Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-01-20
BUSSE ron STATE TREASURER.

Treasurer. lie has done nothing which
makes his candidacy improper or I'M
desirable. His standing i'm the party is
good. lie has served acccptably in both
branches of the Legislature. He did
not vote for the Allen law. His record
as legislator and us u private citizen
is spotlcss. lie is popular in his dis
trict He Is not unpopular outside 1t.
lie is quite well known in Cook County
and he is not an unknown quantity in
other parts of the State. 1t Is. there
fore. impertncnt for other citizens of
Cook County. whose merits do not sur
pass ii they equal his. to say that Sen
ator Bussc shall not he a candidate for
an office the duties of which he Is com
p~tent To perform. because his candi-
dacy will interfere with the harmony
AMI "unanmty" of the delegation.
Nothing can he more undesirable. I'M
natural and dangerous than II ''unanimi-
ty" which means the use by machine
leaders of solid group of $50 delegates
as a club with which to terrorize AMI
force off the track or into unwilling
partnership every candidate who does
not hail from this county for the p,lr-
pose of promoting the interests of any
particular candidate from Cook. 1t IL
natural that Massac. Calhoun and Pope
should he unanimous. as each of them
has but few delegates. Cook Is too big
to be 50. unanimity here whenever 1t
occurs Is artificial and produced by I'M
natural causes. Nothing could he bet
ter calculated to excite i'll will among
country Republicans than suspicious
"unanimity" In Cook. said ''unanimity"
being announced by q handful of self
appointed leaders months before the
primaries are held and before the State
convention has been called.
If city and country Republicans are
to live In harmony the latter must he
made to feel that the former are far
from being q "unit:" that there II no
disposition In the city to bully the couii-
try: that Chicago Republicans will give
respectful consideration to the claims
of all candidates for office no matter
what part of the State they hail from:
that there Is nothing to hinder the cleo
ton in this county of delegates who IA
yor an outside candidate. even when
there Is u home candidate for the same
office: and that al Cook County Repub-
leans ask In return Is that their candi-
dates may not fail of country support
for narrow or provincial reasons.
It II desirable that the vote of Cook
County should bc divided between local
candidates AMI outside candidates ac-
cordlng to the merits of each. Then
there will not be In u state convention
that dangerous spectacle OF more than
one-third Of the delegates compactcd
into Il solid. overwhelming mass. voting
az one or two men order them to vote.
The deadly "unanimity" of Cook has
done Infinite mischief In the past to the
Republican party and will do more II
It continues. SO long as II lasts every
country Republican who exercises his
right Of coming forward rs u cand'-
date for u State Office must either
make terms with u few Cook County
bosses or he trOdden under fOOt. The
country Republicans should under
bers In this county do not approve OF
the unit rule and are prepared To unite
with them In putting an end to II. so
that every candidate may have rs fair
a chance In this county rs he has In
his home county.
The city must look to the country
largely to supply the brains and the
character that are to redeem the Re-
publican party In this State ami give
It the standing In public opinion that
Il used to have. City Republicans Tex.
ccpt the professional politicians are
too busy, too. much immersed In pri'
vatc affairs to give the attention Ia
politics that 1t deserves. When once
In four years DISTINGUISHED members Of
the party In the city wake up and pro-
pose TO take an active hand In the man
agcment of party affairs they discover
that they have been fOrestalled by the
men who do politics for living all
the year round Too often then. hut
not always, the amateurs ana "schol
| astics' are pOwcrlcss and discouraged
| IL IL not so In the country. There the
men who come to the front In polite,
| must have abilities and merits above
| their fellows, and there the average Ol
qualifications for political prcfermcnt
| il higher than In the city.
| senator Bussc slould not allow him
| self to be driven OFF the track. liz
should go TO Peoria with all the dele
gates he can muster, IT there ar,
other Republicans In this county who
| are candidates for other offices they
have right to elect all the delegate,
they can aud let the cOnvention-nO
the machlne--pass on their merits. II
an outside candidate for any office Oh
the ticket has friends in this count,
who are able to elect delegates for him
so much the better for this county, ever
though ii has one or more candidates
for the same office. Then 1t will III
apparent that Cook Is too cosmopolitan
too liberal, and too big to he n unit
"Cnanlmlty" in Cook means the su
premacy of the Cook County machine
in State politics. 1t Is better that m
man from this county should be on til,
ticket than that one should he pu
there by chlcancry, log.rolllng, ant
brute force. In politics as in othe
things
| II is excellent
To have q giants strength; but 1t i
| tyrannOus
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