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nantagonism, for it had handled a good friend like grime. Why, if you went down to pay a visit to him you would have to deliver in your card by a valet on a silver salver and then wait right until he was by means of chewing gum." But this kind of raillery wasn't enormously successful. Despite his tender several years, 30-1 in all, he was recog- nized as a accomplishment. But what set him in excess of more than his personal acceptance between his friends was his marshaling ALDERMAN WILLIE AND THOMPSON 15 of the negro vote in the south of the ward. By discrimi- nating use of Abraham Lincoln's charitable deed, and wealthy exploitation of his father's element in chopping absent their chains, he packed them solidly powering him - and hardly ever missing them. In 1915 this entrenched placement as the Black Man's Friend came in incredibly helpful. In 1900, working for alder- gentleman, it gave him a plurality of 403 votes, not significantly for each- haps, but sufficient to place him in the council and gain his guess with George Jenney. There is a rumor about that has persisted for far more than a 10 years to the result that Thompson was sponsored for his to start with political office by Mathew Kent, later on famed as a radical and then known as a militant foe of spoils ways in municipal govt. Also, gossip has it that Bill originally gained the endorsement of the Municipal Voters' League. Both of these tid-bits may possibly be true, and if they are the joke is on Mathew and the M. V. L. For Thompson lived and flourished soon after his tender beginning and two many years later on witnessed the reform group calling him the worst names any past mayor ever endured. Although breathing hefty council-chamber air was a novelty to the younger politician he quickly acclimated him- self. He failed to obtain time to go to very often, but when he was existing the G. O. P. experienced a useful member in his seat. In his two calendar year phrase he served on a number of strategic committees and was chairman of the committee for harbors, viaducts and bridges and even though apple- cheeked civics students are explained to by their schoolmarms that this honor goes to a expert on harbors, viaducts and bridges, a lot more refined men and women can inform them in different ways. Tipped off by a helpful editor, Alderman Thompson was the very first to shift for a municipal playground for young children and motivated his colleagues to suitable 16 HIZZONER Big Bill THOMPSON $1200 to experiment with a single at twenty fourth and Wabash Avenue, the to start with in America. Remembering his numerous mates in the prize-ring, and his personal enthusiasm for boxing with his friends at the club, he moved for the estab- lishment of an athletic commission to regulate this activity. When he understood how flawlessly suited he was for poli- tics, imprecise and colossal ambitions began to kind in his breast. He pricked up his ears when casually talked about as mayoralty timber in 1901, but sat again when the increase unsuccessful to have further than the walls of his clubs, cognizant of the time it takes for a person to get to this kind of a command- ing peak. But the seed experienced been planted in his head and took but fourteen several years to flower, and was ten or a lot more yrs in returning to seed. In Beverly Nichols' vibrant and astute account of his pay a visit to to the mayor in 1926, he notes four images hanging in the anteroom, depicting Thompson at numerous levels of his occupation: 1 is of Bill the cowboy another demonstrates him with a football team a 3rd as a yachtsman a fourth is a caricature of a gigantic Bill atop the metropolis corridor. Adja- cent is a important photograph of the White House at Washington. From these Nichols attracts the inference that Thompson is a male of violent ambitions. Unquestionably true. But Bill the cowboy had no desires of governmental splendor and Bill the yachtsman was j ust the greatest sailor in city. But after he had tasted of the voluptuous and intoxicating fruits of election victory he secretly lusted for much more. When he was alderman he dreamed of currently being mayor when he received that he had hallucinations of don- ning a senatorial toga failure to get this but spurred him to stranger illusions of grandeur: the Presidency, and making use of the energy of this workplace to set John Bull in his suitable area on his knees in advance of the Greatest Nation on Earth! But one particular has to begin somewhere. So he made the decision to move ALDERMAN WILLIE AND THOMPSON seventeen into the first ward and contest with "Bath-property John" Coughlin for his spot