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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1904)
wpBPWSilwi'M"'"HwSigwip The Commoner. JUNE 24, 1904.- 3 John K. Walsh "The newspaper which exerts an in fluence as a newspaper is to he es teemed. The newspaper hossism which operates outside o journalistic lines, through third parties, by subterfuge, by bullying, by menaces, and by craft is to be condemned." Chicago Chron icle. Evil and irritating days have ar rived for that alliance between the re publican wing of the democratic party and the democratic wing or tne repuo lican party which finds Us headquar ters in the Chicago National bank. Hence the drippings of the lachiyma tory gland of the Chicago National bank, the Chicago Chronicle. The Chicago National bank was con ceived in politics. Its history is an expose of the long continued intrigue between political interests and busi ness interests in this city. In 1879 John R. Walsh became a member of the south park board. In 1880 Martin J. Russell, Walsh's news paper editor, became a member of the board; Since that time there has been no interruption of the personal rela tionship between the board and the bank. At present John R. Walsh, president of the bank, is treasurer of T e board; William Best, director of tne bank, is a member of the board; and Lyman A. Warton, vice president of the Equitable Trust company, which Is a feature of the bank, is likewise a member of the board, leaving three members for the general public. The first large deposit which the Chicago National bank acquired was that of the south park board. For years this deposit was confined by litigation to the vaults of the bank . and formed a fund from which loans were issued, interest collected, and the prosperity of the bank established. Then Walsh, a democrat, began signing .treaties, with his republican allies. Frederick M. Blount became an official of the bank. He is now vice president. In 1884 he was treasurer of the west park board. Today he is still treasurer of the west park board. The funds of the west park board go, therefore, for first lodgment to the Chicago National bank. To Frederick M. Blount was soon added John M Smyth. Smyth is to day a director of the bank, and, with Blount, the bank's republican face. He and his west side comrades, Lorlmcr, Mamer, and Clark, cause Walsh's in fluence to be felt in republican nomi nations. V The democratic column, in its pres ent alignment, marched in at the time of the Ogden gas ordinances. Walsh and Smyth are now directors of the Ogden Gas company. So are Thomas Gahan and Roger Sullivan, When Mayor' Harrison failed to sign the or dinance which would have allowed the Ogden Gas company to complete its blackmailing, buccaneering venture by selling out to the People's Gas Light and Coke company, the Gahan and Sul livan democracy seceded from the ad ministration and assumed its present position, with all the" accompanying tactical advantages, under the lee side of the Chicago National bank. Rosebud Excursion Rates. Chicago & Northwestern Railroad agents will sell special excursion tijk ets daily from July 1 to July 23 at one and one-third fare lor round trip to .bonesteel, Fairfax and Yankton, account opening for settlement of un allolled lands in Rosebud Indian Agency, South Dakota. Passengsis may return on any date up to August 31, 1904. Rate, Lincoln to Bonesteel an return, on sale daily July 1 to 23, $9.80; Lincoln to Fairfax, S. D., and return. $9.10. Return limit Aug ust 31. A twq-cent stamp will ormg you full information regarding the registration. R, W. McGinnis, Gen eral Agent, Lincoln, Neb. . City .oilkc. 1024 O st The Ogden gas ordinances were also responsible for the change in Walsh's political philosophy with regard to tho proper functions of such bodies as tho Municipal Voters' league. Walsh's newspaper, tho Chronicle, had thought that the league was a forco for civic righteousness. It had said so frequently and emphatically. But when tho league opposed tho second Ogden gas ordinance, when it gratuit ously interfered with the consolida tion of tho two gas companies, when it stubbornly stood in. the way of a fi nancial enterprise in which Walsh was interested, the Chronicle saw that Im pertinent reformers would undermine the republic. Since that sudden illum ination the Chronicle has walked in the light and has fearlessly exposed the unscrupulous deeds of tho Chil dren of Darkness who, instead of con fining themselves to after dinner lau dations of municipal reform, intrude themselves into the active considera tion of specific municipal measures. The endless chain was now complete. The republican links were Blount, Smyth, Loriraer, Jamieson, Hanecy, especially Hanecy, and others sim ilar. The democratic links were Sul livan, Gahan, Hopkins, Brennan, espe cially Brennan, and others similar. Tho missing link, which bound all tho rest together, was found in tho person of Walsh, who, as Blount is reported to have declared, has voted tho re publican as ofton as the democratic ticket When Walsh interested him self continually and pertinaciously in the elevation of Hanecy to the bench he rose high above petty paity feel ings. When Brennan bought votes for Hanecy in the Eighteenth ward he was illustrating the same dollcato impartiality in his own crude way. The entente cordiale between Walsh Hopkins democrats and Walsh-Lorl- mer republicans reaches its most ef fusive manifestation in the drainage board. Alexander J. Jones, William Legner, and Thomas A. Smyth are Walsh.-Hopkins democrats. Joseph C. Braden (from the Jamieson retinue), Zina R. Carter (from the Lorimer retinue), Frank X. Cloidt (from the Magerstadt retinue), and William H. Baker (from the Blount retinue) are Walsh-Lorlmer republicans. Blount is treasurer of the board. He carries Its funds first to the Chicago National bank. Contracts go sometimes to democratic firms like Lydon & Drews, Hopkins being Lydon s uncle, and sometimes to republican firms like Lorimer & Gallagher. Non-political firms seldom mar the horizon. Webb and Wenter, the two dissenting mem bers of the board, do their dissenting without cessation and without effect. In tho state legislature tho influ ence of the Walsh coalition has been seen and will bo seen. Tho session of 1897 passed a gas consolidation bill which consummated the Chicago gas monopoly. The session of 1905 will, in all probability, deal with the ques tion of the regulation of the price of gas within the city limits. C. K. G. Billings, chairman of tho board of directors of the People's Gas Light and Coke company, is a director of the Chicago National bank. John R. Walsh, president of the Chicago Na tional bank, is a director of the North western Gas Light and Coke company, which is owned by the People's com pany. If Walsh-Lorlmer republicans and Walsh-Hopkins democrats are as strong in the legislature of 1905 as they were in tho legislature of 1897 there will bo the same disregard of the welfare of the people of Chicago. The men who fastened a gas monopoly on Chicago and who attempted to rein force the gas monopoly with a per petual traction monopoly are the same men who today cluster around the Chicago National bank ready to swarm. It is not, therefore, tho past of the Chicago National bank that challenges apprehension. The past has been re called merely for illustrative and ex planatory purposes. If Walsh, the political banker, tho custodian of south park, and drainage board funds, tho patron of tho Lorimer and Hop kins machine, tho reconciler of repub licanism and of democracy for tho control of tho drainago board and for tho enactment of suitable corporation legislation at Springfield, "dire all these things only in tho past it would bo vindictive malignity to expose thorn to public view. But tho combination exists today. ,Itu cries of pain as it is being cut by Doneen arc heard in tho Chronicle, which, with all Rh democratic soul, for column aftor col umn deplores Dcneen's victory over Lorimer. 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