Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-09-23
These Men Will Talk and Can Prove
Everything that They
Testify 10.
Outside the Senatorial Syndicate" the Price
Paid Was $500 for Every
Man Bought.

tails of this payment. IL was dishcd
out by certain members of the syndl.
cate. Some of the gentlemen who got
the coin are of convivial 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 reposc Is disturbed O. nights.
Two of the men who got paid $1,000
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
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 $500
for his colleague, giving his word of
"honor" that he would deliver 1t to the
latter. He did do So for In this case
the old proverb, that about honor among
a certain class of individuals. held good.
The Damon.like Democratic Senator
fell a prey, however. to his constitu-
tional falling before he left Chicago.
He got drunk. Among other places he
visited was Il saloon on Adams street
which Is run by certain cxmcmbcrs of
the Chicago police force. 1t Is u well.
known resort. Its proprietors are
known to The Eagle. While In that sa-
loon the out of town Democratic Sen.
a,or flashed his roll ana boosted that
his wad consisted Of $500. SO 1t did.
He claimed. however. that the entire
sum was his individual rake on for
the session. That was false. Half Of
| 1t belonged to his friend ana colleague
from down the country. This drunken
Democratic Senator was finally got out
Of town, but not before his babblings
| and tattlings had reached the ears of
| nearly every member of the Cook COun-
| ~ delegation TO the Legislature, In.
gliding the leading members of the
| syndicate. Among these latter condi.
| ton bordering on acute hystcria was
produced by the entire business. The
J 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 IN
! 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 dongs of the
Forty-iirst General Assembly.
This paper would also suggest that
| the members of the Chicago Gas Trust
might make excellent witnesses rs to
how the pot of $1,000 each for the "out.
sldcrs" 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
mittec, II 1t so desires, the names OF
several REPUBLICAN SENATORS
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 simeon
vcnicnt" for some of the HONORABLE,
committee. 1t may be said here. how
ever, that The Eagle Is not prompted
by any partisan motives in making TIL,
disclosure. 1t Is true the six members
who constituted the syndicate are Re
publicans but this paper has no hest
tatlon in stating that in the outer cir
Gle, which aided the Senatorial syndi
cate in its nefarious plans TO kill thu
gas frontage and consolidation repea
bills, the stock yards bill, the ware
house bill and other useful and mucl
needed measures, there We're n mum
Der of Democrats.
The Senatorial outer circle, the mem
bcrs of which were paid brides of thir
. ty-nine hundred dollars each for bo
traylng the people and violating thei
, oaths of office, contained seven Demo
Gratis. Two of these hailed from Coo
, | County. The Senate roll calls on ever
, corporation measure will disclose no,
p. well they acted up 10 their agreement
: These roll calls, as disclosed by tn
. | journal, will in themselves corroborat
= every statement herein made, If tn
T. | 'blIINhltct 'l'lhS oHiy bi'''' ''' '''
@ roll calls, and it Is limited that some Q
{ them have done so, they will give col
|. vincng proof of how the nefariou
: compact was fulfilled in committee.
j. 1ey@e>
;, The best way to fight the Gas Tru'
! Is 10 organize ward clubs to fight It.
In this WY public sentiment cGn L
: reused 10 fever heat, and the brib'
giving scOundrels ana bribe-takln. le!
= lslators viii be driven from ChIcaa
q forever
: Organize.
: Organize for your rights.
Organize against the Gas Trui
!. which Is sappIng the life blood out {