Governor Seeks Amendment to Primary Law for Special Session
Illinois politics center on a proposed direct election for national convention delegates to replace the old convention method. Governor Dunne may include the amendment in a special session call, with debates over constitutional validity and potential for political maneuvering affecting delegates and party leaders.
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Dunne
Thompson
Roy O. West
West
Deneen-Weat
Friends
Col. Roosevelt
Gov. Dunne
Battle Over National Committeemen Or Delegates Intensifies
The article surveys rival legal opinions on how to select national convention delegates amid Illinois politics. It notes plans for direct vote versus district conventions, mentions Lawrence Sherman and James R. Mann as leading contenders, and describes Democratic and Republican intra party tensions and public policy critiques of Chicago water management.
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Lawrence Y. Sherman
James R. Mann
Sherman
Mann
Tor
Patrick J. Lucey
United States
Lewis G. Stevenson
Dunne-Harrison
Thompson
Roy
Chicago
New York
Drys Predict Spring Triumph Shifts Tax Burden to Chicago
When the drys triumph next spring as they say they will, Chicago taxpayers will have to make up this deficit of $7,000,000 out of their own pockets.
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Andrew Russell
Fayette
Munro
John B. Fergus
Chicago
Creighton
Sangamon County Circuit Court
Supreme Court
State Charities Commission
Lincoln Homestead
Illinois State Library
Fish and Game Cmmission
State Board of Administration
Illinois Central
State House
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John P. Altgeld
Lincoln Park
Joliet Penitentiary
Cleveland
American Railway Union
South Africa
Gov. Altgeld
Tollet Penitentiary
Altgeld
Chicago Teachers’ Federation
Kantoon
Henry Stuckart
Jacob Glos
Emma J. Glos
Smith
Circuit Court
Glos
Brookfield
Board of Education
Catherine Goggin
A. 8
Spaulding
University of Illinois
Civil Service Reform
Civil Service Reform Association
Liverpool
England
Wales
Thomas A. Smyth
Sanitary District of
Eastland
Wees
Heebeveven Verenes
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