in the council. This was shortly right after his very own term experienced expired in 1902. But when the puissant ward committeeman, George Bibbs, indignantly- objected, Thompson retired in confusion. He was equipped to avenge his humiliation straight away, when he aspired to a squat in the county commission. Again he campaigned with gusto and skill. His reward was not only victory but victory of these kinds of an overpowering character that the boys of the racket lifted their eyebrows above it. He led the complete ticket, with the sole exception of Fred Busse, who was the largest vote-getter of his day, with a whole of 129,130. And this with out the overt assistance of any equipment, his power ensuing fully from his campaigning and widening individual next. It is amus- ing to take note the suggestions of the Chicago Daily News at this 1902 election: among other individuals it endorsed Clarence Darrow for the condition legislature, Roy O. West for the board of assessment, Joseph Medill Patterson and William Hale Thompson. Twenty years conspired to shunt these four gentlemen down 4 greatly-divided tracks. On November 7, 1902, the subsequent assertion poured forth from the complete purple lips of the hero of this narrative : I have no political ambitions - at the very least not so significantly as the mayoralty is involved. I have been a member of the city council and have just been elected to a different office environment. In my view, how- ever, the time is ripe for Republican results in the spring. The community is exhausted of a detrimental authorities and that is what Chicago has been given by Harrison. This is a younger man's age and if a cleanse, liberal, shiny youthful person of broad tips and with a need to give Chicago a organization administration is offered the nomination in the spring he can be elected. While I am not a candidate I am much more than nervous to do my portion toward supporting and aiding in the election of these a man. 18 HIZZONER Big Bill THOMPSON This is stumbling, clumsy expression - but the hint is unmistakable. In 1905 he was all over again boomed for mayor, this time with some small insistency. But it just failed to seem to be to click with the occasion bosses. In 1907 Fred Busse preferred the nomination, and, as nobody doubted he would get it, Bill Thompson insisted he was just a sportsman, had but an educational fascination in politics. But getting a very good get together male he felt compelled to render Busse some aid in the election. He organ- ized the Young Men's Fred A. Busse Club with Eugene Pike. After Busse's induction Bill was rewarded with a key to the mayor's internal office, which meant influence and an simple entry to the High Place. But in the winter season of 1908 an incident happened which made available refreshing evidence that Bill Thompson has always been a sportsman to start with and a politician 2nd. The story is that Mayor Busse, unpopular with his fewer uncouth acquaintances at the Illinois Athletic Club, was the victim of a frame-up in a card recreation. The ex-iceman could not see the joke and slapped back again with a raid. This surly indecency designed Thompson furious, and he promptly mailed back again his vital of special privilege. When the ob- scenities of the Busse regime were being uncovered by Charles E. Merriam Bill chuckled. Not mainly because a mayor had violated general public believe in, but since Ananias was dying on the cross. So in the wintertime of 1909-10 Thompson seemed about him for a different machine, in the tonneau of which he could ride comfortably. He hadn't deserted his poorly-con- cealed wish to be Chicago's swellest mayor, born when he initial smelled political fish a-frying in the council kitchen, and affiliation with a robust business was the greatest system of knowing his dream. The reasonable link for him was the major-slugging outfit of William Lorimer, for Lorimer had mentioned with approval Thompson's great flair for receiving in the community ALDERMAN WILLIE AND THOMPSON 19 eye and staying there. Bill hoped to get the boss's sanc- tion for the 1911 mayoral nomination, but all device aspirants were doomed that 12 months. Merriam's baring of the Busse derelictions somehow brought about the most important plum to fall into his lap, and only Carter Harrison's outstanding group prevented Chicago from possessing its very best feasible mayor. As for Thompson, he experienced just stood apart and enviously looked on. But through this period he produced a speak to which inevitably built his dream appear genuine : he met and listened to Fred Lundin, the "poor Swede." Four A Bold NOT SO Bad SAILOR HP HE initial number of months following the