Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-29

trict. stephen Albright
"A campaign committee has been
selected and the active work Of or.
Is under way.
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The delegates of the Associated
Cycling Clubs passed the following
resolutions at meeting held at the
Grand Pacific Hotel:
WHEREAS. Norton n. Van sicklen has
been nominated for the Office OF County
Treasurer OF Cook County On the inde-
pendent ticket; and
WHEREAS Mr. Van sicklen. rs cyclis.
OF long and honorable standing. repre-
scnts the wheclmop Of tho county; be It
Resolved. that We, the Associated Cy-
cling Clubs of Chicago aud vicinity. do
indorse the candidacy of Mr. Van slckcn
AMI recommend all wheelmen in Cook
County to volc for him
The bicyclists are not supporting
Van Sicklcn as a candidate for the
Independent American citizens tick.
ct, on which he Is running, nor yet
for the pure love they have for him,
although he is most popular with all
who know him, but rather as an ex.
ponent of cycling. They have for a
long time been awaiting an opportu.
nifty to show howmany votes they could
Liuster, and they feel that they can do
SO no better than by booming the
whcclman candidate. When they
have shown, as they are confident
that they can, that they can control
many thousands of votes on a purely
cyclists issue they will use the fact
as a menace to recllcitrant lawmak.
ers and public officials who have
steadily refused to heed the pleas of
the bicyclists for bcttcr-pavcd and
bettcrkcpt streets.
!, The Associated Cycling Clubs have
appointed campaign committee.
consisting of one member from elch
club In the association, which Is
made up as follows: George X. Bar
rett, ID. j. Canary, r. J. Tanning,
a. w. Roth, william Hcrrick, a. Il.
Haywood, II. NJ. Gardiner, II. H.
Walden, *. Il. Peterson, S. 5.
Manning, John Siman and II.
G. Fisher. The committee is going
ahead in businesslikc way to reach
the wheelmen voters. Mass meet.
ings will he held In various parts of
the city, all members Of the associ.
atcd clubs will be set to work to
gather the names Of the wheclmcn
who do not belong to any club, and
the twenty odd clubs that are not
members of the association will he
interested In the work. Campaign
headquarters has been established
at Room OIL Isabella Building, 30
Van Buren, street.
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The Republicans have completed
the arrangements for the formal
opening Of their campaign next
Saturday night. Tho speakers have
been assigned as follows: Clark
+. Carr and George II. Hunt,
Princeton Rink; Isaac Clements and
George W. Prince, Central Turner
Hall: ex.Gov. Fifer and A. G. Mat.
thews, North Side Turner Hall;
Charles f. Fuller and Horace Clark,
West Twelfth Street Turner Hall;
Cicero j. Lindley and David Ross,
Arlington Hall, 3lst street and Indi.
anua avenue; William Il. Mason and
John NJ. Hamilton, Calumet Thcater,
South Chicago: A. J. Hopkins and T..
J. Noble, Bailey's Opera House,
Evanston.
Besides these speakers all the can.
didates and number of local orators
will serve to I'LL In time.
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The rather troublesome question OF
the form OF ballot to be used by
women ut the coming election III
length has been decided. and the de-
cislon Is a safe and wise one. The
question was whether the ballot.
should be prepared upon the Austral
ian plan as they are for the male
voters or should be the old style In
vogue before the passage Of the Aus
tralian law. The attorney OF thu
board OF election commissioners
Lawrence 7. Boyle, was appealed t.
for an opinion, which he gave at some
length. After reclting the various
acts of the Legislature bearing upor
the point, Mr.. Boyle says:
"There Is no provisions whatever
in the law comforting upon wOmer
the privilege OF voting for schoo
officers as to what the particular form
of the ballot shall be. 1t merely pro
yides that 1t shall be a separate bal
lot when the election occurs at the
same election at which other public
officers are elected. 1t, therefore, re
mains with you to determine whether
or not Qnasmuch as the law has moi
6oanoI what tho farm ne tho hall "a,