Show I 1 1 CARTER HARRISONS HAnni RESOLVE ex mayor of chicago carter 11 II harrison Is going ont of politics coming from a 8 chicago politician fresh from the hottest campaign that tumultuous city ever saw hia his reasons are very comic 11 II it was a revelation to me says ho of the conduct of his opponents for I 1 lad bad never before attended the polls in the hoodlum districts wilder aad and more besotted savagery and open appeals to the buyers of votes coald could not exist in the most ignorant southern plantation districts these words beem seem BO so pathetically earnest and serious one can scarcely arcely ec decide whether the proper thing is to emile smile or look sorrowful think of it I 1 mr harrison was mayor once and no doubt ele elected ted bytho by those severy very hoodlum districts and inaugurated duricr during it if not in tho m dst ast of orgies of wild and be savagery which mayhap ware the original model jor for these describes and mark the narrow escape be he has hits jast just bad had from being elected again by the eane same ea ne crowd on I 1 the same savage plan and he never once oace suspecting this monstrous crime ot of which he was a partner and beneficiary fi how each such a terrible thought would natural burn into the imagination of an and super terigi tive person of whom wo we seem to have an example in this ex mayor of ChIc chicago agol 1 the situation it i true is 11 I 1 more touching than defeat but the I 1 4 expressed resolve of the victim of this latest a test democratic Damo cratic institution the hoodlum district to retire foreve forever r from politics and betake him to the 11 11 4 sequestered precincts ot of rural solitude 1 will be some sort of relief from the melancholy conditions he ile will there I 1 have an opportunity to forgive and forget and if he is 13 not too far run 11 downly down la his labare for tho chicago public will have a chance yet to redeem I 1 bis his soul ia aug augmenting minting the supply of honest milk and batter butter for ill I 1 the trade no calling caling or charity in irl 4 the world could be more suitable and I 1 soothing to the over etreal ned conscience of a cola peed and penitent I 1 office seeker from what we know of the conditions we are very sure that only a brief of this eort sort of retirement ti will result in a perfect re III Et oration to political health I 1 considering Consid erinc inz mr care case with the seriousness which it properly ought to provoke we are forced to the I 1 suspicion that the canker of defeat is more caustic to his sensitive soul 0 than the corruption of the hoodlum districts by tar far for a patriot to be 0 0 frightened out of politics by the grim visage i of the ward heeler is something that sound americans will consider with a good deal of doubt such a parson person may have sincere sentiments senti touch touching ing the ethical outside of the government concern I 1 but for the business of governing bid men who in general are the only sort of people for whom govern me ts are needed such sentiments 1 dont count for much the patriot ahm the country loves to to honor is the one who cant rest in retirement while the principles ho be prizes in fra government pre are being dragged to the dogs by plotting scoundrels who in finch such a con 1 ogency rushes like a true warrior into the fray and never lays down bis his arms till villainy is routed and conquered and the country is I 1 I 1 safe tho the true patriot will then rejoice ia in a 5 peaceful retirement ti from the turmoil of public life to a epst where all that the world expects of him Is to make himself happy with the oom comforts forts of security and the tle aralts of hoest labor wo lava bava hopes that a season of repose will enlighten mr on these principles and convince him that to bo mayor of chicago ia only one of a million ways that an honest honest citizen might do bia hia country valuable service |