Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-11-21
A ROUNDUP OF nyPOCRITES
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affair which has caused so much con

HHHIr WHICH mas caNScI so much com
mcnt. Mr.. IIealy said:
81 was at the meeting of the club
last night at which this disturbance o..
Cured. and. as Republican. very
much regret the exaggerated accounts
OF the matter which appeared In the
morning papers. The trouble grew
out of II motion made by Congressman
FCss requiring the secretary of the
club to turn over to the Judges anl
clerks by him named the membership
roll of the club.
Attention was called to the fact I'm
the meeting that II would he impossi-
ble for the secretary to comply with
such a direction. because II is the duty
Of the secretary under the rules of the
| Orga anization to retain I'm his custody
all the papers and records of the or
gunizatiOn. and to send to each of the
| members u notice Of the time AMI
place of holding the annual meeting for
the election of officers. Under the Foss
motion II would have been impossible
for the secretary to comply with his
plain duty In the premises. and there
appeared to bc no necessity for the
| turning over of the membership roll
to the Judges and clerks until the time
to hold the annual meeting. which Oc-
ours u week from next Tuesday night.
despite the protests the Foss motion
was put and declared carried by the
Chairman. Mr.. Boyce. who acted I'M
fairly throughout the entire meeting.
| \ division of the house was called for
on the Foss motion and refused by the
chair. An appeal was then taken from
the decision of the chair. which appeal
the Chairman refused to entertain.
Thcrcupon u motion to adjourn was
made. and. instantly. as II by precon.
certed arrangement. u number of men
whom do not know rushed toward the
secrctary's table and attempted to fore
IDLY take the book containing the list
of members. Others rushed to the us.
sistance Of the secretary. and a crowd
of thirty or forty surrounded him. some
Interested in securing the book and
others In preventing the attempt to
forcibly take It.
"Thc secretary. with u number Of our
friends. succeeded In crow,ling his way
to u side door. and. escaping through
the rear of ule hall. took the book to his
home. At that time. or about that time.
eX-Alderman Eleinccke. at the request
Of some one In the crowd. broke u win
dow glass with his cane In order to at
tract the attention of the police OFF,
GERS. who were In the station Just across
the alley"
AT the beginning of the excitement I
Jumped upon the Presidents table and.
trying to make myself heard above the
din. attempted to allny the excitement
and Iucll the disturbance. insisting
that the attempt to enforce the Foss
motion by physical violence was i'm.
proper and that we were doing the
party an injustice and an injury In
acting In such u disgrnceful manner.
! saw no blows struck, but after the
trouble had subsidized I saw City Col
lectOr Mas standing to one side talk
Ing with young man who was apollo.
gIxing for II blow which he had unln.
tentiOnally dealt Mr.. Mas during the
excitement.
"Mr. Mas was very Indlgnant-and
rightly sO-and told the young man.
who appeared to be arrnyed on the
same political side Of the question rs
was Mas. that his action In striking
any one was highly improper and that
he had no right to go into u Republican
meeting ana strike any one with u
cane. no matter what their political
differences might be.
~ noticed Mr.. Mas when I stood
upon the table aud he was attempting
rs ! was, to stop and quell the trOu'
Bile.
"SOme of the morning papers have
charged me with striking Mr.. Boyce
and Mr.. Mulligan with cane. Both
statements are absolutely untrue.
did not strike either of these gentle.
men, nor did l attempt to strike them
or any one else.
"'rhere was no attempt on the part
of our friends to pack the meeting Oi
to control Its action, except to respect,
fully protest against the unlleard.Ot
ana unfair rulings of the chairman
The only deputy sheriff whom | saw
there has been resident of the Twen,
ty-hfth Ward for more than twenty
years. ana member of the club ever
since Its inception.
II saw no revOlvers drawn and do
not believe that such u thing was
done.
"AIr. Pease took no part In the melee,
hut stood twenty or thirty feet to one
side talking with Il number of his
friends, and | do not know that any
directions We're given by him or any
of our friends which could In the slight
est way have precipitated any trou-
ble."
The Eagle knows of its own knOwl-
edge that the men who attended that
Twenty-tifth ward meeting with sheriff
Pease as his friends. are among the
most upright AMI substantial citizens of
Chicago. Among them were such
names rs Frank J. Lindsten, 1927 Bel
mont avenue; Henry &. Bradley, 1924
C0rnella street. ThOs. J.. Johnson, 1921
R0keby street; Ben NJ. Smith, Rogers
Park; VIM. j. Wallace. 14lO Noble
avenue; Abba Nelson, 1872 Belmont
avenue; Robert Henselman, 1I33 Briar
place, ana Il. l.. Mason, of Clark ana
Ilalsted streets.
This, then, IL the whole story of how
certain newspapers cover certain men