Police critique and reform talk in Chicago Tribune
A long hearing excerpt shows judges probing red ink marks on records, witnesses and officials discussing police clerical work, examiner duties, and possible civil service changes. Local voices condemn graft, favor crackdowns, and cite election and reform prospects amid a flurry of names and opinions.
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Police Department
Wayman
Steward
United Police
Shelby M. Singleton
Citizens’ Association
Jesse Holdom
Union League Club
The
Robert Catherwood
Civil Service Reform Association
Piper
Chicago
Democrats rally in Sixth District race for Ryan
Democratic workers in the Twentieth ward report Republicans deserting Moxley amid a tight race between Cant Barnes and Ryan. McConnell says if other wards mirror Twentieth, Ryan will win. Lorimer machine cites 12,000 potential votes. Ryan’s platform favors revenue tariff, anti Cannonism, lakes to gulf waterway, federal income tax, postal savings bank, and tariff commission.
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Beavers
Ryan
George L. McConnell
Frank 8
McConnell
Moxley
Grace
Republican Machine
Lorimer Machine
Barnes
Republican Party
National House of Representatives
National Congress
Mississippi Valley
West
Atlantic
Congress
Democratic Party
Pick’s Hall
Kedzie
Colorado Avenues
Nomination Declared for Sixth Illinois District Race
In 1908 a Democratic convention in Chicago chose me as candidate for the U.S. House in Illinois Sixth District. I did not seek the honor but accept it as a duty to rally Democrats to carry the district. I will work to mobilize Democratic votes through Nov. 23 and seek every Democrat’s cooperation.
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Illinois
Board of Election Commissioners of
Chicago
Illinois state’s attorneys back Wayman graft battle
The State’s Attorneys of Illinois pass unanimous resolutions in Springfield pledging to support Cook County State’s Attorney John E. W. Wayman in his anti graft campaign. They offer personal, financial and moral aid and readiness to join him, including helping secure a secret service fund to sustain his investigations into jury tampering graft and labor rackets.
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Wayman
Chicago
Illiois
Cook County
Attorneys’ Bar Association
Springfield
John E. W. Wayman
Illinois
United States
Attorneys
C. W. Hadley
DuPage County
Association
John F. Gilmer
Adams County
O. D. Wiley
Ford County
TWO MILLION STRIKE: Chicago coal, art, and coke debate
William P Rend argues Chicago relies on cheap Illinois coal for industry while opposing Parisian luxury and nude art. He praises smokeless coke use for railroads, critiques electrification schemes by Commonwealth Edison, and warns against a single power monopoly shaping city business.
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Chicago
Illinois
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Cleveland
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Paris
Ruskin
Illinois Central Railroad
Ilinois
Commonwealth Edison Company
William P
REND
The Death Strip and Weighing Machines Debate
The piece rails at a costly city setup calling for removing the death strip and the elevated road weighing machines. It attacks a shoddy aristocracy, mocks self styled princes, and urges a $10,000 annual license for princes to reside, threatening exile to Europe. State's Attorney Wayman is criticized as self serving.
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