Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-02-01

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represented at that meeting.
Everybody who has read these col.
umus during the past two months
knows that these men represented bit.
ter autaguuism toward the Mayors true
aud loyal friend and faithful licutcn.
ant. Robert T.. Burke. and latent de
termination to down that gentleman
and drive him out of the party If ii
We're possible.
One of these men. Mr.. Gahnn. is still
actually chairman Of the rival central
committee. formed hy the bolters in
the heat of the recent rebellion against
Mayor Harrison The other "Wabbly
Willic"-is still member of that or
ganizatiOn of rebellion.
As a matter of course when these
two men. after they had been whipped
out of their shoes and had cruwled
back again into the regular organiza.
ton. undertook to override Mr.. Burke
in the work of preparing for the pri
marics aud to dictate things in conncc.
tion with the wards i'm question. Mr..
Burke took sides against them. He
naturally sided with the good and true
Democrats who had stood 10y both him
and Harrison ut time when the polit-
zeal existence of both was Threatened.
But there was detection and trcachcry
in the ranks somewhere.
Coldly. deliberately and without II
particle of compunction. these traitors
turned their backs upon their loyal
friend Burke and the remnant of the
faithful band of devoted Democrats
with whose aid the recalcitrants and
Wabhlcrs could he defeated again as
they had been before.
They made no bones about 1t. but lie
libcratcly voted to beat the plucky
Burke into partial submission to his
enemies on the occasion in question.
The word partial is used. not In pal.
backsliders. Had they their way the
triumph of the men who had helped In
the effort to destroy both Mayor lIarri.
son and II. T.. Burke would have been
complete.
Even their treason. however. could
not pound Mr.. Burke into complete sub.
mission. lie refused to throw down
his faithful friends at the dictntioi,
even of these men: he fought them
manfully To the last and lie managed
to save some of the loyal men who had
stood by him in stress and storm. from
the selfish rapacity of the men who
backed up the Wabbly Willics and the
Stock Yard bosses.
Loeillcr was allowed his own way In
the Ninth Ward. hut Burke refused ia
participate In the plot to place the
Wabbler's feet on the neck of senator
Joseph L. Mahoney In the Tenth
In this. one of the String of Wards
claimed 10y the "Wabbler." the lattcr's
light ~ boss goes a.glimmcring.
Gahan named the Judges and clerks
In the sixth Ward.
But both Loefilcr and Gahan could
have been completely snuffed out and
the days of their bossism ended had all
of the men upon whom Mr.. Burke had
relied kept their promises and remained
true to the principle upon which they
were placed In power.
The political trcachcry of mushroom
upstart politicians such as these rc.
fcrrcd to does not surprise The Eagle.
however.
1t has been on to their game for many
moons. II unearthcd and exposed their
trcachcry more than once.
but such political periidy can neither
down Burke and his friends nor rclla
blltatc "Wabbly Willie" ana his po.
lltical bcdfellows.
That individual Is n political dead
duck. He has lost control of the Tenth
Ward ana it looks as II his friends
cannot save him the Seventh and
Eighth. Even in his own ballwlck--
the Nlnth-able men and good Demo
Gratis are preparing To put up the fight
of his life against him.
As 10 Mr.. Gahan, the Eagle does not
wish To place itself in the position Of
denying that he has the right of repre-.
sentation in the Sixth. II would he
foolish To claim that he Is not II pollt.
ical force there. but II does claim tha,
II i'll became the unthankful lndivld,
uals who have been boosted To the
front on the committee and in the par.
~ by Burke To turn round and work in
behalf of men who headed an organ
iZatlon the avOwed purpose of which
was the destruction of Mayor IIarrl.
son, of Robert T.. Burke ana the entire
party.