Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-03-25
The Altycld campaign il over.

The Altgeld campaign Is over.
1t has spread all the bile that 1: pos.
sesses all over the city. and the veneer
Is 50 thin that II has made no impres.
sion.
The sore men from every party have
assembled ut Altgcld's headquarters.
and the Outcn-lsail from all classes
have Joined hands with them.
.Altgcld's campaign has had one good
result.
1t has shown the people the kind of
men he would have surrounded him
self with II II was possible for him to
bc elected Mayor.
Hut the scandals In the state Grain
Office while Altgcld was Governor.
The scandals In the state Trcasurer's
office while Altgeld was Governor.
The scandals In the state institutions
while Altgeld was Governor. made It
absolutely impossible that he could
ever be Mayor or anything else again.
That's what made him sore.
And on that account he tried to beat
Harrison.
Dut liz uuS Iuueu
Harrison will get more votes than
.Altgcld and Zina put together.
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John L. Altgeld, the annrcliistic and
communistic chronic Ofiice.huntcr, and
candidate for Mayor, rcsOrted to the
last eXpedient of u demagOgue Feb
ruary "a when he uncovered the nau.
seating head and viper.like makeup Of
race hatred.
BY attempting to arouse the feelings
of the Germans against the other ma
tionalities which make up Chlcago's
cosmopolitan population, Altgeld sim.
ply followed In the footsteps Of other
fallen tyrants.
Like them. he. too, will fail.
The German.Americans of Chicago
are too broad minded and too liberal n
people to be swayed by such Il con-
temptible thing Us race hatred.
II that Is the only argument a man
can advance In order to get their bal
lots, they want nothing to do with him.
But that II the sort Of argument that
Altgeld made ut Mueller's Hall Febru.
AIRY "a.
The gathering was widely heralded
as n great German. American mass
meeting"
There were only sixty-One Germans
present by actual count.
1t was impossible to find one prOml'
ncnt German who would act as chair.
man. so Mr.. T.. q. Brown, u very re-
spectacle gentleman of unmixed
American descent, and u strong single
tax advocate, was induced to preside.
The inducement was all the easier a.
Mr.. Brown was attorney for the Lin
coin Park Board under Altgcld. who
could not find German 10 I'LL thu
place.
The vice presidents, Il full list OF
whom was published in Fridays Rec
ord, included such Germans as j. G.
Flahcrty. T.. u. Webster, J. J. Coughlin
NJ. j. Collins. j. NJ. Biddison, of United
States Court fame; j. NJ. Reardon, a
J.. Fowler &. Oakley, T. Kcegan, j. u
Kennedy, J. seaman II. Rogers, w. )
Ellis and some others.
The absence of the German-Ameri
cans made the Ex-Governor furious
and he broke out into furious tlrad'
against the Irish, many Of whom were
the main standbys Of the meeting.
The Eagle does not desire to go int
the details OF all Of Altgeld's uncalle
for attack upon the Irish. 1t simpl
calls attention 10 the following sampl
extract from the awfully excited ofiic
hunters speech:
II would Ike to say few words Z
you upon n subject which you Will al
readily understand. Most OF you ar
my untrymen-Germans. | am IN
formed that about '37la per cent. of tn
people of Chicago are Germans, o
more than one-thlrd, Naturally, 20
would think that II you were to b
given a share In the public patronag
you would be entitled 10 fully One-thlr
Of the offices. But there you are some
what behind the times. Ont OF III
5000 offices In Chicago find that Their
are but about 800 positions held b.
Germans. ! do not know what test
Is that Mr.. Burke applies for fitness t
hold office, but IL Is evidently TOO SC
we're for many Of you to undergo.
understand that there Is not a Germal
In Chicago who will knock down
peaceable citizen upon election day.
am also told that there Is not singh
German who can do real neat job a
stuffing a ballot box"
Without Attending AT this time /