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Show STAND-PAT ILLINOIS. The dispatchos show that Illinois is chiefly stand-pat in politics. Tho progressives pro-gressives have made but small inroads ou the-Cannon-Aldrich strength in that State, capturing but threo out of tho Congressional delegation of twenty-five. , This, to bo sure, is something to gain in tho Stato which has afflicted tho country with Spcakor Cannon, but it is not enough to satisfy tho progressive spirit of tho times and tho itnresfc of the country under tho affliction of the stand pat regime. The probability is that tho adherence to staud-patism by Illinois puts tho Eo publican ascendency of that Stato in danger, just as tho like action has dono to tho party in Ohio. Tho natural outcome out-come of tho "stand-pat triumph in Illinois Illi-nois would be tho loss of the majority of the delegation in tho lower house of Congress to the Democrats, and if the Republicans should lose also tho legislature, legis-lature, as they aro more likely to do in that State than thoy wore in Maine, which elected a Domocratic legislature, tho apportionment of Representatives would bo so made as to insuro a far greater number of Democrats in Congress Con-gress the next ten years than hns boon possible under the apportionment made by the Republicans after the last do-cenntal do-cenntal census. It is a critical time in all the Republican States this year, and it is especially critical in Illinois now by reason of the triumph of stand-patism. |