Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-07-28
CURRENT COMMENT.


convention last Saturday, has set hi.
face like adamant against the pOliti
cal parties now on earth. After tn,
convention nominated some one else
Mr.. Wagner was chosen committee
man for the Third Senatorial Dis
trict. This failed to placatc the Citi
zen. who Immediately announced
himself an independent candidate
On Tuesday he sent the following let.
ter to the Chairman of the commit.
tee:
Mr. James II. wadsworth,
DEAR siR Il am in receipt Of your letter
requesting mo to attend meeting Of The
scnatorial committee OF the Third Senate.
rial Di>tric. decline to attend, for tho
reason that refuse % act with either Of
the old parties this year I ann n candi.
date Of the workingmen CT the Third
Senatorial District for tho lower house Of
the Assembly. and I therefore refuse to be
u member Of the committee. Respectfully
yours. PETER WAGNER.
Blue Island.
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When delegates to the Ninth Sen.
atorlal Convention began to assemble
Wednesday night at the Grand Pa.
cihc Hotel some of them were sur.
prised to lind that credentials signed
by the primary judges and clerks
which they carried would not admit
them. Two policemen guarded the
doors to the convention and admis.
sion was only by cards said to be
issued by ID. E. Shanahan. Some OF
the delegates tried to reach the con.
vention three times and were re.
pulsed. Then the rejected mem.
bers withdrew to the Sherman
House and held u meeting OF
their own. Meanwhile the Shan.
ahan men, who were first on
the scene at the Grand Pacific,
carried their program through. Frank
Hocy was made President and Henry
S. Lasck Secretary Of the meeting.
A committee on credentials seated
the nineteen delegates already In the
convention. Without much contest
the following nominations resulted
for the district:
For esen,ative-n +. shanahan. No
a7!2 Main street.
For the Senate Peter Craigmile. No $3.50
Halstcd street
For the Senatorial Committee-A. T.
Jones, j. n. Kclson. and 4. Lynch. Sixth
Ward; Fred Brsndenb berg, Ninth Ward;
Thomas Watson. Tenth Ward; John Log.
gett Eighth Ward.
A motion to ratify the regular
county nominees did not carry. The
nomination OF Shanahan was by &C.
clamation. Craigmile is q butcher
and won over Clemens Belinisky, OF
the Ninth, and James Thompson, OF
the Twenty.eighth Ward.
The convention Of delegates claim.
ing to hold the regular credentials
proceeded smoothly at the Sherman
House. John J. Dwyer was made
President and James Edgar Secrc.
tary. The nominations were:
For Observation-Disclosures J. Riley.
No 1854 Archer avenue.
For senator-JOhn Nutz butcher, No.
$50 West Twenty. first street
Committeeman William Minock. VIII.
lam Finucane. John Logan. Sixth Ward;
Jacob Hiel, John Grosser. Ninth; W. Hi.
gendorf, Tenth, aud John Kelly, Twenty.
eighth.
Before adjournment President
Dwyer, Secretary Edgar, and numer.
GUS delegates denounced the conduct
OF the faction at the Grand Pacific.
~.
Hon. Frank Lawlcr Is "making
hay" In his independent canvass for
Congress. He was at the Holy Fam.
lily picnic this week, and was assured,
1t is claimed, Of the hearty support of
many prominent Democrats of the
district
~
Commissioner Weeks, at the meet
ing of the West Park Board Tuesday
afternoon, introduced measure
whereby number OF salaried posi-
tions will be declared vacant before
the first of next month. The resolu-
tion, which was adopted by the
board, calls upon all employees work.
ing on yearly or monthly salaries to
resign In the five days following July
"a, and declares that after July 81
all names OF parties not SO resigning
shall be stricken from the payroll
and the persons discharged. A copy
OF the resolution will be sent to each
of the employees. All desiring to be
re-employed must make written appli.
cation, to be accompanied by such
Endorsements as the applicant may
see 1T There were some gloomy
faces lowering about the parks as