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Show THE EULEH3 OF LAEGE CITIES. Mayor Thomas Hoyne, in his late message to the Chicago common council, coun-cil, refers in severe terms to the mob by which that cily has been ruled. He says that during tho last decade "a class of social aid political criminals" bavo been invested with control in the large American cities. That I hoy are a "bad lot" may bo seen by the mayor's graphic description: T docs not maUfl!" a to names, but tho chss in foran cities have- been distinguished distin-guished as 'plus-ug!i-s" or "liowery boj or whether in Chicago they go by ' the name of " Hmn clubs" or "cos-mop", "cos-mop", " their dangerous and criminal instincts in-stincts aro tho same. To live without ini!u-try it the h-ibic of tho largest num-' ber; and to lix tuemselves in some public oiticn is o' o of tbo niKbe-t of tlieir ambi-Lions. ambi-Lions. They aro tho loudest of partisans upon whatever side or in whatever party they enlist their peculiar services. This class arc too cunning or intelligent to rob ir -teal th same as ordinary criminals, because punishment would bo sure to follow fol-low exposure. Hut nioro unncrupulous and equally depraved as tho more-Tiilff-tr criminal, thiy can rob or stutV the ballot boxes of the po pic; instead of plunder-int- the individual, they find it aafur to plunder tho body politic ! |
