Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1902 — NAMES HOPKINS FOR SENATOR [ARTICLE]

NAMES HOPKINS FOR SENATOR

Republican Convention Asks His Election by Next Illinois Assembly. OUTLINE OF THE PLATFORM High Praise for National and State Administrations and a Special Eulogy for the Late Governor Tanner —Indorsement sos State Civil Service. For U. S. Senator, A. J. Hopkins. For Treasurer, Fred A. Busse. For Supreme Court Clerk, Chris Mamer. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, Alfred Bayliss. For University Trustees, Mrs. Laura Evans, William B. McKinley, L. E. lverrick. * h or Clerks of Appellate Courts—Second District, C. C. Duffy; Third District, William C. Hippaid; Four,.,. District, A. C. AjUilspaugli. Albert J. Hopkins of Aurora was indorsed as candidate for the United States senate to succeed Senator Mason, and the foregoing ticket was nominated by the Republican state convention at Springfield, 111. The platform adopted by the convention, after high praise not only for the national administration but for the state one as well, and after a special eulogy for the late Governor Tanner, declared for a civil service law which shall prevent/the dismissal of state employes “on every change of administration,” and favored a convict labor law which, while keeping prisoners employed, shall prevent them as far as possible from competing with free labor.

The indorsement of Congressman Hopkins for United States senator was the occasion for the only real fight of the day. The resolution of indorsement was passed after a ruling of the chairman of the convention, Lieut. Gov. Northcott, which not only denied to Speaker Lawrence Y. Sherman the right to introduce a minority report opposing instructions on United States senator but also prevented him from introducing his civil service plank. Lieut. Gov. Northcott also refused to allow Speaker Sherman, Congressman Reeves, and other opponents of the Hopkins resolution to speak to the question. Regarding the action of the convention, Senator Mason said: “I will succeed myself as United States Senator for Illinois. I have made no fight for state delegates. The ultimate efTect will be to elect me and to defeat Mr. Lorimer for Gongress, defeat the Cook County ticket, and greatly endanger the State ticket.”