Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-08-02
Pointed Questions Asked Regarding the Trans
actions Of Public Bodies and Of
Political Leaders.
Gossip Of the Oity and Of the Country
Forms the Subject Of Dom.
munications.

SpOOner. Mr.. Ben Cable said to an
Eagle representative the other day:
ut Is to be regretted that 80 able
man as Senator SpoOner should be
forced out Of the United States Senate.
Senator Spooner, however, II n man Of
keen sensibllities. and I am confident
will not accept the terms dictated by
the La Toilette people. The action of
the Wisconsin State Convention, 1t
seems, will force the retirement of a
Senator whose record shows him to be
more than partisan and one of the
strongest men In the Senate
or the thirty Congressional districts
created by the new appOrtiOnment
Chairman Cable figures Democrats and
Republicans will share about equally,
the Republicans having slight ndvan-
tage. AS to the country ut large. Mr..
Cable says he Is not prepared to make
any predictions.
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1t appears now that one of the chief
objects Of the Democratic COngressiOn.
nj Committee will be to reunite the
party this fall. Even should the Dem.
Ocrats fail to make expected gains In
Congress. It IL hoped the net result OF
the campaign will be to harmOnize
purity factions and make beginning
for victorious campaign In 1904.
Judging from present appearances and
conditions, the Eagle Is forced to con-
fess that In its opinion the harmonic
Ing part Of the proposition In very much
the harder part of 1t.
Democratic Congressional headquar-
ters IRE unusually active for the time
Of year, and In view Of the fact that
the election IL over three months away.
Mr.. Ben r. Cable, who h In charge Of
the work, arrived In Chicago during
the past week to begin the fight for the
election Of the Democratic candidates
for Congress. He hopes the result Of
the election will give his party control
Of the lower house. He would not say,
however, that the conditions generally
are M favorable for bringing about u
change In the house from fOrty.six Re-
publican majority to u Democratic plu.
rality as they might be. Having re-
turned from Paris only lust week, Mr..
Gable said lie had not become suffi-
ciently well acquainted with the situ-
alton to discuss the chances OF the
party carrying any Of the so.called
doubtful districts.
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| II find great deal Of activity" said
Mr.. Cable. "fOr the time OF year.
1t In rather early for campaigning. but
many people. It seems. are eager to get
ut 1t. Our headquarters In Washing
ton are running full blast, and with a
large force Of employees. The work In
hand there now II confined mostly to
gathering information ON the condi-
tlOns In the various districts where 1t
IL necessary to make a fight. We ex-
pect to send out many speakers. but I
think the distribution Of literature will
be quite as much of feature us In pre-
vions campaigns. Senator PattersOn's
speech on the trusts ana Senator
HOar's speech on the Philippines will
be given rs wide circulation as any two
documents to be put IN print"
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Robert II. Burke, leader of the Dem
Ocratic county organization. left Mon
day for Denver ana will be absent
three weeks. Mr.. Burke apparently Is
paying little attention to the special
campaign committee which, from pres
ent appearances, would seem to have
superseded the County Committee In
the management of the. fall campaign.
Men experienced in politics say the
special committee will soon tire of Its
task. and that the County Committee
will assume charge of the campaign as
usual.
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The dreadful murder in North Side
wine room the other night Is only an
other illustration of the sham pretenses
of the present city administration. 1t
proves the truth of what The Eagle
has been asserting all along, that fuss
ana furOre about the closing of wine
rooms In the saloons of this city was
simply gallery play, ana was never
intended for anything else 1t Is a
pity that it has required an awful
crime to demonstrate the hOllOwness of
this sham.
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Hon. Spencer Ward, the well-known
lawyer aud North Side political leader,