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WwmmwFv . • - - r - - ? r V • * . • ; ' - . - * " f ^ 4 . * i ' 1 ^ ^ : r- . ; - f - f MCHENRY * . > £?":/ • A.™'; - " - - ,. ^ jf*v r ^I'V -' ;' "i • ^ 7*T •' ^} '. ^:f "•-{* ^ • * r ± , - - e g v , ; - 1; * ?••. •';.;. VOLUME 54 M'HENBT, ILLINOIS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928 No.lt HOOVER MEETS FMMnOBLEM Urgts Expenditure of Hundreds tf IMNons on a Wovfcafilt Program. FAVORS HIGHER TARIFF WALL fwwi Man Control and Adaslnlo- -. • tor P«4ml Farm AM. kjfi • '-•'•%. Candidate. ••*'•' 1 nil 1 i ..'J HOOVER ON FARM RKLIKF: An adequate taHff la Mia feundatlon of farm rtlltf. Warfclng out aprleultural relief la tha moat important obi If at Ion af tha naxt Administration. The object af our palleiaa la to eetabllsh for our farmora an Inaama aqua! to those of other occupations. Farming is and must contlnus an Individualiatle bualnaaa of small wiita and Indopondont ownership. If tha farmsrs' (position Is to ba improved by larger operatlona It must ba dona not on tha farm* but In the field of distribution. Our platform lays a aolld baais upon which we ean build* It offers an affirmative program. Nature has endowed us with a great system of inland waterways. Their modernization will comprise a substantial contribution to mid- «mtt farm relief and development af 20 interior states. There Is no mora vital mothod^6f~farrn^ellaf. PALO ALTO, Calif.--Herbert Hoover met the farm question fairly and squarely in his Address of Acceptance at the Stadium of Stanford University. Nearly one-third of bis address was devoted to this subject, which Hoover tarmad "the most urgent economic problem In our nation today." He declared bluntly that farm relief must not ba delayed by any monetary con slderattona, urging that "a nation which is spending ninety billions a jraar can wall aKbrd an expenditure of a faw hundred millions for a workableprogram that will give to one lhird of Ha population their fair share of the national prosperity." Tha candidate pledged himself to a (arm-aid plan In which farmers shall themselves control and administer tha federal Inancial aadlatance which he propoaes to pat Into effect "The moat urgent economic prohlsas la our aatloa today Is la agriculture," he aald. "It mat be solved if we are to bring proeperlty and oontentment to one-third of oar people directly and to all of our peapla indirectly We tare pledged ourselves to a solution, "In my mind moat agricultural die* owes Inns go wrong hecaoae of two talaa premises. The flrat la that agrioulture Is one industry. It Is a dosen distinct Industries Incapable of the aame organisation. The second false premise is that rehabilitation will be complete when It has reached a point comparable with pre-war; Agriculture was not upon a satisfactory basis before the war. The abandoned farms of the northeast bear their own testimony. Generally there was but little profit In midwest agriculture for many years except that derived from the a|ow Increases in farm land values. •Van of more Importance is the great advance in standards of living of all occupations since the war. Soma branches of agriculture have greatly recovered, but taken as a whole It la aol keeping pace with the onward march in other industries. Cause and MSot "There are many causae for failure af agriculture to win its full ahare of oatlonai prosperity. The after-war delation of price* not only brought great direct losses to the farmer, but he was often left Indebted in inflated dollars to be paid In deflated dollars. Prices are often demoralised through gluts In our markets during the bar- •eat season. Local taxes have been increased to provide the improved roada and schools. The tariff on some products is proving Inadequate to protect aim from Imports from abroad. The increases Id transportation rates since the war has greatly affected the price which he receives for hla products. Over els million farmers la times of surplus engage in destructive competition with one another In sale of their product, often depreeeing prices below thoea levels that could be maintained. "The whole tendency of our civillsattoa during the laat SO years has beea toward an lacreaae la the sixe of the units of production in order to secure lower costs aad a more orderly ad faetment of the flow of commodltlee to the demand. But the organisation a( agriculture into larger units must not he by enlarged farms. The fa: has shown he ean Increase the skill of his iadustry without