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THE ELECTION AND RACING RACINGTen Ten statistics of Tuesdays local elective ex ¬ pression ought to convey an object lesson of the broad large kind to men who have legislative votes and are in executive corners of the city of Chicago and the State of Illinois Mr Harri ¬ son on a platform which declared for liberality in the administration of public affairs in Chi ¬ cago was given more votes than all the other candidates of all the other parties He dragged a group of candidates that were lower than the average with him The public voice ought to be instructive to public men Tuesdays voice was both shrill and cloar for Chicago as Chi ¬ cago was under Mr Harrisons fathers keen hand a good town a liberal town and a town that suited the folks that lived in it It was at the same time a loss lawless town than that in which we live in these days of curs The ad ¬ ministration whicti is displaced by last Tues ¬ days vote has been narrow furtive and fat headed headedIt It and its clumsy side issues cost Chicago many millions of dollars The local merchants in sharp linos can furnish the figures The spirit that controlled the fatheaded local administration also governed the Illinois legis ¬ lature and helped to kill Chicago racing since 1894 Local quarrels among racing people was one of the illegitimate influences brought to bear on the mean narrow and not particularly honest confederacy which shaped local and state legislative action in opposition to public opinion opinionLast Last Tuesdays vote tells in letters of more than the usual size what the people of Chicago want wantMr Mr Harrisons idea about municipal liber ¬ ality on the edge of the endorsement about what he considered Chicago needed was almost that of a political genius Chicago isnt a wide open town It was in the Worlds Fair year But that was the year of a century Chi ¬ cago is though a great town It is full of clean men It is full of men too who think that un ¬ less out of line with the law of the land their fellows should bo allowed to do as they choose chooseAntiracing Antiracing legislation cost Illinois 15000000 in 1895 and 25000000 in 1896 Such legislation was condemned by Tuesdays voice of the peo ¬ ple Mr Harrison declared for the Chicago of Carter Harrison his father before his election He declared for such an intelligently governed town after his election The Chicago of Carter Harrison I was a well governed Chicago a pros ¬ perous Chicago and a sensibly controlled Chi ¬ cago That is the Chicago in the eye of every good citizen of Chicago The narrowness of the last three years has driven 100000000 away from the greatest city in America Mercantile corners can give the exact figures by compari ¬ son between 1894 and 1896 1896There There are bills before the Illinois legislature Others are in hiding The main proposition is about the term of racing The prohibition of racing since 1894 has been costly to the city It needs a wellmade fair law that will control and regulate Such a law should be broad enough to embrace all the interests in horse breeding and using in Illinois and not made for one division of horsodom
