CALLING THE ROLL ON THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES NO. 1-FRANK O. LOWDEN-STAND PATTER
Calling The Roll On The Presidential Candidates No. 1—Frank O. Lowden—Stand Patter Within four months, the Republican and Democratic parties will nominate candidates for the presidency of the...
...A rigid insistence upon the principle of government by all people and not by any class...
...Of the Illinois delegation in the House, twenty of the twenty-five Congressmen were Republicans...
...The war has obscured the old issues...
...On May 14, the Aldrich-Vreeland and emergency currency bill came up in the House...
...Reviewing this document and comparing it with Governor Lowden's accomplishments in Illiness...
...Mark Hanna, of Ohio, Henry O. Payne of Wisconsin, and "Matt" Quay, of Pennsylvania, were members of the National Committee...
...There was no real opposition to any of these measures...
...Lowden stands for the immediate return to an efficient, economical business administration of public affairs...
...This motion was lost, Lowden voting with the "old guard," while the "insurgents" voted for the motion...
...He increased his farm acreage (at Oregon, Illinois...
...Among this number was Congressman Lowden...
...The open break between the "insurgents" and the "old guard" on the tariff had split the Republican Party...
...A large personal fortune, investments in corporate enterprises, and the other ties which give a community of interest with "big business" no longer disqualify a candidate for high office as they did in 1912 or 1916...
...In 1896 he was married to Florence Pullman, daughter of George M. Pullman of the Pullman Car Company, one Of the wealthiest railroad magnates of the United States...
...A speedy return to normal conditions, and justice to all...
...After Cannon's re-election, Majority Leader Dalzell offered a resolution providing that the House adopt the old rules as the rules of the Sixty-First Congress...
...On May 26, a bill opening up the coal lands of Alaska to the corporations seeking to exploit the natural resources of the territory was passed in the House by a vote of 147 to 88...
...Governor Lowden has made no pretense of cleansing the state of the corrupt political influences which have been potent factors in molding legislation at Springfield for a quarter of a century...
...On April 9, the bill fathered by Sereno E. Payne, passed the House...
...La Follette's will call the roll on the leading candidates for President, beginning in the current number...
...Governor Lowden has denounced the initiative, referendum, and recall as "socialistic...
...The Sixtieth Congress met in March, 1909...
...The first important measure upon which Congressman Lowden had an opportunity to vote was the bill limiting the hours of service of railroad employees to sixteen consecutive hours...
...Meanwhile, the fight to free the House from Cannonism had not been abandoned...
...Voted consistently with Payne, Dalzell,— Lorimer, and the "old guard" on miscellaneous measures...
...The 1910 election resulted in the endorsement of the "insurgents" in the Republican ranks, and the loss of the House by the Republican Party, dominated by the "old guard...
...He was later elevated to the vice presidency fo the corporation...
...Angus McSween, Hiram Johnson's campaign manager, declared the other day that "it is hard for a man to be elected president on a Pullman platform," but whatever difficulties there may bo ahead, the zeal of the Lowden managers is unabated...
...In 1899 he accepted a professorship of law at Northwestern University...
...Lowden voted against the bill, breaking with the "old guard" on an important issue for the first time since his entrance into the house five years before...
...Since 1900, Colonel Lowden has been continuously active in the Republican organization, serving as national committeeman from 1904 to 1912 and as a member of the executive committee during the campaigns of 1904 and 1908...
...The Sixty-First Congress met in extraordinary session the same day and elected Speaker Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois for a fourth term by a vote of 204 to 166...
...On December 8, 1906, he tool: his seat at the opening of the Second Session of the 59th Congress...
...On March 19, 1910, Norris of Nebraska introduced a resolution to remove the Speaker from the Rules Committee and to increase its membership...
...Not unlike Gov-esnor Philipp of Wisconsin, he has made economy the keystone of his policies to get into office, but in office Gov...
...It is the claim of Governor Lowden's friends that the tax rate in Illinois has been reduced from ninety cents to sixty cents on the $100 valuation as a result of the Governor's economy measures...
...A fearless enforce-ment of law and order...
...His former colleague in the House, William B. McKinley of Champaign, Elinios, was campaign manager for President Taft...
...Clark's resolution provided that the speaker be deposed from the Rules Committee, which in the past had dictated committee assignments as well as legislation, and provided for the election of the Rules Committee by the House...
