Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-08-26
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 dislied
out by certain members Of the syndl.
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
mcnt: they blabbed and tattled, and
now their rcpose Is disturbed O. nights.
Two Of the men who got paid 5000
each for voting with the syndicate are
out of town Democrats. They hnil from
down the State. Only one Of them came
to Chicago to get his coin. He Is
close friend of the other Democratic
Senator. A sort Of Damon and Pythias
affection prevails between the two. He
took his own $1,000 and also the $1,000
for his colleague, giving his word Of
honor that he would deliver II to the
latter. He did do 80, for In this case
the old proverb, that about honor among
u certain class of individuals. held good.
The Damon.likc Democratic Senator
fell prey. however, to his constitu.
tional failing before he left Chicago.
He got drunk. Among other plnces he
visited was a saloon on Adams street
which Is run by certain eX.members OF
the Chicago police force. 1t Is well.
known resort. Its proprietors are
known to The Eagle. While In that 50.
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 or 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 babbllngs
and tattlings had reached the cars OF
nearly every member If the Cook COun.
ty delegation to the Legislature. In.
GLIDING 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. II
is said. however, that he will make al
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 NJ
the investigation Of the doings Of the
Forty-hrst General Assembly.
This paper would also suggest tina,
the members Of the Chicago Gas Trust
might make excellent witnesses az to
how the pot Of 5000 each for the ''Out
siders'' In the Senate was made up.
Perhaps the Baxter committee wOulj
like to investigate the matter. Tn,
Eagle can give the committee til,
names of the parties concerned In thi'
incident. 1t can also give the com
mittee, II 1t SO desires. the names Of
several REPUBLICAN SENATORS
FROM RURAL DISTRICTS WHO
WERE MEMBERS OF THE OUTER
CIRCLE AND WHO POCKETEI
THEIR $1,000 EACH FOR TAKING
CARE OF THE CORPORATIONS.
This, however, might prove ''lncOn
venient" for some Of the honorable
members Of the Baxter investigating
committee. 1t may be said here, how
ever, that The Eagle Is not prompte'
by any partisan motives In making TIL
disclosure. 1t Is true the six member
who constituted the syndicate are Re
publlcans but this paper has no hes
tation In stating that In the outer cil
Gle which aided the Senatorial syndl
cate In its nefarious plans to kill tn
gas frontage and consolidation repea
bills, the stock yards bill, the ware
house bill and other useful and muc
needed measures, there were u nun
Der of Democrats.
The Senatorial outer circle, the men
bers of which were paid brides of thil
ty-nine hundred dollars each for bt
traying the people and violating thel
Oaths of office, contained seven Demo
Gratis. Two of these hailed from Coo
County. The Senate roll calls on ever
corporation measure will disclose hoy
well they acted up to their agreemen
These roll calls, as disclosed by til
journal, will In themselves cOrrObOrat
every statement herein made. If til
committee clerks only preserved the
roll calls, and 1t Is limited that some
them have done so, they will give col
yincing proof of how the nefariOr
compact was fulfilled In committee.
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The best way to fight the Gas Tru'
Is to organize ward clubs to fight 1t.
In this way public sentiment can
reused to fever heat, and the brib
giving scOundrels and bribe-taking LEI
lslatOrs will he driven from Chical
forever.
Organize!
Organize for your rights!
Organize against the Gas Tru
! which IL saDDinR the life blood out [