CHICAGO POLITICS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 13

CHICAGO POLITICS

"BIG BILL" AND THE JUDGE

SOME LIVELY CLASHES

■ NEW YQBK, 10th February. A Chicago message states that tht picturesque Mayoralty campaign of th» principal candidates, Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson and Judge Lyle, has reached the libel-suit stage. After a series of verbal clashes producing a highly charged ■ atmosphere, Thdanpson enlivened the scene with street parades of elephants, mules, and other animals, each bearing a statement ridiculi^j his opponents; and, in addresses, stated that America had Prohibition, which it did not, want because King George wanted it, for it enriched Canada and England. Lyle charged , Thompson with,, having appropriated , relief funds. Heßaid: "I. will fckin him and rub salt in him." He dalj-ed him to file a libel suit. Thompson immediately replied: ?'I 'will accept the dare." He has issued a suit for 100,000 dollars. >!! Thompson said: "I will let him gel? by nntil he attacks Big Bill's integrity; then I will knock him down and kick him in the face. If I can hook this judge right, I will put him in the penitentiary."

At Christmas; "without waiting for the decision of the anti-Thompßon Republicans, Judge John H. Lyle, of the Felony Court, announced himself aa a Kepublic .candidate) for the Chicago Mayoralty. Judge Lylo is knowa as the leading crusader on the Bench against gangsters and racketeers, and the originator of a "public enemy' list by which several figures i» Chicago's underworld have been brought to justice. Judge Lyle promises an honest and efficient police, a saving of millions which are wasted now, and a vigorous policy against crime. He recently declared that if ever "Searface" Al. Capone is haled into Court on a vagrancy warrant which has lam unserved for over four months now, determined efforts would be made to convict him of the murder of two men, one of them "Big Jim"Colosimo. The other, it is understood, though no name was mentioned, is Joe Howard. « Thompson is seeking a fourth term. M Mayor for "World Fair" year.