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ject. Judge Craig gave no pledge whatever, and the word 

 ing of the resolutions of the Princeton Convention merely 

 expressed the resolution of the farmers to support only can 

 didates who would decide cases in strict accordance with the 

 law and the Constitution of the State. 



Still, it was an understood thing with the farmers of 

 Illinois that, in the judicial contest, the battle between 



3,OOO Majority for Craig. 



monopolies and the people had begun in earnest. They 

 were anxious to know, at the mouth of a judiciary unbiased 

 and above suspicion, whether the railway acts of the State 

 were unconstitutional or not. If there were barriers by 

 reason of which an honest judge could not confirm existing 

 laws, they wanted to know it in order that the State Consti 

 tution might be amended. If necessary, they even looked 

 forward to initiating a movement for amending the Con 

 stitution of the United States. 



