Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1931 — Page 19

APRIL 10, 1931

‘BIG BILL' TOOK DABE, LEAPED INTO POLITICS Thompson’s Career Began Hot Day in 1901 for a SSO Bet. CHICAGO. April 10.—The defeat a£ "Big Bill” Thompson by Anton CA.-itAk for Chicago’s mayoralty bODors ends a political career which oegan rather spontaneously one hot afternoon in the summer of 1901 around a table in the Chicago Athletic Club. Three of “the boys” from the First ward were slaking good old Republican thirsts in the fashion of the day when the talk drifted

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to the approaching aldermanlc elections. Gene Pike and George Jenny, fellow builders in the Chicago Yacht Club, urged Thompson to step out, but Bill demurred. Dominated by the celebrated Bathhouse John Coughlin and Hin-key-Dink Mike McKenna, the First was heavily Democratic, and the election machinery was in the hands of the Democratic county organization, over which the late Roger Sullivan then presided with a certain something that made thoughtful citizens out of all Republicans in those parts. Besides, Bill, son of a wealthy pioneer from New Hampshire who had profited greatly by buying up acreage adjoining the site of the Ft. Dearborn massacre shortly before sidewalks went down in State street, already was famous for his entertaining at Rectors. He never had thought of politics as a field for his genial talents. Impulsively, Jenny threw SSO out on the table, offering to bet Pike that Bill didn’t have the courage to make the loop. Befere Pike could cover, Thompson himself snatched the money from Jenny’s hand. The bet was on. The commodore of the Valmore, thrice winner of the Michigan City regatta and blue-ribboner in the Macking race, longest fresh water event in the world, never had refused a dare. And so Big Bill entered politics. He won the alderman’s seat by 100 votes, and before his fourth year term expired he had discovered himself. He was in the game. He began humbly in the city council by sponsoring public playgrounds, but ten years later he was grand marshal of the home-coming parade which escorted William M. Lorimer through Michigan boulevard after the victorious first episode of the disbarment proceedings. Later when the “blonde Swede” was ejected from the senate, Thompson it was who attempted to

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reorganize the fragments of the did machine into the Lincoln Republican Club of greater Illinois, the nucleus of the organization which first made him mayor. In March, 1915, a few days after he had won the Republican mayoralty nomination from Chief Justice Harry Olsen of the municipal court, Thompson solemnly repeated in a typed statement his campaign promise that he “would not, if nominated and elected, use the power of the mayor’s office to build up political machines.” His first act after taking office in April was to promote a gigantic “prosperity parade,” a noisy and diverting agglomeration of political performers who, in behalf of the then numerous unemployed, organized a line which was six hours in passing the Chicago Board of Trade. The refusal-of Frank Lowden to have anything to do with this touching expression of social sensibility was the root of the enmity between the two men. From this event, also, dates the celebrated Thompson slogan—the only one he ever really believed himself—“when in doubt, have a parade.” Two Face L l . S. Booze Charges Two Negroes, William Miles and John H. Galbreath, from whom police took a five-gallon jug of alcohol while they were in an automobile on West North street a week ago, have been bound over to the federal grand jury under bond of SI,OOO each.

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FURNISH HOMES TO BE EXHIBITS AT EXPOSITION Realtors’ Show to Be Held Daily Next Week at Fairground. Truckloads of household furniture went north on Indianapolis streets today to the state fairground, where the pieces will become part of the tenth annual Realtors’ Home Show, which opens at 6:30 Saturday night. The exposition will be held daily next week, including Sunday, April 12. The model house, centerpiece of the show, was furnished completely today, and has been equipped with every convenience known to the building trades. Louis J. Borinstein, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, will officiate at the formal opening of the show. Other realtors and home builders who will attend the opening include: Albert E. Uhl president of the Indianapolis Real Estate board, which sponsors the exposition; A. H. M. Graves, president of the Indianapolis Home Builders Association, which sponsors the model house; Frederick Wallick,

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JUDGE LAUDS NEW ACT Chambers Praises Law Prohibiting Early Closing of Estates. Probate Judge Smiley N. Cham-, bers commended a law passed by the last general assembly prohibiting closing of estates of deceased persons within six months after the death, before the Indianapolis Real Estate Board luncheon Thursday in the Indianapolis Athletic Club.

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