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M o v r ntered Second Class Matter October 11. 1M9, at the Pott Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. INDBPEMDBNT IN ALL THING. NBUTBAL IN NONE. Entered at Second Clan Matter October 11, 1689, at the Poet Office at Chicago, Illinois, under Act of March 3, 1879. TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR, HO.l. CHICAGO, SATURDAY, OCTOBElt 2, 1915. Twelve Paget. MNQLG COPY PivBCBKre WHOLE NUMBER 1,35 1 DUNNE IS STRONG 1 i Men of All Parties Agree that the Governor Would Be a Formidable Candidate Before the People. The Battle for Delegates, Committeeships and Other Big Plums Taking Up Attention of I Local Statesmen. net and Dry Question Will Gut a Big Figure in Next Year's Battle Throughout the State of Illinois. Factions in Both tho Big Parties Are Making a Hard Fight for the Control of the Managing Committees. Governor Dunne has tnado a splen did record as Chief Executive of Illi nois and men of nil parties ugreo that his popularity with tho pcoplo Is so great thnt he would bo a formidable candldato against nnyono who could bo named. Judgo George Kerstcn of tho Circuit Court and Chief Justlco Olson of tho Municipal Court have appointed tho now Crime Commission authorized by tho City Council. Following uro tho members of it: Women: Mrs. Andrew J. Graham, Mrs. Mlnnio F. Low, Miss Grnco Ab bott, Miss Harriet Vittum, Mrs. Mo dill' McCormick. Aldermen : .lohn KJollandor, C. K. Merrlam, .lnmes II. I.awloy, S. S. Wul kowlnk, Otto Horner. lawyers nnd Civic Leadors: Her bor'j. Harloy, llonedict J. Short, Win. McChosnoy, Daniel McMuhon, Clins. 8. Cutting, Albort Kales, Edward Mnhcr, Edw. N. Nockols, M. .1. Isaacs, W. A. Field, J. H. Wigmore, Nelson Inmport, .lames l. Hall, Allen Pond. Tho Chicago Englo two months ago mentioned as tho beet choicu Oscar F. Mayor for postmnstor, Tho Chi cago American of Tuesday spoko of Mr. Mayor's appointment nB certain, and said: Former Mayor Harrison, who will novo considerable to soy about tho lllllng of this big olllce, bus mot Mr. Mayer slnco Ills return, und what Is more Important, Mr. Mayor's most In timate friends. As a result It is understood thnt Mr. Harrison this week will recom mend tho North Sldo Gorman-Amor-lean to Senator Lewis and nlBo will discuss tho matter with Governor Edward F. Dunno and William L. O'Conuoll. It is believed that Mr. Mayor will bo satisfactory all along tho lino, up to President Wilson. Tho appoint ment of so prominent a Gorman-Amor-lenii ns tho North SIdo packor to tho biggest fedoral olllce In Chicago would attract wldo attention, and it is bo Moved would strengthen President Wilson politically. Tho packer could bring to tho sit uation what other candidates have lacked tho most substantial sort of business backing. While- he has never boasted about his financial strength oven to intimate friends,- Mr. Mayer today Is a rich man and his business organization Is extouslve. In addition to his own big business Oscar F. May or & Brother, ho recently was elected president of tho Western Packing Company, the great Independent pack ing 'plant. In the latter position ho succeeded James S. Agar. Mr. Mayer has Ave children, a son, who Is a graduate of Harvard and has assumed' an Important--placo In his father's business, and four girls, two of whom are' pupils In Eastern schools of noto Ho recently nurchased a 'handsome' home a member of every German club and society of prominence and Is the. treas urer of the German Red Cross fund. ' Postmaster Campboirs term expires this) year. ' "i ,, r Jtfdgo-AlBchuler, newly appointed to the Federal bench, was banqueted by the'IroquoW Club'Thtrrflaaynlgfit: The list of speakers Included Gov. Dunno, Mayor Thompson, District Attornoy Charles F. Clyno, Judgo John P. Mc Goorty, Judgo Francis E. Daker, John W. Eckhart, Charles S. Cutting, Thom as J. lawless and Levy Mayer. Former Mayor Harrison has re turned from his summor's outing. Ho has been away slnco Aug. 20 on a hunting trip; prior to which ho nnd tho former county judgo, John E. Ow ens, explored tho Canadian Hockles. "I got one flno mooso with a forty seven inch sprca'd of antlers," said Mr. Harrison, "and two mountain gouts but I wish I had got that big tollow. I hit his trail one day nnd realized that I was