Word: altgeld
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EAGLE FORGOTTEN: THE LIFE OF JOHN PETER ALTGELD-Harry Barnard-Bobbs-Merrill...
Never in the U. S. history, says Author Barnard, had a man been assaulted in the press so fiercely and irrationally. The vituperation went on for months, increasingly hysterical, until Altgeld was all but broken by it. The usual report has been that Altgeld never recovered from this verbal bombardment. Barnard's account, however, is that after being dazed and bewildered, the governor suddenly began to fight with the savagery of a man who has nothing more to lose. When Cleveland sent Federal troops to Chicago during the Pullman strike of 1894, going over Altgeld's head...
...anything to do with it. Eight anarchists were tried for murder, and although it was never determined who threw the bomb, four were hanged, three got life and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three who got life were pardoned by the pale, homely, contradictory John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, prison reformer, idealist, lawyer, wealthy real-estate operator and builder of one of Chicago's first skyscrapers. Last week Altgeld's story was told in a 496-page volume which gave the governor's reasons for his act, showed its consequences not only...
...irony of Altgeld's life was that he was not a rebel until his enemies made him one. Then he became one of the most effective dissenters in the country. Born in Germany of peasant stock in 1847, he was brought to the U. S. when he was three months old-a circumstance that kept him from being the Populist candidate for President. With his health permanently weakened by fever contracted as a Union soldier, he wandered through the West, became a lawyer in Missouri and settled in Chicago in 1875. He had married a childhood sweetheart, written...
...Altgeld the essential factor about the Haymarket case was that the anarchists had not had a fair trial. Jurors had frankly admitted prejudice, and the record showed appalling contradictions. But when Altgeld said so in an 18,000-word pardon he was damned as a murderer, a communist, a demagogue, a foreigner, an anarchist, a thief, a liar, a madman, a knave, a fool, a bomb-thrower, a Nero and a coward...