Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-11-30

him that this will he but the prelimiu.
AIRY step toward curing the many rank.
ling wounds inflicted upon a nation
ality that forms 05 per cent. of his sup
porters during the past two or three
years of his administration.
The action of the Cook County De
mocracy was but the first note of the
storm that Is bound to burst over the
nest of Knownothingism in the City
Hall. better known as the Civil Service
Commission.
'Other organizations of the Democrat
ic party will follow suit The Carter
ii. Harrison League, composed Of the
very cream of the local Democracy.
will be heard from. and it need not
surprise Lindblom ct al.. or Mayor
Harrison. il he should hear the war
trumpet sounded from the very central
organization itself of the Democratic
party of Cook County.
Mayor Harrison may as well make
up his mind now as at any other time
to face the music. He will have to
choose between Lindblom 1T al. and
Knownothingism on the one side and
the lrish-American citizens of Chicago.
the German Catholic citizens of Chi.
cago, and the regular Democratic or.
ganizations of Cook County upon the
other.
And even more. The Mayor and his
bigotcd Civil Service Commission will
have to reckon also with the fair.mind.
cd liberal public of the Western metrop-
oils, which abhors foul play or anything
which smacks of sectarian or racial
bigotry, and who are tired and dis
gusted at the pranks played before high
heaven by the triumviratc of bigots.
who are just now clothed with little
brief authority
The people of Chicago. irrespective
of party or creed. are shocked at the
| treatment accorded one of the bravcst
and best officials who ever Served them.
and demand that the wrong be rightcd.
The Democrats demand II because
they know that the law has been vio-
lated. If not strained to do injury to Il
man who was guilty of no fault. OK.
cept perhaus that of being a loyal
Democrat himself. They cannot for.
get either that Collcran suffered for
the faith that Is I'm him In the past.
but that while he was reduced to the
ranks because he dared to he and not
deny that he was n Democrat. even
then a Republican administration did
not do him the gross injustice and in.
jury of discharging him absolutely
from the force of which he was so use
ful a member. but ordered his rein
statement In the ranks, and thus re-
fused to put n blight upon his reputa.
tion. Democrats feel all the more bit
terly now. that It has apparently re-
ton to perpetrate the injustice that Re-
publicans baked at.
Business men of all crecds and party
In Chicago demand the righting Of this
| wrong. because they well remember
what It felt like to have the CONNER
cial interests of this city ana even the
lives Of its merchant princes during
the first half Of the eighties threatened
by organized ana armed anarchy, and
they will not stand by and witness u
foul wrong done to one Of the gallant
veterans who stood between the with.
ering blast Of the Haynarket bomb and
the public ana business interests of
Chicago on that May night years ago.
The business people will join In the
cry for justice to Colleran.
COlleran's comrades on the depart
ment are with him almost to u man,
with the exception of u little clique OF
wise old cOdgers who spend their time IN
making plots TO overthrow real merit
In the department In order that they
may boost themselves to the front
They are with the movement for jus
tice to COllearn, because they resen
the action of Chief O'Nelll In the mat
ter, and his apparent participation II
want many people says looks like plo
to ruin Captain Colleran, by takin,
such measures as effectually to preven
the latter from resOrting to the court
In order to ward of the blow aimed u
him.
But the storm that has long beel
brewing over the City Civil Service
Commission, and which has burst wit
the Colleran incident, promises t
sweep away more than the injustice
done In this particular case.
1t will not subslde until the Civil Ser
vice Commission Is purged of anar
chists, bigots, ana payroll vOlupti
aries.
>SA
AS at present constituted the Civi
Service Commission Is one Of the mos
pernicious institutions that ever demOr
allied the public service Of the city
of Chicago.
1t has so disgraced, scandalized ant
4 bedeviled the Police Department, as Il
practically destroy the discipline, re
duce the efficiency, and virtually shat
Q ter one Of the grandest police organiza
tions In the world,
. 1t has meddled and monkeyed will
every other department Of the city ser
vice In way to disgrace the municl
pal administration, depress ana dis
, heartcn the employees and place mcri
and deserving qualities at discount
, Through it's own slipshOd methods
almost every examination 1t has hcl,
In connection with police affairs ha
. caused n scandal.
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