Illinois Democrats put aside local squabbles and asked their showiest vote-getter to run for governor. Cook County's third-term Attorney Thomas James ("Honest Tom") Courtney, 49, whose silver hair and slanted smile are not lost on feminine voters, flatly demanded the support of Colonel Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News and Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. Getting it, he graciously accepted the draft. If he wins the Democratic primary, he will fight it out next November with the G.O.P.'s handsome, grey Governor Dwight Green, able, amiable yes-man of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune. The New Dealish Sun gave a well-modulated cheer: "[Courtney] has...
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