Show LOWDEN LOWIEN FOR ECONOMY Term as Governor a Record of Saving and Efficiency Simplifies Sim it p I figs hl Management rid ement G or State Af Affairs 7 fairs With Results Profitable to the Tax Payers The high cost of ot government government- has ha supplied the supporters of Frank 0 O. Lowden the platform on which they are confident he will be elected president president dent den of the United States Governor Lowden was born borri on n farm and worked his w way y through school by teaching He Is a it product of the Middle West having haYing been born In Minnesota raised in Iowa and then coming to Chicago He Be worked as a n clerk In a Chicago law office for 8 8 a e week while preparing for tor ills his profession ion sion later ater he entered pol politics He was thrice elected congressman from the Thirteenth Illinois district before i voluntarily retiring He was elected governor of the state In 1916 b by ba a a tremendous plurality plu plurality and his hits record as chief executive executive tive has put him in the tIle list of presidential possibilities Friends of ot the governor explain that he he had to be bt dragged Into the race for president Certainly be does not seem to worry about the outcome of the campaign I think one of the greatest needs need of ot the tite country today Is a stronger finer happier Am Americanism said Governor Governor Gov Gov- Lowden We can cnn compel aliens to r respect our form of t g government or get out and that we must do Atthe Atthe At Atthe the same time we are under the pro profound profound profound found necessity of earning t that ln t respect respect re reo from all r right thinking men Ware We W Weare Were are re hearing he strong preachments preachment against profiteering and extravagance Y Yet Tet t It Is hardly dawning on the public public pub pub- lic tic mind mild that we can be pa paying excessively excess Ively for government it as ns well as foi sugar meat weal or 01 fuel Illinois formerly had liml 12 separate boards and commissions handling Its affairs No one man no score of ot men were responsible A premium was wap put on Cm spending Under my mr a administration these bureaus have hn LJ been en consolidated into nine departments whose chiefs reside nt ot the state capital a and nil are arc held Individually In dl responsible One effect of 01 this has been to reduce the tn tax tag rate of the state 83 33 per pel cent In two years ars Adoption of a budget u et s system stem has been beena a valuable adjunct In saving saYing the taxpayers taxpayers tax tax- pa payers cs money I think efficiency and ec economy nom in to government go is one mighty step 11 In the direction of ot Improved Americanism |