large operatlona Ho Is today producing SO per cent More thaa eight years ago with about the same acreage and personnel. Farming is and moet continae to be an individualistic business of small units and independent ownership. The tarn la more thaa a business; it Is a atato of living. We do not wish K con varied into a mass production machine. Therefore, If the farmers' post tloa Is to be improved by larger opera dons it mast be «e bo- >n the farm but In the field .. distn.atlon. Agriculture has partially advanced In thla direction through co-operatives aad yiHrtf But the traditional co-operative la often not a complete solution. •Differences of opinion as to both aasaea and remedy have retarded the eossplstinn of a constructive program .dt xeUeC. It la ear plain Mr to M the oommott ground aa which we toay moblliaa the aound forcee of agricultural reconstruction. Our platform lays a solid baala upon which to build. It oDwn an aflrsaatlve pingwto. TaHff and Waterways "An adequate tariff la tha foundation of farm relief. Our consumers Increase fleeter than our producers. The domestic market must be protected. Foreign products raised under lower standards of living are tod*j competing in our home mark eta. I would use ay ofllce and Influence to give the tanner the full benefit of qur historic tariff policy. "A large portion of the spread between what the farmer receives for his products and what the ultimate consumer pays is due to increased transportation charges. Increase la railway rates has been one of the penalties of the war. These Increases have been added to the cost to the farmer of reaching seaboard and foreign markets and result therefore la reduction of his prices. The farmers of foreign countries have thus been indirectly aided In their competition with the American farmer. Nature has endowed us with a great system of Inland waterways. ThUlr modernisation will comprise a most substantial contribution to midwest farm relief and to the development of twenty of our interior states. This moderniseation includes not only the great Mississippi system, with its Joining of the Qreat Lakes and of the heart of midwest agriculture Jo the Quit, but also a shlpway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic. These improvements would mean so large an increment In farm .era' prices as to warrant their construction many times over. There la no more vital method of farm relief. "But we must not stop here. "An outstanding proposal of the Party program is the whole-hearted pledge to undertake the reorganixatloa of the marketing system upon sounder aad more economical lines. We have already contributed greatly to this purpose by the acts supporting farm cooperatives, the establishment of Intermediate credit banks, the regulation of stockyards, public exchangee and the expansion of the Department of Agriculture. The platform propoeae diatributor, worker, aad sumer have been called in n«tfnrU to* gether, not for a single occasion, but for continuous work. These efforta have been successful beyond any expectation. They have been accomplished without Interference or regulation by the government. They havo secured progress in the industriea. remedy for abuses, eUotiaatlon of waste, reduction of coet In production and distribution, lower prices to tha consumer, and more stable employment and profit. While the problem REPUBLICAN RECORD Our problems of the past eeven years have been probleme of reconstruction; our problema of tha future are probleme of oonetruetlon. They are probleme of pcogroea. During theee years our papulation has Inoreaeed eight poroent. Vet our national Income hae Inoreaeed 46 percent. Tha number af familiee haa Inoreaeed t,M»,000 and we have built >,900,000 new and better hemee. We have equipped 8,000,000 more homes with electricity, and through It drudgery haa been lifted from the llvee of women. The barrlera of time and dlatance have been swept away and life made freer and larger by the installation of f,00(V- 000 more telephone* 7,000,000 radio eeta and the aervlc* of an additional 14,000,000 autemobilee. By rigorous economy, federal eapenees havs been reduced two billions annually. The national debt has been reduced elx and a half biillona. Taxes have been reduced four succeesive times. We have doubled savings deposits and nearly doubled life insurance. Preeldent Ceolldge haa not only given a memorable administration, he hes left an Imprint of rectitude and otateamanahlp on our country. to go much farther. It