...On July 31, the conference report on the Payne Bill and the Aldrich Bill wag returned to the House...
...second, his platform...
...Lowden and "Big Business" APAMPHLET circulated by the Lowden-for-President headquarters at Washington, prepared by Colonel Lowden's campaign managers, describes his activities after his retirement from Congress, in March, 1911...
...Elected to Congress AFTER a brief retirement from politics, Colonel Lowden was elected to thS 59th Congress November 6, 1906, to fill the unexpired term of R. R. Hitt, deceased, of the Thirteenth Illinois District...
...Voted for the Payne-AIdrich Tariff Bill...
...Representative Smith, in a statement issued to the press, said: "I have named only a few of the propositions upon which Governor Lowden and the State Convention of New York are in complete accord...
...On March 1, 1909, Lowden voted against the Whits Mountain and Appalachian Forest Reserve Bill aiming to conserve, the timber resources of the public domain...
...Lowden's Early Life FRANK ORREN LOWDEN was born at Sunrise City, Minnesota, January 26, 1861, the son af a blacksmith...
...The "insurgents" refused to abide by the Republican caucus, dividing their votes between Norris of Nebraska and Cooper of Wisconsin, Congressman Lowden voted with the "regulars" for Cannon...
...Voted against the Reciprocity Bill...
...Like the Graham and Sterling bills in Congress, the measure restricts free speech, free press, and free assemblage...
...He was also raising cotton in Arkansas and Texas, and attending to his big business interests...
...Of the last five Presidents: Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson, two—Cleveland and Wilson, went directly from governor's mansions to the White House, while Roosevelt stepped from a governorship to the vice-presidency, and Taft first won recognition as Governor of the Philippines...
...Mark Hanna placed him upon the advisory committee of 84 members which was to guide the party through the campaign...
...Like Taft in 1908, Governor Lowden is making his bid for the presidency on his record as an administrator...
...The exclusion or deportation of aliens who place the red flag or any other flag above our own...
...They are contesting every foot of ground with General Wood, Senator Harding, and Senator Johnson, and they are willing to take their chances in tbe secret caucuses at Chicago...
...Twenty years ago Colonel Lowden made his debut in politics as a delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago...
...If Speaker Cannon, as head of the House Rules Committee, were permitted to appoint the men who should conduct the investigation, it was known in advance that the inquiry would be a "whitewash" for Ballinger...
...The bill had been introduced in the Senate by Senator La Follette...
...Frank O. Lowden voted with Lorimer, Dalzell, Payne, and the "stand-pat" Democrats for this amendment...
...Whatever mystery surrounds his candidacy, may be dispelled by a frank examination of the Governor's record, as revealed in the roll-calls of Congress, the archives of the state government at Springfield, and the records of the Republican Party...
...An impartial analysis of the roll calls during Colonel Lowden's service of five years in Congress shows that he voted consistently with Cannon, Dalzell, Payne, McKinley, Lorimer, and the other "standpatters...
...Certainly they will find no other candidate who has already accomplished so many of the reforms demanded by the New platform...
...At the first session of the legislature he put through a Civil Administrative Code providing for the budget system of state finance...
...Voted against "ship subsidies", in compliance with the pledge in the Republican platform...
...Fitzgerald then offered a substitute to Clark's amendment, making a few inconsequential changes in the rules, and leaving Cannon supreme over the Rules Committee...
...President Taft was inaugurated March 4, 1909...
...Although a novice in national politics, the wealthy young corporation lawyer of Chicago won instant recognition...
...On this important roll call, involving the cause of conservation, Congressman Lowden voted nay, upholding the enemies of a sound conservation policy...
...Upon Taft's overwhelming defeat in November, Colonel Lowden again centered his energies upon his farming and business interests...
...Lowden voted for the Payne Bill...
...He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1900 and 1904, a member of the Republican National Committee from 1904 to 1912, and served on the executive committee in the campaigns of 1904 and 1908...
...In 1898, Lowden became Lieutenant Colonel of the First Infantry, Illinois National Guard...
...This legislation centralized control of the currency system in Wall Street...
...A consolidation act was passed at the same session, merging 125 commisions, boards, and bureaus into nine major departments with a director at the head of each...
...In 1887, he completed the course at the Union College of Law in Chicago, again taking first honors...
...Briefly, Frank Lowden's record in Congress may be summarized as follows: Voted for Cannon for Speaker...
