Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-07-08

Harrison Dinner Starts Talk About
Candidates For Mayor With the Prima-
ries Only Seven Months Away

The welcome home dinner to Carter
II. Harrison at the Congress Hotel
last week set all tongues to buzzing
about the mayoralty election next
spring nomination for which is
only seven months away.
While the Harrison dinner was not
intended as an inaugural boom for the
election of Mr.. Harrison to sixth
term, there is no denying that it has
had that effect
While he has not declared himself
the prevailing opinion is that Mr.. Har-
risOn is a candidate and will be a can
didate for mayor at the spring cleo
tiOn of 1923, if he is in the land of the
living at that time.
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Whether he will be nominated or
not is another question. There will
be big fight over that nomination
and there is a powerful army of new
men in Democratic politics who are
unswayed by sentiment and unham-
pered by a sense of gratitude for past
favors
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The dinner at the Congress was a
wonderful tribute to Harrison as a
man and as a citizen-there is no gain
saying that One of the speakers said
that no one had ever doubted narrl-
sons honesty. The remark was loudly
applauded, for it was the truth Har-
rison is and always has been an hon
est man. His personal record is clean.
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So the LAO men who sat down to
eat with him at the Congress did not
appear at the banquet as Democrats
Fully one third of them were Repub-
licans who came with warm greetings
for a fellow townsman whom they re-
gard highly personally and whose
long public record entities him to re-
spect.
Talking of Republicans who were
present, Fred Upham, treasurer of the
Republican National Committee, was
there; Chief Justice Harry Olson of
the Municipal Court who would make
a great mayor himself, was there; so
were John Maynard Harlan, Perkins
Bass, Colonel B. a. Eckhart, John M.
Glenn, Joseph F. Haas, William J.
Healy, Henry Hertz, Pete Hoffman
the Coroner, Frank J. Loesch, John r.
McCabe, Charles S. Peterson, County
Judge Frank S. Righeimer, Gen. J. B.
Sanborn, David E. Shanahan, John J.
McKenna, Lewis D. Sits and several
hundred other Stalwart Republicans
like them.
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All the leaders of Democratic fac
tions were there. George E. Brennan
of the Regulars, and James T. Igoe of
the Citizens, among them.
There was no attempt to talk poll
tics or to start anything like a may
orally boom at the dinner or in the
toasts. The affair was gotten up and
ably managed by Harrison's closest
lieutenants, Philip J. McKepna and
William H. Sexton. They saw to it
bAAeAI IAlClC w olo liz ctAl'0AOAA " POAAIAC'0
in any of the speeches.
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The speakers included Jacob Dickin-
son, a we'll preserved relic of one of
the Cleveland administrations Dr. W.
A. Evans of the Tribune, who made
the best talk of the evening; James
c. McShane, the lawyer who evoked
cheer by the allusion to honesty
spoken of in a previous paragraph;
Major A. A. Sprague II, and last, but
not least, former Governor Edward
F. Dunno.
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OF course, at every table the prob,
ability of Harrison's candidacy was
discussed pro and con. And so were
the prospective candidates. of a dozen
others.
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Dunno was the most interesting of
the political takers to the surprise of
everybody. He said that Harrison
would find that Chicago had not lost
many of its permanent attractions
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