dying of his father, in -■» 1891, young Bill used in location his fiscal affairs in order. But the lifestyle of investing and re-investing money, and studying land values and profiting thereby, quickly palled. He was just a youth (tall as we see him today but possessing then none of the fats he later on extra by weary- ing devotion to the community weal) and he sorely necessary an outlet for his boyish strength. So he turned to sporting activities and video games. He joined the previous Marquette indoor baseball staff, which boasted George Jenney, Bill York and the Pelouze boys (1 of whom turned Bill's brother-in-regulation), and assisted in its several triumphs. The Chicago Athletic Association had been launched in 1872, but in the nineties it was continue to in its teething stage, so when such an enthused and wealthy fellow as Bill Thompson applied for a existence membership in '92 he was welcomed graciously. In all those virile times the substantial ath- letic clubs supported soccer teams. It was not until finally recently that they turned effete and concentrated on track and tank pursuits. And soccer was designed to buy for Big Bill. He captained the elevens of '95 and '96 and in the latter 12 months they received the championship of the entire nation. This aggregation involved these gridiron lumina- ries of the mauve 10 years as Sport Donnelly and Doc Stewart, who with Thompson built up the formidable trio which introduced about most of the victories on tour. Thomas Beer does not point out it, but that staff was criticized up twenty A Bold NOT SO Bad SAILOR 21 and down the land as a "crew of ruffians," and after the sport with Harvard they were just about lynched. Thomp- son's preliminary practical experience in the organizing and main of gentlemen was a achievements, of the sort journalists call "signal." Furthermore, the club turned nationally famous and has not pined for users or dollars due to the fact. That his football times are expensive to Thompson is indicated by a remark he wistfully allow drop a ten years later on. "I'd enable all the political glories slide if I could wake up the C. A. A. and see the Cherry Circle profitable football game titles once far more." And he meant it. Bill's sporting blood has generally been higher- most in his ample veins. He was active in the C. A. A. right up until 1898, when he served as vice-president, then he grew to become as well absorbed in politics to give substantially time to it. In 1904, having said that, his political aspirations a little bit dampened, he organized the Illinois Athletic Club with the help of a few close friends and fifty dol- lars in postage stamps, and acted as its president for the initial 4 many years. During his incumbency he promoted the developing of the present million dollar clubhouse and shrewdly secured a 99-year lease on the house. It far too is now prospering, getting developed enormously given that Presi- dent Thompson gave it the first force in the suitable route. But his beloved recreation for thirty decades of his life has been navigation. For just about three decades his ruddy pores and skin has routinely faced the breezes of lakes and seas. This joyful predilection prompted his signing up for the Chi- cago Yacht Club and, later on, the Columbia Yacht Club. The C. Y. C. twice elected him commodore and he has finished useful obligation as chairman of the government com- mittee. In 1912 he was elevated to the posture of commo- dore of the Associated Yacht and Motor Boat Clubs of America. His lots of honors at the hands of the sailing fraternity 22 HIZZONER Big Bill THOMPSON have not been idle tutorial gestures, even so, but have been, rather, recognitions of his incredible skill at the helm. With his beloved Valmore underneath him he won the Mackinac Race, the longest clean drinking water race in the planet, 3 instances in succession. All kinds of sailing and boating, conserve canoeing in the moonlight, appealed to him and he was proficient in the managing of just about every kind of craft. Throughout his sailing job his shades, black and gold, have always commanded regard. As the twentieth century grew outdated more than enough to drop its diapers, the Thompson monicker gained steadily in news worth. On May 13, 1908, just one of the papers bowed to the public's curiosity relating to the good, and indicated the scaring vicissitudes of the sporting lifetime hence : Friends of William Hale Thompson, president of the Illinois Athletic Club, had been alarmed yesterday by studies that his yacht, Valmore, sailed by himself and George R. Pease of Chicago, had foundered off New London, Connecticut. Telegrams sent by Mr. Thompson to his wife and his