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Show LIEUT. GOV. O'HARA JOINS RANKS OF HOBOES Chicago, Nov. 3. Utirram O'Hnra Lieut. Governor ot Illinois, Is a- hobo. It became known yesterday when E. I Jeff Davis, president of tho Nntlonal Hobo union, reported tho fact In nn ! address at a meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor. Later O'Hara admitted It nnd niinounced thnt he Is proud of tho connection. "I met tho lieutenant governor nt a ball," paid tho "king of tho hobos." I and ho told mo that onco ho had been ' down nnd out. I told him thnt it entitled him to membership and I pledged him. Tho lieutenant governor gover-nor wns given a number, a road sign nd n bhdgo but will bo expected to mnko tJjt least ono trip on his own resources re-sources beforo ho will bo acknowledged acknowledg-ed n real hobo. Tho oath taKen by O'Hara pledges that ho will do nil In his power for unemployed working men and never will bo a strike breaker break-er and will hlwnys return homo every runaway boy ho meets. "Yes, I Joined tho hoboes," said Lieut. Gov. O'Hara. "I took tho oath although I nover oxpect to rido In a sldo door Pullman." |