Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-20
EA0LETS.

eHOIet0s
various members of the City Hall
payroll crowd are said to be urging
Mayor Harrison to waive personal
considerations and accept renom-
nation in the spring.
1T would be very fiattering to the
Mayor IL II could be made to appear
that in accepting n denomination he
was sacrificing himself out of consider.
alton for others, but there Is not much
prospect that such performance. will
be altogether successful.
I'm the first place the Mayor would
like nothing better than to succeed
himself, and In the second place the
people who are asking him to sacrifice
his own wishes I'm the matter IRE ex-
actly Of the same mind. The whole
unsavory crowd from the Mayor down
to the cheapest hanger.on wants to
stay exactly where 1t now II, and no
other personal consideration whatever
IL involved. -
IF Mr. Harrison shall be persuade
to yield reluctantly to this demand OF
his own creatures he may deceive a
few people by his coyness. but II re-.
quircs no great gift Of prophecy to pre-.
dict that about election day he will
meet the real thing Mt the polls.
"There IL judgment In prepare.
ton for him and his payroll claque,
and 1t Is to be hoped that nothing will
prevent Its delivery" Chicago Chron.
icle.
Latest ailment Of Harrisonism--po-
litical cold feet.
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Frederick Job has a new Job. and 70
take It leaves one which was fairly re-
munerative. And yet people say. with
the bard Of Avon, whats In a name!"
Mr.. Job was on one board OF arbi.
tratiOn; he goes to one In which, doubt.
less, his peculiar fitness for such
places will be splendidly exemplifled.
Daniel J. McMahon will be one of
the Democratic nominees to the bench
next June. The people and not the
payroll Will rule next time.
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United Democracy! That's a grand
party name. 1t would mean death to
party traitors, and extinction for the
United Order Of Ingrates.
Latest ailment Of Harrisonism--po.
litical cold feet.
Edwin X. Walker, the well known
public official and leading member OF
the Chicago bar. will certainly be one
Of the Republican nominees for the
judicial bench next week.
Charles c. Breyer, head Of the we'll.
known West Side plumbing concern. ia
much talked Of for nomination as
City Treasurer. Mr.. Breyers business
methods have always been such as to
gain for him the confidence and e.
teen Of all good citizens.
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Hon. Ernst Hummcl seems to "have
the pole in the race for the Demo
cratic nomination for City Treasurer
next spring. The Democracy of Chi
cagO will not make any mistake this
time.
Attorney Louis J. Behan IL one of
the brightest young Republican law
yers In Chicago. He would make a
first-class City Attorney.
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EX-Alderman Muelh0effer still leads
as the preferred candidate for the Re
publican nomination for City Clerk.
Hon. Spencer Ward will be one of
the Democratic judicial nominees next
spring.
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Mr.. Kickham Seaman Is one of the
mWytTS WIN IuNc WON tHtlT spurs Dy
excellent work In the Chicago bar. He
would make an able and worthy
Judge.
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Frederick Duffy, lately candidate
for the Legislature, Is one of the ablest
young lawyers In Chicago. He is a
coming man in the Republican party.
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Cynics have declared that tomb
stones are the greatest liars in the
world. This Is only another way of
saying that the ancient maxim Tell
nothing save good Of the dead Is re-
spected everywhere. Humanity agrees
that anger, malice and hatred should
stop at the grave. Hence the grave.
stone recites only the virtues of him
who sleeps beneath 1t and says moth
Ing of his failings and weaknesses. 1t
must be admitted, however, that In
some cases charity is heavily drawn
upon in the effort to lind virtues to
ascribe to the deceased, and 1t is this