An attempt to inject the racial issue into the gubernatorial campaign because Judge Henry Horner, the Democratic nominee, is a leading Jew, is being made by campaigners for his Republican rival for the post, former Governor Len Small.
The Republican forces are spreading throughout the State the slogan: “The United States went to England for its president and Chicago went to Czechoslovakia for its mayor. Does Illinois want to go to Jerusalem for its governor?”
Judge Horner himself has remained aloof from this action, but many adherents have jumped to his defense.
James Webber Linn, professor of English at the University of Chicago, who conducts a daily column in the “Chicago Times,” discussing this racial attack on Judge Horner says:
“The life of Judge Horner as a public servant is an open book. There are only two pages in the book. One is headed ‘Ability,’ and the other is headed ‘Humanity’.
“If I were the managers of the Democratic campaign, I would publish that book of two pages and I would see that every good woman in the state of Illinois was handed a copy of it by a friend, personally. I would utterly ignore the false ‘issues’ raised by the Small faction; I would let the Judge himself do all the discussing, in public or private, of what he with his wide experience and economic training regards as the real political issues of the state campaign; and I would tell the women of Illinois the straight, clear, warm truth about the power of goodness of this great Jew and keep on telling it to them, until they became aware that it was the truth. Once they know the truth, I trust the women. You can fool them and you can blind them to the truth for a while; but once they know it, they vote right.”
Rabbi Julius Leibert has become the leader of a new organization, the Progressive Synagogue, in Los Angeles.:
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