Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-07
The Candidates Are Lining Up and the
People Can Take Their Own
Choice.
Interesting Gossip from All the Camps About
Prominent Citizens Talked Of
for Honors.

| hers of his official family have been
deeply Interested In the Illinois po.iti-
cal situation. aud that they have been
/ willing tn make Use Of any cNpedieir
| To defeat Governor Tanner.
When Calhoun retired from politics
and engaged in the practice cf law II
was believed by majority OF the office
holders that the Washington politi.
clans would lose interest In Illinois AMI
candidates for Governor. hut the recent
order In behalf Of Reeves indicates that
Tanner is still persona non grata NJ the
capital AMI that any plan To- defeat him
Is n matter of immediate interest to the
President AMI his advisers. Tie fac,
| that two conspicuous otlicehol,ors like
United states Narshals Amcs Of the
| Northern District AMI Hitch of the
| Southern District were the active Lead
crs of Mr.. Reeves canvas In It's earliest
| stages was taken to mean that the all
! ministration was at least friendly ~
the Streator Congressman. Now. how.
ever. that n big army of postinasters-
| first. second. third and fourth class
with the aid they can command. are to
take the field agains, the Governor and
his machine. II Is evident to politicians
! that the administration Is very much in
| earnest in its determination To create u
breach in the Tanner ranks.
Congressman Reeves political friends
| who are not attached To the admlnistr,-
/ lin, aud fY..., t,,tl,
encc. ar careless of It's vengeance. may
not accept the proffcrcd assistance in
the same spirit It Is offered. They have
tried from the outset of his canvass 10
create the impression that the Con.
gresham Is In no sense u Mckinley
candidate. Their reason for assuming
this attitude was due Ia desire to win
friends among the Cook County bosses.
whom they knew tn bc utterly nntagon-
is,lc To The idea of Washington inter-
ference.
Young Richard Yates. Of Morgan
County. who was a rrl.hot candidate
for Governor n few weeks ago. may
drop out of tho contest and hereafter
| quietly devote his talents to tho al
ministrutiOn Of his Federal office In
Springfield. According 10 current stO-
rics, Mr.. Yates has received a brief
but uneQulvOcal message from wash
ington ihstructing. him either to aban.
don his present job or his ambition to
| succeed Tanner.
After pOiidptlng over the uncertain
ties of u hunt for gubcrnnt Orial hOnOrs
the young man II said To have decided
| that u collectorship whose tenure runs
nearly two years Is Infinitely better
than the ephcneral glory that attaches
to u mere chance. The order In his
case may have been cOlncident with
/ the more sweeping order for all FEEDER
nj OflicchOllers to take up the cause of
Congressman Reeves. II that should
prove To bc the case Mr. Yates will
doubtless bc found sooner or later In
the Reeves band wagon.
| Articles of incorporation of the
Omaha. Kansas City ami Eastern
Railroad Company were filed recently
with The Secretary of State. The OBJ
jcct Is to construct II line Of railway
from Quincy, Adams County, Ill.,. To
Chandlervllle, Cass County, Ill.,.
through the counties Of Adams, Brown.
Schuyler and Cass, with n branch line
through tho counties OF Pike, Morgan
and Sangnmon to Springfield Tho In.
cOrpOratOrs and first board of direct
Ors are W. q. BrinsOn and II. II. Ken
drick. of Chicago: l.. NJ. Collins and
W. u. Tucker. Of Quincy. and Charles
T.. Gibbs, of ~. Louis, Mo. The capl-
tai stock Of the company Is S5O,OO0 ana
the principal office will bc ut Quincy,
III. 1t IL understood John W. Gates.
of { .,icago, Is backing the enterprise
and the construction of the line will
be pushed rapidly.
~SA
Hon. Simeon J.. Shopc would make
great run for Governor: so would
the Hon. Clayton u. Crafts.
The candidacy of Free i, Morris for
Attorney General on the Democratic
ticket does not seem Ia beat all catch
Ing. Mr.. Morris j. meeting with much
determined opposition throughout the
State.
%eSA
No man, no matter however remotely
connected with corporations, should
have the drawing of our Jurors.
Holy Billy Onahan is jury com
missioner of Cook County.
lie Is manager and head factotun of
Bumps" Billings bank
Bumps" Billings is head of the Gas
Trust.
The Gas Trust Is always at law with
some one.
When II is not suing the city it is
suing some one else.
Or some one else is suing it.
Now, The Eagle does not believe that
Mr.. Onahan would do anything wrong.
In fact, ii knows that he would not
Intentionally.
II believes him to be too plous to do
wrong.
But the fact that lie is even friendly
with Billings. let alone being sub
ordinate TO him in bank ought to
. | mako him innli 0Illc for a iurv .nm-