Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-25


broad gagged Democrats throughout
Cook County and the State of Illinois.
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Frederick Duffy, the Independent Re
publican legislative candidate In the
Twenty-seventh District. has made a
winning fight there and will he elected.
lie will give the people honest and efil.
Client service as state legislator.
Hon. WILLIAM Hale ThOmpson's cleo.
ton to the Office of County Commits.
sioner will be by such a plurality as
will make of him a formidable candi.
date for the Republican mayoralty
nomination next spring.
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p. c. Haley, the attorney Of the
Drainage Board. who in that capacity
has done and Is doing such excellent
service for the public and the taxpay.
ers. II being strongly backed for the
Democratic caucus vote in the Lcgis.
lature for United States Senator.
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Hon. Henry Sherman Boutell has
made victory for himself ~ candidate
for reelection In the Ninth Congress.
siOnal District certainty. Mr.. BOu.
tells claims upon the suffmges of the
voters Of the district are strong. He
has proven himself a statesman of
sound and clear.siglited ideas as well
as an orator Of great ability. The PEG.
pie OF the district are proud of him,
and although he Is the regular Republi.
can candidate. his support will come
from all Sides The opposition to him
amounts to nothing.
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Mr.. Martin De1.any. the Democratic
nominee for the Senate In the Thirty.
first District. II said to have his Re.
publican opponent on the run. Mr.. De.
l.nny II an able lawyer. Il gentleman,
Of many fine qualities. educated, wei
versed In public affairs ana thoroughly
honorable. The citizens Of the Thirty
first District could not have better
representative In the Senate than Mr.
DeLany.
Mr.. George Mills Rogers. the well
known Democratic lawyer. would
make splendid States Attorney.
Every good citizen in the Seventh
Congressional District IL with Hon
Philip KnOpf this time. Mr.. KnOpf I,
the regular Republican candidate, bur
he commands general support in tn,
district, owing to his excellent recort
for two terms as County Clerk. tn,
fact that he has resided for years ant
IL well known and highly esteemed II
the district He will make q valunbl.
addition to the Cook County Congress
siOnal delegation.
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Edwin ]. Walker, the able lawyer
who has made such an enviable RECORD
as q member Of the Board OF County
Commissioners, will surely be re.elect
cd. He has made clean.cut, thorough
going campaign, and this. with hi,
splendid services in the past, should In
sure his reelection.
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1t Is announced from Washington
ID. C.. that w. NJ. Springer, attOrne,
for the State Of Illinois ana the sanitary
district OF Chicago, has filed a motor
In the Supreme Court Of the United
States to dismiss the original Gus,
brought by the State Of Missouri almost
two years ago to enjOin the discharge
Of the Chicago drainage canal into thu
Mississippi River above st. Louis. Doe.
this mean that the day is at last ut hand
when St. Louis shall have to back III
and take waterT'
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Information comes from the City
Hall that Mayor Harrison has served
notice on department heads ana Other
officials drawing substantial salaries III
fhc municipal service that they must
produce $4,000 as a campaign cOntri
button Nov. I. The first day of the
month Is pay day In the City Hall. and
1t Is reported that job holders will bt
allowed to wait until then before they
pay their assessments 1t IL also Civ
Ell out that $1,000 will be collected
from city OfficehOlders who owe theil
appointments to Mayor Harrison and
whose designations the city executive
Is supposed to hOld.-ChicagO Chroni
| Gle.
| Is this a blur. or Is 1t Il premeditatesl
assault on the letter ana spirit OF the
civil service lawY
| At all events, it might he well for
the commission to look into the mat
ter.
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The latest indications from the Sew
enteenth Senatorial District point TO a
sweeping victory for Clarence \. Oar
row. independent candidate for the
Legislature from that district. Mr..
barrow Is Il great lawyer, n statesman.
a thinker, In fact. such man as any
district would he proud of as a rep
resentative In State or national leyis-
lative assemblies.
He has served with distinction as AZ
sistant corporation counsel, has han.
died with cOnsummate ability some of
the most important cases ever tried IN
the courts Of Cook County, and Ii In the