Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-06-21

VI lulIlVlS tne HrSt tlIle III got u CRACK
ut him.
The Democrats of the state. this pa
per claimed. would never forget his
selfish desertion of them at Il time
when they felt they needed his leader.
ship. and when he had their confidence
He turned deaf ear to their pleading
in the campaign of 1900. and compla
Gently prepared himself to get new
hold on the public pap in the City Hail.
That we were right in our prediction
was proven by the vote of the State
Convention on Tuesday. by which lIar-
rison was rejected as candidate for Il
place on the state Central Committee.
He aspired to the craftsmanship of that
body: he was not even allowed on it as
a member. Harrison did not get n vote
outside of Cook County, and. what was
most surprising of all. 300 out of the
five hundred delegates from Cook
County voted against him.
This was the worst cut of all to lIar-
rison. and beyond doubt sounds the
death knell of his alleged leadership in
Chicago.
That n Mayor of this city. with all
the prestige of his office and all the
influence of the patronage and the pay
roll of the City Hall back Of him.
should be unable to keep in line even
the delegation from the city. but be in
fact slapped in the face by almost half
of the entire delegation. Is something
hitherto unheard # in Chicago poll
ties, and constitutes the most igno-
minious humiliation that has ever
come upon a political leader in this
| city. county or state.
| The fight was of Harrison's own
seeking. He locked horns with a man
who was his master in every way,
both as a strategist. as a parliamenta-
rian and as a politician. but his over.
whelming defeat was due us much to
the fact that the Democracy of Cook
County, as we'll as Of Illinois. Is sick.
tired and disguised with Harrison and
his incompetent and miserable admin
istration. as to the ability of his OppO.
nent. As a result. he has been repu.
dated at home and abroad. not even
the cohesive power of the public pay
roll being able to keep the respectable
Democrats of Chicago from rejecting
him.
Not only We're Harrison and his man
Friday - the unspeakable LOcfiier-
practically kicked out of the councils
of their party I'm the great State of
Illinois. but the misfit Mayor was told
to his teeth both on the floor of the
convention and outside of IL what the
Democrats Of this State and of Chi.
cagO really think Of him.
Some unpalatablc statements which
stuck I'm his gizzard like barbed ar
rows We're shot into him, AMI when he
came out ut the small end of the horn,
he ''wished he hadn't"
But, after all. this IL but the poetry
Of justice, the keen edge Of retribu.
ton. Harrison has been the poorest
excuse for Mayor Chicago has ever
had: he has devoted his time entirely
to creating buncombe issues and gal.
lery plays for his own perpetuatiOn In
Office. and he has sacrificed every pO-
litical friend he has ever had. and
trampled upon the political rights and
honorable ambitions Of every man
whom he believed in any way came
between him and the attainment OF
his own political ends.
His ingratitudc to the men who
made him politically was told him t.
his face by an able Democratic orator
on the floor Of the convention.
The character OF his administration
the character of his disreputable and
discredited following. the sources OF
supply for said following, ana many
other unpalatable things We're told hin
by another able Democrat outside the
convention. Harrison was dared to max,
Il reply on the floor of the convention
but he remained mute ms the proven
bal mouse. Harrison knew too well
that the men who had thus bearded
him We're prepared and willing to
stand by what they had said. and he
discreetly swallowed II all. He knew
that his administration has been sur
rounded by gang Of harples and
grafters. He knew that his following
In politics has been composed In the
: main of the unspeakably low element
Of this city; that the divorce courts
the levee slums, the haunts of vice
throughout the city have been ran.
sacked to recruit the sinister army that
has stood for his political fortunes: he
was aware that the lowest element Of
political or social life Is the one that
makes the backbone of the Harrison
ian political following, a gang that Is
capable of any act from picking Il
pocket up or down. Harrison knew
what to expect II he dared try to- an
swer the charges flung at him, and he
swallowed the bitter dose in silence.
Neither did he dare try to answer the
charges of ingratitude and seltishness
leveled at him in the convention.
Listen TO this castlgation from the
lips Of an able Democrat Of Cook coun-
ty:
when | think of the issue of NUM-
clpal ownership and the initiative and
referendum the ghost of John H. Alt
geld rises above me and ! remember
how vallantly and nobly he labored
for the adoption Of these principles as
Democracy faith in the city of Chi
cago. however he was scorned ana his
friends prosecuted by Carter ii, Harri-