pledges the creation of a Federal Farm Board of representative farmers to be clothed with authority and resources with which not only to still further aid farmers' co-operatives and pools and to aaalst generally in solution of farm problema but especially to build up with federal finance, farmer-owned and farmer-controlled stabilisation corporations to protect the farmer from the depressions and demoralisation af aaaaonal gluta aad periodical ,gar> pluaaa. Will Coat Money "Objection haa been made that thla program, aa laid down by tha Party Platform, may require that several hundred millions of dollars of capital be advanced by the Federal Government without obligation upon the Individual farmer. With that objection I have little patience. A nation which la spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a faw hundred millions for a workable program that #111 give to one-third of Ka population their fair share of the nation's prosperity. Nor does this proposal put the government into buainess except so far as It Is called upon to furnish initial capital with which to build up the farmer to tha control of his own destinies. "Thla program adapts Itself to tha variable problems of agriculture not only today but which will ariae in the future. I do not believe that any single human being or any group of human beings can determine in advance all queatlona that will arlae in ao vast and complicated aa Industry over a term of yeara. The first stop Is to create aa affective agency directly for theee purpoaee aad to give It authority and reeouroee. Theee are eolemn pledge* aad they will be fulfilled by toe Republican Party. It is a definite plan of relief. It needs only tha detailed elaboration of leglalatioa aad npprqprin» tlons to put It Into force. "During my torn as Secrete«r of Commerce I have eteadCy endeavored to build up a system of oooperatlon between tha government aad bnslasas. Under theee co-operative actions nil elements Interested In the proilsni of n mrtienltt lilies POINTS FROM HOOVER SPEECH It shall bo an honest campxign; every penny will b« publicly accounted for. Hevlng earned my living with my own hands I cannot have ether than the greatest sympathy with the aspirations of those who toil. Our purpoee Is to build in this nation a human eeelety, not en economic system. Appointive . office, both North, South, Eaet and West, must be based eolely en merit, character, and reputation In the community In which the appointee Is to eerve. Participation of women in politico means higher standards. Our workers can buy two and often three times more bread and butter than any wage earner In Europe. By blood and conviction I stand for religious tolerance both In act and In spirit Our foreign policy haa one primary object, and that is peace. Government should not engage In business In competition with Its cltlaene. LOUIS EMMERSON OPENS CAMPAIGN OT AT varies with every different commodity and with every different part of our great country, 1 should wish to app'.y the same method to agrtculture so that the leaders of every phase of each group can advise and organise on policies and constructive measures. I am convinced this form of action, as It has done lu other Industries, can benefit fanner, distributor and consumer. Greater Opportunltiea "The working out of agricultural mllef constitutes the most important obligation of the next Administration. I stand pledged to theae proposals. The object of our policies is to establish for our farmers an Income equal to those of other occupations; for the farmer's wife the sam<* comforts In her home as women in other groups; tor the farm boys and girls the same opportunities In life aa other boys and girls 80 far aa my own abilities may be of service, I dedicate tbem to help aecure proeperlty aad contentment In that lnduetry where I and my forefathers were born and nearly all my family still obtain their livelihood. "The Republican Party has evjr been the exponent of protection to all our people from oompetltion with lower standards of living abroad. We have always fought for tariffs designed to establish this protection from imported goods. We also have enacted restrictions upon Immigration for the protection of labor fro.it the Infiou of workers faster than we can abaorb them without breaki^ down oar waft levels. » "The Republican prlnetrla of aa effective control of Imported goods and of Immigration has contributed greatly to the prosperity of our country. There is ao selflshness in this defense of our standards of living. Other countries gain nothing if tha high standards of America are sunk and if we are prevented from building a civilisation which sets the level of hope for the entire world. A general reduction in the tariff would admit a flood of goods from abroad. It would Injure every home. It would fill our streets with idle workers. It would destroy the returns to our dairymen, our fruit, flax, and livestock growera, and our other farmers " Prohibition Op the subject of prohlbttioa. Mr. ifoover repeated his recent declara tion "1 do not favor repeal of the 18th Amendment. I stand for efllcient enforcement of laws enacted thereunder. Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in moUve aad far* reaching in purpose. It mast be worked out constructively." And he added the following comment: "Common sense compels ua to realise that grave abuses have occurred --abuses which must be remedied. Inveetlgation can alone determine the wise method of correcting them. Crime and disobedience of law cannot be permitted to break down the Constitution aad lawa of tha United States. "Modification ftt jtho enforcement laws which would permit that which the Constitution forbids Is nullification. This the American people will not countenance. Change in the Constitution can aad must be brought about only by the straightforward methods provided in the Constitution Itself. There are those who do not believe In the porpoees of several provisions of the Coastltution. No one denies their right to seek to amend IL They are not subject to TiticiHm for asaerting that right. But the R<»- publlcan Party does deny the rigbt of anyone to seek to destroy the purposes of the Oooetitstioa by indirection. "Whoever Is elected Resident takes «a oath not only to faithfully execute the ofllce of the President, but that oath provides still further that ha will, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States I should be uatrue to these great tra? ciiMons. no true to my oath of wore I to declare otherum* • i&yr' .• A BIO MEETING MOUNT VERNON Mt Vernon, Ili., August 16--In the preeence of thousands of southern Illinois Republicans, the party nominees for state office and prominent leaders from every section of Illinois here today, Louia L. Emmerson. Republican nominee for gover.or, made his first political speech since the April primary. It was a ringing call to arms for Republicans and a challenge to the Democratic State candidates, who, he declared, were hand-picked by a bosscontrolled political machine and were selected because they would do the bidding of the machine. He answered in detail the charges made by his opponent, Floyd E Thompson, declaring every one ol them false, and quoted from a letter written by Judge Thompson's former campaign manager and the report of a Rock Island County grand jury as evidence that Thompson betrayed his trust while state's attorney of his home county by failing to assist in ending the reign of vice and crime which finally resulted in Intervention by the attorney general of the state. He reiterated his primary pledges and declared that his only ambition was to give the atate of Illinois an efficient, business-like administration In closing, Mr. Emmerson made a plea for enthusiastic support of Hoover and Curtis and the entire Repub lican ticket in the interest of good rovernment. Recall* First Annonncmnent "Nine months ago," Mr. Bmmeraon said, "before just such a gathering as this of my neighbors of Jefferson County and my frlenda from the southern half of the state, I announced my candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor. Since then we have had a primary, the most remarkable in the history of Illinois. The men and women who constitute our state ticket were selected by such overwhelming majorities that the results attracted national and even international attention. "More than a million votes were cast in favor of our cauae and ourl candidates and the party thus de-| cided by majorltiee which left no room for doubts aa to the aentlment of the voters. "Contrast this with the situation in the Democratic party. Whereas the Republican atate candidates and the Issues involved in the campaign were decided by the people in this tremendous outpouring of the electorate, the Democratic State ticket waa handpicked by a boas-controlled political machine which letf nothing for the rank and file of the party to determine Only 244,000 votes were caat for the Democratic nominee tor