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Newspaper
Chicago Eagle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1916
Page
1
City aldermen devote session to liquor control fights and election disputes. Key actions include a 40 to 28 vote against separating dance from alcohol, and a new 1 am closing rule for wet restaurants. Delegates clash over ward picks and joint committee plans amid Chicago political factionalism.
The finance committee reversed itself approving a bridge bond package and a 3.75 million plan to extend street lighting. Mayor Thompson signed both, bringing city and county bond requests to 10.85 million. David Edstrom of Sweden attended a Hotel La Salle reception hosted by Chicago Swedish painters and sculptors.
Ald Capitain urges redistricting to fifty wards with one alderman each and a city manager replacing the mayor. A sub-committee gathers to study the proposal. Ald Kennedy fails to push a resolution urging leaders to avoid a diplomatic break with Germany. Voting split shows divided views on the issue.
John Gowan-Stobo, famed accountant and orator with broad Republican backing, is discussed as a candidate for Congress in Illinois. The piece also covers the Republican judicial ticket for June, naming Turney Dupuy Wells Crowe Herdlicka Redmond and notes past election dynamics and party alignments.
William F. Stone, sergeant at arms of the Republican National Committee, takes possession of the Coliseum and oversees carpenters shaping the stage and annex for June events. The national committee offices are being set, with Stone and staff to move in by tomorrow for the hearing of contests. Secretary Reynolds is due Saturday and Chairman Hilles soon after.
Citizens of Berwyn adjacent to Chicago push for extending the Douglas Park branch of the Metropolitan L. Plans show a line running parallel to West Twenty-second Street to the western Berwyn boundary at Harlem Avenue with a southern branch toward Oak Park Avenue through the town center to Ogden Avenue and then southwest to Harlem Avenue.
Samuel Insull chairman of the board of directors urged the council committee on gas oil and electric light to quickly consider the firm’s proposal to lower rates in exchange for permission to sell.
The Progressive party county committee announced nonpartisan candidacies for Superior Court judges, listing St. John T. Richards and Russell Whitman on the June 5 ballot under the Progressive banner. Richards is a Republican and Whitman a Democrat, aiming to place workers and party representatives in precinct races.
The text notes the final date for filing nomination papers. It marks the deadline for candidates to submit required documents to be listed on the ballot.
The Republican county committee outlined their judicial campaign strategy choosing a low profile approach. They will focus resources on the campaign despite having no clear issues for a public appeal.
Republican leaders released a state platform calling for immediate preparedness with a strong navy, a tariff commission, a constitutional convention for minors, restoration of home rule for Chicago utilities, an executive budget, simplified election laws, and adoption of a tax amendment. The Democratic judicial slate for June 5 includes full term contenders Burke Gridley Dever Cooper McDonald Sullivan and short term David.
Fred W. Upham reports fifty-five thousand ticket requests for the Chicago convention with under ten thousand seats available. Preference goes to subscribers who funded the event. Indiana seeks a block of 1,000 seats for the Fairbanks reception committee as marching clubs nationwide file requests highlighting earlier sensational features.
Readable text notes upcoming national conventions to be held in Chicago next month. Details on dates or organizers are incomplete in the fragment, but the event is framed as a series of national meetings scheduled in the city.
Secretary James B. Reynolds and Sergeant at Arms William F. Stone of the Republican national committee established preliminary offices at the Congress to direct Coliseum preparations for the convention. The Coliseum Annex will house convention offices within ten days as the full national committee meets to hear contests and form the temporary roll.
County Treasurer Kenry Stuckart was named chairman of the executive committee. Dennis J. Egan Frank J. Ryan Rudolph L. Schapp listed on committees, with a large slate of officers including Robert Sweitzer Frank Walsh A J Cermak M K Sheridan John O Malley Harry Gibbons Michael Kenna M J O'Brien John Powers P A Nash Jacob Lindheimer George Brennan B J Grogan P J Carr Fred Breit T J Crowe and Ross Hall among others.
The sub committee on arrangements includes Mr Hilles of New York as chairman along with Fred W Estabrook of New Hampshire James P Goodrich of Indiana Ralph Williams of Oregon Franklin Murphy of New Jersey Alvah H Martin of Virginia Thomas F Niedringhaus of Missouri Charles B Warren of Michigan John T Adams of Iowa Fred Stanley of Kansas E C Duncan of North Carolina and George R Sheldon of New York.
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