Illinois Political Strife Heats Up In Primary Campaigns
Illinois heats up as Republican Progressive and Democratic Progressive factions clash with Regular Democrats and Republicans. Dunne leads governor hopes amid divisions among Hearst Gray camp and Cook County committee plans. Local campaigns reveal graft complaints, calls for reform, and clashes over polling, judgeship nominations, and police oversight.
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Charles Merriam
William Randolph Hearst
Shelby M. Cullom
Edward F. Dunne
Dunne
Mr. Hearst
James M. Gray
Phone Slavery in Chicago Ends in Telephone Monopoly Critique
Chicago residents urge relief from what they deem a Bell monopoly over the local telephone company and its allied Western Electrical firm. The 1910 City Department of Electricity lamp report is cited while critics push for rate cuts, probe officials, and oppose pay in advance phones and rate hikes. The piece notes affiliated profits, double charging, and calls for aldermanic scrutiny of city contracts and monopolistic practices.
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Waukegan
Chicago
Arthur Bulkley
Western Electrical Company
Bell
Local Telephone Company
The
Department of Electricity
Chicago Department of Electricity
Bell Telephone Company
Bell Telephone
Telephone Company
Bell Monopoly
Geyserlich
Electrical Company
Electric Company
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Cook County
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Hotel la Salle
Atterbery
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Owens
National Probation League
Supreme Court
Municipal Court
William N. Gemmil
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Orrin N. Carter
Car
Maxwell Street
Maine
Peter Bartzen
the Eagle
Democratic Organization
W. W. Wheelock
Board of Election Commissioners
Harmon Campbell
Harrison
Thomas A. Smyth
Sanitary District
Bell Company
Ter
Henry Neil
League
Gemmill
Smyth
Tom Smyth
Marshall Field & Co
Northwestern
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