...Governor Lowden's attitude on the high cost of living, universal military training, free press and free speech, the initiative and referendum, the railroad question, labor legislation, and his policy toward monopolies are not revealed in the platform issued in his name...
...Dalzell's motion was defeated, 189 to 193, through the combining of "insurgent" Republicans and the Democrats...
...Lowden voted with the organization for the old rules...
...In 1911, he was elected a director of the Pullman Company and continued in this capacity for several years...
...In 1904 Colonel Lowden was a candidate for governor of Illinois, but lost the Republican nomination to Charles S. Deneen, who served two terms as governor of the state...
...The bill passed the House by a vote of 185 to 145, with independent Republican members opposed...
...The "insurgent" Republicans, who had fought consistently for conservation, therefore introduced a resolution taking the appointment of the investigating committee cut of the hands of the Speaker and providing for its election by the House...
...Finally, the Norris resolution prevailed, 191 to 156...
...Protective tariff measured by the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad...
...In the Senate, a few days later, the "insurgent" members voted solidly against the Payne-AIdrich bill...
...In many states, delegates have been instructed for "favorite sons" who do not take their own candidacy seriously...
...On September 13", he was nominated in the state primary, and on November 7 was elected over Edward F. Dunne...
...OUT of the dense fog which over-hangs the pre-convention campaign in the Republican party, Governor Frank 0. Lowden, of Illinois, emerges a real claimant for serious consideration at Chicago in June...
...He represented the Third Chicago District, sitting in the convention with William Lorimer, who represented the Second Chicago District...
...Lowden and The "Insurgents" "INSURGENCY" first took definite form in the House in the Sixty-First Congress...
...When it appeared certain that Clark's resolution would prevail, Fitzgerald, reactionary Tammany Democrat, of New York, led 28 Congressmen out of his party and voted with the "stand-pat" Republicans, defeating the Mis-sourian's motion by a vote of 203 to 180...
...Lowden's Platform for President REPRESENTATIVE Frank L. Smith of Illinois is directing the campaign for Governor Lowden from Washington...
...Encouragement of agriculture and recognition of the principle that it is and must remain our most important industry...
...Record as Governor THE collapse of the Bull Moose Party put the former Taft backers once more in control I the party machinery in 1916...
...Colonel Lowden, with strong backing from the party managers, became a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois...
...Among the Illinois members were Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the House, James R. Mann, later Republican floor leader, William B. McKinley, traction magnate and banker, now a candidate for United States senator, and William Lorimer, soon to be elected to the Senate by the famous "jackpot" legislature at Springfield...
...The bill had the support of Mondell, and other "standpatters" in the House...
...and third, his backing and political associations...
...Governor Lowden had been elected upon a platform pledging economy and a "business administration...
...Cannon was at the height of his power as "czar" of the House, and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island ruled the Senate with an iron hand...
...The motion was supported by the "old guard" Republicans, but failed to get a two-thirds majority and did not prevail...
...During his public career, however, Governor Lowden has committed himself on most of these important issues...
...Under these conditions, Governor Lowden will, beyond question, prove a strong factor in the balloting...
...The ratification of the peace treaty with reservations substantially as proposed by the foreign relations committee of the senate...
...Governor Lowden has won the support of the chamber of commerce and manufacturers' associations in Illinois by using the troops freely to quell strikes and labor dis-disturbances since the armistice...
...Supported Ballinger in the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy...
...By mid-summer of 1910, it was apparent that the people were preparing to rebuke the "stand-pat" leadership of the Republican party in the fall election...
...I would rather have it said of me that I put an end to 'boodleism" in Illinois than that I had a seat in the United States Senate," Governor Altgeld declared twenty years ago...
...Fitzgerald's substitute was adopted, 211 to 173...
...He was offered a place as First Assistant Postmaster General under President McKinley in 1900, but declined...
...The American people are entitled to know three things regarding every man who aspires to occupy the White Bouse from 1921 to 1925...
...Young Lowden at once entered the practice of law in Chicago, and soon rose to a prominent place at the Chicago bar...
...But much water has passed under the bridge since the last presidential election...
...Many representatives and senators who had voted for the Payne-AIdrich bill, supported Cannon, and sided with Ballinger and the public land "grabbers," decided to retire...
...Joseph G. Cannon was one of the leaders of the Illinois delegation...
