Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-04-28
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ISSUE At PRIMARY Fi0HE

On May 3 the Republican primaries
to select delegates to State. Congress.
siOnal, County and Senatorial cOnven.
lions In and from Cook County will be
held. In two weeks the ante.primary
fight IL to be carried on, and 1t prom.
Uses to be lively one. 1t will he the
first general primary fight ever had by
the Republicans Of Chicago. There
have been ward contests In which con.
siderable interest was shown. and one
ar two Congressional district fights,
but a contest taking In the whole coun-
~ and on the result Of which nom.
ination for the governorship depends Is
new feature In local politics.
In the fact that the fight Is this time
TO Ike made. that Republicans are get.
ting ready to come out and vote at the
primaries, and that the primaries IRE
themselves taking on all the appear
ance Of a general election lies the fear
Of the machine for Its continuance In
power. On the same conditions de.
ponds the confidence Of the anti-ma.
chine Republicans that they will be
able to accomplish the nomination Of
Judge Carter, whom they have selected
as their standard-bearer.
In all previous primaries the strength
Of the machine managers has been In
the fact that they have compact body
of voters, many of them Democrats,
who can be depnded on to attend and
vote at primaries and, In the absence
Of the great body of the Republican
voters, carry them. Even with the Re-
publican OfficehOlders and their Demo.
cratic allies added together they were
long way from forming anything like
n majority Of the Republicans of the
city, but rs long rs the majority staid
M home they had their own way. Prac-
tically the only contests were when
these machine followers quarreled
among themselves and fractional fights
were tie result. 1t was with the idea
that this past condition would always
prevail that LoriIner, Jameson. Smyth,
ct nj. so confidently promised at the
Springfield love feast to deliver TO
Judge Hanecy the 1865 votes of Cook
was with an abiding belief in the abil-
ity of the machine to do 1t that Judge
Hanecy at the same place so openly an
nounced that he had the Republican
votes Of Cook County safely concealed
in his vest pocket.
II Il the history Of politics, how
ever. that. while the mass of the
voters as n rule does not come out 10
primaries, once In n while they do so,
ana this with a rush which sweeps
everything before It, When this hap
pens all machines 90 by the side,
and. 10 use the words of Judge Car
ter. the people have "A chance.
Every indication points TO the pri'
marles OF May 3 being such an occa'
sion, and their being 80 would insure
the success Of the anti-machlne
tickets.
The machine voter can be depended
on Ia go TO & primary with the same
regularity as a bank clerk goes To his
place Of business. In fact, attending
primaries Is the nearest approach IL
frdnsacting business the machine ad
hcycnt makes. When these votes are
In the box. however, the power of th'
machine at a primary has been cx
hausted and every added ballot Is q
vote for the opposition. With hui
few added votes the machine wins
but with any great number il loses
for the strength OF the machine. Will,
we'll organized. is not great. and has
no chance with n fair vote In the pr
mary ballot boxes.
Recognizing this fact ia the present
fight the machine which is back OF