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Show THUG RULE SMASHED IN CHICAGO Voter's of Dlinois administered a stinging rebuke to the crowd in whose hands have been the reins of government for the past few years, and gave them a push, which, it is hoped, will start them down on their way to political ob-f" ob-f" livion. The ringleaders of the rotten government gang of Illinois have been none other than William Hale Thompson, Mayor of Chicago; State's Attorney Crowe; and Governor Len Small. ' The record of Illinois and Chicago government is as follows : Deliberate killings of rival gunmen and liquor kings, by paid henchmen of known booze barons, and subsequent escape es-cape of the killers. ; The unaccounting for hundreds of thousands of dollars of interest on the state's money by Len Small while sitting in the office of State treasurer. Because of murmers of displeasure, Len Small has since made good a fractional part of the funds. The appointment by Thompson of "Sport" Hermann as censor of the literature in the Chicago municipal libraries. The slander and. railroading of Superintendent of Schools McAndrews. Seizing upon an opponent's "etiquette" as an issue in elections. Persistent efforts to seat in the U. S. Senate, Smith, " the too of big interests, after, he had twice been refused admission to Congress by the vote of the country's law- " makers. . V Bombings, sluggings, and shootings during the recent election, and the appeal by the Chief of Police for '500 U. S. J marshals to keep order. 1 Scores of officers of the law havng been known to J have been guilty of 'sl'aking-down' bootleggers and other criminals. Last week, the decent element, after having had its intelligence in-telligence insulted through many years, finally united at the ballot box and repudiated the entire crew that had been thriving by misrule. J Chicago will soon be in shape now to return to the United States. |
