Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-03-03
LAKE VIEW SOLID FOR CARTER.

LAKE VIEW SOLID FOR CARTER.
Belmont Hall, North Clark street and
Belmont avenue. was filed with Re
publicans of the Twcnty-iifth and
Twcnty-slxth Wards Tuesday evening.
the occasion being % mass meeting I'm
favor of the candidacy of Orrin n. Car
ter for the nomination for Governor of
Illinois. It was u bad night, but the
citizens of Lake View turned out I'm
force, and not only was every seat
taken but men stood all around the
walls and In the nislcs.
Francis NJ. Loves presided and set
the keynote for the gathering when
he said the question which confronted
the Republicans of Illinois to-day was
whether Mcssrs. Lorimer. Jameson.
Hertz and Pease formed the Republic.
an party In Illinois or the 10000 vot.
crs who had made the success of that
party possible. The sentiment was
greeted with sustained applause. and
from that time on the meeting was an
enthusiastic one.
Chairman Loves introduced II. j.
Bennett. Of the Twcnty.sixth Ward.
who took up the theme and said.
II want to see the time come when
We will seek out men to represent us
because they will give us good govern.
ment. Now II Is government of the
bosses, by the bosses and for the boss
cs. When YOU seek u candidate for
Governor, see to II he IL a strong man.
broad man. an honest man, and not
simply because the machine has select.
ed him for you to vote for"
DIR. ii. NJ. Drake, of the Marquette
Club. sang "1lllnOis" and the audience
Joined In with him. Then william J..
Candlish. of the Twcnty.nfth Ward,
spoke of the primary fight In the Sew.
cnth District four years ago, when the
voters defeated the machine and So.
cured the nomination of Congressman
FOss.
"To-dny' u similar situation cOnfrOnts
u.s. he said. "eXccpt that the fight IL
now State Instead of local one, and
to-day we have the pleasure OF know
ing there IL a man In Cook County with
the manhood to come out for Il State
Office without the. SANCTION or backing
of the machlSe." ! lf5
That the people would win this fight
the speaker was confident. and insisted
all that was necessary was for the Re.
puDiicnns OF the county to 20 to the
polls on primary day. Dewitt G. Jones,
or the Twelfth Ward, then awoke the
audience to the lOudcst cheering, when.
after saying that the right to select
the men who arg to be voted for mt
an election was the greater part of the
right OF franchise, he predicted Il pri.
mary contest in Took County which
would be- hlstOric.i
ITS going to be the hottest fight
Cook County ever saw" he said. "Thc
month OF April will see Cook County
aiire. The time has come. when the
people are going TO speak out" ana the
audience checrrd and cheercd again.
Concluding he said his opposition to
Judge Hanccy was on account of the
machine back of him and had Judge
Carter been put forward at Springfield
as Judge Hanecy was, much as he loved
the former, he would have been against
MIN. Robert II. Wiles, Of the Thirty
Fourth Ward, said he would have been
willing to have voted for Judge Hanecy
as n candidate for the nomination for
Governor before the "love FEAST at
Springfield, but when the Judge there
spoke Of the delegates from Cook Coun.
~, whom he carried In his vest pocket,
the situation changed. Down In the
Thirty-fOurth Ward, he said, the Re-
pnDiicans to q man We're rebelling
against machine domination, and the
size of the present meeting called In
midwlnter and before the real cam.
paign for the nomination had begun
testified sufficiently to the sentiment In
Lake View. Lewis N. Head, Of tho
Third Ward. said he wished to say q
few words regarding the speeches of
the candidates at the Marquette Club
dinner on Saturday evening. That Of
Judge Hanecy, he claimed, acknOwl-
edged that the Judge expected to get
the nomination by the aid Of the ma
chine, while his personal attack on
Judge Carter was without excuse. 1t
could only reflect on the trend Of Judge
Hanecy's mind, he said, when he made
destinations against Judge Carter's
conduct of the Election Commissioners
office, when the chief complaint the
machine managers had against him
was that he had been impartial and
honest In his management of that Of
flee, ana even the Democrats conceded
1t. The meeting adopted the following
resolutions, reported by committee
composed of ii. n. Mulligan, Il. II.
LOunsbcrry, II. w. Zander, J. b. Al
bertson, and Arthur j. Lynch:
Whereas, There exists In the Repub-
lican party a small minority element
known as the ring, which seeks to dom
mate and nominate its choice of candi-
dates regardless of the wishes of the
majority; and
Whereas, 1t Is apparent that this ele-
ment will succeed II the majority, COM
posed of the Misunderstanding epub-
leans, does not unite In concerted ac-
ton; and
Whereas, The Hon. Orrin n. Carter
has been prevailed upon by his friends
to become a candidate for the Govern
Orship Of Illinois; and
Whereas, We believe the candidacy
of Judge Carter represents that which
IL. has n al L.. O.