The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-10-06

This audacity, diversified and embellished,
was good campaigning, But the odds against
him were too great, and the mayor made
his throat sore, strained his modesty, and
riske1 his reputation as a prophet for
naught Uncle Dick Oglesby was elected.
Carter also stood for the senate He went
down to Springfield at the beginning of that
historic fight, which finally resulted in the
reelection Of Logan, and here his propensity
! for speechmaking found free vent. He burst
into flights Of rhetoric at every opportunity.
Almost any evening he could be found sit
ting In the hotel Offices, surrounded by gap
ing crowds Of rural legislators OF all the
throng only one man talked, and he the may
or of Chicago The personal pronoun I, and
praise Of the works himself had performed
In the metropolis of the state, were thick
upon his lips But Morrison waa the choice
of the caucus
The evening In which the nomination was
to be made Carter Harrison was walking
from one hotel to another. On the way he
met two legislators They were not intend
ing to vote for him, and he stopped to labor
with them. He endeavored to show them
where their path of duty lay, and so persua-
sive did he become that both at length re-
tented, renowned their former allegiance,
promised to vote for the mayor, and desired
to hasten on to the caucus hall But the
loquacious candidate was not satisfied He
SC loved the sound Of his own voice that he
was loath to stop The winds whistled, snow
FELL street lamps blinked with passing hours,
| an d carriages ard pedestrians fastened by.
But the mayor talked on and on At length
a shout rose above the moaning Of the wind,
and the mayor paused
Il - L. e
man who was shutting along through the
snow
Morrison nominated on first ballot" was
the reply.
The two shivering legislators looked at
each other in amazement. Their two votes,
which the mayors eloquence had won, the
mayors garrulity had lost. The caucus was
over.
1t is the fashion in Chicago to ego and see
the mayor about it." Women who have been
worsted in neighborhood quarTels, individuals
dissatisfied with their wafer rates or gas bills,
merchants with grievances or corporations
with complaints, employees who want more
wages, employers whose men are On strike
fathers with unruly sons-all call on the
mayor. His doors are always open. He is
the. cadi of Chicago. And when he has lis
tened for time in patience many words Of
wisdom fall from his lips
Every day or so the mayors office is filed
by fifteen or twenty bright young men with
tabs Of paper and ind fferently sharpened lead
pencils As the mayor talks the young men
| write.
"Now print this just as l say it to you" the
mayor commands, ''or you'll get no more news
in tine city hall"
Thee young men are reporters, ami tho
mayor is giving the public, through them
and the more or less great and moral
journals which they represent, his regular
lecture As like as not he is lectu ing the
newspapers, for he and they do not get
along well together. They all are prone to
criticizs him, and he rarely fails to talk hack
Several Of them he sued FOR libel because O..
intimations that he had had a hand in the
notorious election frauds.
Mayor Harrison is an aristocrat in who's
veins flows the blood of that Harrison
family which gave president to the United
States and senator to Indiana. He has a
Kentuckian's love for fine horses, "a Viz
ginians alteration for beautiful women, and
truly Chicagoish love for himself Though
man of the people he everywhere main
tains his dignity. He has "How ars you2'
for the ward worker, but not shake of the
hand. Tue gamblers can secure from him
immunity from arrest. but they cannot
speak to him or enter his Office with his
consent He is good man and bad one
an able man and weak one, statesman
and a demagogue, an aristocrat and pie
beian. He has many con .radictions in his
character and there arc not few faults in
his conduct, but in his eli hit years rule OF
Chicago he has done more for the city, in
the way of public improvements. good erde.,
cleanly administration and economical care
Of the finances, than any mayor since Chi
cago became an interior metropolis He
viii not be elected mayor another time and
wants to go once more to congress He and
the mare would make a sensation ON Penn
sylvania avenue. and tho admiration his
splendid horsemanship would be sure 10
elicit could not fail to stir the amb ton
which lies more or less dormant in every
Chicagoan breast, and which, in his case,
has already been Jickled by The New York
Suns suggestion of Carter Harrison for
president WALTER WELLMAH