New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-05
LIVE TOPICS IN CHICAGO.
A BITTER REPUBLICAN FIGHT OVER
THE GovERNoRsHIP NOMINATION.
MORE TROUBLES WITH THE BIG CANAL
ANTIoUATED sTREETcAR SERVICE
SENATOR MAsoN's TRIALS

SENATOR MASON'S TRIALS.
chicago. Feb. 3 Embellishments of the
las, week have led political forecasters to pre-
dict the bitterest fight of years in the local and
State Republican organizations Just as the
Republican machine of Cook County had got
matters arranged to its satisfaction. and the
edict had gone forth that Judge Elbridge
Hanecy was scheduled TO get the solid vote OF
the county in the coming State Convention,
Ju5ee Grin N Carter, yielding of course, to the
'ipsistent demand of his constituents an
nounced himself as a candidate for the Gov
efnorship In his speech announcing his decision
he gave blows 70 the machine and asserted
that be wanted to give the dear public the
opportunity Of expressing itself at the primaries
instead of having matters cut and dried months
before He declared that IL was time to arise
and srnite the terrible machine hip and thigh
and all the newspapers the next morning said
ediforialIy and locally Hip, hurrah for Carter!
He's the stuff OF which Governors should be
made" In the opinion of many, martyrs
might have appropriately been substituted for
Governors"
The result of Judge Carriers candidacy has
been to place matters in haze of uncertainty
There is not The slightest opportunity, good
judges say, for him to win the nomination, and
* is stated that he has been put up a vica-
rieus sacrifice to teach the machine that it is not
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sulting certain nameless interests. If, however
Judge Hanecy and his slate are smashed those
who pushed Judge Carter into the fight will be
satisfied While it will be difficult to beat Judge
Eanecy there is a large possibility that the
fight will give one Of the country candidates
the victory
Attention is called to the fact that had Judge
Garter come out into the open before the Spring
field love feast there would have been no OBJ
-I,o+h he rra11fd IoA
had even better chance than his colaborer on
The bench While a man of estimable parts,
Judge Carter is not gifted with any amount Of
I1rompt decision This trait of his character
caused him TO pause when he should have
declared himself in or out Of the running. Judge
Hanecy on the other hand, is man Of instant
decision decided opinions. bulldog determine
tion 2 stiff spinal column and fighter from the
drop of the hat. He is not to be dominated
by any machine. and he made the machine men
come 10 him. He declares that he is after the
nomination as against any other and all other
men in the State.
COOK. COUNTY MEN MAKE COMPLICATIONS
The complications which have arisen now that
there are two Cook County men trying for the
nomination are somewhat ludicrous. On the
North Side is Frederick Busse. State Senator,
with legs astride the State Treasurership fence
II is said he will be a candidate for that position
and the bigger cogs in the machine are trying
hard TO get him to curb his ambition. Back of
IL all stands John Riley Tanner, Governor of
the State. He is cut for Senator Cullcm's scalp
and he expects help from the Cook County ma
chine. At present the machine dare not take
part in this fight If they do Cnnon's influence
viii be thrown against Judge Hanecy. If they
do not Tanners influence which is great in
tain country districts. will be used against
Judge Hanecy. One thing is certain, Governor
Tanner VIII have his revenge. The fight places
the candidates for local positions the ticket
high and dry upon the sands Of uncertainty
The machine had IT all arranged that all the
present incumbents were to have a renonina-
Won, but ali states broken. and IT is not def
IteIy known what any one will draw from the
5fitical grabbag. From the muddled situation
he Democrats affect to draw much hope, and
ney believe that IL they can find the right man
jr the position they win be able to secure the
tate administration.
DANGER FROM CHICAGO RIVER CURRENT
The danger from the current which has been
created in the Chicago River by the opening of
the drainage canal, and to which attention was
lirst publicly called IN The Tribune has at last
been acknowledged by the Drainage Board.
After the stormiest session in its history the
Board last Wednesday passed resolution prac-
tIcally admitting that the current in the river
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Tor an immediate investigation of the matter by
the Engineering Committee. In the preamble
OF the resolution attention Is called to the far,
that the permit issued by the War Department
makes the sanitary district liable for all dam
ages that may be incurred by reason of an IN.
creased current and that the permit reserves II
the War Department the right to close the gates
OF the Lockport controlling works at any tim,
II becomes apparent that there is danger to navi
- in H.
U follows:
Ordered, that the Committee on Engineerin
- herepy directed TO Immediately begin investi
eauon as to the velocity of current created h
the sanitary hoy of water through the Chico .
River and II IL be found that the velocity q
SUCH current at and through the various cen+r
pier bridges be such to impede or become mn
reasonably obstructive TO navigation To renor
10 this Board the various points at which sue
conditions may exist, together with an estinat
OF the cost of removing the centre pier bridee
al these points and erecting bridges of the 1ss
Guile type. that the legal flow of water NAV +
secured for sanitary purposes without unres
sonable interference with the interests of nav
CATION
The resolution was fatherec by a tr11ste
Alexander J. JONES' who emphatically declare
that the Drainage Board had been fooling III
people and closing it's own eyes to the gray
situation which it would soon have to face. No
Nvithstanding the fact that at no time had th
full flow been obtained, not within at leas
100000 cubic feet. yet the current had become /
some portions of the river as great as two mile
an hour The permit issued by the War he
partment stiDulates current of not more ths
one and one-quarter miles, and this will be tn
standard of judgment, despite the fact that I'll
law creating the sanitary district places tn
maximum current at three miles an hour AL
ready, Mr.. Jones declared. vessel men were bit
terly complaining Of the current and IL was Ger