Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-08-25
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didate for Congress In the Fourth Dis
trlct, has a record.
lie made this record while he was
Warden of the Cook County Hospital.
and his own party was so ashamed of
It 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 ut hand, and they prove con-
clusively that ID. W. Mills should never
be sent to represent the people of the
Fourth District In the National Con.
grcss.
Usually the charges against a public
official come from his political enemies,
but In the case of eX-Warden Mills they
were made by his fellow Republicans
and by u County Board that was Re
publican In Its root ana 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 and
plenty of time TO go into the "high old
tines seriatlm before the campaign
| IL over.
| by way of an Introduction to the sub.
jcct, 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, 1852, over month after
his official head was cut of, II 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 Committee:
Resolved, That the Clerk Of the Board
be directed to order eX-Warden Mills
to turn over all books OF accounts and
moneys In his possession to the proper
officers of the county.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN MATTOCKS,
Il. =. ALBRIGHT,
JOHN O'NEILL,
II. =. MCLAUGHREY,
JOHN g. ENDER,
Committee on Hospitals
Mark the reference to moneys In his
possession" month after leaving tn,
jon.
This didn't have any effect.
The RcfOrmer still held out.
SO the Republican County Board hat
TO again go after this model ex-otiicial
ON May =, 1852, the Republican Coun
~ Board, by n unanimous vote, adopt
ed the following resolutions, including
I'm amendment by Commissioner Sen
ne, that the chairman of the Com
mittee on Hospitals and County Attor
ney and Warden ascertain how mucl
Is due from the late eX-Warden ID. w
Mills"
!, Whereas, The books of the Cool
County Hospital show that ID. w. Mills
late Warden Of that institution, is in
debtcd to the county in nearly the sun
of 81 100, and
Whereas, Four months have elapse,
since he retired from the position O
Warden, ana during all that time h,
has failed to make good his indebted
. notified to settle, ana has as repeated,
, promised to do; therefore be 1t
| Resolved, That the County Attorne.
he and he Is hereby ordered to prOcce'
and collect the same by due process o
law.
How IL that for record to begil
! with?
Nice reformer Mills is, isn't he?
Well, the thing dragged along an,
dragged along.
: Mills was a Republican and the Re
publican County Board hated to stir VI
Il stink, as an important election wa
approaching.
But the press and the people wer
after ID. w. Mills hotter than ever, an,
so on Sept. %, 1882, nearly year afte
ID. W. Mills was deposed from tn
wardenship of the County Hospital
, the Republican County Board unanl