Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-12-22
Salaries Have Increased Over One Hundred
Per Cent in the Past -Four or
Five Years,
While the Taxes Of the People Have Just Been Raised by tbs
State Board Of Equalization to Pay
the Pets.

The Republican party has an awful
record to go before the people on In the
spring.
The extravaganza of the knopf-lori-
mer crowd in the county offices Is some
thing fearful
The gang who are now holding up the
taxpayers of Cook County are the most
barcfaced and audacious in their meth
DDS of any tax-Saters we have ever
heard of.
At the head of the avaricous assert.
mcnt of political cormorants Is the
County Clerk. the notorious Phil knopf
Knopf has succeeded in having the
salaries of his pets raised until they are
the best.paid set of public employees In
the United States.
Phil Knopf holds three offices him
self, to wit:
County Clerk,
Clerk of the County Court.
County Comptroller and Clerk of the
County Board.
Lorlmer's Tenth Ward Lieutenant.
James Monaghan, Is knopfs Deputy
Comptroller and Clerk of the County
Board and this man Is paid for MS
nominal duties $4,000 per year.
A few years ago Che duties of this
Job were well performed by one man,
who received but $1,000 per year. ana
who had but one assistant.
But in order to curry favor with
Lorimer, Knopf appointed Jim Mon.
Afghan to the place, and he receives
$4,000 per year, and has an office full
of ,asslstants, as Is shown further on.
Alonaghans salary Of $4,000 per year
Is greater than that of any man en-
ployed in the public service of the state
of Illinois, with the exception of the
Governor himself.
But the people have to stand 1t.
Knopf and I.orlmer have so willed It.,
Knopf's chief clerk in the County
Clerks Office gets $1,000 per year,
while the chief clerk in the big Record
cr's office only gets $4,000 per year, as
does also the chief clerk in the offices
of the Superior, Circuit, Probate and
TCrimlnal Courts.
But Knopf doesn't care about saving
the peoples money, so his man gets
more than any of them.
a few years ago there was but one
marriage license clerk at $500 year
Now there Is chief marriage license
clerk at $l,sOO, and two assistants at
Sl,5OO each.
This is probably to help out In
Knopf's marriage bureau which l.
connected with the license department
Phil Knopf's payrolls eat up S22G,9i,
a year!
How Is that for high:
When 1T Is understood that three
fourths of the men on them can be dis
pens ed with, isn't it high time for I'll,
County Board to interfere!
The County Clerks office itself has
a payroll aggregatIns slsl,IGG pei
annum.
The County Comptroller's" office has
"A payroll aggrcgatlng SlG,si0 pei
annum.
The Clerk of the County Court" pay
roll aggregates S2s,33i per annum.
Total drawn on payrolls sworn TO b!
Phil KnOpf, S226,9iO.
Reform Is necessary,
Followlngls a complete list of the job
in the various branches of Phil Knopf's
balliwlck, with the monthly salaries
attached:
Comptrollers Ofice-Dcputy CONN
trollcr and clerk Of County Board
S33333; chief clerk and boOkkeeper
$3.50; minute clerk and record writer
S2Os33; bill clerk, SlOGGG; assistan
bookkceper, $50; cashier, Sl25; comp
trollcr's clerk, sl25; jauitress, Sij. ia
tai salaries, SlG,SiO.
County Clerks Ofiice-Chief deputy
$3.50: cashier, S20s.33; bookkeepel
SlGGGG; deputy, redemption depart
ment, $50; nine assistant deputies, re
demption department, sl25; receiving
clerk, 1925; deputy, tax sales, S125
deputy, tax extension, S20s33; assist
ant deputy, tax extension, $50; assist
ant deputy, tax extension and railroa,
tax, Sl25; railroad warrant clerk, Sl2j
mail clerk, $50; deputy, marriage II
cense, $50; two assistant deputies
marriage license, each sl25; deputy, vi
tai statistics, 1925; map clerk, 1887
three assistant map clerks, 500; vaul
clerk, first, 500; vault clerk, second
SIS; vault clerk, books and papers
sl25; stenographer, $3.50; Waterman
day, $50; Waterman, night, SO; 1903 ey