The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-04
HARRISON HAD A C|NCA"
CHICAGO TRAVELLING MAN DIS
CUSSES MAYORALTY CAM
PAIGN
WAS OPPOSED BY MINISTERS
But Carriers Splendid Career, Assist
ed by Prestige of His Father,
Carried Him Safely to
Victory.

ABOUT saying i told you so after some
thing has happened" said r. E. Fer
guson, Chicago travelling salesman last
night, "but I have thought all along
that there isn't d man in the Windy
City that can beat Carter Harrison for
mayor, and 1 think 50 yet. He has the
prestige that his father won, and he has
been able to make good since he en-
tered on public career.
1.-THE last campaign was one Of the
most strenuous that was ever waged in
the city. 1t seemed as though every
body was in the game, and all were ask
Ing for cards. The preachers of the
city were among Hanecy's most ardent
supporters, and their pulpits were tenn
porarily converted into platforms from
which they eXpounded political instead
of religious doctrine. Rev. G. D. Gle
worth, of the Open church, struck the
keynote of a hundred sermons when he
said last Sunday: If there is not time
to both vote and pray on Tuesday, vote
anyhow
From Baptist, Methodist and Presby-
terrain pulpits on the North side and the
South, pastors prayed and pleaded.
Things that couldn't be circulated in the
mails If the postmasters' attention Were
called to them were said about the vice
of the city to audiences in which wives
and mothers predominated. Some weeks
ago thirty ministers, according to an
agreement, exposed Mayor Carter Har-
r1son's alleged combination with the
wicked, and Sunday the thirty were
joined by twice as many more Until
Saturday the pool room odds had not
been lower than to l on Harrison
Monday morning they dropped to 215 to l.
In his candidacy for a third term
Harrison was opposed by Judge Elbridge
Hanecy, citizen of standing. 1t has al
ways been a question whether or not
Chicago was opposed to being known as
a wide-open town. Under the Harrison
administration the town has reached the
limit. Sodom and Babylon may have
been worse in their day, but the Chicago
vice crusaders don't believe it. The
county attorney has compiled statistics
to prove that Chicago is the wickedest
city in the world, and the expert testi-
mony Of Josiah Flynt corroborates the
statement
Judge Hanecy had promised that if
elected mayor he would make vice hide
its face. He didn't promise to suppress
1t, but he did allege that, whereas,
virtue is now compelled to fee, vice, I'M
der his administration, would be COM
PEELED to run to cover
HARRISON FOR MUNICIPAL OWN
ERSHIP.
HS COIupl1CdIlOIS were JuQS0
Hanecy was actively supported by ali
the street railroad influences in the city.
Harrison ran on municipal ownership
platform. He was credited with saving
the city from a franchise grab after the
passage of what is known as the Allen
law. Chicagos streets are dirty. but
all the reform leagues and civic fedora
tions which examined the subject agreed
that the city hasn't enough revenue to
keep the streets clean. 1t was the same
trouble under which Kansas City and st.
Louis labor; a per cent limit Of the
bonded debt and a hulk of a state con-
stitution, Chicago spent IN It's streets
last year $156,O44 New York spent S2,5sl,-
pa and Philadelphia, $S,333,OC0
The same proportions are maintained
in the comparative expenditures for
street lighting, cleaning and garbage re-
moval. But even though Chicago cannot
be clean under any administration, the
Republicans contended that it was not
essential it should be vicious.
Another feature that lent zest to the
contest was the entrance into politics OF
Honore Palmer, son of Mrs Potter Pal
mer, who was made one Of the candidates
on the Democratic ticket The munich
pal voters league saw fit to oppose him,
and declared in favor of his antagonist
Mr.. Helm There does not seem to nave
been any grounds for the leagues oppos:-
tion to young Palmer. He is q years
old, we'll educated. well trained. and by
virtue Of his lifelong residence in the
city, is thoroughly acquainted with the
conditions under which the city was be-
ing run. AS soon as it was announced
that he was not to receive the support
of the reformer's, Mrs. Palmer organ
lied corps of workers with headuuar-
ters in her Lake Shore residence. and
went after the silk stocking voc. Last
season Honore danced with the 400 at
Newport. This spring he attended all the
Turner Hall dances on the north side and
he kept it up throughout Lent. That
prince Of mugwumps, Franklin McVeagh
came to Mrs. Palmer's assistance and
wrote a letter wh:cA was sent to every
voter in the Twenty-first ward.
"Harrison's campaign was made on
ownership, and it was on this
issue that he won. The advocates of
this principle united with those who he
lieve in wide-open town. The Demo-
cratic platform declares that no fran
chise for street railways shall be grant
ed or extended for longer period than
twenty years
THE Allen law, which Harrison multi
fed while mayor permitted franchises
to be extended for period of fifty years
All the street railroad franchises in Chi
cago will expire in 1903. Harrison made
his position clear on the subject He
does not believe that the CITY could now
afford to undertake municipal ownership
because of its deplorable financial condi-
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