Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-11-24
JOHN c. .FETzER MENTIONED AS
REPUBLICAN, sMAYoRALTY
CANDIDATE IN CHICAGO.
HAS FINE PUBLIC RECORD
Has Won Leading Place Among Chi.
caso Financiers-Is Member of Chi.
caso Board of Education-Has
Charge of Large Business Interests.

oo1u -. J. elIer, son OF w. HI. y eL2er,
OF this city and former Ottumwa bust
ness man, is being strongly mentioned
las probable republican candidate for
mayor of the city of Chicago. In the
issue OF yesterday the Chicago Jour
nal has the following:
John G. Fetzer, one of the leading
factors in Chicago's business world, is
being strongly urged by friends and
business men to become candidate
for the republican mayoralty nomina-
ton.
"A successful business man of long
experience in big commercial transac-
tons, Mr.. Fetzer, his friends point out.
would fill the dem and for a mayor
capable OF handling the large and ex-
ceptional problems which will grow
out of the new charter.
"In the next two years, 1t is con-
coded, Chicago's mayor must be bust
ness man of wide experience. and high
ability.
in the next two years the city will
handle the biggest problems in it's
history, particularly financial ones.
Millions of dollars worth of perma-
nent improvements are to be financed,
and the foundation laid for decades to
come
Mr.. Fetzer, it is urged, is peculiarly
fitted by business experience and per-
sonal qualities to administer the at
fairs of the city.
Prominent in Business.
HE is business man of exception
ally large affairs. He is managing re-
ceiver for the Chicago Union Traction
Co., president Of the Illinois Northern
railway, manager of the real estate
and financial interests Of the great
Mccormick estate. director of the FIT.
Dearborn National bank, director of
the Protective Insurance Co.. director
of the keystone Insurance Co. direc.
tor of the First Mortgage Bond and
Trust Co., and senior member of the
we'll known real estate firm of Fetzer,
Peters & Co.
He was made managing receiver of
the traction properties by Judge Gross
cup to represent the court and the
public
He does not own a dollars worth
OF traction stock and during the six
months he has beer receiver he has
been largely instrumental iii securing
100 new cars for the system, and the
expenditure of nearly $1,000 on the
roadbeds of the traction companies.
Mr.. Fetzer represented the McCor-
mick Harvester company in the big
negotiations leading up to the trans.
fer to the International Harvester COM
pany, and secured for his clients an
exceptionally favorable deal,
Good Public Record.
I'm addition to his business record.
Mr.. Fetzer has to his credit fine pub
lie record. He has served as member
OF the board of education for nearly
two years, being chairman Of the f.
nance committee of that body
He is interested in philanthropic
work, being president Of the Chicago
Homeopathic hospital, and contrib
utter to several charitable institutions.
Mr. Fetzer is life long republican
coming from one of the pioneer repub-
lican families of Iowa.
Since he has lived in Chicago he
has taken an active and important, al
though not conspicuous part in poll
tics. His party record is a strong
point urged in his favor.
Mr.. Fetzer lives in the first ward,
his residence being the Palmer house.
He has not announced himself as a
candidate and is not expected to make
a declaration at this time, at least. but
his friends are making persistent de-
mands that he enter the race.
1T is known that Mr.. Fetzer has
the confidence and friendship of some
OF the biggest local leaders in the
party