Viewing page 9 of 44

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[preprinted]] TELEPHONE, MONROE 825
[[Image: Allied Printing Trades Council Chicago logo]] 236

1437 WEST OHIO STREET
CHICAGO [[/preprinted]]

-2-
therefore went to New York to ask Miss Strachan to give up her candidacy this year, promising her full support next year. Miss Strachan hooted at the thought of being defeated and determined to go on with her candidacy. She then began to pull wires. She had a letter of introduction from Mayor Gaynor to Mayor Harrison upon whom she called for an hour and a half. She secured the support of the book trust while standing for certain progressive measures, such as woman suffrage and one of the amendments. She was her own worst enemy. She had a way of throwing insinuations around accusing everybody and everything in sight. For instance, she accused Margaret Haley of being opposed to her because the Teachers' Federation had not secured for her a fifteen hundred dollar secretaryship at the last convention. This was a bit stupid when everyone in Chicago knows that Margaret Haley refused a five thousand dollar position as lecturer on her tax fight.

The following ^[[incredible]] telegram to President Pearse of Milwaukee was sent by Miss Strachan's campaign manager, Miss Katherine D. Blake, "June 17, How do you and your teachers stand on Miss Strachan for president? If the progressives do not support our candidate, New York will stay out of the fight. A big delegation of Butlerites expect to recapture the association. If you have not Miss Grace Strachan as your candidate, the progressive party will be defeated. The New York committee awaits your decision." 

The reference to the "Butlerites" means the adherents [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] of Nicholas Murray Butler, but the prediction in the telegram was not verified for not only was Miss Strachan defeated