Candidates Vie For Various Offices In 1910 Race
Political campaign heats up as Democrats and Republicans organize for a large slate of county, city, and statewide posts. Key figures include Probate Judge Cutting, County Judge Rinaker, County Clerk Haas, and others seeking renomination. County treasurer, sheriff, and board of assessors races loom, with visions of organization endorsements and ward-based rotation fueling a busy election season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Cutting
Rinaker
Haas
Thompson
Christopher Strassheim
Joseph Haas
Lewis Rinaker
A. J. Harris
Weatside
A. W. Miller
Board of Assessors
Isaac N. Powell
John R. Thompson
Powell
Indorsement
Hyde Park
William L. O'Connell
Democratic
Henry M. Shabad
Supreme Court
Municipal Court Act
O'Connell
Shabad
Sixth Ward
Circuit
Municipal Court of
Chicago
Harry Olsen
Dicker
Heap
Cottres
Blake
Gemmill
Going
Maxwell
Himes
Walker
Galpin
Hunter
Edward F
Taxpayers rally against Chicago dry crusade April vote
A Vivid polemic predicts a major Chicago vote to ban saloons. Advocates argue seven million dollars in saloon licenses fund city police, while opponents warn a dry Chicago would burden taxpayers and harm street cleaning. Community leaders, Alderman Cermak and others, frame the issue as a clash of liberty versus prohibition.
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Ann Hizers
Carrie
Ional Liberty
Chicago
Ann Hizer Drys
Carrie Nation
Edgewater
Hyde Park
Cigar Stamp Collectors’ Union
Evanston
Oak Park
The
United Societies
Teutonia Turner Hall
53D Street
Ashland Avenue
Carrie Nationites
A. J. Cermak
Cyril R. Jandus
Nicholas Michaels
Peter Wendling
Cermak
Kenwood
Twenty-ninth
City leaders debate bond issue timing and tax concerns
Mayor Busse and Alderman Snow signaled May 15 as a tentative bond vote date, with final timing to be set after further deliberation. Officials, including Corporation Counsel Brundage, want voter approval when no other questions burden ballots. The piece mentions political races, revenue impacts from prohibitions, and Chicago’s status as a cosmopolitan city facing blue law pressures.
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Ald
Chas. M. Foell
James A. Pugh Company
Ohio Street
Fuell
Casells
Busse
Foell
Pugh Terminal Company
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
North Water Street
Chicago
United Societies
Man Snow
City Council Finance Committee
Snow
Brundage
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Board of Election Commissioners
Harvester Trust
Chester W. Shuren
Sena
Axpayers
Proper Lam
Andrew J. Graham
Torial
W. W. Wilson
Wilson
Western Electric
Internal Revenue
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