governor, vhile 1,960,000 votes were cast by Republicans In selecting the Republican candidate. But tf only one vote had been caat for the Democratic candidate he would still be the nominee for he had no opposition. The machine saw to that and if by any change the Democratic nominees for State office should win in November, the machine would dictate the policiea of the °tate Government. Machine Controls Them "The Democratic nominees owe alleplence to the machine and not to the rank and file of the party. The Repubpenitentiary. He charges that the vice ring of which John Looney was the overlord and which was the most notorious in the state, cntributed freely to Mr. Thompson's campaigns; that by performance of his duty as State's Attorney, Mr. Thompson could have prevented the loes of eight or ten lives -and the shame and disgrace that followed. He asserts that Mr. Thompson, who was a young unmarried man at the beginning of the World war, was a slacker and refused to go into service, although one of his assistants enlisted and was killed in action and he waa afterwards frequently importuned to enlist himself. Cites Grand Jury Report "There are many other accusations in this letter of Dr. Johnson which I will not repeat. "The grand jury of Rock Island County in January, 1914, after Mr. Thompson had been State's Attorney for two yeara, asked for a special prosecutor to investigate official corruption consisting of 'bribery, em bexzlement and conspiracies to commit illegal acts injurious to public morals and administration of public justice and other Crimea and misdemeanors.' "The grand Jury then added this statement: 'That Floyd Thompson State's Attorney of Rock Island County, is interested therein and that this grand jury believes that in orde rto properly and fully investigate said matters and all the matters connected therewith and growing out thereof, that it is necessary that a special state's attorney be appointed to assist the grand jury to investigate said matters.' "The special state's attorney was appointed and some indictments were returned, but the gang was too strong and the public was not sufficiently mroused to secure convictions. "The conditions continued all through the eight years of the Thompson administration of the office of state's attorney and it waa this situation which he refused to leave when the war came on. Oscar Carlstrom. then state's attorney in an adjoining county resigned his office and went into the service, but Mr. Thompaon was too busy to go. State Had to Stop In 'It was not until after Thompson stepped out aa state's attorney that the real cleanup camn In Rock Island county. Indignant citisens raised a large fund and the attorney general of the state was called In. Looney and his gang were sent to the penltentlaiy and they are still there. "In the course of theee trials the former relationship between the Looney gang and Floyd Thompson was brought out One witness, Lawrence Pedigo, declared under oath that liooaejr brought film to Rock Island to work for Floyd Thompson's elec- "Another charge is that old, txv whiskered canard having to do with the 1920 Republican National Convention. Mr. Thompson charges that I 'bought with cash the support of Nat Goldstein and some other St Louis gangsters who had been elected delegates to the Republican National Convention.* "The charge is absolutely false. It was first made in 1920 by a man who haa since gone to the penitentiary, and its purpose was to prevent Governor Lowden from securing the nomination for president. The money expended in the Lowden presidential campaign in Missouri was for legitimate campaign expenses and at the time Goldstein and other political leaders say, they received the money they were not even candidates for delegate to the national convention and they were not elected delegates until long afterwards. "Mr. Thompson eays that when I became Secretary of State.I was worth $40,000 and that I have become a millionaire since that time. I do not know how he obtained an Inventory of my personal estate, but I want to assure him that his figures are all wrong. Whatever I possess has been earned honestly by careful attention to bust nees, and my financial rating is no better today than it was when I first became Secretary of State. Seed Service Only Ambition "Thla answers in detail every charge Mr. Thompson has made against me. I have answered them not because of any fear of their effect upon the public but merely to keep the record clear. "Never