Show CLUBS AND FISTS COOK COUNTY DEMOCRATS IIATE A GLORIOUS TIME Doors Were Locked and the Fight Ragged for Half an Hour Everything Every-thing lii the Room Being Smashed Including a Few Heads CHICAGO Dec 2The hall of the Cook county Democracy was tonight the scene of a desperate freeforall fight in which clubs chairs canes and fists were freely used There was a contest between John Powers and Thomas Gahan the latter an Altgeld man for the chairmanship of the county central committee The trouble began when Mike McDonald arose as he phrased it Uto tell the miserable lowdown Gahan push a few things about themselves Gahan numbers John P Hopkins ex Mayor among his friends and McDonald Mc-Donald devoted a large portion of his pungent eloquence to Hopkins and his administration The burden ot his grievance lay in the assertion that Hopkins misappropriated misappro-priated campaign funds and McDonald was sued for expenses toward which these funds should have been applied A big man sLUng on a window sill became so much moved by McDonalds flowery language that he whacked a Gahan man in the eye and then it was all over the place The doors were locked and the fight raged for half an hour When there were no chairs left and everything in the room was smashed Powers and his friends withdrew having lost the political po-litical battle but ready for more of the physical sort |