Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-01-18
HARRISON BELiTTlES JACKSON
DAY.

Things said mt Jackson Day ban.
qucts must not be taken seriously"
Words taken from Mayor llarrison's
interview given out the day following
the annual observance Of the annivcr.
sary of DcmOcracy's patron saint.
This extraordinary statement was
made with reference In particular to
certain utterances of "his honor" him
self ut the Sherman House banquet.
but there II 10 mistaking the intent
that they should be applied in general
to what everybody has said az ever will
say upon this occasion.
Now II more outrageous and bare.
faced insult to the leaders Of DemOc-
racy throughout the nation could not bp
uttered than this.
not he inserted between the clnviclcs
of the party to which Harrison pro-
fcsses to belong by its Interest enemy.
| Coming from the civic head of the
second greatest city In the United
States. IL carries with II an import that
could never belong to It. had It only
behind II the insignificant personality
of the author.
II Is the official position Of the man
which makes IL 80 acceptable to the
enemies Of the Democratic party. who
will not he slow to make of Il u
singing whip with which to scourpc
that party when the right time comes.
Even had ChlcagO's misft Mayor
confined the charge Of buncOmlp to his
own tuprenny-hnpenny remarks. II
| could have no more injurious effect
than confirm the opinion held OF him
when they nre not gallery plays for
/ selfish motives, ARE nothing more than
hot mir and buncOmbe.
| But the charge includes the discussion
Of public affairs. Of party policies and
Of national issues by the statesmen Of
the Democratic party throughout the
nation.
Think OF the inefYablc gall of this
manikin Chief Magistrate Of Chicago
declaring by implication, II not In so
many words. that the people Of the
United States must pay no attention
| to what II said on the occasion OF the
anniversary of one Of the apostles Of
Democracy, and one OF the greatest
Presidents America has ever had. by
such men rs David Bennett lin. VIII.
lam Jennings Bryan, William Whitney.
Gov. Stone. Grover Cleveland. Bourke
Cochran, Mayor Tom Johnson of
Cleveland, Mayor Rose of Milwaukee,.
Mayor Tnggart of indianapolis. ThOs.
ii. Ball Of Texas, j. Hamilton Lewis Of
Washington, ana other wise and capa.
bic statesmen Of the party.
| Think of the insult land this Is even
more OutrageOus) thus wantOnly east
upon the memory Of the great ana
good Andrew Jackson by Chlcago's
malapert Mayor.
Pause to consider for u moment the
monumental cheek Of Carter II. Hnrri-
son, ChicagO's yellow Kid" IN brnzcn.
~ declaring that the anniversary Of
Andrew Jackson Is not an occasion
worthy Of serious treatment. IL not I'M
occasion when Democrats are expected
to talk sense or to be In earnest In what
they say.
Consider these words OF Carter II.
Harrison how You may, you cannot
pick any other meaning out Of them.
They simply mean, and In fact so de-
clare, that In the opinion of Carter II.
Harrison, the alleged Democratic
Mayor of the great Democratic city of
Chicago, Andrew JacksOn's day Is II day
for buncombe, for gallery plays. for
raillcry. for flppancy, for idle pcrsl-
fiagc, for empty vaporings, or perhaps
for worse.
qucts must not he taken seriously"
forsoOth.
| What II We take what the MAYOR
says. in the words just quoted. scri
Ously.
We know that he was trying to wrig
gle ont of II public uttcrancc of his own,
which in him Is nothing new. but If
Harrison Is ever serious In anything it
X when he Is going back upon some.
thing which he himself has said.
SO let Ms take IIarrison's wriggle
seriously, and where does il place him
Why. 1t places him in the position of
being insincere in everything he had
to say about:
Traction,
Municipal Ownership,
| Tax Dodgers,
| The Condition Of our Streets,
The Trusts and MOnOpOlies.
! or any of the other fads and grand.
stand plays upon which he has for
years been ringing the changes for his
personal political benefit.
The Eagle always knew that IIarri-
son was insincere on these pOints--that
they were merely catch phrases for the
purposeof demagOguery-bu the entire
public now knows this, for Harrison
has convicted himself out of his own
| mouth.
Meantime what nice compliment