Municipal telephony aims and battles in Chicago
A Chicago editorial argues for municipal control of the telephone system and attacks the Telephone Trust. It praises Alderman Bauler for proposing a public vote on municipal operation, notes opposition from the Telephone Trust, and cites calls for regulated or cheaper service, including plans tied to Armour and the subway receivers in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Pant Senate
Interstate Commerce Comittee
Kenyon
Ald
Herman J. Bauler
Chicago Telephone Company
Bauler
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Packer
Chicago
New York
United States
Klondike
Bell
Telephone Company
Harriman
Kennedy Todd
de Forest
Chicago Subway
Subway
Charles M. Thomson
Sexton
City Legal Department
Fred A. Britten
Hoover
Britten
Seventy Cent Gas League
Ald. Bauler
Edward W. Bemis
W. J. Hagenah
Als
Bayler
Penny Telephone League
Democratic and Republican talk on Chicago judges and city deals
The piece surveys judicial hopefuls John M. Duffy Daniel L. Cruke and John J. Coburn for Superior Court, notes party positions and public support, cites a San Francisco bribery report about a telephone franchise, comments on Mayor Harrison and city dealings with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. It also references aldermen facing scrutiny over a telephone contract and gambling stance.
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Board of Supervisors
San Francisco
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Home Telephone Company
William Kent
Chicago
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Telephone Trust
J. Ogden Armour
Illinois Tunnel Company
Grafters Union
Pew
Harrison
Council
American Telephone Trust
Tobacco Trust
Standard Oil Trust
Origs
William Ritchie
Oak Park
Ritchie
U. S. Court
Cincinnati
Congress
Young Ritchie
Central
Ald. Britten
23D
U. S. Supreme Court
St. John's College
Maryland
Corning Judd
Cleveland
Judd, Ritchie, & Esher
Court of Appeals of
Albert
Supreme Bench of
Baltimore
Barbara Fritchie
Whittier
Firet Order
Fowler
Equitable Trust Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Roosevelt
Samuel J. Tilden
William B. Ogden
du Pont
Street Railways
Charles T. Yerkes
Illinois
Chicago Daily Journal
Springfield
Baron Yerkes
Yerkes
Chicago Law Institute
State Bar Association
The
Bar Association
Lawyers' Association of Chicago
Rochester
N. Y
National Municipal League
Bonaparte
League
Supreme Court
Chicago Legal News
Chicago Bar
Central Law Journal
United States Supremes
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Massachusetts
Royal Arcanum
Southern Club of Chicago
Chicago Association of Commerce
Joseph H. Fitch
Superior Court
Fitch
Maine
John M'Gillen
Vocratic County Central Committee Judicial
Cago University
Union College of Law
Richard Prendergast
Elisabeth Geohegan
Winona Avenue
Chicago Bar Association
Troquois Club
John M. Duffy
Daniel L. Cruke
Buffalo
University of New York
Chicago College of Law
Lake Forest University
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Ohio
John J. Coburn
Oliver Grand Jury
Albert J. Hopkins
United States Senate
Jade Clyde A. Morrison
Pred
W. Upham
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