Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-03-02
Ip This They Will Be Following tbe
Example He Set Tbem -Four
Years Ago.
The Inter Ocean, Senior Republican, Organ,
Admits That He Cannot Be Elected
This Spring.

Already there l. n stalwart Republic.
can bolt against John VI. Harlan.
The civil service cranks want him.
Tie men who are not civil.scrvicc
crank> do not want him.
The independent element" which
every two years. I, working hard for
his nomination.
The Republican leaders" who never
bolt the ticket. are not for him.
With Harlan a. Mayor, the present
Republican organization might hc Il
thing of the past, ana the bosses who
turned him down two years ago are
afraid that he will remember this fact
To- his disadvantage If elected Mayor.
The stalwart Republican Inter Ocean.
the senior party organ in Chicago. had
the Following Ia say upon the subject
In it, leading editorial on Wednesday.
under the caption of mfr. iiarlan's
Qualifications
several committees and associations
Of independent rcformers' are urging
John NJ. Harlan Ia become II candidate
FOR the Republican Mayoralty nominal
ton. OstCnslhly they do this on ne.
count of Mr.. llarlan's qualifications
10 lead the local Republicans in the
spring campaign. II therefore l. iii To
inquire Just what Mr.. llarlan's special
qualification il.
Although processing 10 he u Erpub-
lean. Mr. Harlan * chiefly known To
the people of Chicago as II persistent
AMI violent assalant of other Republic
cans. In the municipal campaign four
year. ago Mr.. Harlan In every speech
inpugnrd the ability AMI the honesty of
nine-tentlls of the conspicuous Hcpuh-
llcans IN Chicago. Not even Judge
Sears. the Republican nominee for
Mayor, escaped his vi,uperntlon, for
Mr. Harlan asserted that he was con
tamlnatcd hy the men around him.;
that he had succeeded In rcroncillng
his conscience To the method of the po'
lltlcal hghwayman, and that he was
a traitor
Such. then. il the most conspicuous
political qualification of the man for
whom loyal Republicans are asked To
work ana Ia vote. Are they likely Ia
do SO; Are they likely to support an n.
pirant whose chief political stock In
trade l. the damage that ,hr has done
the Republican party, ana whose
greatest achievement inflicted upon
Chicago the present Democratic admin.
istra'lont As Il matter of practical poll
ties, j. there the slightest hope that
Mr.. Harlan could be elected: These
questions answer themselves FOR all
save independent rcformer>.'
\ few months ago Fred W. Tpham
was suggested rs IA likely Republican
candidate for the Mayoralty, and the
suggestion was everywhere received
with favor. Then Mr.. Upham was in
yitrd To address the Marquette club
Instead of dcvoting his energies Ia cN-
posing the malfca>ancc nj the llnrri'
son administration ana the corruption
nf the city Hall he at once proceeded
Ia assall other Republicans. by -
doing he made himself impossible rs Il
Republican candidate for the Mayor
atty. ana the fact was recognized of
hand hy his political friends.
The reputation which Nj. Tphan
acquired by means of II few words and
IN few minutes has been possessed
10y Mr.. Harlan for years. II has been
known 10 Chicago Republicans fol
four years. They would have none oi
him In 1897, They will have none oi
T., Lin now, The Republican leaders may
do their best, but Their" are In Chicago
from 10000 to 5000 Of the Republican
rank ana file who never would vote fol
"A candidate of MI liarlan's political
qualifications. Aud without the united
Republican vote no Republican candl
date can b" elected Mayor.
This il condition Of practical poll
tics which all the throrzing In III,
world cannot explain away or uullify
II makes Mr.. Harlan a practical i'm
possibility"