after u monster. It was 'down country' whoro tho un dergrowth Is thick. I took my placo and waited. Out camoTlrr'Mooso, a great hulk or a follow "IVIIW 'tho pret tiest antlers you over saw. I got u bead on his shouldor and pulled tho trigger. Thoro wa's'Just a ellolt and no report. "Then I remembered. I was using n Winchester .:i:i and hud ilgured I didn't want to kill our guido or myself, so I had not pumped a cartridge into tho chamber, although tho magazine was full. Uy tho time I had got tho cartrldgo Into" position tho big follow had seen us and lumbered off. 1 llrod four shots at hint and missed all of them. Maybe It was 'buck fovor' I had. "Say, when I first pulled and tho gun didn't go off, you ought to huvo heard my guide, Charllo Lnwronco, swenr. For downright earnestness and plcturcsquoncss It beat anything I ever heard before It was eloquent and forceful." Tho former mayor denied a story that ho might become postmastor and said: "Nothing doing in that lino. Os car F. .Mayor wotuu uo a goou man, but I doubt If ho could bo Induced to accept." Mayor Thompson will not ask for tho confirmation of any appointments at tho first fall meeting of tho city council, Oct. I. Tho mayor has Indi cated that ho probably will reappoint John I Whitman, suporlutendont of tho briduwoll, but said that ho doslrod to appoint certain "big business men" on tho board of inspectors of that in stitution, and that ho had' not yet de cided whom to ask to accept theso positions. Two thousand Cook county em ployes, who are not under civil serv ice uro said' to bo. affected by a tanglo of the scope of tho' county ponslon fund, law passed at the last session of the Legislature.' As the law is somewhat vaguo.and does not spe cifically mention vqiyil' service, em ployes who havo worked for the coun ty for many years 'Jtgy.e; mde' appli cation to coino under thd" privileges of the -pension fuudlaw, ' AsJ8tant: State's, Attorney M. E Ion, andvan appeal is expected' In any evont. If the law Is held to apply to all employes then the recent election of" trustees' of tho 'pension fund will be declared Rlegal,as only civil sorv lco emplpyes voted. '. ' J,,Judgo,"8culIy In tho County court ,M,l8Aud.M jjrcjflArficting .th.je-, faults be entered against all property In North Michigan avenue, between East Randolph street and tho Chicago river, tho owners of which havo not filed objection In court to tho assess ments for tho widening of Michigan avenue In connection with tho pro posed boulovard link plan. Yesterday was tho last day for tho tiling of ob jections. Tho order was issued on tho motion bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbm . spppppppppppppppM BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBH iBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBHI SBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSBSH I BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBm H LbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbLB 'H t ' " ' ' ' WASHINGTON PORTER. 1 , Public Spirited' of Assistant Corporation Counsol Eu- ne.H.'Dupee, assigned to the board of local lm i -O' t i' li.r. Improvements. , Artbut-.TJ. 'Qulgley, an .expert ac countant, says that Chicago's system ot bookkeeping is all' wrong. He was employed by Percy B. Coffin, president of tho civil servlco commission, to in vcstlgnto. conditions in the ofllces of tho comptroller and treasurer. Mr. Qulgley In his report recommends thnt tho treasurer ttso tho doubloon stcud of the single entry system of bookkeeping mid thnt tho treasurer bo given control of thu city's funds Instead of the comptroller. Ho also pays statements Issued by the comp troller and treasurer are unreliable. Tho boldness of the gang In im pressing the "official orgnn" part of tho program on the unsuspecting pub lic Is evidenced by tho line following tho nnmc of ono of Sheriff Trneger's present leading lights n man whose subordinates by tho way are supposed to keep close to juries. This Infor mation follows his name In the 1913 edition of the Chicago City Directory: It gives the person's occupation .as "CHIEF DAIL1FF AND EDITOR." Look and see for yourself. Sheriff Trncgcr has the reputation of being an honest lunn. Docs he want ofllclals around him who nro talked of for other things besides at tention to