Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-03-25
NO. Isl.

the people, Here we have ous rulers
by our own choice. [Applause0
Speaking OF the mayoralty tntest
with Mr. HeSing the speaker said
that he had won by fair means. lie
had been a pretty good German inthe
past. Carl Schurz had once declareuN
that Carter Harrison was about the
best German in The United States.
Applause, He had been a friend of
the Germans. One cf his own children
was born in the fatherland His wife
died there, and for eleven years her
remains mingled with the soil Of old
Germany. He liked German IDEAS in
many respects. He liked their love
of personal liberty; he liked their be-
lief that they should eat when they
were hungry, and have the right to
drink when they were dry. APP
plause Ii elected mayor, as
/ Americans they would come to him il
they wanted anything and when they
met over tankard OF beer or glass of
wine il would be as American
citizens-Jn an equal foot ny.
He was not too old, he said, either.
He would be but 20 years old after
his next term Of Office IL elected. He
would have been ten years the Mayor
OF Chicago, all told and there never
would be another Mayor for that
number of years 1t would be a dis
tinction in the future, and being q
young man in the prime Of his life he
was then going TO take another trip
around the world. Laughter. He
would write letters back, and his
friend Wash Hesing would publish
them in the Staats Zetung. Ap-
plause In conclusion Mr. Harrison
said
Il thank you for your kind atten-
tion and will ask you to attend the
polls on the 4th of April. Now, /
think we will be pretty good team
altogether. We will show TO the
world If any OF it comes here this
summer, what this clay of ours has
grown from. We will take strangers
down here In the street and we will
show them an oak tree that less than
one hundred years ago witnessed the
scalping Of men, women and chill
dren We will show them map that
will show Chicagos enyirons all a
great barren waste, and then we will
point to that glorious spectacle down
at Jackson Park, the finest the world
ever saw. 1t is like dream. |
thought when | visited the capital of
Bermuda that it must be the most
beautiful place in the world, but
down here at Jackson Park is a city
that has sprung up in two years, a
glorious spectacle. When the
German comes here he will ad.
NIT that his Berlin does not
equal it, and the Italians will
admit that Naples does not compare
with il; the Frenchman will agree
that Marseilles Is not to be talked Of,
and everyone will admit that this
, cosmopolitan city of ours made up of
? Germans, Italians, Frenchmen, Rus
Z slams, Bohemians, Slavs, Turks, and
, a few Americans, is the finest city
( and has the finest population on the
y face OF the globe. If they ask how 1t
. is, we viii point to the stars and
stripes and say this glorious city is
! the product of liberty. Come and
enjoy it with us BE like the Ger
: mans that have come here-bec0me
Americans. Our country is big
y enough and warm enough to take to
itu boort a tho world -
Mr.. Harrison in conclusion called
r attention to the ticket placed in the
field by the Democrats Of the North
. town and urged his hearers to sup
Y port it. After giving three rousing
I cheers for the speaker the big audi
4 ence slowly dispersed.