...On January 7, 1910, President Taft upheld Ballinger and summarily dismissed Pinchot from the service...
...A stalwart uncompromising Americanism which puts this country's interests first...
...The nomination and election of a man of Governor Lowden's type would have been a manifest impossibility in 1912 and in 1916, when the issue was still sharply drawn between the progressives and the reactionaries...
...Until a few months ago, Governor Lowden was not widely known beyond the borders of his own state...
...At Washington, Colonel Lowden found the Republicans in full control of both branches of Congress...
...As in the years from 1907 to 1911, while in Congress, he would undoubtedly favor the high tariff policy which fostered monopoly and resulted in increased living costs...
...In response to the storm of public indignation awakened by the President's action, the House determined to investigate the Department of the Interior...
...Neither Lowden, Wood, Harding, nor Johnson will have sufficient delegates to secure the nomination on the first ballot...
...Thus far the Interest Press has dealt with the campaign much as it reports a baseball series or a horse-race, with much speculation as to the ultimate winner but with little accurate and essential information...
...Governor Lowden's administration has undoubtedly won him the general support of the business interests of the State...
...The "insurgent" Republicans opposed it...
...Lowden and The Payne-Aldrich Tariff THE most important question before the 61st Congress was the tariff...
...Among Colonel Lowden's associates on this committee were "Boss" Platt and Chauncey Depew of New York, Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island, and Charles F. Pfister and Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin...
...The results of Governor Lowden's policy of non-interference with existing political conditions in the State is being demonstrated in the state constitutional convention now in session at Springfield...
...Governor Lowden has avoided any show of hostility to the elements with which Governor Altgeld was engaged in open warfare...
...A few weeks ago the Republicans of New York adopted a platform at a state convention, at which former Senator Elihu Root presided...
...Voted against revision of the rules under which the Cannon organization maintained autocratic control of the House...
...Fought the progressive movement in the Republican party...
...Lowden's Political Associates BROADLY speaking, it may be said that Governor Lowden has much the same backing for the presidential nomination which ex-President Taft had in 1912...
...Fort twenty years, however, he has been active in politics...
...He is close to the element in the Republican Party which has always urged a large Navy, universal military training, and a "firm" policy in Mexico...
...Eleven months before Lowden entered the House, Robert M. La Follette had taken his seat in the Senate and in April, 1906, had sown the seeds for the "insurgent" revolt when he opposed the Hepburn-Dolliver railroad bill, in open defiance of Aldrich's leadership...
...Previously on February 17, Representative Smith had issued a set of principles upon which he declared Governor Lowden is a candidate for President: "Gov...
...International friendships, not partnerships...
...The great body of delegates will be picked men ready to vote as the party leaders dictate...
...Such is the case in Pennsylvania where the delegation will be instructed for Governor Sproul, but will in fact be under the domination of Senator Boise Penrose...
...Record In Congress Summarized THE Sixty-first Congress held over until March, 1911...
...He introduced the usual pension bills for the erection of public buildings in his district, but fathered no constructive legislation...
...With his approval the legislature enacted a stringent anti-sedition law last June under which Socialists and labor leaders in Chicago have been indicted...
...Several roll calls were taken on substitutes and amendments designed to side-track the resolution...
...The abolition of the numerous agencies for war purposes which have been continued at an enormous expense in time of peace...
...Lowden voted for Cannon...
...As Secretary of the Interior, Ballinger had consistently favored the coal and lumber "grabbers," against the rulings of Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the Bureau of Forestry, who was a zealous advocate of conservation...
...On the contrary, the Governor has succeeded in uniting in his own camp most of the factions in Illinois, but he will leave the governorship with the state as badly machine-ridden as it has ever been in its history...
...On February 18, 1907, Lowden voted in favor of a motion to suspend the rules and pass a substitute bill, without amendment, over the protest of the railroad brotherhoods...
...It was under the old rules that Cannon wielded his autocratic power...
...During his five years in the House, Congressman Lowden put forward no measures of importance...
...The vote was 149 yeas to 146 nays...
...Thus the party organization will in all probability control in the selection of a candidate at Chicago...
...On the same day a resolution was offered, declaring the chair of the speaker vacant...
...His family removing to Iowa in 1868, he attended Iowa State University, and was graduated as valedictorian of his class in 1885...
...Sketches of Wood, Johnson, Harding, McAdoo, Hoover, Cox and other candidates will be published as the campaign progresses—Editors Note...
