Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1902 — JOHN P. ALTGELD DEAD. [ARTICLE]

JOHN P. ALTGELD DEAD.

John Peter Altgeld di?d at Joliet, 111., at 7:09 o’clock a. m., Wednesday morning. On Tuesday evening he had addressed a large and enthusiastic meeting on the Boer war. At the close of the meeting Mr. Altgeld was seized with dizziness, caused by cerebrel hemorrhage. From this attack he never rallied, and from midnight on he was unconscious to the end. Mr. Altgeld was the 20th governor of Illinois, having been elected with Grover Cleveland in 1892 He was a candidate for re-election in 1890 but was defeated. Mr. Altgeld was quite aggressive and very tenacious in his opinions, and thereby made many enemies who lost no opportunity to misrepresent him. Although a native-born German, Mr. Altgeld enlisted in the union army at the age of sixteen <and served throughout the war, yet, like the late W. R. Morrisson, was so modest that half the campaign of 1896 was over, and traitor, anarchist, etc., had been applied to him before it was known he had been a soldier at all. There will always be a wide difference of opinion as to the outcome had Mr. Altgeld’s ideas been enacted into law, but the consensus of opinion will be that his conclusions were reached after mature deliberation resulting from personal observation of wrongs inflicted on the poor conscienceless, unscrupulous, greedy corporations.