Chicago Urges Dual National Conventions Next Year
Chicago forms a nonpartisan finance committee to raise funds for hosting both the Democratic and Republican national conventions. Fred W. Upham chairs a 21-member panel including Democrats and Republicans and Chicago Association of Commerce members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fred W. Upham
Chicago Association of Commerce
Upham
Hamilton Club
Charles Boeschenstein
Charles L. Dering
The
Association of Commerce
Charles H. Hermann
John W. Eckhart
D. R. Forgan
Angus
Hibbard
Samuel Insull
J. L. Kesner
James A. Patten
John Barton Payne
Francis 8
Peabody
Fred L. Rossbach
John C. Roth
Frank L. Shepard
James Simpson
John F. Smulski
Henry Stuckart
Roger C. Sullivan
William Hale Thompson
Thomas J. Webb
Roy O. West
Alexander H. Revell
Prince
Railroads Hurt By Entrusting Cause To Political Factions
The piece argues railroads face public hostility when linked to unpopular political figures. It highlights William J. Cannon of Milwaukee as a top railroad rate expert guiding interstate fare campaigns and lists city hall appointments in civil service and law departments, with notes on reforms and graft inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Philadelphia
Philadelah
Springfield
Illinois
Interstate Commerce Commission
la Salle
Eben B. MacLeod
Western Passenger Association
United States
MacLeod
Union
The
Daily News
William J. Cannon
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Western Roads
Cannon
Milwaukee
One Railway
Milwaukee Railway
Civil Service Bureau
John B. Borling
William B. McCarthy
Harry Matz
H. Davenport
Edgar T. Davies
Davenport
Law Department
A. E. Wallace
Harvard Avenue
Board of Local Improvements
William Devenish
Arthington Street
Kal P. Hammer
North Spaulding Avenue
Edward H. Luebeck
West Congress Street
Harry Menely
Park Avenue
Walter Frallio
South Loomis Street
H. M. Barnett
de Kalb Street
Henry J. Gibbs
Potomac Avenue
William Bachman
Winchester Avenue
Frank Trefil
West Twenty-third Street
Harry Blcke
Hancock Street
A. J. Savage
Ewing Avenue
Richard J. Jackson
Wilson Avenue
Julius Lebrecht
Milwaukee Avenue
Philip J. Goldstein
Douglas Boulevard
Frank G. Otter
Prairie Avenue
Joseph M. Mueller
Roscoe Street
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Democratic Party
Cook County
Briggs House
Woodrow Wilson
Baltimore
Washington
Holt
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Maclay Horne
Oscar F. Mayer
Johun Pr Hopkins
Ennet
San Francisco Fair
Sullivan
Dunse- Harrison
Sherman
Cook County Organisation
Francis D. Conshery
Mittee
John F. O'M
Francis D. Conne
W. “Ri
Quinlan
Wag Ap Nadiqnal
Charien Boosehenstein
Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company
Vania
Pittsburgh
Penrose
Palmer
George L. Reker
Reker
Committee On Gas, Oil and Electric Light
W. D. Wilcox
C. J. Boyd
Dunne
State Employment Agency
Senate
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