Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-06-09

70 and for the Board Of Review.
months and wondering whom the party
leaders would take up In his place. DR..
Jameson, Congressman LOrlmer and
other ffiends of the Tanner machine
are said to have favored uniting on
Congressman Hit for Senator as the
most available man with whom to en-.
compass Cullom's retirement. 1t Is said
Congressman Hit has no desire to ell
gngc In an active scramble for CullOm's
place, but has been urged to accept by
many Republicans who take the posi-
tlOn that II CullOm Ii doomed to defeat
n better man than MIR. Hit could not
be given the tOga.
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At n recent meeting Of the German.
American political and social club Of
the Nineteenth Ward. Frank wenter
was indorsed for denomination rs
Drainage Trustee, and william J. Nor
gan was indorsed as candidate for the
General Assembly.
Lloyd J. Smith must come of the Re
publican Sanitary District ticket or Y.
Il. Carter will withdraw rs n Repub.
llcan nominee for Sanitary Trustee. nc.
cOrding to n report which was current
recently. Mr.. Carter, when spoken to
In regard to the report, refused to talk
for publication, but two of his intimate
rWlnnha SstI tlnN lao, Inn t.1A A0
the Republican leaders that In view
Of the exposure of the Chicago Elevator
Company Lloyd J. Smith Irregularities,
he, as member Of the Board Of Trade
In good standing. could not AFFORD to
run on the same ticket with Mr.. Smith.
and, further, that he would not.
This statement, It Is said. was made
after the Republican County Central
Committee had met without taking mp
the Lloyd J. Smith matter ana after
John NJ. Smyth and other Republican
leaders had shown disposition to
stand by Mr.. Smith, mt least to the ex-
tent Of doing nothing toward facilitate
Ing his withdrawal from the ticket.
Other nominees on the Republican
county ticket have said privately that
Lloyd ]. Smith should withdraw, even
II the final showing proved beyond
question that he In no wise pr0ated by
the accommodation of the elevator re-
ceipts. They said the frenzied and al
most hystcrical efforts OF the Railroad
and Warehouse Commissioners, State
Grain Registrar Hogan ana other off,
cials In tia State grain office to throw
the blame on Smith and Twadell gave
the Democrats the best kind Of cam.
paign ammunition to use this fall In
the county campaign. The only way
spike the Democratic guns, they said,
would be for Lloyd j, Smith to with
draw from the ticket.
Just before Mayor Harrison went
north on his vacation he held confer.
ence with Bob Burke, Tom Gahan and
Billy I.Oeftier. and they decided 1t
would he good politics to renOminate
Alexander ]. Jones, Frank Wenter,
Thomas smyth and Thomas Kelly. the
Democratic Sanitary Trustees. The
fifth man may be William Legner.
1t was rumOred Thursday that OK.
County Commissioner George w. SpOf-
ford would be an independent Repub-
lican candidate for Drainage Trustee.
Mr.. SpOffOrd IL a retired capitalist and
resides on Washington boulevard,
Twelfth Ward.
M Rnknp hOS nAt NVtfh1rn from
the Republican ticket rs candidate
for Drainage Trustee.
~6
Charles +. Nagl, Of the Twelfth
Ward, will be an independent Repub-
lican candidate for Coroner Of Cook
County. Mr.. Nagl has Il petition NJ
ready bearing the signatures of 1900
legal voters, ana he has also received
the Endorsement of the Republican
League of the Eighteenth Ward.
Hon. Dewitt G. Jones will be an in
dependent Republican candidate for
the State Senate In the Second Sena-
tOrlal District. Mr.. Jones resides In
the Twelfth Ward, ana will vote for
Dom CullOm for Senator, II elected to
the Senate.
A. ]. Ryan, City Attorney, has been
taken up by friends of Judge Tuley ~
their choice for States Attorney ON the
Democratic ticket. Aid. GOldzler was
on the machines slate for this nOmina-
tlOn, but when the machine picked up
Adam Ortselfen as its candidate for
Governor the GOldzier boom began
fading away, for In Ortseifen the ma