, 1874-01-25
ge Tries to Find if the Mayor Pays
Ills Board Bills.
a Public Meeting Proposed
to Censure Storey.
yte Injurious Effect of These Articles
on the Credit of Chicago.

-honders Of that funct1onary. upon the Peoples
n.1tv in general It is generally allowed by Mr,
co]yio's fronds that his manner in the Coun-
I'll towards the Aldermen is dictatorial at hmes
toh degree that ia rather aggrnVating to people
vho for years have had their own way His Ill
,sberg insist upon this fact and his wc11-wishers
1ould that it were otherwise. but it remained
for the Times, groaning under an additional in
rnbus Of non-productive sandstone front, and
with that ignis fatuus Of moribund sheets, the
<itv printing, fed from its gaze forever, to en-
de.ror to fan the flame into blaze that might
vrau vet Mayor and Council into q hopeless
vrangle and obstruct public business. It must
be satisfactory for the Times to know that ita
what was intended, and have created new SYM
psthies and strengthened old ones between the
new Mayor and Lis new Council.
THE FACT OF THE NATTER Is
thst Atr Colrin, whatever his administrative
abilities may be, has no: yethad fair show. Un-
OF new MAJOR is when he first assumes office,
and ie, in addition to other embarrnss1ncnts,
troubled with inexpe1ience. Mr. Colyin, for
many years the head Of q business which be
4sran," and in which he employed number Of
sesistants, may have ehown ut times brugque-
ness which left an unintentional sting but which,
after all, was only the oTer-energetic manner Of
3 ebueiness- man, hard pressed with q multi
plicity OF affairs calling for his imme-
dste attention. This euddonness Of
speech is matter which Will wear on IN time,
and il little forbeaEance is only Exercised on
both sides there is no reason why, in little
Fhils, both in aud out Of the Council Chamber,
The relations between the Mayor and tho Alder
men should not be uniformly agroeab1c.
It did not take TIE TRIBUNE reporter, who re-
quest OF news, q very long time to find that
something ont OF the wAy had happened.
TIE FACE OF THE MAYoE
bore aigns Of settled melancholy, while that Of
his urbane Secretary was more than usually pal
lid One or two Aldermen in the ante-rooua
looked dismal in the extreme, as they exchanged
comments On the newspaper they held IN their
bsnd It was the Times, aud the article which
claimed their attention was the one headed
"Our Loafer Mayor" Hadit tackled the Mayor
he.1t; but inasmuch as it engnlfed the Coun-
ii and Peoples party to boot, they felt ag~
erisred and were melancholy accordingly. One
of them declared his intention, with mighty
cath and elephanhne pun, that If tho
Times ever attacked him he would repair to the
corner Of Washington street and Fifth avenua
End clean the place out from
TIE TOP sToREY"
down to the youngest assistant IN tho press
room. The others, men Of milder mien and
aspect delicate, said the article was al outrage,
and limited at the efficacy OF lawsuits.
TEE MATon's SENTIMENTS.
Thinking that the Mayor might have eome-
tttng 10 esy in the matter, the reporter entered
his oce and referred to the article in as delicate
manner as possible. It wae nEparent
does does not M POSSESS those thick-pkipned
qualities which are By many considered to be 3
sins qua non OF the politician. The blow had
gt1uck hard where it had intended to strike, and
had hurt. Mr.. CoIrin said, With regard to the
Times article, that in the first place he did not
see suy eense III it, and that he was at loss to
know what the object OF the sttaek was, unless
to increase tho sale OF the papers. He denied
thatt since his administration of the affairs OF
the city, the citizens had behaved less 'decently
than before; ut any rate ne ~ had not received any
complaints to that effect. The only reason he
conld suppose for tho personal attacks
Of the Times WIS - the failure Of that
paper to secule the city printing. He consider
ed tho recent articles in the Times On the city
Affairs as
DEMoEALzEa TO TIE INTERESTS
Of every person in the city, and particularly SO
1t time when the credit of the city hung, as it
were upon thread. He wanted to know what
the opinion Of residents in the Eastern money
centres, where Chicago is looking for financial
assistance, would be when they read these ar-
ticles. Unsware Of tho character of tho Times.
they would, in many cases, credit its statements,
which could only cause incalculable harm to
Chicago. With regard to the purely personal
attack upon hun, the Mayor had not
much to Say. He knew that IN
credit, but the thought that elsewhere they
might be believed CALLED hlu1. It wns comfort
for him to be able to rafute the specific charge
Of Drunkenness On the night Of his nomination.
As 3 specimen Of the personal nature Of the
On Friday night, Thompson, the Times City
Hall man. called at the st. James Hotel and
inquired whether the Mayor, before leaving
there,
HAD rAD Els BOARD BILL.
.ts M,th regard =. to the class Of people, who
thought they wore neither better nor worse
than those who hoyered round the pre-
slous city ruler. consisting in the main OF
reporters, Aldermen, and politicians. At the
close OF his remarks, the Mayor said the
saSsahsst objection to The Tines 3d aFtifss les vas
10 good, and could not help doing it contider- |
atle harm.
Throughout, the Mayor spoke calmly and dis |
psssonatelJ, and it Was apparent TINT the pique |
aroused by the personal attack was oVerehad- |
oFed BY his indignation, as Chicago's ruling |
citizen, at the blow at her fame in other parts Of
sas country.
DAN o'H4RA.
ACROSS the passage the reporter found |
No Heasurer'e of5ee and the Treas
4ses. The generally genial. smile-illumined
1eea Of the latter wore an unaocustomed scoW1,
ana the reporter suspected that further de- |
f6esncy had been discovered. Strange stories
nad been floating round the City Hall for day
o. 6 .Fo past that the mild-manuere6 Treasurer
asa suddenly acquired an astounding facility OF |
= sSp@9;ga1aon. 20, when the reporter found him
1al Of strange oaths, he WAS not az surprised |
~ ~ be would otherwise have been. In response |
70 tbe inquiry for an item, he expressed bis
:, !eaaness to frame with his own haad, not an
ttem. but the exordium Of such an edi-
=. ~ol'a !. as Re thought should grace the columns
q this mornings TRIBUNE. This fragment,
!. ad-piece without tail, is given below, and
Wy be conceded that to add to its bulk
would be but to diminish its poiot:
laere IA only universal feeling prevailing re-
tbs cou1He Of action pursued by the pestferons
representing the Gbidnous mob Of which it Ia
~ refer to the Chicago Tines,-in the Lite
T. articles which have appeared in its columns
teerenca 70 the Mayor and the City Administration,
~ ~ .nea ia disreputable comments neither moro
I aese 3dsn assault upon tile city credit and en-
to produce hostile feeling against the gen.
adsancemeat Of the city's interests and credit.
aaFlng handed the above to the reporter, who
~ i;sso and duly admired it, Alr. OHara entered
o@ y" conversation. He had been for the past
~. ~ aaSs OF the opinion that throughout the
~ ~ tnere Vas very general feeling in favor
...,. PUBLIC MEETING, !
~ 1nich the Proprietor Of the Chicago Times
etSat receive censufe, and that Subsequently
..1So-laN might be induleed in, and the vile