Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-02-21

conflict with the constitution. Surely
the constitution would not make the
| election separate and intend that the
machinery of the parties should take
up In primary and convention the nom-
nations and mix them with the most
virulonily partisan Political contest we
imvc-ila, for the mayoralty.
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Albert Graf, head of the great GO.
mcnt paving concern III La Sale
street. would make Il splendid race IL
nominated to office next spring. Mr.
Graf. whose treatment of his work.
men has always been ~ handsome,
generous AMI cOnsilerntc. would COM
mnnd II great union labor vote for any
Office he might aspire to. ~ His name
would add strength to any ticket on
which i, might appear.
Hen. John Barton Payne II one of the
great lawyers of whom Chicago Is just.
~ proud. He would make Il magnih-
cent Mayor.
The celebration OF ccntenaries. which
hegnn vigorously In this country IN
1870. with the centenary of the battle
Ing AT n lively rate ever since II be.
llevcd by some good people to be
growing tiresOine, and they call for
Il halt. II the practice Is stopped. II
will he because formal celebrations
have become mOnOtOnots. not because
the list of Important centenaries has
reached an end. The year 1903 was
prolific Of events deserving of recOl-
lection II not Of celebration. So far
as the United States IL concerned the
greatest event OF 1903 was the LOulsi.
ana purchase. That transactlon dOu.
blcd the original area of the nation
ana confirmed Its destiny of grandeur
to which the revolution only opened
the way The territory thus peace.
fully acquired by President Jefferson
from France for the nominal sum of
Sl5,OOO.VO. or less than $40 u square
mile, extended from the Gulf Of Mex.
leo to CANADA ana from the MissIssip-
pi to the Rocky Mountains. Jefferson
made the purchase without authority.
AMI there were critics who denounced
his act as fatal to the constitution.
The Louisiana Purchase Centenary
will he duly celebrated ut st. Louis by
u worlds fair projected upon such
scale that II cannot be got ready till
1901. Ohio was admitted to statehood
on the 10th of February. 1903. 1t was
In the same year that the Miami En-
porting Company opened the first
bank In Cincinnati. The twelfth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States was submitted to the
States for ratification or rejection on
the la'h of December, 1903. 1t rene.
died u defect in the electoral system
relating to the choice of Presidents,
which had been laid bare by the mar.
row escape from trouble when Burr
instead of Jefferson might have been
made chief executive of the nation in
1901. There are some people who sup
pose strikes to be of very recent
origin. They are wrong. New York
city had its first experience of n labor
strike in 1903. A number of sailors de.
manded an advance from SO n month
To Sll, and marched about the city
compelling other sailors to join them.
New York was small place then. Its
population in 1900 had been 10000.
The strike ana the violence accom-
| panying 1t created CONSERVATION til
Its leaders were arrested by consta.
bles and lodged in jail
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Some people wear themselves out
building up their muscles; 3nd then,
thank heaven, they are too tired to
show us how strong they are!
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