Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-12-29
HON. MURRAY r. TUlEY,
The Greatly Respected Judge OF the Circuit Court.

to his friends who are now holding fed
cral positions. Nearly every federal
office holder In the state Is quoted rs
having worked pcrsistently In the inter-
est of Senator CullOm for more than
u year. In the list are United States
marshuls, attorneys, deputies. inspect
Ors. postmastcrs. appraisers. revenue
collectors, pension agents ana census
cnumeratOrs. And. although Senator
CullOm IL supposed to have the patron
age of eleven congressional districts,
there Is hat on every peg to adopt
the political parlnncc. ana the place
hunters are having difficulty In per-
suuding themselves into the belief that
there Is room for one more.
United States Marshals Ames and
Hitch and United States District AttOr.
neys j. Otis Humphrey ana Sol ii.
Bethea were the active campaign man.
ayers of Congressman Reeves when he
was candidate for the Republican
gubernat Orlal nomination ana now they
are working day and night for Senator
Cullonl, rs also Is Charles Linn. super
intcndent of rural deliveries. The Ordi-
nary place hunter declines to believe
that Senator Cullom will "thrOw" the
men who, like Ames, Hitch, Bethea,
Humphrey and Linn, have devoted
much Of their time to the direction of
CullOm's campaign.
In this connection u statement given
out by Governor Tanner nearly II year
ago and printed widely over the State
will be of interest:
I'm his career of forty years Office
holding he Senator CullOm) has cheat
cd ana deceived somewhere along the
line almost every Republican who has
end of the State to the other as u wire
puller and a foxy" trader. always
standing ready to trade Off his friends
for personal success. He has never
been true to any principle. have new
err known him to keep faith when II
was to his personal or political interest
to violate 1t.
His stock In trade In his attempt TO
| go back to the Senate Is that he Is hon
est and poor and he offers as u reason
therefor that he has served In public
office forty years and that he had OPP
portunltics to steal all along the line
and that he never awaited himself OF
such opportunities.
I'm other words, he Is pleading the
paupcr act. He claims that he was a
| ti., Ia al h., int
and that he has spent all his money for
| the people In his political service. The
| truth Is, | never have known of his
| making Il political contribution, either
To the state, county or city. He has al
ways been u burden to his friends. He
has been a financial and political tramp
for II great many years. am Informed
that his name has not appeared on the
tax books In Illinois for ten or twelve
years. Yet at the same time in the last
twcnty-fOur years rs Governor and
Senator he has drawn from the Union
and nation in salaries in the aggregate
Sl2G,OO0."
| 1t now seems certain that the dirty
linen Of the Republican party accumu-
lated in quarter of century will be
washed on the threshold of the new
century, and the fact that Governor
Tanner and Senator CullOm are past
masters In political intriguing assures
a fight we'll worth the price of admis,
sion. 1t is noteworthy that in his ar,
raignment Of Senator CullOm a year
ago Governor Tanner suggests the
names of Congressman Cannon, Hop
kins and Hit as ''leaders Of ability
any one of whom might succeed Sena'
tor Cullom. The suggestion is pre-
faced, however, by the clause: III we
cannot get soldier to succeed Senator
Cullom." Among the soldier citizen
candidates whom Governor Tanner
suggested were Gen. John I. Rlnaker