business spouse, Dwight Lawrence, dissipated the rumors. The storm raged two days close to the Valmore and forced her into Digby, Nova Scotia, for repairs. However just about every a person on board is protected and they will start off for Quebec tomorrow. While commodore of the Chicago Yacht Club, Thomp- son complained of the desuetude of motor boat racing as an international activity. So he planned a massive aspect for the annual aquatic of 1912: a collection of races for the "championship of the universe." To curiosity international com- petition he went abroad for a thirty day period, going to France, Germany, Italy and England for this intent. When the main returned, the boys of the club gave a banquet in his honor at the University Club. He was showered with compliments for the successes of his vacation, for it had introduced about assurances of an intercontinental A Bold NOT SO Bad SAILOR 23 scope to their approaching water festivities of August 10-17, for which William Wrigley, the trigger of all the wagging jaws about, had donated a $22,000 trophy. Charlie Burras was the fascinating learn of ceremonies and led in the singing. The pursuing tracks, bellowed by some, nasally noised by many others, dulcetly crooned by a several, are illustrative of the esteem and heat Bill aroused in the hearts of his fellowmen : BILLY. (To the Tune of Kelly.) We're all listed here for Bil-ly, B I double L Y, And everybody in this article understands Bil ly, You'd know him by his smile, For his heart is staunch and his phrase is correct and he's a Sportsman by way of and by means of. We're all listed here for Bil-ly, for Billy is value the when. WELCOME. (To the Tune of Sailing.) Welcome! Welcome! from around the bounding most important, Let each guy here drain his glass for Bill is house yet again. Welcome! Welcome! back to your indigenous land, We greet you like legitimate sailors all, with heat clasp of the hand. And a few drinks later on (for this was just before the Blight) : Dear Old Bill. (To the Tune of Dear Old Pal.) Dear outdated Bill, Jolly old Bill, HIZZONER Big Bill THOMPSON Always remember, In June and December That I am your pal, And will be to the end, No matter what comes about to you. In 1915 Thompson endeavored to combine patrioteering with sportsmanship, for he had found out that it mixes with practically anything in America. He proposed that a massive motor boat fleet be recognized on the Great Lakes to protect our northern boundaries from a attainable foe. This magnificent stratagem was obtained with yells of appro- bation by the yachtsmen, a saber-rattling editorial currently being prepared about it in Cruiser, the club paper, but Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Admiral Sims did not appreciate its alternatives for nationwide protection. The pleasures atop the waves have constantly at- tracted Bill Thompson the most, but he has observed time for dozens of fishing and searching excursions, attendance at boxing matches, football and baseball games and nu- merous other manly exhibitions. In 1912 he was director common of the Sportsman's Club of America, but unkind aldermen and newspapers insisted that this was no sport- ing club at all but just a political clique. In addition Big Bill has by some means managed, with out serious reduction of sleep or neglect of his other duties, to par- ticipate in the doings of quite a few lodges and fraternities: he is a Regent in the Loyal Order of Moose a member of Hesperia Lodge 411, A. F. & A. M., Lafayette Chapter, Saint Bernadine Commandery he is also affiliated with the Shrine (Medinah Temple), Odd Fellows, B. P. . E., Woodmen of the World, the Maccabees and the Sons of Veterans. A Bold NOT SO Bad SAILOR 25 For a guy who has in no way been accused of morbid mis- ogyny Thompson married fairly late in daily life. There was very little suggestive of Paul of Tarsus about the Bill of his twenties, but it is tough to posit him as ever possessing been the breast-heaving, motion picture lover variety. The boys at the metropolis hall or the I. A. C. would hoot at the eyesight of Big Bill lyrically intoning Shelleyan odes, for the photo they have of him is taking part in a rigid hand of poker in his shirt sleeves, or issuing cryptic orders to an assemblage of precinct captains. No, the kind of passion Maysie Wyse engendered in the heart of Bill Thompson can barely be explained as analogous to the adore of a D'An- nunzio for a Duse, nor is it on the minimal aircraft of the experience Dr. Warren Gamaliel Harding had for the skip who turned his biographer fairly is it ordinary, healthier and real. Thompson was married to Maysie Walker Wyse in St. Joseph, Michigan, on