the Tribune has kept up Its
attemnt to disrupt the Small-Smith
combination and to throw confusion
into the ranks of organized labor
Other newspapers hostile to Governor
Small and the political pins of organ
ized labor have joined in the hue and
cry until those not informed mlght De
led to believe that hell had broken
loose in the Small camp. ,
As proof that the first story printed
by the Chicago Tribune on this sub
iect, during the convention of the
State Federation of Labor, was plain
lie, it may be cited that on the very
day that the Tribune scribbled was
writing his mendacious story the Gov.
emor and the Colonel were cumming
around together all day long at the
Kankakee fair. The Tribune knew OF
that fact, but as usual, its knowledge
of the truth did not stop it from lying
No Basis for Lying Stories
The Tribune's political dopesters
and the mongrel pack on the other
daily newspapers have been .yelplnlg
that terrible political explosion Will
occur when Colonel Smith resigns As
chairman of the Illinois Commerce
Commission. The basis for this lurid
prediction is the fact that some oil
Colonel Smiths friends have been
urging him to put aside all other
duties and devote all of his time and
energies to his campaign for the Re
publican nomination for United States
Senator.
Colonel Smith has not made up has
mind on this point at this writing, and
if he finally decides not to reslgi
from the Commerce Commission chair
manship it largely will be because his
enemies wish him to do that very
thing so that they can point WITT
glee to his resignation as proof oi
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