Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-08-12
These Men Will Talk and Can Prove
Everything that They
Testify To.
Outside the Senatorial Syndicate" the Price
Paid Was $500 for Every
Man Bought.

tails of this payment. 1t was dishcd.
out by certain members Of the syndi-
cate. Some Of the gentlemen who got
the coin are of convivlal habits. They
got drunk the day they got their
graft" and they flashed their rolls In
saloons and other places of refresh
ment: they blabbed and tattled, and
now their repose Is disturbed O. nights.
Two Of the men who got paid $500
each for voting with the syndicate are
out of town Democrats. They hail from
down the State. Only one Of them came
to Chicago to get his coin. He Is a
close friend of the other Democratic
Senator. A sort Of Damon and Pythias
affection prevails between the two. He
took his own 5000 and also the $500
for his colleague, giving his word Of
"hOnor" that he would deliver 1t to the
latter. He did do 80. for In this case
the old proverb, that about honor among
certain class of individuals, held good.
The Damon-like Democratic Senator
fell q prey, however, to his c0nstitu-
tional failing before he left Chicago.
He got drunk. Among other places he
visited was a saloon on Adams street
which Is run by certain ex.members of
the Chicago police force. 1t Is a well.
known resort. Its proprietors are
known to The Eagle. While in that So
loon the out Of town Democratic Sen.
atOr flashed his roll and boosted that
his wad consisted Of $500. So It did.
He claimed, however, that the entire
sum was his Individual "rake OF" for
the session. That was false. Half Of
1t belonged to his friend and colleague
from down the country. This drunken
Democratic Senator was finally got out
Of town, but not before his babblings
and tattllngs had reached the ears of
nearly every member Of the Cook COun.
~ delegation to the Legislature, In
Guiding the leading members Of the
syndicate. Among these latter condi-
ton bordering on acute hysteria was
produced by the entire business. The
Democratic Senator who grows maud
lin and garrulOus In his cups has not
been allowed to visit Chicago since. 1t
Is said, however. that he will make an
interesting witness before the Sanga-
mon Grand Jury. The Eagle has the
names Of these two Democratic states.
men from the country and can give
them to the States Attorney Of that
county whenever he Is ready to take up
the investigation Of the dOings Of the
Forty-arst General Assembly.
This paper would also suggest that
the members Of the Chicago Gas Trust
might make excellent witnesses as to
how the pot Of $500 each for the "Out.
siders" In the Senate was made up.
Perhaps the Baxter committee would
like to investigate the matter. The
Eagle can give the committee the
names Of the parties concerned In this
incident. 1t can also give the com.
mittee, II 1t SO desires, the names of
several REPUBLICAN SENATOR'S
FROM RURAL DISTRICTS WHO
WERE MEMBERS OF THE OUTER
CIRCLE AND WHO POCKETED
THEIR $1,000 EACH FOR TAKING
CARE OF THE CORPORATIONS.
This, however might prove "incOn.
venient" for some Of the honorable
members Of the Baxter investigating
committee. 1t may be said here. how.
ever, that The Eagle Is not prompted
by any partisan motives In making this
disclosure. 1t Is true the six members
who constituted the syndicate are Re
publicans, but this paper has no hest
| tatiOn In stating that In the outer cir
| Gle, which aided the Senatorial syndi-
| cate In its nefariOus plans to kill the
| gas frontage and consolidation repeal
bills, the stock yards bill, the ware
house bill and other useful and much
needed measures, there were num-
Der Of Democrats.
The Senatorial outer circle, the mem
| bers Of which We're paid brides of thir-
ty-nine hundred dollars each for be-
traying the people and violating their
| oaths OF Office, contained seven Demo-
Gratis. Two of these hailed from Cook
| County. The Senate roll calls on every
corporation measure will disclose how
well they acted up to their agreement.
| These roll calls, as disclosed by the
| journal, will In themselves cOrroborate
every statement herein made. If the
committee clerks only preserved their
roll calls, and It Is limited that some Of
them have done so, they will give con-
vincing proof of how the nefarious
compact was fulfilled In committee.
~6A
The best way to fight the Gas Trust
Is 10 organize ward clubs to fight 1t.
In this way public sentiment can be
reused TO fever heat, and the bribe-
giving scoundrels and brlbefaking leg
islators will be driven from Chicago
| forever!
Organize!
Organize for your rights!
Organize against the Gas Trust
which Is sapping the life blood out Of