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Through
the
influence
of
these
powerful
advocates
he
was
invited
to
speak
before
various
local
commercial
bodies
--
the
Board
of
Real
Estate
Dealers
,
the
Property
Owners
'
Association
,
the
Merchants
'
League
,
the
Bankers
'
Union
,
and
so
forth
,
where
he
had
an
opportunity
to
present
his
case
and
justify
his
cause
.
But
the
effect
of
his
suave
speechifyings
in
these
quarters
was
largely
neutralized
by
newspaper
denunciation
.
"
Can
any
good
come
out
of
Nazareth
?
"
was
the
regular
inquiry
.
That
section
of
the
press
formerly
beholden
to
Hand
and
Schryhart
stood
out
as
bitterly
as
ever
;
and
most
of
the
other
newspapers
,
being
under
no
obligation
to
Eastern
capital
,
felt
it
the
part
of
wisdom
to
support
the
rank
and
file
.
The
most
searching
and
elaborate
mathematical
examinations
were
conducted
with
a
view
to
showing
the
fabulous
profits
of
the
streetcar
trust
in
future
years
.
The
fine
hand
of
Eastern
banking-houses
was
detected
and
their
sinister
motives
noised
abroad
.
"
Millions
for
everybody
in
the
trust
,
but
not
one
cent
for
Chicago
,
"
was
the
Inquirer
's
way
of
putting
it
.
Certain
altruists
of
the
community
were
by
now
so
aroused
that
in
the
destruction
of
Cowperwood
they
saw
their
duty
to
God
,
to
humanity
,
and
to
democracy
straight
and
clear
.
The
heavens
had
once
more
opened
,
and
they
saw
a
great
light
.
On
the
other
hand
the
politicians
--
those
in
office
outside
the
mayor
--
constituted
a
petty
band
of
guerrillas
or
free-booters
who
,
like
hungry
swine
shut
in
a
pen
,
were
ready
to
fall
upon
any
and
all
propositions
brought
to
their
attention
with
but
one
end
in
view
:
that
they
might
eat
,
and
eat
heartily
.
In
times
of
great
opportunity
and
contest
for
privilege
life
always
sinks
to
its
lowest
depths
of
materialism
and
rises
at
the
same
time
to
its
highest
reaches
of
the
ideal
.
When
the
waves
of
the
sea
are
most
towering
its
hollows
are
most
awesome
.
Finally
the
summer
passed
,
the
council
assembled
,
and
with
the
first
breath
of
autumn
chill
the
very
air
of
the
city
was
touched
by
a
premonition
of
contest
.
Cowperwood
,
disappointed
by
the
outcome
of
his
various
ingratiatory
efforts
,
decided
to
fall
back
on
his
old
reliable
method
of
bribery
.
He
fixed
on
his
price
--
twenty
thousand
dollars
for
each
favorable
vote
,
to
begin
with
.
Later
,
if
necessary
,
he
would
raise
it
to
twenty-five
thousand
,
or
even
thirty
thousand
,
making
the
total
cost
in
the
neighborhood
of
a
million
and
a
half
.
Yet
it
was
a
small
price
indeed
when
the
ultimate
return
was
considered
.
He
planned
to
have
his
ordinance
introduced
by
an
alderman
named
Ballenberg
,
a
trusted
lieutenant
,
and
handed
thereafter
to
the
clerk
,
who
would
read
it
,
whereupon
another
henchman
would
rise
to
move
that
it
be
referred
to
the
joint
committee
on
streets
and
alleys
,
consisting
of
thirty-four
members
drawn
from
all
the
standing
committees
.
By
this
committee
it
would
be
considered
for
one
week
in
the
general
council-chamber
,
where
public
hearings
would
be
held
.
By
keeping
up
a
bold
front
Cowperwood
thought
the
necessary
iron
could
be
put
into
his
followers
to
enable
them
to
go
through
with
the
scorching
ordeal
which
was
sure
to
follow
.
Already
aldermen
were
being
besieged
at
their
homes
and
in
the
precincts
of
the
ward
clubs
and
meeting-places
.
Their
mail
was
being
packed
with
importuning
or
threatening
letters
.
Their
very
children
were
being
derided
,
their
neighbors
urged
to
chastise
them
.
Ministers
wrote
them
in
appealing
or
denunciatory
vein
.
They
were
spied
upon
and
abused
daily
in
the
public
prints
.
The
mayor
,
shrewd
son
of
battle
that
he
was
,
realizing
that
he
had
a
whip
of
terror
in
his
hands
,
excited
by
the
long
contest
waged
,
and
by
the
smell
of
battle
,
was
not
backward
in
urging
the
most
drastic
remedies
.
"
Wait
till
the
thing
comes
up
,
"
he
said
to
his
friends
,
in
a
great
central
music-hall
conference
in
which
thousands
participated
,
and
when
the
matter
of
ways
and
means
to
defeat
the
venal
aldermen
was
being
discussed
.
"
We
have
Mr.
Cowperwood
in
a
corner
,
I
think
.
He
can
not
do
anything
for
two
weeks
,
once
his
ordinance
is
in
,
and
by
that
time
we
shall
be
able
to
organize
a
vigilance
committee
,
ward
meetings
,
marching
clubs
,
and
the
like
.
