Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-09-16
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 convivial 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 5000
each for voting with the syndicate IRE
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 $4,000
for his colleague, giving his word Of
"honOr" that he would deliver It to the
latter. He did do so, for In this case
the old pr0verb, that about honor among
certain class of individuals, held good.
The Damon.like Democratic Senator
fell prey, however, to his constitu.
tional failing before he left Chicago.
He got drunk. Among other places he
visited was n saloon on Adams street
which Is run by certain ex-members Of
the Chicago police force. 1t Is a well.
known resort. Its proprlet0rs IRE
known to The Eagle. While In that So
loon the out Of town Democratic Sen
atOr flashed his roll ana boosted that
his wad consisted Of $500. SO 1t did.
He claimed, however, TINT 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 ears Of
nearly every member of the Cook COun-
ty delegation to the Legislature, In.
Guiding the leading members Of the
syndicate. Among these latter condl-
ton bordering on acute hystcria 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 ana 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.flrst 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 SENATORS
FROM RURAL DISTRICTS WHO
WE'RE MEMBERS OF THE OUTER
CIRCLE AND WHO POCKETEI
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 thi,
disclosure. 1t Is true the six members
who constituted the syndicate are Re
publlcans but this paper has no hest
tation In stating that In the outer cir
Gle. which aided the Senatorial syndi
cate In its nefarlous 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 were a mum
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 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. II tn
committee clerks only preserved thei
roll calls, and 1t Is limited that some O
them have done so, they will give con
yincing proof of. how the nefarlou
compact was fulfilled In committee.
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The best way to fight the Gas Trus
Is to organize ward clubs to fight 1t.
In this way public sentiment can b
reused to fever heat, and the bride
giving scoundrels and brlbe-taklng lee
lslators will be driven from Chicag
forever.
OrganlZe'
Organize for your rights!
Organize against the Gas Trus
which Is sapplng the life blood out o