The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-04-06
HARRISON WINS THE VICTORY.

corporations TOOK an active part to
elect their candidate Judge Elbridge
HanecN. for mayor of Chicago young
Carter II. Harrison was elected for
the third time last Tuesday by some
10000 plurality. All the plutocrati,.
preachers of the Windy City spoke
from their pulpits last Sunday in favor
of law and order" and condemned the
administration of Carter Harrison in
glowing rhetoric, but to no avail.
When the father of the Democratic
candidate ran for mayor in 1893 he
was attacked by all the political par
sons with the result that he was tri-
umphantly elected. 1t is safe to say
OF Chicago that when Il candidate for
any office is violently assailed by the
ministers Of fashionable congregations
he will always defeat his opponents.
The Irish Standard is highly pleased
at the discontinue of Judge Elbridge
Hanecy. alias Patrick Il. IIennessey
who changed his name and faith fol-.
the purpose of rising in the world.
There We're enough men of the creed
and nationality of his honest parents
in Chicago to curb his ambition, and
we hope that some day he will be
ousted from the position which he now
occupies.
Hanecy is a man of superior ability
but is thoroughly unprincipled. He
dragged the judiciary into the mire
during the campaign and thought to
make political capital out of some de-
cisions rendered by him. Any judge
who leaves the bench to become can
didate for another office and then re-
turns to court to- dispense justice is
not worthy Of confidence.
danecy was the candidate of the
Republican machine which is operated
by Boss Lorimer, the ex-congressman
defeated by young Feeley last fall.
Many Republicans voted for Harrison
in preference to Hanccy, but some
Democratic followers of Ex-Governor
Altgeld voted against the head of their
own ticket. Hanecy was in favor Of
granting long franchises to corpora
tons, though in his speeches he said
they would not extend over twenty
years. Harrison had fought the Allen
law passed by the Republican legisla-
ture of Illinois to give Yefkes, the
street car magnate, the control of the
streets for long periods by bribery and
corruption of the aldermen who are
noted for having Etching palms" in
Chicago, and who are not ashamed to
publicly acknowledge it. During his
two terms of office Mayor Harrison
has been the friend of the taxpayers,
and some of the leading citizens, ire
spective of party, worked for his re-
election. In his home ward the son
of Potter Palmer, one Of the wealthiest
citizens, ran for alderman on Hsrri-
sons ticket and was elected. Out of
the 30 wards of the city Harrison car
ried 26 and Hanecy only nine. That
was crushing defeat to an Irish
American renegade, and men of his
stamp in other places should profit by
the rebuke administered to him. 1t
may be taken for granted that voters
of the Irish race contributed to knock
him out.
Besides electing Harrison the Demo-
Gratis of Chicago carried all the city
offices by handsome pluralities. An
drew J. Ryan. brilliant young Irish
American, was reelected city attorney.
He stands high at the Chicago bar and
discharged his duties faithfully and
satisfactorily during the past two
years.