Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-29
APATHY DISAPPEARS
Political Activity Awakened
in Cook County.
SITUATION TN CHICAGO
FIGHT IN THE DIFFERENT CON-
GREssIoNAL DISTRICTS.
Admiral schley Made an Issue
Against Representative Foss-
Lorimer's Stiff Contest.
special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
CHICAGO, October %, 1902.
Interest in the campaign in this state has
quickened rapidly In the last few days.
Meetings of both parties have been well
attended in this city, and, according to re-
ports from various sections, voters all over
the state are waking up from the apathy
which was so marked a Feature of the stu
alton up to a week ago. The democrats
are claiming that this is the result of their
agitation of the trust and tariff questions.
while republicans assert with satisfied
smiles that it is due to the effect of the
settlement of the coal strike on republicans
who are not of the thick-and-thin order.
Democrats are now increasing their
claims with regard to the congressional del
egation. Austin J. Doyle, chairman of the
county democratic campaign committee, as
serts that the democrats will elect the en-
tire county ticket and carry all save one
of the ten congressional districts of the
city. If the democrats held their own in
the rest of the districts of the state, this
would mean that they would elect sixteen
of the twenty-five members. Chairman
Hopkins of the state committee, while not
SO positive in his predictions, expects to get
a majority of the delegation in Congress, in
spite of the gerrymander, which, he says.
was designed to reduce the democrats repre-
sentation to six members.
Republican Claims.
Chairman Fred Rowe of the republican
state central committee is also "perking'
up. He says the G. o. P. will carry the
state by 5000. elect nineteen congress-
men and secure a majority of thirty-six on
joint ballot in the legislature. He comedies
the democrats the fourth, fifth and eighth
districts in Cook county, which were cut
out by the apportionment of 1901 as demo-
cratic districts. In these the republicans
have put up no candidates The demo-
cratic standard bearers are the present con
gressmen, Geo. p. Foster in the fourth,
James McAndrews in the fifth and VIM. F.
Mahoney in the eighth. The republicans
admit that they have stiff fights on their
hands in the first, sixth and ninth districts
in Cook county.
In the first district Martin B. Madden is
the republican nominee and Martin Eme-
rich the democratic. This district was car
ried by Mckinley in 1900 by 6,0SS majority,
but the strength of the Independent vote
may be seen from the facts that Yates
majority for governor at the same election
was only 1,239, while Mayor Carter H. Har-
rison carried it last year by $3.50 over the
republican candidate Judge Elbridge Hane-
cy. Hanecy, 1t may be well to mention, Is
a close political associate of Madden. Both
are chief cogs In the Lorimer- Yates ma
chine, and the question is will the voters of
that district do the same good and plenty"
act to Madden which they performed SO
thoroughly upon the mayoralty aspirations
of Judge Hanecy. More than one republic
can of the district is Of the opinion that
they will Madden Is laboring under the
handicap Of his record in the city council.
Representative James r. Mann has one
of the sure things in the second dis
trict. His majority, as conceded by the
democrats, will be at least 5000. and he
may double that figure over his unknown
opponent-Frank Brust.
In the third district there Is another hard
tussle on between William Warfield Will
son, the republican candidate, and Daniel
Morgan Smith. democrat. This also, under
normal conditions, Is strongly republic
can district. 1t gave Mckinley majority
of SIG in 1900 and Yates 4643, but Mayor
Harrison carried 1t last year by 951. Both
candidates are successful and popular at
torneys with a large list of influential
friends, but the democratic leader is I'M
usually strong on the stump and a splen-
did mixer and these qualifications and
the fact that many republicans in the dis
trict are dissatisfied with the party's at
titude toward the trusts, incline the repub-
lican managers to be conservative in their
predictions OF victory. They will be salts
fed, they say, with 1000 or 1900 ma
jority.
"BilIy" Lorimer's Stiff Contest.
Billy Lorimers fate hangs in the bal
ance in the sixth district. The boss of the
state machine is fighting there as he never
fought before. He has imported, not only
state leaders but some OF the most promi-
nent republican orators from other states,
to aid him in defeating a democrat in a
district with normal republican majority
of about 5000. Allan c. Durborrow, the
democrat In question, is making a quiet
| house campaign, holding meetings each
night at the home Of some weil-known
citizen to which all the voters Of that
neighborhood are invited. This was the
plan of campaign he followed when he
defeated VIM. e. Mason for the House. In
glaring contrast to this Is the circus-tent
vaudeville-show campaign Of Loriner.
Republicans claim the district, but ad-
NIT the result is too doubtful to warrant
any large predictions as to figures. Dur
borrow's friends on the other hand, are
confidently predicting his election by 1,50O
to $500 majority. The public meetings at
which he has spoken have been packed, ard
he has had many assurances of support
volunteered by influential republicans in the
district. The Independent papers have
caused Mr.. Lorimer considerable distress
by calling attention to his frequent alb
sences when he was in Congress. During
the Fffty-fifth Congress there were 1872 IoH
calls. and Mr.. Lorimer responded to only
63 Of them, while In the Fifty-sixth, there
were $50 roll calls and he was absent, ac-
cording to the Congressional Record, So
times. This makes PHI absences out Of the
332 roll calls for the two Congresses. In
other words he was absent nearly two
thirds of the time, beirg employed his op-
ponents say in keeping his machine in
running order and seeing that his state
legislature attended to his business prop
erly. Thousands Of pamphlets giving the
above figures and discussing his record In
Congress have been distributed to the
voters of the district.
Senator Mason is said to be quietly aiding
John M. Hess. the democratic candidate in
the seventh district Philip Knopf, ex-
county clerk, is another of Lorimer's trust
ed lieutenants and the object of especial
hostility on the part of Mason. Hess is
lawyer and is well known and popular in.
the district. He Is expected by conserva-
tive republicans to cut the normal republi-
can majority OF nearly 5000 down one-half
1t is safe to say that Knopf will win by
from 1850 to 5000 votes.
Forced to Withdraw.
James G.. Darden, democratic candidate
in the ninth district against Representative
Henry Sherman Boutell, was forced to re-
tire last week from the race as the result
of sensational charges which were made
against him by one Of the republican. pa