Statements by Best Friend of Mayor of Chicago London, Nov. 12.
Mr. Michael Faherty, "Big Bill" jeago's right-hand! sailed for home to-day after a visit to Europe to. study underground railway systems, and before his departure informed interviewers that Mayor Thompson "is the mo: t open-minded man in the world: he loves England but is trying to make Americans patriotic."
Mr. Faherty, who is president of the Board of Local Improvements of Chicago and is accompanied by was apparently en-impressed by what has seen in England. He considers the underground systems] wonderful engineering feats but} turally recognizes that mistakes have occurred which Chicago will be able to avoid when that city starts on its contemplated underground.
Mr. Faherty's glowing opinion of Mayor Thompson is not shared by Mr. Newton Baker, former War Secretary, who, according to Re ter's correspondent at St. Loui told a gathering of University students that "In Chicago a. flaming demagogue organized ignorance in the form of three to four hundred thousand blacks and took over the Municipal government. I won't say that Mayor Thompson is the most ignorant man in the world—I don't know everybody—but apparently he is unaware that King George III is 'y dend and that there have been other duties—Reuter.
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