Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-17

purposes Of plundcring a patient and
enduring public made NO great cutlery.
When they seek to thwart proper In.
vestigation into the murder Of helpless
creatures. recipients Of public bounty.
they exhaust public patience and must
w. held up to public rcprobatiOn. This
crowd will steal. and no Civic Fedora
ton will say them nay. but they must
not murder. nor cOndone murder. nor
leave helpless. unhappy human crea.
lures In the care Of brutal and Ignorant
politicians even II they are posing as
reformers.
The other faction of the reforming Re-
publican party has Its headquarters In
the city hall. Its purpose II to gain. II
1t can. the Republican machinery In the
State and county. and deliver congress
| sional delegates to Mckinley. 1t has
made u sham of civil service reform.
and to this day Is engaged In exterinl-
mating employees who IRE supposed ia
have the slightest nfiilintiOn with the
other faction Of the Republican party.
II yields complete obedience to Charles
+. Yerkes. II has taken to It's bosom
as one of Its brightest ornaments. its
most useful hencliman. the Buck" Me
Carthy. now alderman Of the Twenty
ninth ward. who. rs county commits
siOner. was convicted Of malfeasanct
In office and fined x1.WO. The d.shOn
est record Of this man is well known "a
the city administration. but not an al
dernan is 80 cared for In the distribu
ton of patronage as this convicted
bOOdler. All the effort nude years agt
to bring the scOundrel to justice fails Of
proper effect because Of the fact tina
Swift's arms are wide open to receiv,
him. Doors shut upon respectable clti
gems DESTROYS Of doing public bushes,
at the city hall ARE opened to the ex
boOdler at his knock. He will b. usefu
to George brains" In defeating til,
other faction Of the Republican party
ana In delivering delegates to the ma
tional Republican nominating COnven
tlOn as directed by the editorial guild,
and apOlOg.st Of the city Mdministra
ton.
This Is the reform the city and th'
county administrations are giving tn,
people Of Chicago and Ut Cook county
In the eagerness Of these factions t.
dominate neither II rcgartlful Of pub
lic moneys; they nre squnn,lere,l upOI
favOrites aud incoinletcnts. Nor o
human life: II II placed ut the mere!
of wretched savagcs WHO have beef
found useful at primary elections. II
the fight Of the factions the publ
veal Is ignored. Men are placed upol
the payroll I'm both wings Of the publ
building solely with reference to thei
availability In caucus carrying. Bot
factions profess profound regard fo
the merit system. but In neither win
Of the public building has the merl
system been introduced. II has bee
talked about, not acted upon.
This town II cursed with the wOrs
example Of machine control ever IN
fictei In this city or any other. Rivu
llOrdes struggling for control Of the IL
publican machine make public emplO!
ment ana public CHARITY the weapon
wherrwith they fight one another.
The personnel Of the whole warrln
Republican machinery OF Cook count
nnd Chicago II atrociously bad. II
composed Of lewd fellows Of the bast
sort. whose gOtl In their belly ana who's
; end II destruction.
Nothing 40 harsh can he said Of eitl
! or Dan Healy or George Swift as tn,
each IL as bad as the other. Az pol
ticians. neither has compunctiOn q
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