The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-08-04
BUSSE WONT USE AK
Tells Slate Makers and Machine
Bosses That His Contract
Does Not Go So Far.
NO CLUB FOR ANTI-DENEEN MEN
Deneen-W West Plan to Make All Line
Up Spurned By Chicago Mayor.
Persistent Efforts TO Use City Patron
age in Gubernatorial Cam
paign at Last Meet
n Defeat.

When the Deneen members Of the
republican county committee of Cook
county met recently at Chicago to dc
wise means of bostering up the gov
errors failing cause, Deneeu and
West learned that their idea of call
ing on Mayor Busse to make war
of determination and drive from pol
itics all the committeeman from the
Yates wards is useless, for the mayor
used his bedslat on Deneen instead
of the men who opposed bossism
West Had Announced It,
Mr.. West had announced that Mr.
l}usse would be induced to use the
influence of the city administration in
! Mr.. Denecns favor against the hostile
ward organizations. But he was in
formed by committeeman who had at.
tended the mayors dinner to Frank
l.. Smith that Mr. Busse had made a
fiat and final statement that his ef-
forts in Mr. Deneen's behalf would
be confined to the north side wards
and that the city administration
would not be used in favor of either
Deneen or Yates.
Mr.. West, as his lieutenants put II,
wanted Mr. Busse to let the word so
through the city hall that the mayor
was for Deneen and all who wished
to be considered friends of the city
administration should be for Deneen
also
AS the state chairman was not In
yited TO the Smith dinner, where all
the committeeman except Mr. West,
Mr.. Thompson and the Deneen lieu.
tenants from the four Town of Lake
wards were gathered he did not hear
the mayors statement.
Deneen Men Snubbed.
There were but six committeeman
absent-Mr West, John r. Thompson
I and the four Town of Lake repre-.
eentotir-ee. Tl,ns, had mot kes.. ia
vited
Mayor Busse's speech in substance,
as related by those who heard It, was
mo matter who you are with for
governor. | want you to be with Colo
mel Smith for lieutenant governor
Take Your Choice, Says Rus,c
Il will tell you just how stand
on the goyTnorship fight will do
what | can to get votes for Druccn
in the Twenty-frst ward Bat ms
mayor of Chicago ! am not going to
work for either candidate for COVER
nor. Any one in the city hall can do
as he plcases on the governorship
II is a family quarrel and whether
you are for Denecn or Yates, YOU are
a republican, | am not going to pun.
ish any man for supporting repub
lican. There are lot of fellows who
worked their heads off to elect me
mayor and are now supporting Yates
! am not going to use my position
as mayor to punish these fellows be.
cause they are for Yates That isn't
what | was elected for"
Mayors Position Clear.
There was no one at the dinner who
was in doubt about the mayors pc
sition when he had finished Every
one Of the eleven committeeman whom
Mr. Deneen wants the mayor to fight
was present And Mr.. Dcpccns close
personal followers were not present
The meeting of Dcneen members OF
the county committee was forced to
turn its attention TO other ways Of
lining mp voters for the governor
The persistent efforts to make Mayor
Busse club leaders into the Dcncen
line-eflorts which have been contin
ued for year-haye been abandoned