Show THIS THi WEEK IN CHICAGO V Vt f i. i f t fe Chi Chicago ago will wil be t torn rn with strife all all through 1 t tie lie e present week It is the one place in the A wor world d we we would o ld think that Mr r R Roosevelt sevelt would i it select for lor a convention The city has has' grown from pa hamlet in but a brief ti time e considering how I mighty a city it is and it its most prominent factor from the the- first has bc been n the excitement that hat its people peo pl 1 can every Jay day call up From th the first one of t 1 th the chief occupations of the city has been to lo boom 4 C Chicago lic go and anda a boom is noth nothing ng but an in excitement excite excite- fj 4 ment especially in Chicago A A person might meet e a thousand d persons in St. St Louis or r Cin Cincinnati in a day who c each h would quietly point out some lif v feature of oi their thel cit city wh which ch they were proud of oft t 4 I But Bit in Chicago G cago the same person would find a th thousand people in unison crying that Chica Chicago o can discount the world worlds s 's s cities in ever everything J 1 II Then rheu the t th stock yards' yards have their effect Themen The r men nen jn th the stock yards ards are arc accustomed o n to see r thousands of anih animals als butchered daily r That lat has J Its effect t and if on a p promise om of extra r reward ward e or oi four hundred of those men get a few C St i l leave ave of absence and go down to the city s as j t l qu rs for a candidate in a convention s some me of slaughterhouse Iau t l f bou house e methods are sure to be un union union- o jo s1 sly adopted in the convention Hence Chic Chizo Chi- Chi I c zo os o's is s just th the place ii a a a- man mn n would vo ld sele select t I vl o is Hf determined if necessary s ry to Jo bulldoze his rW r wIy Y or 01 r jy y a stampede to sweep the the field But it itis is is' no good place for a deliberative body bod of men mento r c L f et to justly settle bottle grave glave questions 4 t. i nati lial i St St. Louis uis not many manya ny go a a dc g with a il l reputation ut o rOSC dc lar d 1 that that- I it was i tD a 1 a l' l dispassionate onu le conclusion sio-D sio in in such h. h a p pSt St the convention m had hd eased ceased to be a deliberative h body d dy If that was true in St. St Louis when there re I were no noo no co contests o tests of moment of-moment f. f m moment what will it be in in r. r Chiago a this I c V Whatever l t teJ t the he result lt n ma may a be t we C h hope it t will in 1 c ad to 10 the adoption of new rules gov governing naJ na- na J f tonaI political conventions conventions' which will liB limit the theL j L 8 to the the delegates l the thc necessary s officers officer le ie high officers of states and the United States I and nr newspaper ne r and Associated Press reporters I t. t There is js u Q occasion for fool tin ten tho thousand sandor a d. d o or o one one 1 Ul US c when after atei years cars of or trial it h s been hn fOU found fouin Hl that thai three fourths s of of them ar arc arcI I i c no purpose except pt to 0 f whoop wh op i up eer i candidates a 4 The l nomination n t un of of a candidate for fiji c chief i f. f m mI mag- mag I I pf such uch a nation as ours is 18 j f so o serious a R. I matter i ft that h border borde r ruffian instincts o. o of of men should I be c held i in lose close ls restrain while the work ork is go- go go L on I |