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Show THOMPSON AGAIN. Mayor Thompson did not feel called upon to stop the meeting of the ' 4 People Peo-ple 's Council of America for Democracy and Teace" at Chicago, but Governor Frank O. Lowden made no bones about it, and the delegates who had journeyed from far and near were unceremoniously bundled out of the hall they had hired for the purpose of organizing a national body in order to combat the work of the administration in prosecuting the war with Germany. But Mayor Thompson was rot satisfied satis-fied with taking a merely negative position in the matter and sent word to the malcontents that the meeting could be hold under police protection, at the same time ordering Chief Sennet-tier Sennet-tier to see that no one was allowed to interfere. The meeting was held and the "People's Council of America for Democracy and Trace " duly organized. Thus the mayor of hic:io has once more shown his sy uipathy for the Gcr- mans, notwithstanding the fact that this country is at war with the kaiser. Thompson has gone about far enough, and it is up to tho loyal' citizens of Chicago to put the seal of condemnation condemna-tion upon his acts by forcing him to resign. re-sign. There has been so much adverso criticism criti-cism of these people aud their aims that David Starr Jordan, who trained with the crowd a few weeks ago, has beconio so weary of seeing his name in print along with the names of men and women who axe anything but patriotic that he has written a letter to his sister sis-ter disclaiming any present connection with the disturbers of the tranquillity of the United States in time of war. We are glad that President Jordan has come to his senses, for if he continued to train with this crowd his usefulness as an educator would soon vanish at the head of a great university. He has injured his reputation enough as it is without proceeding any further. There are a few other educators who might well profit by. the example of Dr. Jordan Jor-dan and1 leave the company of these propagandists before their prospects in life are blighted. |