their official duties? Tho story as told to Tho Eaglo Is, that $10 apiece was collected from each of the 58 bailiffs to purchnso a gold diamond studded star for a chief bailiff aud that tho hitter bought the star for him self from a Monroo street dealer out of the collection. Is this true? Reference to a person who collected campaign contributions ostensibly for Uusse, but really for himself, calls at tention to a mtnuto report which has been shown to us, of similar activities or persons called RYAN" and DURNS in the possession of n well known de tective agency. Tho Chicago Record Herald of December 111, 11)01, pub lished an account or the holding up of Angus McKay & Co., well known busi ness men, by an alleged "Smoke In spector" calling himself J. P. Ryan and tho endorsing of tho check given to him by one J, J. Hums, who cashed It in a La Salle, streejLnloon. S. II. Woodhouso of 1211 State- street said ho was asked to put nn ad. for $200 In an alleged olllclal organ for his WASHINGTON PORTER, Chicago Millionaire and Progressive 'smoke preventing dovlce. Ho said the man told him that an influential alderman was back of the paper and that his "pull" would secure the adop tion of his ddvlco by tho city. Presl dent Peet of the Sanitary Laundry told or giving up "campaign funds" to two bogus smoko Inspectors. GANGSTER GRAFT Bogus "Official Organ" Draws Attention to Long Record of Grabs for Coin on Official Connections. Gossip About the Work of Public Officials and Others in Various Departments of Puhlic Life. Public Men and Public Conditions as the People in the Light Performances. General Information of of the Tho alleged "official organ" for which tho notorious Ucrg-Gruy-Durns gang did so much "special" work is still doing business. A number or articles which appeared in The Eagle In the Issue or Septem ber 18, lOli", were stolen bodily nnd reprinted verbatum ad llteratum with out credit In tho September 2D, 1015, Citizen. odltlou or this unwletdly mass ot clip pings und dead' ads, which is alleged to prey upon a part ot the public as an "official organ." We have nailed down our doormat because it is not safe from, tho preda tory wanderers attached to this al- I leged representative of Senatorial, a Public and Political State and All Parties Aldcrmanlc, Shrievalty, Park, City Civil .Service and other "official'1 con nections. Wc do not miss tho stolen para graphs which aro plainly dlsccmlblo In the September 2f issuo ot this al leged champion of graft, but wo do not permit our patrons to bo bothered without going to their assistance. Our attention and tho attention or a portion of tho public taken up with politics lias, for somo time, been called to the appearance or nn untidy collec tion of white paper, formed and printed llko a shapeless newspaper only larger than the average. This curiosity tilled with pages or dead ads and edited with a pastepot and n pair of shears has been likened In appear unco to a newspaper cemetery. An ml In It nchleves Immoitallty, as It is never taken out uo matter whether the alleged ndvoitlser is dead, out ot business or In paits unknown. This reiunrknblo product of the shenrs, pastepot and printing press has been calling Itself an "olllclal organ," It is wild, because of Its success In boosting a lot of touching talent con nected with It Into political Jobs and, Incidental!, Into somu notoriety. Aside trom tho alleged Senatorial, Legislative, Hulllffry, Park Olllclal, Aldermaute and Civil Service aid ex ploited by the Junk referred to, It has other Intel eating attributes. One of those Is to steal as much from tho columns of -The Eaglo ns possible In order to give somo life to thu load ot pulp. This Is not to bo wondered at when ono ascertains the character and rec ord of some of tho solicitors and oth ers who aro, or havo boon, connected with it. Ono of tho latest ornaments on tho soliciting staff of the Olllclal Touch Is said to bo a gentleman long schooled In the art of passing bogus checks. Ho Is an artist In more ways than ono In his particular lino. When the Into Fred Husso was elected mayor this recent addition to tho staff of tho Dead Ad Hhmkot conceived u brilliant idea. Mayor Husso was tioasuror ot tho Hupuhllcan County Committee llollovlng that a number of people would llko to contribute to