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Sketches of the Cicero Republican Candidates for Kown Offices. Vote For Them Next Tuesday. David Oliphant, the Republican candi date for President of the Town of Cicero, in one of the best known Republicans of this part of the county. He represents the district composed of Cicero and Proviso upon the Republican Central Committee, and for years has stood shoulder to shoulder with the very best men in the organization in upholding Republican principles and se euting Republican success at the polls. The Oak Park bolters, who have now gone astray after falya gods, know him as a man of ability and integrity, a leader in their party and a fit man in every way for the position for which he has been placed in nomination. He was not a candidate for the honor previous to the convention, and his selection was the spontaneous choice, not of any ring or clique, but of the rank and file of the party asl represented in the Com mittee of Sixty. Mr. Oliphant has had valuable experience in town affairs, having served two terms as Supervisor with satisfaction to the public. Administration of the offce of President Will Lewise and efficient in his hands. Mr. Oliphant was born in Fifeshire, Scot land, in 1848; came to Chicago in 1851, and with the exception of three years spent in the South, has been a resident of Cook County ever since. He was too young to serve in the war, but that his family was no patriotic one is attested by the fact that two older brothers, William and John, did vali ant service in the Union army. At the age of twelve he started to learn the printer's trade, and for thirty years there after was continuously with the old Jameson Morse Co., serving successively as “devil,” “comp.,” foreman, manager and secretary. Four years ago he went into business for himself, and now has a large and successful printing business at 178 Monroe street. Mr. Oliphant is a member of Harlem Lodge, A. F. A. M., the Royal League and the National Union. He has a wide acquaintance in both town and county, and his friends outside of Cicero will carefully watch the returns for a Republican victory at the election next Tuesday. The whole career of Ed. S. Austin has made him especially fitted for the office of Town Clerk, which he now holds, and for which he has been re-nominated by the Republicans of Cicero. Mr. Austin was born in 1810 in the City of Albany, N. Y., and had hardly finished his education in the public schools and the Albany academy, when, as reward of merit, he was called to the census department of the office of the Secretary of State, where he laid the foundation of his thorough knowledge of statistical compilations, which has made his services invaluable in his present position. A little later he was promoted to be one of the engrossing clerks of the New York leg islature. Late in 1856, Mr. Austin came west and located in Chicago, where he spent three years, and then entered the employ of the Memphis New Orleans Packet Co., with headquarters in Memphis. He remained there until 1861, when, at the outbreak of the war, he transferred his residence again to the north, and spent four years princi pally with the Army of the Cumberland. In 1865 he returned to Chicago and made his home there until the big time in 1871, when he took up his residence in Austin, where he has lived ever since, his home be ing at 5723 Cedar street. In 1879 Mr. Austin became Town Clerk and bookkeeper, and with the exception of two years, 1400 and 801, he has held that office continuously since then. His long experience has given him a knowledge of town affairs that it would take years for a new man in office to acquire. His books we kept with immaculate nicety, he can put his finger on any document to the office at n moment's notice, and he is obliging to those who have business with his depart ment. His retirement from the position would be little less than a public calamity. Mr. Austin has been secretary of Cicero Chapter, K A. M., since its institution, JOAN D. MACLEAN. “Honest John ” Maclean is a candidate for four-year Trustee. He has served two terms, eight years in all, and the town never had a more faithful or more useful servant. ‘The motive of no official act of Lis has ever been questioned. He has ever been the pronounced opponent of all rings and com binations in the Board of ‘Trustees, and has stood out boldly for the people's rights at all times. During much of his eight years’ in the Board he has been chairman of the Finance Committee, and 28 such has become more conversant than any other many with the town's financial condition. In his pub lic speeches in the present Campaign, he has ungovered all the charges fabricated by his opponents concerning the finances of the town, to the full satisfaction of all unbiased property owners and tax payers who have listened to him. He speaks and acts with the carneatness of conviction, and it is evi dent to all who know hiw, and all who hear him, that if there were any shortage, or any inconsistency in the books of the Town Clerk, Mr. Maclean would be the first man to expose it. He is an old resident and property owner, and is widely and favorably known to the citizens of the whole town. ‘There is at present no man who can fill his place in town affairs, and he ought to be re turned to officea by a handsome majority. Mr. Maclean was born in Scotland in 1830, and came to Chicago in 1856, and has resided in Chicago and Austin all the time since, excepting a few years spent in Boone County, then the banner Republican county oflllinois. He has always been an ardent Republican, but never mixed in politics until his election to the Town Board eight years ago. He has been long known in Chicago commercial circles, having been in the stove trade until 1891, and since then in the real estate business. No breath of sus picion was ever attached to his business or political life. He went through the finan cial panics and through the fires of 1871 and 1874, when his stock of gooda was com pletely destroyed, but always paid 100 cents on the dollar. Mr. Maclean is a member of Garden City Lodge A. F. A. M.,, and has served as its treasurer for the last twenty years, being re elected each year without opposition. He is also a member of Corinthian Chapter, R. A. M., and of Apollo Commandery No. 1, of Chicago. If any man ever came into Cicero politics with clean hands and no pure heart that man is Sam Attridge, of Oak Park, Republican candidate for Assessor. He has never sought office or mingled in political affairs other