Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-10-12
EA0LET8.


have made much richer find by an
investigation of the County Treasurer?
If they had just pricked the balloon of
graft that has abided in that depart.
ment of the public service of Cook
County for years. there would have
been an explosion that would have
rocked the County Building. But the
ObejOyfuls didn't seem to care any
thing ut all for the few hundred thou
sands of dollars interest collected on
moneys Illegally retained month after
month and year after year i'm the pos.
session Of the County Treasurer. oh,
no! 1t would never do to nose around
in the County Building; that institution
Is In the hands Of the Republicans, and
that's different, you know.
1t Is said that Gov. Yates has fired"
his private secretary-COl. Oglesby--for
the latter's actions Mt the tomb Of Abra.
ham Lincoln. What could the young
man have done?
As Democratic candidate for Coun.
ty Treasurer Hon. Thomas A. smyth
would put up good fight.
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The Union Traction Company has
been requested to allow experiments to
be made to demonstrate the feasibility
Of using the cable condults for an un.
dergrOund trolley system.
1t Is to be hoped that this will not fol.
low the same course that all the other
underground trolley systems took.
Everybody remembers the failure the
"Love system turned out to be, and
the other inventions that followed
proved no better.
The city does demand the abolition
Of the unsightly overhead trolley, but
1t will take time and proof to demon
strate whether the new system" can
cause It successfully.
Mayor Harrison has changed his
mind about making an asylum for
tramps in this city during the winter
now approaching. He says II they come
here they must work; nobody will be
allowed to merely exist without visi.
bic means OF support.
Is this intended as a blow ut the
Tilden Democracy?
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Hon. John X. Prindiville should be
nominated and elected Judge next year
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Col. Frank Riddle, formerly attorney
for the West Park Board. ana Chris
Manner are both out for the Office OF
Clerk of the Supreme Court. Truly the
faithful of the Republican party ar,
out after the fleshpots Of Egypt pretty
early In the day.
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The State Fair, with Its thrOngs o.
farmers and bucOllc statesmen from al
parts of "the Interior" was too gOOt
, an opportunity for the politicians to le
slip, ana needless to say haven't
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The latest gossip Of political natur,
from the State capital Is to the effec
that Governor Yates has offered I,
james II. II. Van Cleave, formerly o
this city, In the event Of Col. Oglesby'
retiring from that Office, the position o
private secretary.
II Governor Yates can secure the ser
Vices Of such capable man as Mr.. Val
Cleave has proven himself to be In tin
many important public positions he ha
held In the past, the chief executive o
the State will make no mistake In max
Ing the appointment. For two term
Mr.. Van Cleave has filed with integrit
and great ability the office of City Cler
Of Chicago, and as head Of the Stat
Insurance Department he gave to tn
State an administration of ability an
discretion.
Genial and courteous, yet ever indus
f.. trious and Woodworking, Mr.. Va
! Cleave would make IN ideal privat
/ secretary for the Governor and win 70
) him and his administration hundred
of friends.
The North Side Democracy canno
present a stronger name In the mex
judicial convention than that Of MI
Spencer Ward of North Robey stree
Mr.. Wards reputation as a lawye
, proves that II elected Judge of the Gil
= cult Court he would grace the bench.
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r Mayor Harrison has again demon
o strated how level Is his head and SCUM
d his Judgment In all cases of emergenc
calling for prompt and courageous az
ton.
J. This time 1t Is in regard to the Emm
t Goldman affair This anarchist leade
C had given out some days ago that
was her intention to repeat In publ
here the speech which she delivere
weeks ago In Buffalo, and which CzO
gosz, the murderer of President Nj
= Kinley, declared melted him to TIL
u commission of his awful deed.
n Miss Goldman was to have spoken q
Il Mueller's Hall, Sedgwick street an
North avenue, but Mayor Harrison O
Q the evening previous gave strict II
l. structiOns to Chief of Police O'Neill
J. prevent the woman from delivering an
o speech or lecture In Chicago Mt tn