...Champ Clark of Missouri, minority leader, then offered a resolution amending the rules in such manner that the speaker was shorn of most of his arbitrary power...
...Governor Lowden was reared in a school of politics which was in ill favor in the United States a few years ago, but which, in the confusion of domestic issues in the wake of the war, may dominate the Chicago convention...
...Colonel Lowden's first experience in politics Was as a party worker and organizer...
...With a majority of the members of both parties, Lowden voted for the constitutional amendment providing an income tax, for the bill creating a postal savings system, and for the act regulating child labor in the District of Columbia...
...Lowden voted for the bill...
...His early training under Hanna, Quay, and Platt, and his intimate association with Penrose, Lodge, Root, and the other men who still dominate Republican conventions will qualify him for the "safe and sane" leadership of the party, so desirable in the eyes of the men who will attempt to "run things" at Chicago...
...Early in his administration, Governor Lowden sent troops to Chicago to prevent the meeting of a convention called to discuss the war aims of the United States...
...Some months ago, Chairman Will Hays of the Republican National Committee urged Republicans in the various states to send uninstructed delegates to Chicago in June...
...This policy has been generally pursued in states which in former years have been the scene of warm primary fights...
...At the final session, beginning in December, 1910, President Taft brought in his reciprocity bill...
...The vagueness of the platform issued by Representative Smith is suggestive of the appeal which friends of Governor Lowden are making to Republicans in behalf of his candidacy...
...It was the heyday of reaction and the golden age of the "old guard...
...Delegates under the control of Roger Sullivan, Lee O'Neil Browne, Len Small, and the other politicians who have served special interests in the State for years are now writing the new organic law for Illinois...
...He spoke briefly on half a dozen measures during his term, making his principal speech against reciprocity, on the ground that it wa3 a departure from the Republican tariff policy...
...He took office January 7, 1917...
...first, his previous record in office...
...I am sure they will find no other presidential candidate who fits their principles so thoroughly...
...President Taft and the Republican congressmen had been elected on a platform pledging revision downward and immediately upon his inauguration Taft summoned Congress in extra session...
...Reduction of taxes...
...When he reflects that he is the only governor seriously considered as a candidate for the Republican nomination, the affable, well-groomed gentleman of fifty-nine years in the executive mansion at Springfield can afford to approach the Chicago convention with some show of confidence...
...By overseeing the development of his lands, the breeding of fine stock, dairying, road building, and planting 500,000 pine trees on his Sin-nissippi farm he was a very busy man," the biography reads...
...Colonel Lowden was still a member of the Republican National Committee, and in 1912 met with Boise Penrose, Murray Crane, and other national committeemen in Chicago, to decide the contests over delegates between Roosevelt and Taft...
...This resolution was defeated 155 to 192...
...The conference report was then adopted by a vote of 193 to 183, Lowden casting his vote to make the Payne-AIdrich tariff bill a law...
...Voted against conservation measures and favored bills in the interest of the land "grabbers...
...Root and "Boss' Barnes dictated the platform...
...1—Frank O. Lowden—Stand Patter Within four months, the Republican and Democratic parties will nominate candidates for the presidency of the United States...
...Colonel Lowden continued to support Taft for President during the 1912 campaign...
...Lowden voted with Dalzell, Payne, and Lorimer throughout the proceeding and against the Norris resolution...
...The schedules had been boosted in the Senate against the determined opposition of the "insurgents," and a motion was made in the House to recommit the bill to conference...
...Philipp has seen taxes reach the highest point in the history of the state...
...Governor Lowden is conceded to be a favorite in the South,—itself eloquent testimony that his candidacy is regarded with favor by the party leaders, since the southern delegates represent no actual constituency and are manipulated by the national committee...
...The pre-convention campaign in behalf of Governor Lowden is being well financed and vigorously prosecuted, especially in the middle West...
...The "big business interests" referred to in the campaign pamphlet were chiefly Colonel Lowden's holdings in the Pullman Car Company and similar corporate enterprises directed from Chicago...
...Lowden did not vote...
...Low-den voted with the bi-partisan alliance, thus formed to entrench Cannon as "Czar" of the House...
...It provided for the consolidation of small tracts, originally held by bona fide settlers...
...Lowden and the Ballinger Case ANOTHER political upheaval was in store for the Administration in the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy...
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