, 1876-09-17

There is little doubt that the notorious
Know-Nothing coalition between the Irish
and Germans, known as the Peoples party,
which WAS formed in this city about three
years ago to get possession Of the local Gov
eminent, was finally disrupted by the inor~
dinate greed of tive Irish politicians for Office.
They wanted the Germans to furnish the
necessary votes to secure the majority, but
they wanted Ill the Offices themselves. They
possessed themselves of the Board of Alder
men, the County Board, and the most of
the local positions to which pay is attached,
but which are not On that account SO lucra-
tive as the unsalaried Offices. The Ger
mans very naturally became disguised with
such an arrangement, ana partly on this ac-
count and partly On account Of the disreputa-
b1e character of the administration which re-
suited from the condition, the combination
went to pieces, and the parties locally as
well as nationally resolved themselves into
Republican and Democratic But pretty
much all the remains. Of that coalition now
in Office are Iishmen- The Sherif's Office is
Jet under Irish dominion. Nearly all the
Aldermen of the Peoples party who secured
reelection are Irish. In the County Board
there are MCCARTNEY, Comfy, CARROLL,
C1EAR1, LoNERGAS, and Mu1Loy, six out of
the majority Of eight which has been mainly
for the abuses of which the peo-
pie Of Cook County complain. And, had it
been possible to keep together the elements
that combined to control the Local Govern
ment, it is safe to say that, by this time,
every position outside Of the judiciary would
have been tenanted by some gentleman of
Irish birth or extraction, while all the subor-
dinate patronage would have been distrib-
utcd among the very frequently not over
creditable self-consttuted representatives of
the different countries and families of the |
Emerald Isle who have chosen Chicago as
their residence.
Now that the Peoples party is thing of
the past, and the Irish politicians have given
up the hope of securing Office at the hands Of |
a Foreign Know-Nothing coalition, and the |
Germans for the most part have sought the |
Republican party as their natural affinity, |
the Irish politicians have returned to their |
first love, and again court the Democratic
party for nearly all the Offices to be disposed |
of at the approaching election. We have
been at pains to make up partial list OF the
Irish candidates for local preferment who,
either in person or through their friends,
seek the nominations Of the local Democratic !
Conventions. The List is necessarily incom-
plete, and doubtless should be much lareer,
but 1t Is large enough to give some idea Of
The extent to which the Irish politicians con-
troll the local party organization. Here are
As many as we have been able to recall;
For Member Of CoEgr<ss-BARSEY CArLF1ELp.
For sheriD-DAS oHAEA, FRANK AesEw, ,JoHy
ConcoHAx.
For RfeordeT-JoHN coxssKEY
For States Attorney-Ton MORAN and Bril-
0'BR1Ex.
For corontr-Dr. Qu1BK.
For CLERK Circuit Court-N J. Doo1EY.
For County Board-Tox COURTNEY, JOIN SU111-
IAN. (Probably one dozen others.)
for the Legtslature-DENs1s O'SUL11vAS, First
District; Toh HA1PtS, JoHS AcNAL1r JAMES
DooLEr, MICHAEL GEAHT, Third District; J. J.
JAMES EMNErr MURRAY, LARRY
JBE1ES, Fourth District; II. a. DELANEY, Sixth
District.
This list, Of course, does not include the
'ssvANsEs, FoIE1s, O'BnESs, RrASs, G1zAsoss,
I'd genus o1n'ae, who always live in state
# delightful expectancy of any political bone
hat may be tossed to them. It merely
numerates those who have secured the dis
inction of particular mention, and who,
'ther directly or by proxy, are seeking nomi-
'ations for those places which they have
nade up their minds will be most coneenil
them or easiest to get. From this partial
nun1eraticn it may lie imagined that there
ill be trouble in the Democratic camp if the
ommations are not divided equitably among
he Irish, which means IN exclusion of eyerv
ther nationality. The claim of the Irish
olitici2ns upon tho Democratic nartr IF t,hi |