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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmt LAST EDITION ONE CENT GIRLS! ARE YOU IN THE SPRING HAT CONTEST? AX MURDER CASES ARE N EARING SOLUTION SAMUEL GOMPERS HERE IN LABOR AFFAIR THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, NO. 149 Chicago, Tuesday, March 23, 1915 398 fe COCHRAN ON THE RELIGIOUS ISSUE IN THE CAMPAIGN FOR MAYOR Says It Will Probably Influence More Voters Than Any .Other Issue In the Campaign Condemns Politi ' cian Who Would Pan Fires of Hate to Further His Own Ends BY N. D. COCHRAN . However much both Sweitzer and Thompson may decry the religious issue in the present campaign, and however much tolerant Catholics and Protestants may deplore the raising of this issue, the cold fact remains that it is in the campaign and will doubtless influence more voters than, any of the issues discussed by candidates and the press. It is not local to Chicago, but has been at work all over the country for several years. When such an issue gets into politics all other bjeues are dwarfed into practical insignificance; and many voters go to the polls and vote as they worship, throwing aside old party labels as they would throw off an old coat There are politicians on both sides of the controversy who will make political capital of the issue when they can, but the rank and file on both sides are earnest, sincere and well-meaning men and women who are moved by one of the deepest of human emotions. And as in the case in all wars, pmen and children are the greatest sufferers. They have to take moft of the punishment. ggiBgiMbiiMtiHHfigKtt