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EEE WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1917 mmm Law School) & Sherman) (Glencoe Merchant) (Active Civic Worker) These are important offices. similar cases. good government. The League was formed in N N \ RN N aroused by this expose, swept League have been elected. following: a Hoyt King, Township to $5001.62. amounting to $2888.93. N \ \ N \ \ 3 T'rier Citizens' Ticket. 222% NY FOR JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. FREDERICK B. CROSSLEY, Wilmette, (Lawyer; Secretary of Northwestern University DANIEL M. MICKEY, Wilmette, (Lawyer; Present Justice of the Peace) ASA Q. REYNOLDS, Kenilworth, (Lawyer; General Counsel Butler Paper Co.) HENRY F. TENNEY, Winnetka, HERBERT V (Lawyer; Member of Firm of Tenney, Harding . JAMES R. CROCKER, Glencoe, FOR TOWNSHIP SCHOOL TRUSTEE. NINA F. HOWARD, Glencoe, passes on Township accounts and expenditures. EE Redd ddiduc NEW TRIER CITIZENS' PARTY TICKET And Its Backers. The New Trier Citizens' League urges Th, election of the above ticket in the interest of of public spirited citizens, among whom were Shelby M. Singleton, Robert Stoddar d, Percy B. Eckhart, Frederick W-. Burlingham, Robert H. Wallace, Murry Nelson, Jr. M. Booth. It is modeled after the Municipal Voters' League of Chicago and is strictly non- partisan. Its charter states its purposes to be (1) to cause citizens of integrity to be elected to township offices; (2) to compel township officials to pay interest on public funds; and (3) to accept only legal fees and salaries. In 1913 the League, after careful investiga- tion, published an expose of township officials' abuses so astounding as to be almost incred- ible. Carlton Prouty had built up a township political machine which had dominated New Trier politics for years. Public indignation, chine into the political scrap-heap, and elected the ticket endorsed by the IL.eague. Since 1913 only two candidates not endorsed by the The township officials elected through the efforts of the League have accomplished the turned into the township treasury commis- sions and interest on public funds amounting Mrs. Gertrude M. Thurston, Township Supervisor and Highway Treasurer, has turned into the township treasury interest on public funds amounting to $1503.44. Mr. Frank A. Andrew, Treasurer of the Township School Trustees, has turned over to the township schools interest on school funds 777 FT errr, a 0 NEW TRIER GITIZENS PARTY TICKET 7% 7222777777777 7700000000000 27% 722277 ® Fudorsed by Ne ew Trier ition wo FOR CONSTABLES. CHARLES BRAUTIGAN, Wilmette, (Janitor of First Congregational Church) JOSEPH A. SHEPPARD, Wilmette, : (Formerly with Central Passenger Association) ALFRED JOHNSON, Winnetka, (With American Steel & Wire Co.) . RICHARDSON, Glencoe, (Present Village Policeman and Constable) HENRY A. HAPP, Winnetka, (Janitor New Trier High School) FOR HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER. FRANK P. COLLIER, Wilmette, (Highway Commissioner for Last Three Years) The Justices constitute a majority of the Towlship Board of Auditors, which The Constables select the j juries which try "Blind Pig" and other % \ Vd # bh 7777777777777 7777 727772777 § oN 1913 by a group F # FF and Sherman/ thé Prouty ma- in 1911. Collector, has Shore Ticket. > 5 ET 22 Ed EE TLE uri THIS III LISI \ \ \ N N N N N \ N N N N N N N N As Township Collector, from taxes sums ranging from $79,780.00 in 1908 to $185,606.50 in 1913. officials elected by ceived and retained illegal fees, salaries, com- missions and interest amounting in the aggre- gate to many thousands of dollars. Prouty's political machine was built up many vears before the New "Trier Citizens' [League was even thought of. ship Collector from 1905 to 1914. candidates on Prouty's ticket have never been elected to (office, so they have no official rec- ords we can point to. Prouty seeks support on his alleged effi- ciency. Doubtless he was efficient in obtain- ing interest on public funds in his hands, but' we never heard of his turning over a penny of this interest to the Township Treasury. the Prouty These conditions prevailed in New Trier Township under the Prouty regime. I voters wish to return to such conditions, they should vote for Carlton Prouty and his North EE We appeal to all citizens believing in clean, honest a nd efficient Township government to support the New NEW TRIER CITIZENS' LEAGUE Uiiizizziiiiizzzzizizzzz2ZzZzZ7zZzzzZzz227772 22 2 ny) on He was Town- The other Prouty has a record as a township official by which it is fair to judge him, and it is not unfair to assume that the other candidates on his ticket approve his of- ficial record. As Township Collector, Prouty collected, and still illegally withholds, the fol- lowing commissions which he should have turned into the township treasury: $95.60 in 1908; $665.18 in 1909; $886.85 in 1910; $1229 Prouty collected Other township machine re- WALLS SASS SSAA ASSIS SSSI ISLS ISLS SSSI SSSA LSS SSIS SSSI SSIS SSS SY Quill LLL LLL ELL LLL LE 2 2 Za Zr THE NORTH SHORE TICKET + And Who Is Back Of It. This ticket is put in the field and is backed by Carlton Prouty and his political friends. 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