Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-11


predecessors have done during the last
generation"
Compare this with what our esteem.
ed contemporary has written and pub.
lished concerning the case Of one Rob.
ert Il. Burke. formerly OIL Inspector
Of the city of Chicago. The analogy
II SO apparent. as well as the extreme
difference In the manner Of treatment
of the two cases. that 1t needs only n
word to draw the readers attention to
both. Our contemporary goes Oh to
say:
1T Is not to be supposed that Mr..
Raymond ran for the office of County
Treasurer with n view to accept only
the salary attaching to the ofiice--a
salary with which none of his prcdeces.
sors has been content
Isn't II queer that the Tribune
| couldn't look ut Robert Il. Burke's case
In that way! Can 1t be that we look
ut things through different spectacles
over In the Tribune office. or Is It sim.
ply question Of the point Of view.
But let us proceed. The Tribune
continues:
IF the system In his thc County
Treasurer's) ''Otfice II faulty one. 1t
II IL system that was not made by him.
but that has grown up during tho
last thirty years. Whatever defects
there may be have been common to the
Office during the administration of his
predecessors"
Well. what about the OIL Inspectors
office? Could not similar arguments
have been used In that connection? We
believe SO, but the esteemed Tribune
didn't seem to be able TO look mt mat
ters In that light when discussing the
case Of II. Il. Burke. 1t advocated and
glOated over his indictment. The Trlb.
une goes on to say:
"All this being true, does not the
present onslaught on the County
Treasurer's Office SAVIOR to some extent
Of persecution rather than Of just pros.
scutiOn? IL there not IN element Of
politics In it?'
How appropriately that would have
sounded In the case OF Robert II. Burke
when that gentleman was being perse-
cuted az well as prosecuted In reality
because Of his position In politics, but
Ostensibly on account Of something In
connection with the management Of
his office and of which the worst the
Tribune might have said had 1t told
the truth. "he had only done what his
predecessors have done during the last
generation" But then you see every
thing depends upon the point of view.
| Louis j. Behan, the well-knOwn lie.
publican lawyer, would make strong
candidate for City Attorney next
spring. Mr.. Bchan Is u prominent
member of the MOhican Club, which Is
one of the leading Republican Organi-
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George Mills Rogers Is one of Chi
cago's ablest lawyers. ana would make
IN excellent Circuit or Superior Court
Judge.
Hon. William J.. Mahony will be re-
elected 10 Congress without opposition
from the Eighth District. Mr.. Mahony
Is Chicago man, born and bred, and
the people Of his native city rs we'll as
of his district are proud Of him and
Appreciate his services.
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Miles j. Devine Is one of the bright
est lawyers In Chicago and would
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Hon. William I.Orimer Is making a
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Mr.. J.. &. Haley has made a splen-
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bar, and Is now being urged for Judi,
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ocratic nomination for United States
Senator IN the next General Assembly.