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Show courts. The issue In this campaign then Is: Shall their records, tbelr organization and the results of their work be approved? Upon that Issue there should be no difference of opinion among good eltl.cna." DEFINES JACK POT Governor Deneen Explains Ex-plains Political Conditions Condi-tions in Illinois TAYLORS VI LLC, 111., Aug. 30. Governor Deneen tonight opened tho campaign against return to legislative legisla-tive power of tho bi-partisan combine com-bine which domiuated the last general gen-eral assembly. In an address lu thid city he said; 1 "The men who opposed the right to honest elections, the right to prl utary elections, the expressed wish ol their' party on the United States Knatorshlp, the election of a Republican Repub-lican candidate for speaker of th? house of representatives ana" t be organization, or-ganization, of the bouse by a majority of their party are now asking I ho people whose wills they have defied, and whose confidence they have betrayed, be-trayed, to entrust them once more with the direction of public affairs. They are running on a platform of j three planks: ' j Tho Three Planks, "1 We announce no principles. J "2 We express no regrets. i "3 We call lor vindication." I The speaker defined the term "jack- rot" which has figured in the Browne ! trial at Chicago, declaring that "those who haVe been exposed are not the : only ones Implicated. To make a I Jackpot effective requires the participation parti-cipation of a considerable number of such as can be held together by the cohesive power of public plunder and an oiganlxatlon that must be able to control to some degree the course of legislation In the general assembly. assem-bly. Last Desperate Stand. "This coalition. In its last desperate desper-ate stand against popular government, govern-ment, deemed It necessary to control the policies of the state In order to prolong its power, and I. whom thev had villitied through their spurious investigation of my election, whom they had opposed with vituperative rancor nt th? primaries, whom they Pnd sought to defeat In the ele.ctlon ly arraying against me the special interests from which 4 hey derive their strength, whose policies they had organized the legislature to defeat, de-feat, and whom they bad attempted to unseat by a trumped up content, was offered their support for the United States seuatorship, on office of high honor, when honorably bestowed j Efforts to Unseat Deneen. ! "These efforts to defeat me, unseat or promote me, would servo the same purpose. They carried with them their own commentary. When I re-lusej re-lusej iu accept the proffered seuatorship. seua-torship. the J;l-partisan coalition do termined to select a senator whose political power would be used to strengthen their position and to make pnfe the election of their choice as j iu predecessor. "Such lieing the situation in our state, what Is the next step forward?) Manifestly behind the Jackpot stands J the organization of the general as i fiomhly and the control of Its busl- ! Hess which the present rules of the house place id the hands of the speaker The next step forward, thereiere, is to restore representative government to our people. "The essential condition of honest 1 gislatlon ninH be the right to have bills heard in our general assembly. I This is fundamental. Of what avail it; It to make a campiign for whole ' 6''iiie measures If they rece've no con- I tiderntion in our legislative body?" Should Be Pledged. Governor rtenen declared that ev- i cry man seeking support of Rcpnb- J lican voters at the September prima j rle should be pledged to tand for good government, nnd. continuing, 1 t.?ld; "Th" men who created tho unusual j and disgraceful conditions in our ! Mate should uct be given power to prolong them. They have defied Instructions In-structions and repudiated their party platform; thy have stood agaliirt representative government and for special privileges and private Interests. Inter-ests. The extent of their malfeasance malfeas-ance in the last general assembly is I'ot yet known. bi:t Is under investigation investi-gation by gTand juries and by our ' |