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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1908)
V V I ALWKfjfcRALD Published Every Thursday by The Herald Pufetislmv Cflmpany. T. J. O'KEEFE Editor J. 13. KNIEST Associate Editor Entered at the postollice at Alliance, Nebraska, for transmission through the malls, as second-class matter. Subscription, $1,50 per year in advance. DemocraticNationalTicket FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM J. BRYAN OF NEBRASKA FOR VICE PRESIDENT .JOHN W. KERN OF INDIANA STATE TIGKET Governor A. C. Shallenbcrger Lieutenant-Governor K. O. Garrett Secretary of Stain John Mattes, Jr. Auditor ....Edwin II, Luikart Treasurer Claronce Mackey Superintendent of Public Instruction N. C. Abbott Attorney-General II. U, Ficharty Commissioner Public Lands and Building V. H. Hastlmm Railway Commissioner.. .Win. (I. Cowgill Congressman Sixth District V. H. Westover Representative, 53d District, ................. .Fred W. Johansen COUNTY TICKET For County Attorney, Eugene Burton For Commissioner, Second Dist., J. P. Jensen We can win Nebraska for Bryan If all friends of Bryan and UIh chura -will work for that good end. But we should remember that shouting 'and boasting will not win this home state for Bryan. We must win It by inlr and honest effort to convince our republican friends that Bryan d serves to carry his home Htate, and that his good platform deserves the support of all Nebraskans who be lieve that the people should rule. The rank and file of Nebraska re publicans aro just as good nt heart s any democro. They are open to conviction, and .'icusands of them will accept Bryan and his Rood platform if wo shall appeal to them In a sousl ble way. Aro you lu favor of making all banks sufe for tho depositors? if so, go to the polls on olert'oit duy and vote the democrat" ticket Cleveland and Hard Times. The hard times thut prevailed dur ing Cleveland's uucond term liavw been a fruitful theme for republican orators and editors. Tho truth Is the lmrd times began beroro he took the oath of office. It Is u matter of his tory, and Ib not denied, that President 'Harrison foresaw them and had tho jplates prepared for a bond Issue to protect the gold reserve. When he was defeated for reelection, he did not use them, preferring to shift the re .eponalblllty to Cleveland, his sueces lor. Besides, the depression that pre vailed during Cleveland's administra tion wns world-wide, riot only that but the prosperity that followed it has not been confined to this couutry, but relatively has been as marked in all civilized countries. Again, during Cleveland's administration, there was a succession of bad crops, not only In Nebraska, but throughout the world. Nebraska was drouth-stricken. That added materially to the distress of those times. It will hatdly be claimed that Cleveland was responsible for tho lack of rainfall, or that any party can guarantee sufficient moisture to raise a crop. Panics come and go regardless of - the party u power. The panic of 1873 came during Grant's administration; that of 1893. during Cleveland's; that of 1907, during Itoosevelt'H. No hon est man attributes any of them to tho man who occupied tho White House at th Utj'.t. Fear of Depositors. Taft ays that the- fear of their de positor has a great deal to do with keeping bankers from their exploita tion and manipulation of bank assets." Mighty few bankers have been' hurt by their depositors; the depositor is generally tha fellow that gets hurt. From the Center of Things Ittpwlnl Lttiroln CorreoDondenciO Lincoln. Nebr.Oct. 7 "iK BUI." he says lie likes to be called, has been in Lincoln. He spread the famous "Taft smile" nil over the surrounding territory, but the speech heralded abroad by the Associated Press was not delivered. Mr. Taft was out of voice hen he reached Lincoln, and he spoke briefly. Of course the republicans exerted themselves to the utmost 10 make his visit a political demon stration of size. In this they succeeded, so far as numbers were concerned. The parade was long and scattered, and the cheers for Bryan were fully as numerous as the cheers for 'Big Bill.'' Mr. Taft made no effort to discuss the hsues of the day further than to mention "campaign puplicity" and said he favored making the contributions known after election. In fact he merely said "Me, too," to what President Roosevelt has written during the last few weeks. From Tripp, S. D., V. J. Bryan sent the following telegram to his brother, Charles W. Bryan: "Ask the democrats of Lincoln to take down my pictures while Mr. Taft is in town. Have them show him every possi bly courtesy." Acting on this suggestion the democrats and republicans who are supporting Mr. Bryanremoved the Bryan pictures from their windows, and many