Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-08-11
STAND W, DAN nllS!
What Was Your Record as tbe
Warden Of the Cook
County Hospital?
What Did a Republican, County Board
Let You Out Of Your Fat
Job For?
What Did a Republican County Board Appoint
a Committee to Investigate Your
Accounts For?
The People Whom You Ask to Send You to Congress Want
Full Explanation Of Your Past
The People Whom You Ask to Send You to congress Want
Full Explanation Of Your Past
Official History.

Daniel w. Mills. the Republican can.
didate for Congress In the Fourth Dis.
trlct, has record.
lie made this record while he was
Warden Of the Cook County Hospital,
and his own party was 80 ashamed of
1t that 1t elected another Republican In
his place and ordered an investigation
made Of Mills doings as Warden.
All of the facts concerning this mat
ter are mt hand, and they prove con.
clusively that d. W. Mills should never
he sent to represent the people of the
Fourth District In the National Con.
gress.
Usually the charges against n public
official come from his political enemies,
but In the case Of cX-Warden Mills they
were made by his fellow Republicans
and by County Board that was Re
publican In Its root and branch.
The Eagle has not the space In this
issue to go Into all the charges made
against ID. W. Mills us Warden of the
County Hospital.
There Is plenty Of time for that ana
plenty Of time to go into the high old
times" serlatim before the campaign
Is over.
by way of an Introduction to the sub
ject, The Eagle will state that Mills
was let out of the County Hospital by
the Republican County Board In De-
cember. 1881. The reasons for this
action will be given later on.
In January. 1882, over month after
his official head was cut of, 1t appears
that Mills had not Strengthened out his
accounts.
Jan. 30, 1882. the Republican County
Board adopted unanimously the fol-
lowing resolution, handed IN by the
members of the Hospital COMMITTEES:
Resolved, That the Clerk of the Board
be directed to order ex-Warden Mills
to turn over oil books Of accounts and
moneys In his possession to the proper
officers Of the county.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN MATTOCKs,
4. 3. ALBRIGHT,
JOHN O'NEILL.
II. 8. M'CLAUGHREY,
JOHN Q. ENDER,
Committee on Hospitals.
Mark the reference to moneys In his
possession" month after leaving the
jon.
This didn't have any effect
The RefOrmer still held out.
So the Republican County Board had
to again 90 after this model ex.0fiicial.
On May 8, 1882, the Republican COun-
~ Board, by a unanimous vote, adopt
ed the following resolutions, including
an amendment by Commissioners Sen
ne, that the chairman Of the Com
mittee on Hospitals aud County Attor-
ney and Warden ascertain how much
Is due from the late ex-Warden d. w.
Mills"
Whereas, The books of the Cook
County Hospital show that d. w. Mills,
late Warden Of that institution, Is In
debted to the county In nearly the sum
Of $1,1OO, and
Whereas, Four months have elapsed
since he retired from the position of
Warden, and during all that time he
has failed to make good his indebted
ness. although he has been repeatedly
notified to settle, and has as repeatedly
promised to do; therefore be 1t
Resolved, That the County Attorney
be ana he Is hereby ordered to proceed
and collect the same by due process of
law.
How is that for a record to begin
with?
Nice refOrmer Mills Ia, isn't he?
Well the thing dragged along and
dragged along
Mills was a Republican and the Re-
publican County Board hated to stir up
stink, as an important election was
approaching.
But the press and the people We're
after ID. w. Mills hotter than ever, and
SO on Sept. %, 1889, nearly year after
ID. w. Mills was depOsed from the
wardenship Of the County Hospital,
the Republican County Board unani-
mously adopted the following resOlu-
| ton:
Resolved, That the special commit.
tee appointed to investigate the present
management of the Cook County Hos
pital be and they are hereby author
lied to investigate the management Of
| tha enid hncni<ol MADAM Mills.