Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-06-07
No Slate Fixed Up in Preliminary Caucus
of Payroll Bosses Will Be
Accepted
All Lovers Of Good Government Welcome Abb
clifton Of the Odious Pre-Convention
Caucus
Plain People Resent Imputation Of Lack Of
Intelligence Contained in Oictation Of
"SiIk Stockings"

There must he absolutely no dctation
to the voters of the Democratic party at
the coming primaries or in the convcn.
tion which will be elected by such pri
maries
There must be no cut and dried
''slatc'' Advisory Committees. and |
there must be no caucus of bosses the
night before the convention to cook up
n program to be showed down the
throats of the delegates next day.
The Democratic county convention
must be an old-fashioned convention,
where the duly elected delegates of the
people will have a full and fair oppor-
tunity to name the party's candidates,
unbiased by either n silk stocking
clique or the otfice-holders and taX-cat.
ers of the City Hall. organized under
the name of a central committee.
These are the demands OF the Cook
County Democracy, and through 1t of
the three hundred thousand Democrat
ic voters of Cook County, who ask the
right to he heard In the formation OF
the ticket and the promulgation of the
policies for which they are expected to
vote next November II there Is any
attempt to force slate chosen by star
chamber cliques upon the Democratic
county convention. it will In all likeli-
hood be crushed, but II by any chance,
now unforeseen, such an attempt
should succeed then the chances Of
Democratic success ut the polls on elec.
ton Will be thereby imperlled, indeed.
rendered almost hopeless, and the Op-
portunity of capturing Cook County
and The State Legislature probably lost.
These are the sentiments Of ths oyer
whelming majority of the Democratic
voters of Cook County to-day.
They resent the imputatlon placed
upon them by Mayor Harrison and his
advisory" Committee, of being un-
able to select through their chosen dele.
gates TO the convention tit candidates
for public Office,
y Democratic voters of Cook County
ara a5w asking II it has come to such
pass with the Democratic party that
the plain people are not to be trusted
with the exercise of their own judg.
ment in the use Of their franchise, and
2 that there Is nobody within the men,
bershlp of that party but ottice.holders
and wealthy individuals. otherwise
known as silk stockings" ut or capa-
BILE TO select candidates for office as
public officials.
Resentment deep and far reaching
against any such imputation has per-
meated the rank and file of the Democ'
racy Of Cook County and will result In
such an explosion ut the polls on pri'
mary day as will shatter the attempted
rule Of organized appetite and galvan,
lied shObocracy from capstOne to foun,
dation.
Once for all the Democratic voters
want il understood that the days of
caucus and star chamber states are
over and that the people need no advice
in their political affairs either from
,lbals composed of individuals with
silk hosiery or OF professional taX-eat'
ers whose continued connection with
the public payroll * their only aim and
object.
The Eagle again repeats that II
knows that the sentiment of ninety
nine out of every hundred Democratic
voters in this county Is irrevocably op
posed 10 any dictation whatever from
any Advisory Committee or from an!
caucus held the night before the con
vention. They are determined that thu
Democratic county ticket shall be chos
en- 10y the peoples delegates elected n
u fair primary, that all candidates To-
nomination on the ticket be given fret
ana fair opportunity 10 go into the con
ycntlon and have their cause Fought on
fairly on the floor of that assembly. TIT
people are determined that honorable
and reputable candidates for office shai
not l." chDkcd OFF by any caucus or Al
NisOry Committee, In favor Of the pet
Of payroll brigade or of any 0th"
coterie but that there shall be fai
field and no favor for all.
Let the best man win" should be th'
motto of the convention, and with thl'
motto the people can have their way
at the primaries on June ~, no matter
who may say them nay.
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The hot air artists who have beer
trying 10 hand out buncombe 10 Tho
ulIblir I'm the shane 0f n high sounding