of them put up Taft pictures in order to carry out Mr, Bryan's wishes that Mr. Taft might be shown every possiblo courtesy. Contrast this with the treatment ac corded to Mr. Bryan Inst summer by the men who are in charge of the republican campaign in Nebraska. Just when the delegations to Denver were coming'to Lin coln to see Mr Bryan before attending the convention, the republican managers swung a huge Taft and Sherman banner across the principal business street. This banner was allowed to remain on notifica tion day. and the republican managers gloried in their discourtesy. The banner still swings, but today it is merely a re minder of the difference between a big, fair-minded, courteous gentleman and a lot of political nincompoops. If ever that banner was a political card it was trump ed by Bryan's telegram and the action of the democrats on the day that Mr. Taft visited Lincoln. Mr Bryan and Mr. Taft were in Min neapolis on the same day, but owing to conllicting appointments they did not meet. They were both in Lincoln Wednesday night. But Mr. Bryan did not arrive until after midnight and Mr. Taft's spe cial train pulled out early Thursday morn ing. So the rival candidates did not meet in Nebraska's capital city. Mr. Bryan reached home after almost a month of strenuous campaigning, but he was fresh as a daisy the morning after his arrival. The newspaper correspondents were worn out. Mr. Bryan breakfasted at S o'clock Thursday morning, but the correspondents breakfasted at noon or later. "We had enthusiastic meetings every where." said one of the correspondents. "There is no difficulty in seeing that Bryan tide is rising all over the country, and especially in the east and middle west. Three weeks ago New Jersey was in the doubtful column; today it is for Bryan. Any talk of Tammany being disloyal to the head of the ticket this year 13 sheerest nonsense. New York City that is Great er New York will give Bryan a majority in excess of $125,000." Tim correspondent is connected with a New York newspaper and is thoroughly acquainted with the situation. Mr. Bryan himself is sanguine of suc cess. When asked what he thought of the prospects he replied: "It is a subject that a candidate cannot very well discuss, for he can get informa tion through reports that come to him from time to time'. Reports which L have received are not only encouraging but their tone grows more and more encourag ing. In.every state in the union the trend is against the republican party and in favor of our party. In some places it is more pronounced than in others, but it is sufficient to lead us to believe that our party will not only have a considerable popular majority but a majority in 4he electoral college." Mr. Bryan remained at home until Tuesday when he left for Chicago to at tend the inland waterways convention on Wednesday. He will confer with the campaign managers while there and ex pects to return home Sunday. lie will remain at home several days and will then start out on another tour. It is possible that the last three days of the campaign will be spent in Nebraska. "Representative Uainey of Illinois was a visitor at Fairview last week. He said: "I have personally visited more than 700 precincts in Illinois this fall, bent on non-partisan mission, the promotion of in land waterways. While out I took pains to get a line on the local question. The result of my observation is the conviction that Bryan will carry Illinois by from 25, 000 to 35,000, and that Stevenson will be elected governor by more than 75,000. Illinois is no longer in thu doubtful col umn." On Dcumber 0, 1S95, the Greeley County Bank at Scotia, Nebr.. failed, ow ing depositors about $9,000. George W. Scott was cashier and manager 'of this bank. The receiver paid the depositors 45 per cent of their deposits, but there is still 65 per cent unpaid. The republican platform convention at Lincoln last month appointed a committee on resolutions. This committee refused to report a plank favoring the guarantee of deposits. A member of the committee presented a minority report favoring "some kind of a guarantee,1' but the con vention voted it down with a whoop. Among the delegates present and voci ferously voting "no" on the bank guaran tee proposition was George W. Scott. Yes the same Georgo W. Scott who was cashier of the Greeley County Bank at Scotia the bank that failed thirteen years ago and still owes depositors 65 per cent of their deposits. Senator Owen of Oklahoma spoke in Lincoln recently, and of course he paid particular attention to the guaranttee of deposits plank. Lest it may be thought that Senator Owen's testimony is ex parte it is hereby made known that he organized the first national bank chartered in the territory of Oklahoma, was its first, presi dent