than to perform the duties devolving upon all good citizens. A few years ago he was waited upon by a delegation of gentle men, who endeavored to induce him to be come an candidate for the office of trustee, but he declined for lack of time to attend to the duties of the office. His nomination this year came as a surprise to him, and it was only after receiving a full explanation of the situation that he consented to accept the honor. Mr. Attridge is a young man, with all the sterling qualities of manhood that come from twenty-two years of life upon a farm, for he is a farmer's son and in every good sense a self-made man. He was born in 1859 at Libertyville, [t., where he attended the public schools and acquired an ambition to rise in the world. Accord ingly he took a commercial course of study at Waukegan and became an expert in busi ness affairs. In 1882 he accepted the posi tion of cashier and confidential clerk for the Price Baking Powder Co., which he held until last September. He is now the manager of the Chicago Mercantile Ware house. In 1885 Mr. Attridge married Miss Cora Russell, of Jefferson Park, and became a citizen of Oak Park. ‘They have three chil dren and their home is at 135 South Ogden avenue. He has always been a public spirited citizen, has had a prominent part in every movement for the improvement of his section of the village and is a member and vestryman of Grace Episcopal church. He is a member in Ligh standing in the Royal Arcanum of Oak Park, having been through all the chairs and being the repre sentative this year to the Grand Council. Mr. Attridge’s thorough business training will stand him well in hand in the office of assessor. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the platform upon which he was nomi nated, and avows that in the office, if elected, he will represent the whole town according to the strictest principles of equity and justice. As trustee, however, he will be the especial representative of Oak Park, his own village. M. T. GOODMAN. M. T. Goodman, the Republican candi date for Collector, in a New Jersey man by birth, having been born in Union County in that state twenty-nine years ago. In his infancy, however, his plerts moved to Chi cago and Interto Lament, Ill., where young Goodman attended the public schools until he was 15 years of wage, when he was com pelled to abandon study because of ill health. He then worked for Doless Shepard, on their farm at Summit, for four years. Buatho was resolved not to enter upon life without further education, and so spent a year at the Cook County Normal School and took a course at Bryant Strat ton’s Commercial College. He then re entered the employ of Dolese Shepard, and, after a fit the time pen in South Chicago, came to Hawthorne, Where he has been engaged for about ten years as fore man, ‘Though a young man, Mr. Goodman has been prominent for several years in this part of the town, representing it upon the Re publican town committes and contributing in the small depree to the best interests of the community. He is president of the Board of Education of Scnior District No. 7, and during his term in that office have been built two brick school houses, an eight-room building at Hawthorne and a four-rooom building at Grant Works. In this position Mr. Goodman has shown him self 1 man of ability and a good manager of important affaire, Mr. Goodman is unmarried. His busi ness has called him to the Village of Haw thorne, where Dolese Stepard, the largest paving firm in the country, have their quar ries, with his long connection with such a firm 18 sufficient guarantes of his business and moral integrity. He prides himself on having never tasted a drop of liquor and upon never having witnessed a race at the Hawthorne track. Contrary to the reports of his political enemies, he is not in favor of extending the license district of the town. If eeded he will not only make a good col lector, but will give to Hawthorne, Morton Park and Grant Works what they have never had before and what they certainly are en titled to—a representative on the Board of Trustees. When the Republicans at their convention in 1814, nominated Charles S. Castle for Supervisor and Treasurer of the Town of Cicero, they paid a deserved tribute both to the younger element in the party and to personal worth. Mr. Castle is now a candi date for re-election on the same ticket, with the record of a year's clean and efficient ad ministration of his office. Even persons who for reasons inexplicable to any but themselves, and perchance to themselves also, are opposing his candidacy, have been compelled to admit that he has been ‘the best treasurer the town ever had. Mr. Castle was born in Barrington, Cook County, in 1859, and lived upon a farm until he was 18 years old. He acquired a high school education and then taught school for a year, after which he was employed for three years in the offices of the Rock Island and Northwestern railroad companies. He was then bookkeeper for the great mercan tile house of John W. Farwell Co. for a term of eight years. Meantime he had made his home in Aus tin in 1881, and in 1889 was appointed post master under President Harrison's adminis tration. During the four years which he continued in that position, the office grew from a third-class post office with an annual business of $2,800, to a presidental office with a business of more than $11,000 a year. It was through Mr. Castle's efforts that Aus tin secured the effmient free delivery service, which it now efrors. George M. Andrews, Republican candi date for Justice of the Peace, was born in Frenchtown, N. J., in 1855, moved to Phil lipsburg, N. J., in early life and there learned the moulders” trade. In 1880 he one west as far as Indianapolis, having married in 1575. In 1657 he came to Chi cago in the interests of the Trent Tile Co., and later was for three years manager for King Laflin in the mantel and grate busi ness. For the last three years he has been city salesman for the Wim. Taylor Mantel and Grate Co. For several years Mr. Andrews has been a resident of Cicero and has been prominent of late vital affairs of the Upper Cicero Improvement Club. He is a firm upholder of the doctrine of impartial justice to all. If elected it is his intention to establish an office in Oak Park. DAVID OLIPHANT. FED. 5. AUSTIN, SAMUEL D. ATTRIDGE, CHARLES §. CASTUE, GEORGE M. ANDREWS.
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Oak Park Vindicator
Oak Park, Illinois, US
Fri, Mar 29, 1895
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