The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-12
NO CAMPAIGN IN ANY CITY COULD
 0UTDO CHICAGO
Harsh Names and Epithets Are Hurled Right and Left Such Bitter Per- sonal Rivalry Never Ex- celled
By. SAM KNOTT

United Press Staff Correspondent. Chicago, Feb 12.-(UP).-Jack- asses. machine guns and inelegant epithets were employed with from ] tier-day recklessness to-day in the
 battle between Mayor William Hale Thompson and Judge H. Lyle for the republican nomination for mayor. Thompson paraded his donkey and
 jackass through the streets to symbo- lize his opponent, Judge Lyle. 1 Lyle displayed sub-machine guns and sawed-off shotguns at his | meetings as symbols of the mayors alleged ineffectiveness against crime And between these two rivals flew such epithets as:
 "Blubbering jungle hippopota- mus"
 "Nutty judge"
 Jumbo, the flood relief quack.' Moron"
 "Lurching, shambling imbecile." Arrogant, incompetent, inefficient judge"
 "Flabby jowls of barnyard hog" Essence of nothingness." Chicago has gone through tumul- tuous campaigns In the past but personal rivalry as that between Lyle and Thompson. Alderman Arthur F. Albert thus far has not been drawn into the personal encounter, although he also is campaigning strenuously for the republican nomination. Albert hopes to pick up votes that are lost to Lyle and Thompson. Alderman Arthur r Albert thus far has not been drawn into the personal encounter, although he also Is campaigning strenuously for the republican nomination. Albert hopes to pick up votes that are lost to Lyle and Thompson because of their campaign tactics.
 The Chicago Daily News. support ing Albert in the primary, suggest ed in humorous vein that an alien- tality of Thompson and Lyle, since each is attacking the others sanity.
 The Chicago Tribune is backing Judge Live.
 Both papers, however, are strong CT in their opposition to Thompson than in support of his rivals.
 Although the Hearst papers, the Herald & Examiner and the Eve ming American. have not definitely indorsed Thompson's candidacy, they give him wide publicity. Thompson sponsored a big public reception in Soldier Field for Publisher Hearst when the latter returned from Eu- rope last summer. Hearst papers in the past have e. mpaign for the mayor.
 The primary election is February "A.
 Already the campaigns have devel- oped tremendous momentum. Every night Big Bill" Thompson's eight sound-movie trucks reproduce his image and booming voice in the wards while Lyle har. ngues his con- stitutents in halls and by radio and Albert carries on a campaign that is less spectacular but almost as strenuous.
 Loop theaters overflow at noon with political meetings and it is a dull five minutes on any loop inter- section that at least one political parade doesn't paralyze traffic.
 In a loop speech yesterday. Judge Lyle said. ''The real issue in this campaign is whether Al Capone is to be again authorized to rule Chi cage through the medium of dum- my in the mayors chair. From the time Bill Thompson was elected. Ca pone became more and more the dominant factor in the underworld.
 Do the citizens of Chicago know that four years ago $50,000 or more was distributed by gangs and gang sters to Bill Thompson's campaign fund? Does anyone suppose that this class of men gave away money like that for their health?"