Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-10-14

Managing Committee Attacks Mayor
Thompson and Declares Republican
Victory This Fall Means
Victory For Him

The Democratic Managing Com
mittee has fired it's first gun and de-
clares in an address to the public
that the reelection of Mayor Thomp-
son will follow Republican Victory
November z.
"If," reads this statement, "the Re-
publican county ticket, or even it's
head, the candidate for county judge
Crank S. Righeimer), be elected,
Mayor Thompson will be a candidate
for denomination and reelection, with
good chances of success. Should he
(Righeimer) be defeated, the mayor
will be eliminated as a political
factor"
In this connection, the Democratic
committee puts the following ques-
ton:
Shall Mayor William Hale Thomp-
son be reelected next spring and tax
raising, rent-boosting, waste, extrava-
gance and the plunder of the school
and other public funds continue?''
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Alleging that many of the Repub-
lican candidates who, at the primaries,
professed to be opposed to the mayor
are now openly soliciting and receiv-
ing his support, the Democratic COM
mittee posts it's challenge in these
words:
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This committee wishes to do no
one an injustice. 1t may be that there
are candidates on the Republican
county ticket who have not surren-
dered to the Thompson-Lun ma
chine
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eff there are such candidates, now,
at the opening of the fall campaign,
is the time for them to make it known
Let them say they are opposed to
Mayor Thompson and his machine;
let them declare they do not want
his support in the present campaign"
Congressman A. J. SABBATH at the
last meeting of the democratic or
ganization precipitated a violent at
tack upon County Judge Righeimer
when he asserted that democratic
voters will be disfranchised to the
number of many thousands because
of the manner in which the election
machinery is being operated. Mr..
SABBATH charged that there is a con-
spiracy which has for it's purpose the
reelection of Righeimer and after
ward the reelection of Thompson as
mayor. He said that there are pre-
cincts in his ward and in adjacent
wards in which democrats are in
the majority, containing between 700
and 500 voters He said that so
many voters, especially if Righeimer
follows the course he pursued in the
judicial election last year, providing
two booths for each voting place,
cannot possibly vote on election day.
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Aid John Toman of the oath ward
charged that republicans had been
substituted for democrats for judges
and clerks in many wards and he
suggested that the city council make
provision for an investigation Of the
whole subject.
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Aid. Ross Woodruff of the 7th ward
declared that in number of precincts
in that ward which are inhabited
largely by Poles polling places had
been located in remote spots that are
difficult of access.
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Leo Wineckie, committeeman from
the 39th ward, said that fifty-foul
democratic judges and clerks had been
succeeded by other judges and clerks
who are believed to be republicans in
his ward. He charged also that at leas
six polling places in that portion Of
the ward which is thinly populated
are located in out-of-the-way spots
and so difficult of access that it i:
doubtful if voters will attempt t.
reach them.
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An organization of independen
voters living in Glencoe, Evanston
Wilmette and Kenilworth has beel
formed to promote the candidacy o