Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-08-25


the Sixth District. and the indica.
tions are that every ward on the North
Side will have a favorite son, for a few
ballots at least, but N. M. Plotke Is
In the lead at present.
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The Executive Committee OF the
Cook County Democratic Marching
Club called upon Mayor Hopkins TO
announce that they had decided not
to give up the regular summer picnic
of the organization, but had decided
1t should be held Sept. 8 at Columbia
Park. They asked him to use his in.
llucnce in the City Hall to secure a
good attendance aud therefore much
money for the campaign fund. The
Mayor promised he would do so. 1t
was announced several days ago that
the marching club would not give a
picnic this fall because of the great
picnic OF city employees to be held
at Columbia Park. How.
ever, the Executive Commit.
tee got together and decided
that the club excheluc demands
something Of the kind. "Uncle" Dan
Root. who was at the City Hall, said
the clubs finances were reduced to
81 500 and something had to be done
to recoup. The Democratic commit.
tees, "Unclc" Dan thinks, do not
"come down" with enough cash to run
the big marching club. Therefore
the second big Democratic picnic IL
scheduled. Like the city employees
picnic. the marching clubs gathering
will be In the nature of a campaign
mass meeting. Invitations to speak
there will be issued to Vice President
Stevenson, Governor Altgcld, Frank.
lin Mac Vcagh, and the State candi.
dates on the Democratic ticket It
Is claimed the Vice President has al.
ready signitlcd a willingness to par.
ticlpltc.
Mayor Hopkins denies that he sent
city employees to the Populist con.
vcntiOn or attempted to break up the
meeting. He said that SO far he had
not been given the name Of a single
city hall man present, and that the
only Democrat he had heard men.
toned as being there was Billy
O'Bricn. Saturday was half holi.
day, the Mayor said, and 1t would not
he strange II city hall men living In
that vicinity had been seen near the
convention hall.
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II the laws relating to health In
this city were enforced there would
be no need of doubtful legislation In.
terfering with the rights Of house
occupants to use their apartments rs
they please. Novices In reform are
always seeking fresh laws to cure
abuses instead Of finding ways to
compel these In authority to enforce
laws on the books. We can stamp
out epidemics without resorting to
unconstitutional infringement OF per.
sonal rights In industry.
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It Is explained how Lawyer Orrin
n. Carter, the Republican candidate
for County Judge, became attorney
for the drainage board Of trustees.
The board consists of nine members,
of whom seven are Democrats and
two are Republicans. A dispute
about the patronage occurred among
the Democrats and faction formed
y coalition with the Republicans tG
appoint the officers. Trustees Cooley,
Wenter and Russell combined with
Boldenweck and Eckhart, giving the
attorney to the two Republicans, and
the clerk, chief engineer and treas
urer to the Democrats. That was
before Carter had developed as Re
publican candidate for office, and the
arrangement has not been changed
since he received the nomination fol
County Judge. 1t Ia said the claim
that he could manipulate the vote In
the drainage district caused him Il
be dominated against Judge Scales
That merely illustrates the quain,
purity Of Republican politics and the
honesty back Of this design to seize
control Of the County Judgeship, as
the Judge controls the election ma
chinery.
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From q comfortable retreat on the
Atlantic coast b. Harrison makes
the awful threat that he will be
heard from later on as to the tariff
Hc was heard from In 1890, when, a.
President OF the United States. he
put his name to q bill which was
written by the agents of forty trusts,
What he has to say on the subject OF
the tariff will be OF interest chiefly
| to the mOnOpOlieS which have had