and is still its chief executive aflicer. It is the largest national bank in Oklahoma today. His explanation of the advantages of the guarantee, both to the banker and the depositor, was so clear, so simple and so convincing that it will result in goodly gains for the democratic ticket wherever made. A republican officeholder, who resides in Lincoln and is connected with a manu facturing and wholesale business, attended the Owen meeting at the auditorium. Before the speaking began he conversed with a friend and the subject of "straw votes" came up. "The men in our factory were polled the other day," said the manufacturer. "How did it result?" queried his friend. "O, I don't like to tell you know I'm a republican officeholder. But the friend insisted and the manu facturer finally said: "Well, there were 32 for Bryan, 8 for Taft and one refusing to vote." There was one band of twenty pieces in (lie Taft parade last week. Of the twenty bandsmen iG are for Bryan, 3 for Taft and 1 for Debs. Upon his arrival home after an absence of nearly a month, Mr. Bryan found his correspondence stacked mountain high. But he enjoyed going through it, for near ly every letter was filled with the most en couraging reports. He was particularly interested in the reports from Ohio and Minnesota, and expressed himself as con fident of the outcome in New York. Mr. Bryan dearly loves a good story and here is one that he heard soon after reach ing Fairview and which tickled him im mensely: An Irishman down in Nuckolls county declared, while talking politics with a crowd of friends that "Thayadoor Roosen felt is th' most far-seein' sthatesmon this country has seen in a feneration." "How do you make that out?" queritd a friend. "Sure didn't he take th' motto, 'In God we trust,' off'n th coins more'n two years ago?" "Sure, now; an' don't it prove that he was not intendin' t' embarass his chosen candidate?" And here is another one: Two men were polling a train back east a few days ago and strucls an Irishman in the smoker. The Irishman declined at first to vote, but when the man persisted he said: "I'm 1'r Willyum Jinnings Bryan." "I'm astonished," said one of the men, that a man of such apparent intelligence and seeming prosperity you should be for Bryan.' "And why not?" retorted the Irishman. "Bryan is a foine gintlemin an' he is goin' t' be elicted," "I don't see how vou make that out," said the man. "Don't you know that Ohio is the mother of presidents?" "That may be all roight," retorted the Irishman," but there ain't no signs that there's goin' t" be an increase in th' ol' lady's family this year." Governor Cummins of Iowa performed the oratorical stunt in Lincoln for the Taft meeting. The Governor Cummins, who is supporting Sherman, the stand patter, and by inference supporting Can non, the chief of standpatters, is the same Governor Cummins who poses as a pro gressive in Iowa. Will M. Maupin. Nine out of ten republicans In Ne braska believe United States senators bhould be elected by direct vote of the people. Nine out of ten repub licans in Nebraska believe the gov ernment should guarantee all bank deposits. Nine out of ten republi cans in Nebraska agree wlm Presi dent Roosevelt that all contributions of money for campaign purposes should be made public, so that tho people may know from whence the campaign money comes. And yet the great financial Interests were able to defeat th will of the common re publicans who neked tho national convention to speak 1e favor of those reforms. And Tor this reason about ulnn cut ol ten Nebraska republicans nr ashamed at their own national platform, aad wholly ludlfferent as tc tho tale or a presidential candidate who v.ande upon such a cowardly plat f orav ANNOUHCEHEHS. For Count Commissioner. Second District I desire to announce to the people of ' uox uuue county jtiat l am the regu lar nomine of the second district for commissioner on the Democratic-Independent ticket and will appreciate sin cerely any support the voters see fit to give me at the polls. J. P. Jensen. For County Attorney. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the office of county attorney of Box Butte county, Nebraska, on the democratic-independent ticket, and solicit the support of the voters of Box Butte county. " Eugene Bi-rton. Why Not Guarantee Both. A farmer sella a hundred dollars worth of stock or grain to his local neater and gets a check for it. He presents It to a national bank and gets , in return a certillcate of deposit. The next day he sells a like amount, bu' when he presents his check decides to take the amount in currency and the banker counts him out $100.00 In the noteB Issued by the bank. Next day the bank falls. The farmer holds $200 of Its obligations, $100.00 In thf form of a certificate of