Mr, Husso's campaign fund, bo started out to col lect tho contilbutlous nnd keep thorn hlniholf, Uufoitiiuatoly this man with monu mental gall and Infinitesimal princi ple, walked into tho wrong placo ono day. Ho was detained until tho polico arrived when ho wns nrrestcd. "Pull" got him out ot Jail aud, while ho uovor got over his chock passing habit, ho foil lower nnd lower until ho bccuted a Job to Ho for tho "olllclal organ." Well, lot him Ho for awhile. There nro others with records on the wasto paper Junk, but one exam ple Is enough at present. Tho heads and scissors work on tho thng nro done by a votoran freo lunchcr, it Is said, who holds down a chulr between bites, on tho pay roll of tho City Civil Service Commission. Its brilliant society gossip, collec tions and incidentals aro alloged to havo beep long taken euro of by ono of Shoriff Traegor's undorlings, who was, bold enough to havo both his offi cial position und odttorlal connection appear after his name In tho Chicago city directory for 1913. Tho size ot this weokly Junk pile may huvo Inspired ono Senatorial In dividual with extraordinary courage. They Are Seen by of Their Nature From All Parts In" It. This legislative personage, by tho way, is looked upon as a leading standby of tho "offlclal organ." Wo refer to tho great notoriety which ho achieved when ho was accused of threatening to put ono ot tho Inrgest railroads running out of Chicago out of busi ness. Tho General Counsel of tho road called the attention or tho Unit ed States Interstnto Commcrco Com mission to the matter at tho time. Tho alleged record In tho pnst or this "organ" has been published bo fore. Many pcoplo remember when It gavo employment to members of tho Ilerg-Gray-Ilunis gnng or "specialists." This gang is recollected by numbors bo cnuso or tho money they woro rollovod or by It on tho strength or forged cre dentials purpnitlng to bo Issued by tho Federation of Labor and tho Trades and Labor Assembly. This gang when not engaged In "special" nowspaper work iisud to gut active among busi ness men Just heforo Iibor Day every year by soliciting subscriptions from thorn on tho stiongth of tho fraudu lent credentials refened to. Hut, returning to tho official organ, ninny business men aud contractors doing business with tho City Hull lmu' leason to remember It because of Its alloged tulluouco In thu past. Somo of tho Intended victims kicked, among them, the Inventor ot u smoko consumer who told dally papers aud others about tho way pcoplo repre senting tho "official organ" had ap proached him with it promlso of tho adoption bj tho city of his device if ho gavo a $1W0 coiitilbutlon to tho "olllclal organ." Another act or tho "official organ" was to apply for a list of dealers soiling to tho city and thou, offering theso dealeis Its valuablo In fluence In exchange for ads in Its col umns. Agents for this "official or gan" havo had tho gall under past ad ministrations to present letters to business men, contractois and othors written on city stationery advising them (If they know what was good for thiim was tho ovldont intimation) to secure Inllueiico by patronlIng the "organ," Accoidlng to reports on file, ono of their favorite schemes was to go to people who had business with thu city and represent that an Influen tial alderman was Interested in thoir business aud that for n stated con sideration everything would bo "fixed" satisfactorily. Of lato, It is alloged that tho won dorful Influence of a member of tho Gunornl Assembly Is on tap to pcoplo favoring this ninnol of "official" or ganism, Ono prominent railroad man has boon at work for somo tlmo on a matter that mny bo brought bot'oro thu next Legislature in relation to ac tivities of this nature, Indirect brib- ery mny bo popular in somo quarters but tho Criminal Code of Illinois la not ono of thorn. In tho ineantlmo, In ordor that no mistakes may bo mado, wo advlso our reliders to listen to tho howls of tho publication thnt tho cap fits, "A gull ty conscience needs no accuser." Criminal Court bailiffs, It is report ed, had to contribute to a fund to buy a diamond studded gold star for tho chief bailiff. Sheriff Traogor might inquire Into this matter and find out Just when nnd how It was done. Hold all nntloual conventions In I Chicago. Ml ' vi!