have I been guilty of a dishonest act in private buainess or in public office and never have I betrayed a trust. "I became a candidate for governor because I believed my experience and training fitted me to give the state an honest, efficient administration. It is my one ambition to round out my career by filling the office of governor ra; to Bloomtngton or Peoria; down to Danville or over into Indiana? Ho reaches the Cook county line only to find himself caught in a bottle neck. Inunediately all pleasure and safety are gone; hla schedule Is upset; he gets Into a line of crawling, squeaking, overheated, smoking automobilM. and the battle ia on. He ma/get through safely, but at a treiMadous cost in time, wear and tear on his car, and waste of energy. "Careful conaideration of H»f# problem, supported by the find- ^ : tags of, trained engineers, has .m convinced me," said Mr. Hayea In conclusion, "that highways 4«- ' feet in width radiating from the Cook county line out into tho >?• •tote for 100 to 150 miles, in an ^ directions, are the only solution." Net a New Problem ^ Governor Len Small saw thla con^fS ditlon more than three years ago ami about that time parted agitation iA .• favor of a reasonable gasoline tax t<» ' ? I provide additional funds for road ^ building. The governor awakened the members of the legislature uf this situation and last year secured the passage of a law providing for f-uch a tax on gasoline U3ed in motor vehicles. Half of this tax would hav£ been used by the state In road build* ,nK an(i one half by the county in tho ;-3 same manner. With the adoption of the gasoliuSV tax Mr. Hayes took the lead in opposi*. tion and the Chicago Motor Club en»^iaS% M m gaged attorneys by whose efforts tha law was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. * " Hayes and hi* cohorts opposed tho ^ $ A raising of money by a gasoline tan They used a multitude of argument# . a g a i n s t i t -- t h e v e r y m e a s u r e I w ' • ' i jwhich Governor Small hope<} to se» JNj (cure the necessary funds with whiclfc, 31 j 10 widen the roads around Chicago ^ ^ • already built and to build more roaat & ;<S and by administering it in such a way'b_ - mainP«*v endorsed ^ <- j* ^ «... by that in after years it will be said that * majority rote of the people fou* my administration was one of tha most progressive a.nd constructive in the history of Illinois." Mr. Emmerson then called attention to his pledge of business efficiency in the state government, early completion of the bond issue system of hard roads, the working out of a plan for the surfacing of secondary roads, the widening of main arteries near large centers of population, reform ih the taxing system so as to relieve farms end small homes of the unequal burden they now carry; aasistance tor agriculture, support legislation for the welfare of wage earners and the advancement of industry. Praises Hoover On the national ticket he aald: "Herbert Hoover's wonderfully COBpeople fouf . yeara ago. . Now comes Mr. Hayea and demandfl . that the roads out of Cook county b|v widened to forty feet, to accommofc date the motorist who wishes to travef into "Lake county. Kane county, M<£'» Henry county--up to the Delia off ; f Lake Geneva; to Elgin and Aurora^ I to Bloomington. Danville Or into ti9» ^ ' dlana," using Mr. Hayes own Cook County Builds Cook county, with ita immedafi wealth. Including about one half of the taxable property In Illinois. Is building theee forty foot roads. Doea j Mr. Hayes expect McHenry and tHA other counties around Chicago to follow ault? That, we fear, is the nigger in til# wood pile. Cook county wilt build tbff - S?"- - j SJ* ; structive statement of the issuss of m'1*8 °f ^ub/°d i s *0® Ch|- tion to the supreme court. While the the campaign last Saturday ahowa a * ,1™it8 to county Hni vision and a grasp of the problems of;?