We
ought
to
organize
a
great
central
mass-meeting
for
the
Sunday
night
before
the
Monday
when
the
bill
comes
up
for
final
hearing
.
We
want
overflow
meetings
in
every
ward
at
the
same
time
.
I
tell
you
,
gentlemen
,
that
,
while
I
believe
there
are
enough
honest
voters
in
the
city
council
to
prevent
the
Cowperwood
crowd
from
passing
this
bill
over
my
veto
,
yet
I
do
n't
think
the
matter
ought
to
be
allowed
to
go
that
far
.
You
never
can
tell
what
these
rascals
will
do
once
they
see
an
actual
cash
bid
of
twenty
or
thirty
thousand
dollars
before
them
.
Most
of
them
,
even
if
they
were
lucky
,
would
never
make
the
half
of
that
in
a
lifetime
.
They
do
n't
expect
to
be
returned
to
the
Chicago
City
Council
.
Once
is
enough
.
There
are
too
many
others
behind
them
waiting
to
get
their
noses
in
the
trough
.
Go
into
your
respective
wards
and
districts
and
organize
meetings
.
Call
your
particular
alderman
before
you
.
Do
n't
let
him
evade
you
or
quibble
or
stand
on
his
rights
as
a
private
citizen
or
a
public
officer
.
Threaten
--
do
n't
cajole
.
Soft
or
kind
words
wo
n't
go
with
that
type
of
man
.
Threaten
,
and
when
you
have
managed
to
extract
a
promise
be
on
hand
with
ropes
to
see
that
he
keeps
his
word
.
I
do
n't
like
to
advise
arbitrary
methods
,
but
what
else
is
to
be
done
?
The
enemy
is
armed
and
ready
for
action
right
now
.
They
're
just
waiting
for
a
peaceful
moment
.
Do
n't
let
them
find
it
.
Be
ready
.
Fight
.
I
'm
your
mayor
,
and
ready
to
do
all
I
can
,
but
I
stand
alone
with
a
mere
pitiful
veto
right
.
You
help
me
and
I
'll
help
you
.
You
fight
for
me
and
I
'll
fight
for
you
.
"
Witness
hereafter
the
discomfiting
situation
of
Mr.
Simon
Pinski
at
9
P.M.
on
the
second
evening
following
the
introduction
of
the
ordinance
,
in
the
ward
house
of
the
Fourteenth
Ward
Democratic
Club
.
Rotund
,
flaccid
,
red-faced
,
his
costume
a
long
black
frock-coat
and
silk
hat
,
Mr.
Pinski
was
being
heckled
by
his
neighbors
and
business
associates
.
He
had
been
called
here
by
threats
to
answer
for
his
prospective
high
crimes
and
misdemeanors
.
By
now
it
was
pretty
well
understood
that
nearly
all
the
present
aldermen
were
criminal
and
venal
,
and
in
consequence
party
enmities
were
practically
wiped
out
.
There
were
no
longer
for
the
time
being
Democrats
and
Republicans
,
but
only
pro
or
anti
Cowperwoods
--
principally
anti
.
Mr.
Pinski
,
unfortunately
,
had
been
singled
out
by
the
Transcript
,
the
Inquirer
,
and
the
Chronicle
as
one
of
those
open
to
advance
questioning
by
his
constituents
.
Of
mixed
Jewish
and
American
extraction
,
he
had
been
born
and
raised
in
the
Fourteenth
and
spoke
with
a
decidedly
American
accent
.
He
was
neither
small
nor
large
--
sandy-haired
,
shifty-eyed
,
cunning
,
and
on
most
occasions
amiable
.
Just
now
he
was
decidedly
nervous
,
wrathy
,
and
perplexed
,
for
he
had
been
brought
here
against
his
will
.
His
slightly
oleaginous
eye
--
not
unlike
that
of
a
small
pig
--
had
been
fixed
definitely
and
finally
on
the
munificent
sum
of
thirty
thousand
dollars
,
no
less
,
and
this
local
agitation
threatened
to
deprive
him
of
his
almost
unalienable
right
to
the
same
.
His
ordeal
took
place
in
a
large
,
low-ceiled
room
illuminated
by
five
very
plain
,
thin
,
two-armed
gas-jets
suspended
from
the
ceiling
and
adorned
by
posters
of
prizefights
,
raffles
,
games
,
and
the
"
Simon
Pinski
Pleasure
Association
"
plastered
here
and
there
freely
against
dirty
,
long-unwhitewashed
walls
.
He
stood
on
the
low
raised
platform
at
the
back
of
the
room
,
surrounded
by
a
score
or
more
of
his
ward
henchmen
,
all
more
or
less
reliable
,
all
black-frocked
,
or
at
least
in
their
Sunday
clothes
;
all
scowling
,
nervous
,
defensive
,
red-faced
,
and
fearing
trouble
.
Mr.
Pinski
has
come
armed
.
This
talk
of
the
mayor
's
concerning
guns
,
ropes
,
drums
,
marching
clubs
,
and
the
like
has
been
given
very
wide
publicity
,
and
the
public
seems
rather
eager
for
a
Chicago
holiday
in
which
the
slaughter
of
an
alderman
or
so
might
furnish
the
leading
and
most
acceptable
feature
.
"
Hey
,
Pinski
!
"
yells
some
one
out
of
a
small
sea
of
new
and
decidedly
unfriendly
faces
.
