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and probably will. The success of the proposition would be hampered with out the aid and co-operation of men." o o OFTTIMES POLITICAL TRUTHS BUBBLE TQ THE OPEN When politicians go forth to battle sometimes the truth of the game leaks out. This present campaign is a very dangerous one for the old-time bosses. Never was a campaign much more filled with bitterness. The rea son is apparent. The faction that car ries the county prizes will have a tremendous chance at the mayoralty plum next year. So they are at each other's throats. Now it comes out how banks in- fluence politics. Barney Snow, who used to be an alderman out south until he and Charley Deneen fell out, is mad clear through. And he has opened up and shout ed what an Important part In Chi cago and Cook cottnty affairs the al most unheard of Southwest Trust & Savings Bank plays. Foremost among the stockholders is Roger Sullivan. But there are many others. Barney Snow, in an attack'on Les- 'sing Rosenthal, who is a supporter of the Deneen ticket, said in part last night: "One more question: Does Mr. Rosenthal desire to indorse that style of 'combination polities' which secures the selection of Mr. Litzinger of the Southwest Trust & Savings Bank as Republican candidate for county treasurer, the selection of Mr. .Strfckart of the same bank as Demo cratic candidate for the same office, while Michael J. Flynn, a stockholder of record in the same bank as recent- 'ly as June 1 of this year, holds the of- 'fice of city treasurer? And if this 'brand of commercialized and bipar tisan politics meets his approval will he with equal frankness approve of 'the course of City Treasurer Flynn in keeping heavy deposits of city money in this bipartisan bank at 214 per cent interest, when other banks paying the city 2y2 per cent are given only trifling deposits? "Is he ready to go all the way in approving commercialized politics, or where does he draw the line?" Snow should know whereof he speaks. He was one of the wise old owls of the city council when Milton Foreman and the rest of them were there. Among the directors and stock holders of the bank are: Bernard A. Eckhart, the millionaire flour man and one of the angels of the G. O. P. Eckhart used to get honorary jobs such as president of the West- Park Board. He is now treasurer of the Republican state committee. The bank seems to have gone even farther than entering Litzinger as a Republican and Stuckart as a Demo crat. For awhile it had Dan Cahifl In the Democratic race in the hope of splitting the Irish vote with John Bradley, the Harrison-Dunne man. But when they found Stuckart was strong enough alone he withdrew. Then there's Tim Healy, Deneen boss of the South Side. He sits in at party caucuses and names slates. John F. Smulski, rormer state treasurer and one of the old bosses. Dave Shanahan, one of the wire pullers in the lower house down at Springfield and formerly the Lorimer whip. Abel Davis, one of the big G. 0. P. bosses. They've even got an H.-H. man in John Traeger, candidate 'for sheriff. Tom Healy is president and Ed Litzinger is vice president. Each con trols 505 shares, a majority of the bank's stock. . Ralph Van Vechten, vice president of the Continental & Commercial Na tional Bank, Is a stockholder of the Southwest. He and Bernard Eckhart, who Is a director of the Continental & Commercial, establish a relation ship wit hthe banking trust.