deposit, the 1 other $100.00 In the form of bank notes. The latter Is good as gold, but whether he will ever receive any por tion of the former depends on the condition of the bank. Why should the one be as good as gold and tho other doubtful? Simply because the hank notes are guaranteed by the government, and the deposit Is not. Why should the one be guaranteed and not tho other? Why not guaran tee both? Reason, Not Prejudice Should Guide. Parties are Indispensable and that oach should have its leaders Is Inert-' table. The character of a party fron. ' H t ..., , , , , 1 time to time depends upon the char-' .iv. ui na loauKis. h me lenders are controlled by sinister Influences inimical to the Interests of the peo ple, the party for the time being will be controlled by such influences, and a victory for that party Is a victory for those influences. The representa tives of those Influences do not ask whether a candidate belongs to tho party of Jackson or of Lincoln, but merely whether he Is friendly to the Interests they represent. The voter with no Interest to serve but that or himself and his country should learn a lesion from them, for they seldom make the mistake of voting for a can didate who is likely to thwart their purposes. When they are lined up in favor of a particular candidate, he may rest assured that it Is because they have some guarantee that he will Berve the Interests they represent, and then, If he Is true to himself and to his country, he will cast his vote against that candidate, no matter by what party he is put forward. No Retreat. For years the people have been de manding relief from corporate abuses and rapacity. The fight for the cor rection of those evils is now on and they insist that it shall continue until those abuses aa wiped out nud tho ooctrlne of a "squnre deal" flrmlv es tabllshed as a rule of official conduct President Rnnsovoit i. k, ' H.v. ,, lfW,a OUIU to accomplish much in directing thc tight. His official position has been of Immense advantage, but It would have counted for little had there not been bnck or It the disposition and desire to make the fight effective. He was uot the choice of "predatory wealth" for the presidency, but of the people and has shown both tho disposition and the desire to serve them. But hi term of office expires next March, while the fight against corporate greed has barely begun. If tho fight Is to be kept up and pushed to successful issue, the choice of a successor to Roosevelt is a ma tar of supreme importance. His successor will be either Bryan or Taft. The corporations against whom this fight has been made and those who fatten on their lawlessness, are solidly lined up for Taft and in oppo sition to Bryan. If the people permit them to select the man who shall lead the fight against them for the next four years, the fight for a "Bquare deal" Is lost. If the people would win this fight their leaders should be se lected by them, not by the enemy. Wh fietM Vniir i.auiKUP? . .... .. ... If you were In litigation with an- .. ' , , , . other man. would you allow him to select a lawyer for you or would you select one for yourself? The question answers Itself. No oue but a fool would allow his adversary to choose his lawyer for him. Why not exercise the same Judg- .... . . .. , ,. ment in choosing officers? Why Is It that year after year, the very inter - ests the people havo been fighting have been permitted to solect the nion to fill tho public offices? Just now those Intercuts are exerting all the v.M-rl Inrtnnnn At thplr mm ma ml to elect Taft. He la their choice. That of Itself Is a strong, hint to the peo ple that he Is not the man for them. A CAMPAIGN FORGERY Cleveland Letter Attacking Mr: Bryan Declared Spurious. ROOSEVELT THE POLITICIAN. Using His High Office at Ground From Which to Attack Political Opponents. Enthusiastic Crowds Greet Demo cratic Presidential Candidate Empty Halls Face Taft. Oy WILLIS J. ABBOT. Naturally the great political event of the wools was the admission by the Now York Times that the widely cir culated Cleveland letter declaring for Taft us against Brynu was spurious ami n forgery. It Is rather Interesting to observe by the correspondence that fm,i..iii. mm..... m pi. laud, with the natural lutuitlo'11 of a wife, distrusted the authenticity of the article, though the literary executor Insisted upon its accuracy. Now, aft er It has been permitted to do Us work lu rousing nuew the hostility of the old time Cleveland Democrats against the Democratic party r tow organ ized, comes this much It I111 -d proof of Us fnlslty. There Is an old, old say Ing that a He will trnvel ten mllca while the do. ' 1 i U ti tvcls one. I suppose that today there arc tens of thousands of people who believe and who will believe until election day that this forged letter of Clovelnnd'a, supposed to have been written on his deathbed, was really authentic. It was published tlrst In a newspaper con trolled In Wall street and nlleged to be the property of J. Plerpont Morgan. It has been commented upon approving'- ' .