Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-03-25

the debt the first time at u per cent.
interest and sold it at premium. |
then tried it at 3.65 per ent. and sold
that at premium. Every indebted
ness | reduced step b step, reduced
the Interest and always made a pre-
MUM.
Now, Mr.. Walshs paper says that
| was eXtravagant How is IL with
| tie present administration? | do
not expect to be elected by some
body else's demeritS; ! wish to win
upon my own merits, and If you feel
that you cannot trust me do not put
me into the Office, but last year when
the tonds issued for the Worlds Fair
were put upon the market at / per
cent. the city Of Chicago had to pay
$3.50, coo commission for disposing of
them. Never one cent of commits
sion was paid when disposed o. the
city's bonds ] reduced the indebt-
edness by a good many thousand dol
lars, wiped them out entirely. The
city, when | was Mayor, had about
700 600 population; to-day II has
1900, 600, and its property valuation
is to-day twenty times as great as 1t
was when | was Mayor, yet Mr. Wash
burne and Mr. May had to pay $780,,
600 commission. The city owes less in
proportion even with that So, 000, 600
Of additional debt. When | was
Mayor it was over sl3. 600, 000 II now
owes SIS, 000, 600. II then had a pop
ulation Of from 100, 600 TO zoo, 600,
according TO the year, but SIS, 000, 600
indebtedness now is no more than
S13, 600, 600 was then. When | went
J in, as ! stated, this city was indebted
-, 500, 900, a floating Indebtedness in
script; paid it all in the time | was
Mayor and left 81, 500, 000 in the city
, treasury. My friends, | tell you OF
these things so you can Judge of the
, past and thus help you TO Judge what
{ | will do in the future. This is my
record. | stand before you candi'
date, and, if elected, | promise you
p my earnest epdeayor TO do as well in
the future as ! did in the past.
We may have cholera here. It.
germs lie over in Hamburg wrapped
9 in ice and snow Early ships may
, bring it here and we will have tC
| meet it. The city must be kept clean
. Applause. Last spring Just oyel
here north Of North avenue the ty
; phoid fever and diphtheria were rife
/. Your sewers were never flushed. NJ
! reporters came TO Inc and told me o.
the terrible condition the streets ant
o sewers were in, but | said. ">al
n nothing about it, we cannot help il
} it will only alarm the people" Nov
/ next year we may have cholera.
e They say / am too old. My friends
o | am 6S years Of age. | have had
{ happy life; few men have been hap
pier. am ready to go. / am ready
= when my turn comes, to wrap m,
Y mantle about me and lie down I,
= pleasant dreams, but while | an
= Mayor Of Chicago, let cholera stall
through our streets with gaunt belly
G and with gnashing tusks, I'll sta!
= here and do my duty. Applause.
Y / do not believe cholera will tOucf
o. me. A man that is brave does not
r as a general thing, contract disease
= for his courage fights it Off and vii
r do as ! did when we had that dread
S riot over at the Haymarket sal
r smoking one day, and man came
r 10 me and said. "Mr. Mayor, yOl
e had better leave this place; yOl
G are known what do | care J.
y | am known" ! said. / wanteC
J. the people 10 know ! was not afraiC
= aud no danger was feared by me.
4 was once talking with Bismarck abou
2 the Car Of Russia, and said 10 hin
% that thought IL would Doe so much
better II the Gar would trust his peO
q pie in the same way "Ies, SAYS IN,
= grim old slron Prince yes trusi
r. them and get shot "Well, said J.
. 'your highness, when the riots were
d going ou iu Chicago and The tefrihl,
4 llaymarket bomb was Hfed, ! wenl
Z dawn on horseback right through th'
4 worst part 0f QUE ety. My chief of
r police begRed me aot t0 So lnt said
g would get shot, but I went d0Ru and
. aas noe hurt -hut said hlsmtFrk
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