Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-10-01

Other small bodies are saved as much
as 5000 per annum. making a total
saving to the public bodies Of Cook
County Of $2s4.75O
THE only public body not using
sanitary district current at this time
Is the South Park board, which, there
fore. Ia paying for its lighting twice
as much as is any other public body in
Chicago. The officials Of the sanitary
district are anxious to have its cur.
rent applied to all the waterworks Of
Chicago, and assert that they can
make AZ great saving In the cost
OF pumping water as they have made
In the street lighting.
"rhe comprehensive use Of the sani.
tary district current for municipal
bodies in Cook County for all munici.
pal purposes will make a saving to the
taxpayers Of Chicago Of not less than
100000 year, and there will be
further current for sale on the market
for further profit.
"This statement might have been
considered extreme q few years ago.
However. It Is borne out by the facts.
since q partial use OF this service nj.
ready In saving the taxpayers 3284,75O
and IL earning for the sanitary dis
trict $2SS.567.90, with power.house
In use only up to one.half Of its Ca
pacity."
Frank A. Vogler 10 good man to
place in the Sheri1's once.
The Feeble.Minded Reformers who
are advocating the Initiative and Ref.
erendum are shouting loudly for pop
ular government as against dele.
gated government" Well, give ns
delegated government every day In the
week. Popular government" Gs
urged by the reformers mean mob
government and the tyrannical rule
OF an unthinking majority. George
Washington. Thomas Jefferson, An.
drew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln
fought for delegated government and
believed In It. Delegated government
protected honest and respectable mi.
norities in their civil and religious
rights under the Initiative and Refer
endum lunacy the country would have
a state Church and the minority
would have to put up for, It. II the
Initiative and Referendum goes
through as some so-called personal
liberty adherents are hoping, every
saloon In Illinois will be closed and
people wanting drink will have to
take train for some state where
there is delegated government.
The adoption OF the initiative and
referendum means:
No Sunday newspapers.
No Sunday saloons.
Cranks are already organizing to
take advantage of the initiative and
referendum to put both these propos-
itions through. Should the Hungry
Six program prevail, 1t will only take
the petition OF one-eighth of the v0t.
ers to put any sort OF proposition
on the ballot.
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The platform adopted by the con-
vention, upon which Democratic can
didates for county offices will stand,
includes the following declarations:
That the Democratic party will
remedy "evil conditions which exist
in city. county, state and nation and
for which the Republican party is re-
sponsible."
That $1O,O0O,OOO OF the city's money
mas been wasted or misappropriated
That county mismanagement and
extra avagance are on par with thai
in the city.
That the administration of the tax
ing machinery by the present board
of review has been a stencil IN the
nostrils of the public and menace
to the property rights of the hones'
citizen"
That in the state slush funds. vio
lation of the civil service laws ant
corrupt legislation have constituted
national disgrace.
That In the nation an outrageous