- - t.v plutocratic paper lu the UuLetl oiaies, When It was original ly printed It was put In double loaded typo with glnrlnp; bondings and with nil sorts of editorial embellishments. The denial wns modestly printed In a slnK! lMiiin article without any sort V-V,0RraPmC" ,',' T' , , , .u Suppose somebody had forged the slRimt'ul.e of thc aQ .reBldSnt In a letter urging nil Democrats to vote for Mr. Brynn and hat letter had been given currency through practically the whole press of the United States. What would have been the attitude of the great papers of New York or of Chicago concerning that? Would they have mildly said that they had been Imposed upon? Would they have re duced their expose of its spuriousness to a brief stick or two lu single col umn measure? We nil know well what would have happpned. The literary ad venturer would have been forgotten, but tho charge would have been made that the whole fraud or forgery had emanated olther from Mr. Bryan him self or from the Democratic national committee. Everybody knows that the first pages would have blazed with the wickedness of the Democratic organi zation In thus forging the name of a revered statesman to a spurious docu ment Issued after his death. Concerning Fo raker and Haskell. And why Is It that there has beeu such n tremendous outcry about one Governor O. N. Haskell of Oklahoma, who has occupied a rather Inconspicu ous position In connection with the Democratic national committee? The attack upon I1I111 was originated by William Randolph Hearst, who at the same time attacked with equal venom Senator J. B. Foruker. The evidence concerning Haskell was to the effect that Theodore Roosevelt, the presi dent of the United States, said thut Frank S. Monnetr, former attorney ' 8"el of hI- Baltl tliat ,uau I carnal Squire had said to him that Haskell hnd said that he and Frauk O. Rockefeller would put up u big sum of money to call off a certain prosecution of the Standard OH com pany lu tho state of Ohio. One does not have to be a lawyer to Judge what testimony of that sort Is worth. But tlie Republican newspapers, always reudy to say the worst of any man who believes In Democratic principles, and the president of tho United States, who Is always preachlug the square deal, but usually dealing his cards from the bottom of the pack, attacked Goveruor Haskell on this utterly In consequential and unlawful evidence. Being a man of houor. Governor Has kell resigned his position as treasurer of the Democratic nntlounl committee lest he embarrass tls candidate for the presidency. But the very day he resigned the mau Squire, who was the only authority for the Mounett ntlldnvlt, put out n statement that he had never used the uame of O. N. Haskell In any Interview with Monnett or that he had ever had any association with any at tempt to bribe the attorney general of ! Ohio in behalf of the Standard Oil . company or auy other corporation. It ! would appear now that it is up to Mr. Mounett to defend himself. Incidental ly it may be recalled that he Is not a Democrat, but a Republican, although 1 I ever since ueaieu ror renommuwuu no has been sulking lu his tent. ,. , . . .. Two Candidates and Two Receptions: yu. nrvm) ;J few dayfl g0 vtaUed the I cUy of ciuclunatl, the home towu of ! Tuft nnd the town Ju which he had ' intended to remnlu throughout the ! rainpaign until that intention was Bhnttered by the reports of Bryan ,IIV" tUrougU the Uiiltcjl Stntea. ' Tli s Is what the Cincinnati Enquirer, ft noW8pa,lor who5e owlieP , not over- ; frleIuliy to Mr. Bryan, had to say I nDOut his reception there: I "Twelve years ugo William Jennings J Bryan as a Domocrutlo candidate for president drew 50.000 lwople to Musi "'. e ,pCoru ""K "' ' u history of Cincinnati. Uist night tho batwe man. with n seomlugly more masaetlc Influence, attracted such a inlghrv multitude. to see ond hear him that the very lowest "estimate was 75, 000" It ikj.s not my good fortune to be In Ciuolunntl nt the time of this mag tilflcerl meeting, but I was in Chicngo three days before, wheu Mr. Tnft vis ited that city to make his first speech since his nomination. The committee In charge of his campaign had engag-1 cd n hall which would seat well above 12,000 people. For some reason known only to them they canceled the order for this ball and selected one on the most fashionable thoroughfare of too city scatlug uot more than 000. The majestic presence of Taft did uot fill the hall. The meeting wns to be "'by ticket." But I wcut