The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-13
THE FIGHT AGAINST ''Bo0DLL" IN
CHICAGO.

The same answer is given to those
excited negropholists who are trying to
infame the country against the go0N
people of Wilmington who were forced
to employ revolutionary methods to
save their homes and preserve their
civilization.
rs this 1871 and am l in the Jacobin
hall?" Grid out one of the speakers in
the Monticello club in Chicago Saturday
when that club, the home of the highest
type of Western Democracy, adopted
vigorous Notwithstanding to prevent
ing the street railway franchise deal
The resolutions adopted concluded thus
THAT committee of ten be appointed
by this club to participate with other
committees, bodies, and citizens in ar
ranging for monster mass-meeting of
100000 citizens, to be held within the
elevated loop on the night when said
ordinances are upon the calendar for
final passage, and in further ARRANGING
for escorts of 1000 men for each alder
man, whose duty it will he to await the
adjournment of the council and escort
the aldermen safely to their homes, or
elsewhere, with music or other demon
STATIONS appropriate to each respective
ease"
We are told that this paragraph was
read with all imaginable emphasis and
gusto' and that ''the club members ap.
plauded." This spirit of resistance to
government by Doodle in Chicago is on
all tours with the Wilmington resistance
of corruption and incompetence. There
is wonderful similarity in the wording
of the resolutions adopted by big meet
ings in both cities. Wilmington did not
win its fight without display of force,
the hope of peaceful success in Chicago
seems well founded. But the above
resolutions, the editorials in every paper
in Chicago except one that belongs to
the street car magnates. the ringing ut
leading citizens indicates that corporate
purchase of aldermen, will be defeated
at any cost. To show the determination
we quote the following extracts from
Chicago papers:
1T is necessary for the people OF
Chicago to act at once. They must give
immediate and unmistakabe expression
to their resentment aud fortify it with
a menace that shall be perfectly intelli-
gible to both classes of maiefactors. -
Times-Herald.
''Men appeared in the streets yesterday
with slip nooses made OF string tied in
the button-holes of their coats. When
they were asked why they wore the min
nature hangman's nooses, each in turn
replied: 'Taat shows how stand on
this street railway extension ordinance
It's hint to our aldermen that if they
betray the city to Yerkes, Bowen, Lou
derback, or Bonney we may do what
the people in Cleveland did en- a similar
occasion-buy ropes. Record.
1.-THE hand of every man will bt
against him (the alderman who votes for
the franchise extensions). He will find
life in Chicago intolerable. The cry
is large. but it has no room for such
enemies of the public. TT bune.
the law. parliament or statute. Finer
son has said it is the duty of COOL c'li-
zens not to obey the laws too cl1Sely.
and this is one of the occasions upon
which his words come tine. Evening
Press.
Here is the way NJ y III rrison, The
leader of the fight, Is reported rs talk
ing:
II would like to see 100000 Of the
citizens of Chicago ~. and around The
city hall on the night the franchise ex-
tension ordinances are voted nn iii the
council. Let the aldermen face a crowd
like that when they 20 into the chamber
and they will feel tie weight Of the
responsibility that rests upon them. AS
situation stands now we have the mon
who want to give away the streets of the
city for fifty years whipped, but there
Is good deal Of danger N the situation.
If the people of Chicago sit down SUI
pnely and take no interest in the nat
ter, trusting to twenty-five men to. carry
on the fight, there is great danger that
the ordinances will go through. There
must be vigorous fight made by the
people to insure success"
Here are some of methods employed
to secure the fifty year franchise, as
told by Mayor Harrison:
Zone alderman told me that he bad
note in a bank which was coming hut
and he was called into the presidents
office and was Informed that the bank
greatly desired the rassase Of the eX-
tension ordinances. Another aide rman,
who. is in a manufacturing business AID
deals with large wholesale houses, was
told by one of the large houses that the
firm was interested in the ordinances ana
desired their passage. Still another al
derman told me he ha / been told that
if he voted with the gang he would
be given one of the most important
places on the Republican ticket next
spring. ] told him that If he voted fol
the ordinances and ran for Office ncNt
spring he would be beaten by 10000
votes"
Is it any wonder, when the necessary
street car fare of every WORKING man
and girl in Chicago is $31 20 per year, OF
one-tenth of the average income, that
the people are aroused when their SER
wants are bought to continue this tax
for fifty years? Five cents is n fair