* what *bout McHenry county* the day which cannot fail to win genestablished campaign for funds for this prosecution was in progress Judge Thompson in a speech ridiculed the Citisens Committee, calling them 'Purity Leaguera.' "But I have no Intention of conducting a muck-raking campaign. I cite these facts merely to show that Mr. Thompson's strictures against some- an(| knowledge of economic conditions eral approval. He has an reputation as a man of great achievem e n t a n d w h a t h e p l a n s w i l l b e c a r - j ried out. He was born in the middlethls county tax itaelf to wide* routes No. 5, 19, 20 and (1 to th# desired forty feet? That's what M& Hayes is driving at Of course h| doesnt say so, and we dont thinft west; he has lived in the far west | Emmerson or Judge Thompsof and in the east and his sympathies ^ve Oie matter much thought whe| one else do not prove his own fitness "But since Mr. Thompson has seen fU to repeat his slanderous statements Mr. Hayes put the pledges them. But that's Just what tha befo.p whoii. Ucan nominees are responsible to tha the 8tate treasury and that I people who chose them. I haTe uged these funds for my own ad- "Voters must not lose sight of this vanUge without paying interest on difference between the two partiea in u,era this state, for it is fundamental. ) "The statement is an absolute faleeand national problems is nation-wide., There is no sectional narrowness in, him. He is peculiarly fitted by tern-, Flrat Mr. Hayai regarding me in every section of the ^rament and training to give this d*7*ts th® 8»sol»ne tax. the measurf state and to make them the sole Issue Dation a great administration. I , .T°U, w Te provid the monet < in his campaign, I want to anawerl "nunois is for Hoover and the en. 'or widening the roads and now hf them specifically and in detail, once tlre Republican 8tate and National demanda that they be widened ani and for all time. tickets. Let us get to work and make I'arade6 befor* th* J*0*1® 0x9 M Denies Interest ,C ,h ar.g _e it ^ gvr entest victory In the historyfh!a^ t oCiHoaonkl scko*u nty is doing its part of He says that I withheld money ^ the State." the widening at county expense. We Want Herw Reads McHenry county wants more roadd MOTOR CLUB WANTS _yes, wider roads also.--but finj TO WIDEN ROADS I more roads, and we believe there is ^ , . . . . bcrn 1 Krowing sentiment in favor of a couni "Every effort Is being made by the hood The funds which have passed ^narrow" roads leading ty ^ 10 bui,d ">»• of smocratic candidate for governor to through my hands have been paid into t g - - asking,! connecting links M. Democratic --•----~ through my hands have been paid tnto . f d lftto Chicago are ask befog the situation so that this fact will the state treasury in strict compliance _hat Qr . joker is Charles -- be overlooked He is resorting to the wlth the ,aw when j b^ame Secre- jS^L^aWaBt of the Chicago Motor M*™' h"we.w' '^ " favorite pettifogging trick of the cheap tary of 8ute ^ ,aw 8tate Hayes, president of the c go , sentiment in McHenry county politician in attempting to force-him- officlalg to pay money they collected self into public favor, not by offering lnto treasury at the end of ninety anything constructive but by malign-, dayg j p©r80nally advocated and aa- Ing and slandering hia opponents. You;8i8ted ,n aecuring the passage of an are urged to elect Floyd Thompson o{ the law which requires governor not because he has shown th,g moQey to be ^ ln wlthln thlrty nny marked qualifications for "dmin-j^^ and , have adhered strictly to istration or because the Democratic the ]aw maklnjf payinents daily as party can be depended upon for good, rapi(i]y „ check(J cIeared the banks except where enjoined <by the courta. "I have never collected interest on not in the state bond issue program. We do not believe. however, that there ia m t. | ^ i • v A-i " Club. .. .1 favor of widening the Chicago *-ter-*- \y- 4 Mr. Hayea haa l»t dtocovered tha^ the Ioca, Ux wer|l Chicago motorists need forty root) haa complained that tbtf, J roada radiating in every d rec ®n j downstate is getting a larger »h -re o£ . ,V from that city 100 to 150 miles to take, (hp p,,,, for ln part by Chiea«4 care of the Chicago pleasure see er, money, and it was a popular issu$ who wants to take a trip into tt j jn Chicago to oppaas the |asolit>4' ^ ^ country on Saturday, Sunday or on an j tax for tbat reason. Now Chicara! " government, but because Mr. Thompson says Louis L. Emmersoa is a "c 'r ook. You are asked t~o elect Mr'. public funds in my keeping and con- ~ .i__ fnP months, Thompson, not because his faction o Be<juentiy could not have paid interest OWn ku» now comes Mr Important holiday. What a wonderful dlacovery Mr. Hayes seems to have just made. The need of these wider roada has been the Democratic party has been noted for devotion to the interests of the yes, even years, but now comes Mr. Into the treasury. The law does not Hayes to the rescue and pledges both •"* -- --- _ j contemplate that I ahould. The collec- - - . „ , r s^retarv Zrlon u a^^eakV «d ar thiefJtlon8 of offlc* ** f°r - hiican "Even