Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1891 — CHICAGO’S NEW MAYOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHICAGO’S NEW MAYOR.

Hampstead IVaxhburne a Representative of Distinguished Servitors of the pleThe most hotly contested Mayoralty fight that the city of Chicago ever experienced ended ia the election of Hempstead Washburne, Republican. Hempstead Washburne comes of a distinguished family, whose American history begins with John Washburne. who was the first secretary of the Council of Plymouth. The name has figured in many of the great events in our national history from this pilgrim father down. The great record of Elihu B. Washburne, of whom the just elected Mayor of the great city of Chicago is the son, is the common property of his countrymen. There were seven brothers of this distinguished family, Israel, Jr., Algernon Sydney, Elihu 8., Cadwalader C., Samuel 8., Charles E., and William D., all now dead except the last named, who represents Minnesota in the Senate of the United States. At one time three of the brothers were in Congress at the same time, Israel, Jr., from Maine, Cadwalader C. from Wisconsin, and Elihu B. from Illinois. Among the Washburnes were four Congressmen, two Governors, two United States Ministers to foreign governments, and two distinguished soldiers. The father of the new Mayor, whose history is closelv identified with that of the State of Illinois, was born in Maine in 1816, having come of a progenitor who fought, through the

Revolutionary war from Lexington to Ticonderoga. Hempstead Washburne has already shown himself possessed of many of the qualities for which his father was known. Like him, he is an uncompromising Republican and believes in the principles of that party with all his sou'. He is a native of Illinois, but ■was educated at the home of iris ancestors in Maine, and attended the same school at Kent’s Hill in which his . father prepared himself for cdllege. Graduating there in 1871 he immediately joined his father in Paris, where he witnessed many of the stirring scenes which preceded the formation of the French republic. He then entered the celebrated University of Bonn, in Germany. Here he studied two years, and then returned to America to finish his education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He graduated in 1874 and w’ent to Chicago, being the first of his family to select that city as his home. Entering the Union College of Law and being duly admitted to the bar, he began the practice of his profession there, ana was appointed master in chancery by Judge : Elliot Anthony in 1876. He served in this capacity until 1885, when he was elected city attorney by the Republicans, who re-elected him to a second term. He was a faithful servant, and a just prosecutor. *' TLo young Republicans of the Fourth Congressional district sought to make him their candidate for a seat in the national legislature in 1888. but when Congressman Adams became the prefer-

ence of that body of his party, he turned all his energies to the support of the successful man. It was his first defeat, but it did not change his fealty and allegiance as a Republican, pure and simple.

HEMPSTEAD WASHBURNE.

DE WITT C. CREGIER, THE RETIRING MAYOR