Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-16
SMALL'S FOES STRIKE
BLOW TO GUST HIM

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the polls and gave Norman L. Jones
3 wallop under the ear that Knocked
him into a cooked hat, just as they
had knocked out State Senator Ess-
ington, the Republican henchman of
all that is rotten and undesirable in
politics.
People Twice Endorse Governor
The case was placed before the
people of the whole State twice with
in seven months-once at the primary
election in April and again at the
November general election-and the
people acquitted the Governor in each
instance and declared that it was
their viii 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
| field is situated, has been ruled by
rotten borough politics for years. A
bipartisan combination, of which the
Sullivan Republican faction is a DOM
inant factor, is in control there. The
judiciary of Sangamon County is con-
trolled by Judge Frank Burton, who
has decided the civil suit against Gov
ernor Small, Judge Norman L. Jones,
and Judge E. s. Smith. These three
men are closely allied, although Of
opposite political faiths, and little can
be done in the courts at Springfield
without their sanction.
Smiths Bad Injunction Record
Judge E. S. Smith is undoubtedly
one Of the worst labor injunction
judges on earth today. He has issued
injunctions against the unions far
more drastic than the one issued by
Federal Judge Wilkerson against the
railroad shopmen. Judge Smith ap-
pointed Charles Briggle master in
chancery for Sangamon County, and
is was Charles Briggle's report as a
master in chancery upon which Judge
Buttons decision against the Govern
or was predicated.
Edward J. Brundage, the Repubh-
can attorney general of the State,
goes to Waukegan and tries to send
the Governor to the penitentiary
The Governor ticks the attorney gen.
eral. The big interests and Brun-
dage put up State Senator Essington
to defeat the Governor for renomina-
ton. The Governor trims Essington
The big business interests and George
E. Brennan, Democratic boss, put up
Norman L. Jones, law partner of
Judge Frank Burton of Springfield
as the Democratic nominee for Gov
ernor. Governor Small goes out and
knocks the daylights out of Judge
Jones.
All of this puts Governor Small's
enemies in a bad fix, but they still
have g card up their sleeve. Sanga-
mon County, the rotten borough baili-
wick, is still on the map, and the three
rotten borough judges and pals
Smith, Burton and Jones-are on the
job. So also is Charles Briggle, mas
ter in chancery, an appointee of Judge
E. s. Smith.
Fight Taken to Springfield
So the bipartisan enemies of Gov
ernor Small move the scene of their
nefarious operations to Springfield
where their "four horsemen"-Smith
Burton, Jones. and Briggle-can be
depended on to put on some more
dirty work at the crossroads" Re-
suit: Governor Small has been found
guilty by two men, first by Charley
Briggle, the henchman Of Judge
Smith, notorious injunction judge,
and secondly by Judge Burton, buddy
and law partner of Judge Norman L,
Jones, henchman and defeated guber-
material candidate of George E. Bren-
nan, Democratic boss of Illinois. A
fine kettle of fish,
Organized labor gave Governor
Small united support in the primary
and election because of his past rec
ord on labor matters and further be-
cause he ran for reelection on plat
form almost identical with the La
Toilette platform.
1t is HELPS own brew that crooked
big business and crooked politics are
cooking for the people of Illinois, but
it is a cinch that the people will never
swallow it. The people of Illinois
know that it would mean death to
popular government in this State.
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