December 7, 1901. Thompson was 30-two a long time previous, his wife 20-6. They ended up married in mystery, only the bride's mom staying informed of the breath-taking news. Alderman and Mrs. Thompson hustled again to Chicago. When the story leaked out, as these types of tales will, they at very first denied its verity, but finally gave in with defiant blushes. The honeymoon came afterwards, the pair visiting Louisville, the bride's birthplace, and other factors in the Confederacy. For some explanation the match has unsuccessful to consequence in what affluent poets of the American Hearth quaintly connect with "tiny blessings." It is now doubtful if there at any time will be a William Hale Thompson III to go on the chauvinistic custom in the town hall in Chicago. Five Bill SITS AT THE Feet OF THE Master AS has been indicated, the span involving the time Thompson adorned the county commission until finally he grew to become Chicago's most celebrated and celebrating mayor was not as bleak as "Who's Who" data. For in 1910 he joined up with the crew of William Lorimer. And this intended a thing in those ferocious times. Lorimer smacked of Tweed and the unsung users of the Pittsburgh Mellon Gang. He had a broad contempt for truthful, earnest souls in politics, even, forsooth, doubting the extremely existence of the gent whom Diogenes pursued so disconsolately. He was blandly harmless in community but cryptically cynical in non-public, and reminded 1 extra of J. Rufus Wallingford than C. Evans Hughes in surface- ance and attack. He was certain of himself, energetic and ruthless. He asked for quarter but granted none. He de- spised reformers, the Chicago Tribune and all other peo- ple who opposed him. Dr. Harding's magnanimous attor- ney normal, Mr. Harry Mica j ah Daugherty, have to have made use of Lorimer as his product. He rose on Chicago's southwest side, definitely a fallow discipline for lilies. Entering ward politics after an admirable ap- prenticeship in the stockyards, slaughterhouse, he shoul- dered his way into the social gathering caucuses, ultimately controlling to cadge a seat in Congress from his district. Subsequently he voted in 7 congresses, pyramiding his toughness by patronage, contracts and aggression until eventually he became the "Blonde Boss," with Doc Jamieson, John M. Smythe, 26 AT THE Feet OF THE Master 27 Henry Hertz and Fred Lundin, the head of the most for- midable equipment in the condition. Charles Yerkes, the traction "baron," held the funds bags with Edward Hines, the lumber "king," and soon the crew descended upon the state legislature with blood in their eyes and a determina- tion to drive Lorimer into the United States Senate, this becoming ahead of immediate election built that august human body pure and sensible. The only opposition was the faction of Charles S. Deneen, governor of the state and manager of Chicago's south side, and a handful of independents. Pressure was exerted from all feasible quarters. Finally, with the aid of Lee O'Neill Browne, the Democratic floor chief, a big adequate bloc was effected, and Senator William Lori- mer joined his buddy Boies Penrose in Washington. The extraordinary poem of the investigation, exoneration, re-investigation and the climaxing expulsion is stirring and familiar, and will be dealt with in this article but sketchily. What is immensely essential about the Lorimer scan- dal, to these wishing to comprehend what has transpired to their state, is the tremendous distinction in the angle of the public and the press at the height of the probe into his election, and their reactions today to additional ambitious corruption. All that was tested in 1912 was that Lorimer received his seat by corrupting seven of the legislators at Springfield, utilizing a $100,000 "jack-pot" to change the trick. When this marginally heterodox tactic was uncovered the papers turned as psychological as center-aged opera singers, just about each and every sheet in the land forming a refrain of loud indignation with the Chicago Tribune and the Record- Herald. Hundreds of hundreds of letters were penned by the voters, and golf equipment and corporations almost everywhere posted resolutions condemning Senator Cullom (the senior Senator from Illinois who voted after the first investigation for the vindication of his colleague) and the initial whitewashing committee. For months the Tribune 28 HIZZONER Big Bill THOMPSON devoted just about a total part each Sunday to com- ment on the situation, and for a stable yr the din was febrile and fantastic. When the New York World said, right after the exoneration debacle of 1911 : "The Senate has vindicated Lorimer now who will vindicate the Senate