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0T LIGHT IS TURNED ON THE BRAND OF BIG BUSINESS BACKING SULLIVAN State street department stores and other big downtown business inter ests were handled by William A. Cun nea, Socialist candidate for county judge, In a speech last night in Bo hemian Hall, Lawndale. He said: "I am surprised that there has not been more campaign talk about an announcement made this week. The most powerful business interests of Chicago come along organized into what they call an 'executive commit tee of one hundred.' This committee endorses Roger Sullivan for the U. S. senate. "I want the men on this commit tee known to the voters of Chicago. A fierce white light is this week thrown on the connection between business and politics in Chicago. "James C. Simpson, vice president of this committee, is vice president of Marshall Field & Co. The Field es tate with Its quarter billion of dollars of capital is In politics and wants Roger Sullivan. "Benjamin J. Rosenthal, secretary of this committee, is a partner in the real estate firm which has a school land lease for the ground the North American building standB on. Rosen thal is one of the men cited by Mar garet Haley of the Teachers' Federa tion aB pulling down a rental of $31 a square foot for land he gets from the city at ?4.80 a foot "D. F. Kelly is general manager of Mandel Bros.' department store, the store that is working men and wo men for low wages and has an under ground basement that has been de nounced by the health department as unsanitary. Further, this basement is operated against a city ordinance which has been upheld by the su preme court. We can understand why the Mandel store should go into poli tics. It needs city and state officials in its business. "John Z. Vogelsang, another mem-, ber of the committee of one hundred, is president of the Restaurant Keep ers' Ass'n. This Is the employers' un ion in the restaurant trade. John Vo gelsang has been one of the leaders in trying to crush the waitresses, cooks and bakers' unions, who have been battling for recognition the past year. "The whole booze trust, whisky men and beer men is lined up for Sul livan. Not the saloonkeepers, but the big brewery and distillery companies. "Following are some of the men: Thos. C. Denehy of the Chas. Den-, ehy Co. whisky concern; Peter Theurer, president Schoenhofen Brewing Co.; Adam Ortselfen, presi dent McAvoy Brewing Co.; Theodore ' Qehne, the big wholesale whisky man; Wm. A. Birk of the Birk Bros. Brewing Co.; Austin J. Doyle Of the Brewers' Ass'n; Edward Landsberg, president of the United States Brew ing CO. " "John A. McCormlck, vice presi-f dent of the Chicago Savings Bank and Trust Co., is also lined up. His bank stands on ground gotten , through a school land lease which " Margaret Haley calls a robbery lease. , "Frarcls S. Peabody, prealdent of ' the Peabody Coal Co., part of the , local trust that fixes coal prices, also signs his name to the Sullivan en dorsement. "Owners of loop skyscrapers; play ing politics to protect their tax as sessments, Michael Karpen, one of the owners of the big Karpen build ing; Moses J. Wentworth, and other real estate powers of the loop, are , on the Sullivan committee. "The publisher of Hearst's Chicago American, Harrison Parker, Joins the rallying cry for Sullivan. "You could not possibly pick 100 men in 'Chicago more powerful in money and land and special privileges than, the men on the Committee a OneundredndpisiBgjSjBlvaa,'' ..2 -o- -mmm