Evening star., 1940-04-02
Primary Battle
Rips Democratic
Party in Illinois
With Dewey Unopposed,
Senator and Governor
Races Win Headlines

Races Win Headlines
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Star STAFF CORRESPONDENT
CHICAGO, April 2.-The results
Of the Illinois presidential prefer
entail primary. which takes place
a week from today, are easy to tore
cast.
Thomas E. Dewey, New York's
fighting district attorney, who ap-
pears to have made such headway
with the voters of this State, will
mop up the Illinois primary-ne is
without opposition, for none of the
other candidates would enter.
President Roosevelt, whose lame
has been entered in the primary
without the usually required com
pliance" to make it legal, will snow
under Vice President John ~ Gar
ner something like 10 to l.
The real excitement in the rri-
mary here is over the nominations
for Governor and United States
ANAlhoOl III Will pal
The Kelly-Nash Democratic Or
ganization in Chicago, aligned now
with Gov Horner, has its ticket in
the field 1t. Gov. John H. Steele.
whom the organization overlooked
in making up its slate. together with
Benjamin S. Adamowski, has re-
belled 1t. Gov. Steele is seeking
the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor and Mr.. Adamowski that for
Senator.
Senator Slattery on Slate.
The organization slate included
Harry B. Hershey for Governor and
Senator Slattery for denomination
for the short term, the unexpired
term Of the late Senator James
Hamilton Lewis. Senator Slattery
was appointed to fill the Lewis place
by Gov. Horner.
Charges of graft, corruption. huge
slush funds gathered from the State
employees. all have their place in
the daily press and in speeches on
the stump, as these Democratic tac-
tions fight their way to the finish
line next Tuesday.
A slush fund of 5000 900. collected
by the Two Per Cent Club from
State employees, was tied up tenn
porarily by injunction. but it mas
been released. all except $1,000 for
use in the primary next week. There
are other "slush funds" also ready
for use on the election day,
The Democrats are tearing one
another wide open in this intra-
party fight. 1t. Gov. Stelle has
threatened to call a special session
of the Legislature to investigate the
charges as we'll as to enact needed
legislation to aid the aged. Gov.
Horner. who has been ill since Oc-
tober, 1888, is declared by Stelle and
others to be "incapacitated." He
has been at his Office only three or
four times in a year and half. The
State is governed by a bedside
cabinet"
Damaging to Party.
After the primary battle, even if
the Democrats get together-and 1t.
Gov. Stelle swears he will not go
along any more with the Kelly
Nash Horner machine "a great
amount of damage to the party will
remain. just from the airing of the
scandals. For six years and more the
effort to break down corruption as
practiced under the rule of the Kel-
ly-Nash machine in Cook County
has been going on. The fight,
which has been led in large part
by Col Frank X. Knox, publisher
of the Chicago Daily News and Re-
publican vice presidential candi-
date in 1896, and State Attorney
Courtney, has borne abundant fruit
at last.
Col. Knox supported Mr.. Court
ney, despite the fact he is Demo-
crat, in his contest for election as
States attorney In Cook County
(Chicago). He continued his sup
port of Mr.. Courtney, even while
he. Mr.. Knox, was running on the
Republican national ticket for Vice
President four years ago. The Kel-
ly-Nash organization in Chicago,
headed by Mayor Edward J. Kelly
and Patrick Nash, Democratic ma
tional committeeman. is seeking to
tie itself up in this campaign with
the third term for President Roose-
welt; indeed, the organization was
responsible for the petition circu-
lated and signed in the State to
place the Presidents name in the
preferential primary. Its speakers,
including Mr.. Hershey, Senator
Slattery, Mayor Kelly and Sen
ator Lucas, all are strongly urg-
ing the Democrats to go to the
polls on Tuesday next to give the
President big vote. to show the
country that the people of Illinois
want him to remain another four
years in the White House.
The Republicans are not without
their contests in the primaries-b
the invective is not so loud or so
poisonous. Richard j. Lyons, de-
feated for the Senate two years
ago by Senator Lucas, is candi-
date for Governor against Dwight
H. Green, whose claim to fame lies
in the fact that he was active as
a district attorney in the cases
which finally brought AL Capone to
Jail.
Church Seeks Senatorship.
The G. O. p. candidates for the
senatorial nomination are Repre-
sentative Church-the man who has
never missed a session of the House
IN his six years service-and Way
land Brooks. a former candidate for
Governor. Mr.. Church "commutes"
hetXeen Chicano and WaShinRtnn