Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1914-04-25
POLITICAL TALK
Heard from the Various Camps
During tho Week About
Men Prominent in
Politics.

What the Leaders Are Doing and
What People Have to Say
About Them.
The Democratic regulars" are said
to feel they would like to back some
high.class German.American for presi.
dent OF the county board. B. F. Weber
OF the Twentytsixth ward is men.
toned and would have no German
support, It Is said, II he will consent
to make the race. A German.Ameri.
can, the Democrats assert, would get
the support in the country towns nee.
essary to success, but Weber wouldn't
get It.
James 8. Mc1nerney, city prosecutor
and secretary Of the H. and H. organ.
ization, announces he will try for the
appellate court nomination, q Job that
pays $4,000 year for six years and
an office the women will vote on.
James Long of the Thirty.first ward,
regular" Is also candidate for this
place.
Adjudication of the Illinois supreme
court will be awaited to settle the con.
troversy involving four seats in the
Chicago board Of education. The four
trustees who were ousted by Mayor
Harrison during the strife over the
superintendency of Mrs. Ella Flasg
Young applied to the supreme court
for aid and that tribunal granted the
four men leave to file petition for q
writ Of mandamus to compel Presi.
dent Peter Reinberg and Secretary
Lewis e. Larsen to recognize them as
legal members Of the board.
The petitioning trustees are James
Dibelka. John c. Harding, Henry w.
Huffman and Charles O. Stiffness.
The four trustees were declared to
be legal members Of the board in a
recent decision by Judge Charles Foell
In the superior court.
Alderman John Haderlein of the
Twenty.fourth ward has healthy
boom on as candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for sheriff. This be.
came known after It got out that
Charles H. Kellermann, election com.
missioner, has his eye on the place
held by Michael thinner, and on sew.
eral other jobs. Kellermann may be
switched should the Haderlein boom
grow. Alderman Henry Bergen Of the
Thirty.frst ward Is also talked of for
the sheriff nomination.
Sheriff thinner Is said to have his
eye on the treasureship held now by
William L. O'Connell. The sheriff
and county treasurer, under the con.
stitution, cannot succeed to their
office. Mr. thinner Is allied with the
H. and H. wing Of the Democracy.
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The La Sale Street Trust & Saw.
ings Bank has removed to its grand,
new banking rooms In It's own build.
Ing at 226 8. La Sale street, south
west corner of Quincy street. It Ia
one Of the best equipped banking
establishments In the United States.
The Koenigs, who have been voting
as Kings and other people voting un.
der aliases. are In great danger Judge
Owens quotes the law on false regis.
tratiOn. Il says:
II at any election hereafter held in
any such city, village or incorporated
town, any person shall falsely person.
ate any elector or other person, and
vote, or attempt or offer to vote in, or
under the name of such elector or 9th.
er person;
Or shall vote, or attempt to vote, in
or upon the name Of any other person.
whether living or dead, or in or upon
any false, assumed or fictitious name.
or in or upon any name not his own:
Every such person upon conviction
thereof. shall be adjudged guilty Of a
misdemeanor and shall be punished by
Imprisonment In the county jail for
not less than three months nor more
than one year.
The Mayor of Chicago should be
elected by the voters every year.
The term for a long time was for
two years. Before that 1t was for one
year.
But some years ago Job was put
up on the voters OF Chicago and the
question of making the term four years
was put on the ballot In such a man.
ner that the great majority of the
people did not know what 1t was
about.
1t appeared on the ballot as "An
Act to Amend an Act Entitled" ETC.,
ETC., and with more of the same kind
OF stun, but nothing about a four.year
term.
The job was put up on the people
by a big daily newspaper and a lot of
grating contractors.
The voters woke up the day after
election to find that the Mayors term
OF office had been extended from two
to four years.
Now the people are crying for the
shortest possible term.
One year is long enough for good
mayor 1t is too long for a bad one.
There Is no excuse for electing a
mayor for longer than one year.
The election costs him nothing.