The broad ax., 1914-03-14

1t goes without saying that Col. Will
liam Randolph Cowan, came mighty
near making home run in his race for
Alderman of the Second ward, as it was
he ran far beyond the second base and
for a while it looked as though he
would turn out to be a real live win
ner. 1t is said that Col. Cowan blew
or ehueked about 5000 bones or cold
dollars of his other money into the
Jackpot, that the wealthy members of
his campaign committee hustled early
and late and that they seraped to-
gether about $40O making all told
81, 900 which was expended in an eff
fort to put him over at the primaries.
Many sober minded people are still
firmly of the opinion that if Col. Cow
an and his so-called wise and know
all leaders and followers would have
held meetings in all parts of the sec
ond ward and made their fight on the
merits of their candidate and what
he would do to improve and for the
special benefit of that ward in case he
was elected to the city council and re-
Trained in every way from raising the
Color line by eontending that there is
or were more Colored Republican voters
than White Republican voters in the
second ward and that all the Colored
Republicans should vote for him, that
they alone were strong or powerful
enough to nominate and elect him that
i'll advised war cry or contention was
the direct cause of preventing him from
coming in under the wire way ahead
Of his strongest competitor.
Some of the same gentlemen who
supported Col. Cowan and made him
believe that he would easily be the
next alderman from the second ward,
at the same time they were engaged in
relieving him of his money as fast as
they could and imparting to him lot
OF unsOund advice in the bargain, assist
ed to dope or tout Col Frank L. Hamil-
ton up in 1910, to run for the Legisla-
ture against the Hon. Edward D. Green,
and who was more than two to one de-
feated by him and when the one sided
contest was over between them, it
seems that the touters and dopers had
shook Mr.. Hamilton down for $1,000 OF
81, 900; his soeaIled friends and sup
IpOrters looked upon him as an easy
mark and they picked or cleaned him
to a dead stand still.
The greatest joke of the late Al
dermanic contest in the second ward,
however, was this one Of the Colored
editors who claims that "if you see i.
in his paper it is so or true" but as a
matter of fact its columns are gener-
ally full Of faxed news, attempted to
run in under Alderman Hugh Norris,
and separate him from five hundred
dollars, which sum he wanted for sup
porting him through the columns Of his
newspaper, some one associated with
Alderman Norris let him down real
easy by gently whispering in his big
ear, that there was nothing doing what
he was thinking about. The Broad Ak
was and would do Alderman Norris
more good than all the other news
papers in Chicago, outside Of the daily
newspapers.
The COiOred editor in question after he
had failed to get his hands on the FIVE
hundred dollars, 50 as to enable him to
give someone the double cross, he
started out to prove to Alderman Nor
ris and his associates that his news
paper had and would exert more real
influence than all the other newspapers
in town, 80 he wheeled in line for Col.
CoWan and in great head lines running
eleaa across the front page, the Col
orsd editor declared that "ChieagO