League of Skulls Affects Chicago Democratic Struggle
A rowdy Chicago political fracas unfolds as Has Beens and the League of Skulls clash with the regular Democratic machine. The Palmer House meeting exposes bolting fears, factional plotting, and debated delegation control as Ward leaders and figures like Harrison and Dunlap maneuver for national committee seats.
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Bryan
Ta Iilvers
Hin
Chicago
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Detective Bureau
Adlal BE. Stevenson
Congress
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Carter H. Harrison
California
League of Skulls
Millard Fillmore Dunlap
Millard Fillmore
Dunlap
Harrison
Central Comittee
Tinois
Supreme Court
Mata
Delegtates
Garter Snake Executive Committee
Star Chamber
Cook County
Denver
Jacksonville
Owen 2. Thompson
Stevenson
Bank taxes and anarchists debate at Hyde Park
A Chicago scene features a discussion on back taxes in the Marshall Field estate case with State Auditor McCullough pressing for tax recovery. Rev John L Jackson’s Hyde Park sermon accuses wealth concentration of fueling anarchist sentiment and calls for fair taxation and inheritance taxes to balance burdens.
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Hitness
Marshall Field
Lewis
Maxwell Edgar
Public Hccoues
Edgar
McCullough
Cook County
Hyde Park Baptist Church
John L. Jackson
Hyde Park
Russia
Mr. Jackson
Caar
John R. Walsh
Prion
Council to Investigate Tax Assessment Methods
The council authorized an investigation into how the board of assessors increases taxes. The committee on special assessments and general taxation was designated as investigator on Alder man Cullerton's motion. Alderman Kruger previously sought a corporation counsel opinion on the council's review rights over the assessing bodies.
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Board of Assensors
Cullerton
Kruger
Seasion
Democratic Faction Clash and Civil Strife in Illinois Politics
A chaotic overview of Illinois Democratic rifts with Harrison Dunlap factions pushing mob rule and primaries abandonment. Bryan disavows interference while Denver delegation backs the regular organization and constitutional electors pledge to Bryan. Prohibition and tax-oppression debates surface amid legal and municipal reform concerns.
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Clinois
William Jennings Bryan
Ilinois
Democratic Party
Harrison Bimeh
Chicago
Denver
Bryan
Dunlap
Harrison
Knobs
Tribune
Ex-Mayor Harrison Seeks Dunne Support for National Convention
The former mayor would not speak for Dunne last spring yet now expects Dunne’s friends to back his bid for a place at the national convention.
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C. J. Harrison
Chicago
Millard Fillmore Dunlap
Democratic National Committee
Ilinois
Dunlap
Owen P. Thompson
Jacksonville
Thompson
Harrison
Dunne
Government by Tax Dodgers in Chicago
The writer condemns Armour Swift McRoberts and similar meatpackers for tax dodging and defiance of the Supreme Court. They urge readers to study pages 2 3 and 9 for details and insist the city’s stockyards tax burden falls on poor taxpayers.
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Beef Trust
United States Supreme Court
Witneses
Chicago
Republic
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Armour
Swift
McRoberta
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