Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1913-02-22
EDITORIAL and PERSONAL NOTES
Pm6ent Paragraphs Live Topics with Some
Comment on the Leadin6 Men of the Day.

ciates in the Council whether they
agreed or disagreed with him. As
chairman of the committee on street
nomenclature he is responsible for
the present system Of street mum.
bering, which is decided improve
ment over the old system. Since Mr.
Hey has represented the Twenty.third
Ward he has maintained an Office at
2050 North Halsted street, where he
could be seen between the hours of
Z and 9 q. m, by any Of the citizens
Of the ward.
The fact 10 dawning upon the pub.
lie that the Phone Trust hangs on to
its antique and out.of.date equipment
Just to keep prices up. The older the
kind Of instrument in use the easier
It 10 to pile up . lot Of figures. prov.
ing the great cost Of maintenance,
and this great cost has to be added
to the telephone bill Of the subscriber.
The only reason why the telephone
Trust will not use the automatic sys.
tenn 10 because II can make more
money out Of the public with ito anti.
quated service. England has adopted
the automatic service, and 20 has far.
away Australia and New Zealand.
The Trust 10 20 busy Sarnering
. great fortune from the people Of
Chicago that all that Il wants 10 .
number Of friendly aldermen, and the
people be ID"
Every effort 10 being made BY the
Trust to cloud the real situation and
get away with another schedule Of
high prices. Every subject except the
real one-overcharge Of telephone
rates-is brought up BY the company's
agents at Council Committee meet
inss. The rates should be cut IN half
to begin with, and the company
should be obliged to install automatic
secret service.
Make your vote count by voting to
re-nominate City Clerk Francis D.
Connery. He Is sure winner.
Alderman Captain will win with
ease in the Twenty.ffth ward.
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Twenty.third ward Progressives are
behind Alderman Jacob A. Hey to q
standstill.
Twenty.fourth Ward Democrats will
name the right man in nominating
George McHale for alderman. He
will prove q certain winner ut the
polls in April and will make splen.
did alderman.
Alderman Thomas ]. Ahern has
made q splendid record in the City
Council from the Thirteenth Ward,
and his big army Of friends predict an
easy victory for him at the polls.
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Chicago needs more men like Aid.
erman Jacob A. Hey in the City Coun.
Gil.
Alderman Henry d. Captain Is an
able. energetic and forceful public Of.
fetal. Twenty.fifth warders should
see that he is re.nominated and re.
elected.
Arson H. Brown. cnoice of the Pro.
gressives for alderman in the Thirty.
first Ward, is the right kind Of man
to send to the City Council.
In nominating John NJ. O'Connor
for Judge Of the Superior Court the
Democrats will be naming O man
qualified in every way for the posi-.
ton. Both as q lawyer and O public
Official his record is clean and hon.
orable in every respect.
John NJ. O'Connor, the we'll known
attorney and State Senator from the
Twenty.ninth District, ia q candidate
for the Democratic nomination fol
Judge Of the Superior Court. Senator
O'Connor's record both as q publ,
ohicial and as lawyer IL such that h,
can appeal to every honest Democra
for support at the primaries Feb. 26
After teaching school several term
Mr.. O'Connor graduated from the Ken
College Of Law Of Chicago. He wa
associated with the late Huntington
w. Jackson from 1897 to 1901, an,
from 1901 to 1905 with David B. Ly
man, Leonard A. Busby and David
Lyman, Jr. Lyman, Busby & LYMAN
!. and from 1905.l906 under Mayo
DUNES administration he was an al
? sistant corporation counsel unde
!, James Hamilton Lewis, resigning t
3 become member of the present firn
Of Lyman, Lyman & O'Connor, wit
offices in the Title & Trust building
> He Is married and has two children
!. and lives at No. 1041 Rush street, 4
. the Twenty.first ward. He was an II
a structor for two years In equit
!. pleading and practice in the law d.
t partment of the Loyola University
Q elected to the State Senate of Illinoi
4 in 1910, and Is now attending the fins
session of the legislature for whic
he was elected. He was the father c
q the Chicago outer harbor bill, whic
\ the papers Of Chicago said was tn
. greatest piece of legislation affectin
Chicago at the 47th session of the. Gel
I eral Assembly, His candidacy fO
election to the Senate received the 81