Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1922-07-29

Who will be the next mayor? The
people have beaten the politicians to
it and are asking each other this
question every day.
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Whether it will be any one of the
fourteen Democrats and six RepubIi-
cans whose friends are mentioning"
them for the job or some one whom
time and the occasion will unearth is
also debatable.
The occasion is not far away. The
nomination is barely seven months
off so far as the two big parties are
concerned. The independent candi-
dates have a few weeks more to get
up their petitions.
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The Harrison boom has died out.
Mr Harrison is just as honest as he
ever was. But he is not so we'll known
and is not nearly so popular
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The last time that Mr. Harrison was
q candidate for the nomination for
mayor was in 1915, when he sought
denomination at the hands of the
Democratic voters. He was in office
at the time and had the police and
other official time servers on the pay
roll under him to help out. But he
failed miserably. The vote received
by the two leading Democratic candi-
dates totaled: Harrison, 104 ,063;
Sweitzer, 1929
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The Harrison people did not prove
themselves to be good losers Most
of them supported Thompson openly
and Mr.. Harrison himself stood beside
Thompson at the latters victory ceIe-
bratiOn and both new and old mayors
felt bully over the result.
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Besides these facts which are pleas
ant reminders of the past-to some
peOple-sOme politicians forget that
new generation has grown up in
Chicago with an idea that it possesses
some rights in the way of showing
that it belongs to a generation of new
men.
As Ex-Governor Dunno said in his
speech at the welcome home dinner
to EX-l[ayor Harrison: "Mr. Harrison
Will find things pretty much as he left
them He will find Hinky Dink and
Johnny Powers still in the City COun-
Gil; he viii find the subways still
in the bunk pile and he will dis
cover that the traction question is
still unsettled
The people still regard these queS-
tiOns as matters that should have been
settled long ago. Hinky Dink and
Johnny Powers are on their last legs.
Neither of them will be in the new
City Council which will be elected
with the next mayor in 1928 But pub
lie Indignation at the way the subway
and traction questions have been han
died in the past will crystalline de-
mand that new man with new ideas
occupy the mayors chair
and his candidacy. 1t will strengthen
the demand for surface exploration in
the hunt for a winning candidate and
VIII leave political museums undis-
turbed III the sections devoted to the
preservation of antiques
That school graft looks rottener as
time disclOses more of it, Some pub
lie school engineers have been forced
to buy their positions, paying in some
instances the equivalent of a years
salary, according to a statement pre-
pared by one of their number and on
Monday given to Prosecutor Ernest S
Hodges, indictment expert for States
Attorney Grove, who is handling the
presentation of school-scandaI evi
dence to the county grand jury.
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Z. o. Phillips, the able political ed
itor of the Tribune, shares the opin
ion of many people that Peter Barter
is going to cut some ice next fall Mr.
Phillips, says in the Tribune:
Peter Bartzen-"Honest Peter was
the banner he carried when runnins
for president of the county board
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