if the slanderoue chargea he makes against me were true. It would not prove his superior fitness. Say* Themp*ea Betrayed Trust | "I hold in my hand a letter written by Dr. Q. F. Johnston, of Eaat Molina, former mayor of his city, an ex-service! man. a former chairman of the Rock most part in items of small denominations, sometimes as many as 30,000 items in one day. Banks usually charge tor the service of collecting small checks. The banka which have performed this service for the state during my administration have not charged for the service, but they do not pay interest on funds which they have in Island Democratic Central Committee, their cuttody for but a few days at a ,nd a life-long Democrat It i* ad- ({me f haTe hare ,tatemeats from dressttl to the chairman of the Rock. ^ wlth wh,ch l have done Island I^mocratic Committee under ^ business as Secretory of State assertdate of February 20. 1928 after Mr J emhatically that at no time have Thompson had been sslected by the machine aa the candidate for gover nor. "In the letter Dr. Johnson resigns as a member of the Democratic County Committee because he says he cannot support Mr. Thompson. He points out that he managed Floyd Thompson's campaign for State's Attorney of Rock Island County, but cannot be for him now because of the way Mr. Thompson betrayed the trust of the law-abiding people. He accuses Mr. Thompson of being responsible, more than any other man, for the vice conditions in Rock Island County which they paid anytihng to me directly or indirectly, not even in the form of campaign contributions, in return for the deposit of these funds. Efficiency In Office "Under my direction the oftlee of Secretary of State has been conducted like a model business institution. It has been operated at leaa cost tl any other simitar department in the United States. "Another of Mr. Thompson's charges is that I bought stock in a Springfield bank and paid for it with state funds. The stock I purchased in the resulted finally in the calling of the Springfield bank I bought and paid Attorney General into the county to for with my own personal funds, aa clean up the mess aad the sending my receipto - ttd mnceUed of several men in the vice ring to the will ahow. Emmerson on the Republican ticket and Judge Thompson on the Democratic ticket--to a policy of building forty foot roada radiating In all directions from Chicago. Read what Mr. Hayea Bays in tha following statement sent out to tho prees by tho Chicago Motor Club this week: Xr. Hayes' Tlewa "With the voting of the $15,000.- 000 bond issue in November. 19M, Cook county launched into a program of road widening that by the end of 1988 will offer to the motorist a number of 40-foot roads to the county line," said Mr. Hayee. "and car owners once more will be enabled to use their cars on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with the assurance when they leave home that they will reach their destination in a reasonable length of time and with a degree of safety and comfort that they have not known for several year*. "This will apiply to the ma* who intends to confine his outing to Cook county, but what of tho man who waato to drive Into Lake county. Kane county. McHenry county-*--up to tike Delia or Lake Geneva; to Elgin and Awseems to be awakening to the fac| that it needs the .downstate road$ even as much as we do ourselves: Ch'caeo fieure out how to wideo^ the roada. but don't expect the down* state to carry a burden in which th4 people of Chicago are aot willing td pav their full sh*re. Mr. Hayes, after the attitude yo* took on tho gasoline tax your preeeot appeal tor wider roada does not awaken much interest downstate. * HOME COKING AT RINGWOOO . THURSDAY. AUGUST 21 The third annual Meme Cemiai and Schssl Its•• ten will be held 04 Thursday, August S3, at Ringwood. 111. It is expected that many fornix J, pupils of the Ringwood schools will eive reminiscences. C. G. Huson ani Mrs. R. L Feok of El*in will havo>/5#| <-harge of the music. Atty. V. S. Last* ley will be the afternoon speaker. *5# . A cafeteria supper will be served' "VI it the hall at five o'clock. A pageant. "Following the Gleone-/ will be given at eisjht o'clock 1 Thursday evening, on the Woo-lmia hall lawn. This historical-religiou* pageant will-hp given by a cast of fifty There wftH be an admission fee of M nad 15 cento. Orcheetrat music. Found on an eaaployee's appltenttaa: Question: Gfc* fwr parents' names. Anawaps -MUM OutlaWV a- l . . ~ - • i i --m, iSBm