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Show POWER'S RETIREMENT. Judge Powers has made up his mind to retire from politics this fall. He claims that no man can afford to be the chairman of a political committee unless be is wealthy. The judge save that his trip to Chicago cost him $750 and that he cannot afford to remain in nnlltlra ani InnDur Hi tliArnfnrn will retire next fall and devote his time to practicing his profession. Hera Id. So the Liberal parly is getting po.ir in spite of the fact that one of their members was 120,000 ahead of the city; and Judge Powers, knowing there is no chance for another $10,000 donation has decided to retire. "Well, Jadge, you were never any good In politics anyway, nothing but a pelltical scarecrow, trying try-ing to frigh'en and bulldoze an honest people." Judge Powers was In politics as long as he was paid for it, but now, as the liberal party is fast becoming extinct, and cannot afford to give $20,000 to an assessor, and $10,000 to a party chairman, chair-man, be has decided to resign the latter lat-ter position. Now that tbe jadge is "going out of politics," he will do well to remember that at Chicago he was not "In it." |