New-York tribune., 1905-03-27
HOW CANDIDATES

,~,;,.zo March as (speciaD.-The Mayoralty cam
nstqn nor IN full blast in Chicago. is complex and
nao,jiar snd il snacks not little of the old-fash
ionea country stumping canvass Partsanship
,.eros IN have been sidetracked by the principal
sc,,res IN the contest. the men who head the
,re,t;va tickets Of the two old parties Republican
,na Democratic. Long before the lines drawn
o. tba hsttle for the Office OF Mayor and three
otter municipal Offices OF power and profit the
,,ol;tfcsI managers Of the two big parties cast
sbo,,t among several aspirants for the Mayoralty
rt,osa energetic and hustIing friends had laid the
foundations Of booms In this matter the would
he candidates were the who set the pace for
the party managers.
On the Republican side the friends of John
Maynard Harlan got busy early and quickly built
up such support for his Mayoralty candidacy
that even had the party leaders. who none too
favorable TO his aspirations, been disposed 10 enter
another in the race. IL is more than doubtful
II they could have stemmed the tide flowing Har-
lsnward- In short time than majority
OF the city wards were record for him. OF
course, by that time Harlan mad a cinch the
nomination. and the city convention held soon
after TO make nominations. merely ratifica-
ton meeting. When the Harlan boom start
co the slogan municipal ownership of street.
car lines and incidentally, whenever the plan be-
came feasible other public utilities
AEr. Harlan matter of course. acquesced in
the policies of the campaign fathered by his
friends and the Republican City Committee and
the party managers Win respect 10 the city s
rights IN the vexatous traction muddle. the subor-
dination in legislation. whether municipal State.
OF the street railway corporation demands to the
rights Of the people. in the traction matter mu-
nicipal ownership the whole thing.
With the Democracy matters were just about the
same as with the Republicans Early in the politi-
cal game there faint as TO Judge
Edward F. Dunno being the best man the Demo
Gratis could run for Mayor If Mayor Carter Harri-
son didn't care TO take a fifth term. Harrison
fna foy
out hints that he was tired of being in Office.
needed rest, but-it this little but" that
bothered the friends of Judge Dunns His most
ardent supporters were Democrats who en-
phatically for municipal lownership-inmedate and
unoualihed-of street railways They had accused
Mayor Harrison of being at heart enemy Of mu-
nicipal ownership alleging that he had favored it
at the last city election simply because it was
the only issus upon which he could win reelection.
Tc clinch these charges against the Mayor the
Dunno Democrats pointed that since he
was reelected Harrison had done all fe could to OBJ
the carrying into effect Of acts passed by tbs
General Assembly Illinois to facilitate municipal
ownership plans Their Indictment of the Mayor
for his alleged fathlessness strong that
under its sting Harrison held off his declaration
that he was and would not be candidate.
But the Dunno kept busy. the newspapers got
into the naggng streak, and at last Harrison be-
cause Of the necessity OF sending his son to Cali
fornia for the lads health, said truthfuly and
other term. and the raos open to all other en-
tries. Then just like the Harlan boom. the Dunns
movement gathered in volume and spread. sweep
ing all before it Ward after ward declared for the
Judge and municipal ownership the half dozen
other aspirants for the Democrats nomination
dropped out OF the race. and it was case Of the
survival Of the httest
The Democratic convention met, and the friends
and supporters of Judge Dunno nominated him by
scclamation but that all they could do. The
Judge wanted to dictate the nominee for City Treas
1lrer but the friends of Mayor Harrison said no;
they had their own choice that place and prob
ably one other office. They had their way, and
Dunno had 10 content himself with the nomination
for Mayor and the campaign issue-rnunicipal own
ership.
Meantime Harlan the Republican candidate who
IS an effective speaker, was carrying on his cam
raign day and night, making speeches to voters in
all parts OF the city Apparently he making
great headway On the other hand. Judge Dunno
remained the bench and disgruntled Democrats
began with hints that he should resign and take to
the stump suggesting that his remaining the
bench looked as il he holding TO the judge
ship so that he would be TO be in fat job in
case Of his defeat for Mayor. The hints grew into
claulors then to articles in the newspapers Judge
B. Parker who left the Appeals bench of New
York TO make his futile race. Evidently the idea.
appealed 20 Judge Dunno, but in modified way,
for he put a substitute IN his place the bench