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MERELY POLITICS
Wm. G. Lee, pres. Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, will speak for
Wilson at Sullivan hall, Paulina and
Madison tonight. John Fitzpatrick
will preside.
Adolph Germer, nat'l sec'y Social
ist party, predicts more than 2,000,
000 votes for Allan L. Benson, Social
ist candidate for president
John M. Parker, Bull Moose can
didate for vice pres.; Bainbridge
Colby, Matthew Hale, Antoinette
Funk, Dr. Clarence B. Strouse, Judge
A.'D. Nortoni, Ole Hanson and Hen
ry M. Wallace, all Bull Moose leaders,
will talk for Wilson at meeting in
Auditorium theater Tues. night,
Seymour Stedman, Wm. A. Cun
nea and Frank V. Stuchal, Socialist
nominee for legislature, 19th district,
speak at Sokol-Havlicek hall, Lawn
dale and 26th, tonight
Stuchal Is a Socialist legislative
candidate with a good chance to win.
He is making a strong campaign,
backed by union labor. The Wom
an's Trade Union league, Carpen
ters, Typo Unions No. 16 and 330,
the Garment Workers, Public Owner
ship league and other organizations
are with him.
Stuchal is at present manager of
the' Bohemian Daily Spravedlnost.
He has been a member of Chicago
Typographical Union No. 16 for
years.
Alonzo E. Wilson, former legisla
tor, and Dr. H. J. Haiselden, candt
date for coroner, will speak at Pro
hibition rally at Roseland Swedish
Baptist church, 111th and Edge
brooke ay-, tonight.
Mrs. Alice Dow Allinson, head of
Henry Booth Settlement House, for
mer Bull Mooser, is out for Wilson.
Franklin Union No. 4 has endorsed
Wm. G. Thon, candidate for re-election
to legislature from 23d district.
Theo. J. Vind, Socialist candidate
for the legislature from the 13th dis
trict, looks like an easy winner. The
wor&inx: DeoDle, Qi this bis South Chi
cago are said to be lined up behind
Vind solidly.
Gotthard A. Dahlberg, Thompson
Lundin man, and C. A. Young, both
of whom are now Republican mem
bers of the legislature, are coming in
for heavy knocking because of their
anti-labor stand in the legislature.
Dahlberg is also an ass't corpor
ation counsel under Sam Ettelson
and is a member of Big Bill's saloon
license commission. He is a "dry."
The South Chicago Trades Assem
bly and the Calumet Joint Labor
Council are carrying on most of the
fight against Dahlberg and Young.
Rep. James W. Ryan, Democrat, who
is seeking re-election, will probably
run a close second to Vind. There
are three to be elected.
H. W. Harris is another Socialist
legislative candidate who looks like
a winner. He is running in the 21st
district In 1912 Harris was declared
winner by 163 votes. Later he was
counted out.
Wm. A. Cunnea and Seymour
Stednian will address Socialist meet
ings at Moos school, 1711 N. Califor
nia av., and Havlicek-Tyres Sokol
hall, 26th and Lawndale, tonight
Jos. O. Kostner, Democratic nom
inee for cong.-at-large, has come out
in favor of extending federal civil
service to include postmasters, col
lectors of customs, collectors of in
ternal revenue and other non-political
positions.
State's Attorney Hoyne was en
dorsed for re-election by the United
societies.
John V. Farwell, millionaire ene
my of union labor, who was in the
limelight because of his fight on the
union in the teamsters' strike, says
he's for Hughes because "Hughes is
a friend of labor."
Judge Olson is in an errbarrassing
position in his threatened libel suits
because of the Hoyne interview. The
Daily News, owned by Olson's pal,
Vic Lawson, also printed the story.
It might be a good idea to have the
rumor that politics were behind Q-
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