In myself with out n ticket Just as Judge Taft wns npcaklng nnd found no difficulty la getting n scat for myself nud four oth er companions. Usually n small hall is picked out with the purpose of hav ing n tremendous overflow meeting. In this instance there was no over flow save that of some fifty or sixty policemen who would have been called to restrain the turbulent crowd that never nrrlved. That is the coutrast between the re ceptions of the two candidates. Taft In Wisconsin. H. H. Mansoti, Democrntlo statu chairman of Wlsconslu, throws an in teresting Ride light on th aecttng of employees of the Allls-Ch- lroera com pany near SHlwaukee, to which some excellent newspaper tneu referred aH Immensely enthusiast! ..ni evincing loyal support of Judge T&tt tof the laboring men. "I wns at that meeting," Mr. Man sou said, "and It I.s well known that the company asked the men on the company's time to hear Judge Taft, stopping the works by blowing the whistle ns a signal when thc speaking was to begin. "I Judge about 4,000 men were pres ent. At lenst n thousand of them wore lu their hats placards bearing this de vice: 'What has Taft done for tho la- , borluc men? God only knows'.' "This, of course, rcfors to an answer given by Judge Taft to a question usketi nt o: of Ids meetings as to what bo pi- ,w . u lug with the thou sands of Idle v.eu In the couutry." Mr. Man i predicts that Wisconsin will g to fie Democratic column this year. He --id: "La Follette has beeu crushed by the Taft machine. Much of his following lu our state his been from Bryan Democrats. They won't support Taft and his forces which crushed La Fol lette. They'll vote for Bryan and Kern. What else can they do? Hav ing been sincere' lu supporting La Fol lette because of .his opposition to what Taft represents, of course they will continue to oppose what Taft personi fies and will vote for Bryan." Roosevelt to the Front. Of course nobody expected that President Roosevelt would keep out of this campaign. While It Is not cus tomary for the president of the United States to step down to the position of an ordinary political manager, the Roosevelt enthusiasm has this time, as ever before, enabled him to override all precedents nud to abandon all sete of official propriety. We have In pub lic life now two Theodore Rooscvelts. As a matter of fact, we have had them for some years past, but today the contrast is n little more striking. We have Roosevelt the president of the United States and Roosevelt the Re publican politician, quite as practical ns he was when ho Invited E. II. Har rlman to come to the White House and discuss ways nnd means of cnrrylng with money the pending election. Roosevelt the president deserves hon or and respect because of the dignity of tho high office whlcli he holds. Roosevelt the politician can demand no more Immunity from partisan at tacks, although his friends resent those nt tucks, than If he were the chairman of Tammany Hall or Boss Cox of Cincinnati, his political friend this year. Mr. Roosevelt has seen fit to thrust Into this campaign the great authority and the grent dignity of the office of the president. That in Itself was an outrage upon the American electorate. The president's personal views are his owu, nnd it would be entirely proper for him to express thorn in moderation and within rea son. No president ever failed to de sire the success of the party which had honored him. But no president before this one has sent out letters ev ery other day attacking his opponents and bnslng his charges ngninst them upon merely hearsay evidence or upon the Imaginings of bis own vitally prejudiced mind. Mr. Roosevelt hus linked his arm with that of William Randolph Hearst. What Hearst hus said about Scnn'or Fornker the president, without inves tigation, has approved. But some years ugo, when Mr. Hearst was u candidate for governor of New York, Mr. Roosevelt sent Ellhu Root to ex press his views to the voters of' that Btnte. This is what Mr. Root said: "I say to you, with his (Roosevelt's) authority, he regards Mr. Hearst as wholly unfit to be governor, as nn in sincere, self seeking demagogue, who Is trying to deceive the worklugmen of New York by false promises nnd fulse statements." A fow of the phrases- applied to Mr. Hearst by Root, sneaking for Roosevelt, were hose: "Exploiter of sonsatlonnllsm," 'crude, foolish vl.slouary," "npolo Klzer for crime." And fluully. In sum mlug up. Mr. Root said. "I say by the president's authority, In penning these words with the horror of President McKlnley's mnrder fresh before him. be had Mr. Hearst specifically In his mind." But today what Hearst says of the ciost stainless men in the United Btates Mr. Roosevelt accepts ns gos pel and stamps with tho hall mark of jhe White House. Chicago. ,