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Show HESING PLEADS GUILTY. Boss Hesing of Chicago, who for nearly a quarter of a century through the Stats Zeituwj and the German vote controlled the politics of the city of Chicago and to a great extent the politics of the northwestern states, has pleaded guilty to a connection witli the conspiracy to defraud the government in its revenues from whisky. Hesing was a true product of the war era, cno of the most bla eeutof the loyalist patriots, who would consign all democrats to the inferno who did not assent to all the edicts of the republican party. At oua time there was hardly a politician in the United States who swayed so much power or exercised it as despotically as Hesing. Durine late years, how- ever, he has fallen out with the re-j re-j publican party, but hia last great triumph was won in the year 1S73, when he organized a party composed largely of German and Irish voters in opposition to tho puritanical Sunday laws which it was attempted to put in force in Chicago. At lhia election Mr. Colvin waa chosen mayor, with a city council of rather rough tendencies. Since that time Hesing has been losing ground po- 1 litically, and having become bank- rupt, it ia aupposed that his necessities necessi-ties drove him unto the whisky ring, and ita ignominious destruction has brought about his fall, with that of many other politicians in high Cui-caco Cui-caco life; and there are rumors all oat which affcet the names of some still higher officials. So far A3 Hesing is concerned his fate will not ba very generally bemoaned, even by the best of his own countrymen, who have long recognized him as a bad man, a tyrant and a selfish demagogue. Ihe credit and good name of Chicago wonid be the gainer if a dozen or two of men of the Heiing stamp were consigned to the penitentiary. |
