University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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, ' -rar ' - M---,4 The Merriam Qiampaign Led by Assistant Professor Charles E. lhlerriarn, the University of Chicago faculty members, student body and even janitors last spring made a swift de- scent into the strenuous field of politics that wasunprecedentcd in the history of any American university. Although it failed to receive the crown of victory, the campaign waged by Mr. hlerriam for the mayoralty of Chicago was the most stirring of the last decade and the potency of the scholar in politics was borne in upon the minds of the complacent political bosses of the city with an emphasis that will admit of no forgetting in the immediate future. just as the politicians had smiled with amused tolerance when Nlr. Nlerriam came out as an aldermanic candidate, so did they again smile when they heard he was to be candidate for the mayoralty. But they already knew better than to say he was not practical. Quietly and firmly, nevertheless, he went about the city making friends of strangers and earnest supporters of friends. Then the primaries approached. Lined up against hlr. hfferriam for the Republican nomination were two boss-named candidates, each with an organiza- tion of paid workers. By this time the students and alumni took a hand. The Merriam club was formed on the campus, a club of men who not only believed but were ready to achieve. Against almost hopeless odds they began their work. And they really worked. They distributed circulars, they tacked up signs, they got out voters to register, they checked up polling lists, they traced the profes- sional repeaters, they canvassed precincts, they argued with relatives, friends and strangers, and all the time they talked hfferriam. And on the night of April 4, when the votes were counted they found that hflerriam had rolled up a vote that equalled that of his opponents together and had won the Republican nomination. Then came the real campaign. Against lXflr. hlerriam was Carter H. Harrison a former mayor and the head of a powerful political organization. It looked almost hopeless, even to his most optimistic friends. All the work of the primarycam- paign was repeated-and more. On election day, over a hundred students and more faculty members arose before sunrise and went down into the slums of the first ward, there to battle with the forces of Hinky Dinkf' and his paid army of repeaters. As Challengers, clerks and judges they stood up against the thugs of the tenderloin and challenged the purchased ballots. Nlore than one of them was thrown out of the polling place, and more than one returned to the campus with a bruised face, but the vote cast in the corrupt wards was less than it had ever been before. The weapons of principle and of ideals, however, were powerless before the stronger ones of gold and by a majority of 17,000 votes Harrison was elected. It was a bitter defeat, hut a glcricus cne. Against alrrost insurmountable obstacles 160,000 voters had been made to place their faith in a man with a new political cause. And though unrewarded by the joy of success the University community had the satisfaction of entering the opening wedge in the long fight for a new po- litical regime, and a new and strong body of recruits was added to the small army enrolled in thefight for decency. Perhaps that was better than victory. I

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