the punishment of crime. One of the
most important offices in the State of Illinois, one of the most
remunerative offices is the office of State's Attorney of Cook
county. Why is that office sought for? Because it is honorable,
because it is remunerative, and the lawyers are few who would not
gladly assume the responsibilities of the office of public
prosecutor. The law not only provides for a public prosecutor, but
it provides for five assistants. Mr. Foster then referred to the
importance of having a competent and trustworthy man for this
office, and then remarked that it was singular that the State's
Attorney with his five assistants could not attend to the business
of the county." At this juncture he made it evident that he was
opposed to the appointment of Mr. Hynes to assist the prosecution,
for he said:

"No sooner was there an arrest made on account of the murder of Dr.
Cronin than war was declared in the opposing camps of the
Clan-na-Gael in Chicago. It was war to the knife, and the knife to
the hilt, which has been kept up incessantly from that time to
this. What was the first thing to do? Employ a good lawyer. Not
satisfied with the provisions of the statute to which I have
referred--not satisfied with the ability of my learned friend,
Judge Longenecker, and all his assistants, they looked for another
man. They cast about for a man of extraordinary ability to come to
the rescue and hang the lot of opposing Clan-na-Gaels, and as they
cast about for the man, he, who of all others is a power before a
jury, the man who first attracts their attention is the man who
last addressed you--a man whose home is in the courts--a man who
only lives to address juries, and by addressing juries and
courts--a man who can win cases before juries regardless of the
facts by the power of his ingenuity and his eloquence. That is the
man they want; that is the man they will have, who, in addition to
the power I have referred to, is a partisan in the conflict, an
Irishman and a Clan-na-Gael of the opposing faction. What other man
among the two thousand lawyers at the Chicago bar except William J.
Hynes, is the man to whom their attention is called?"

Having commented on the able arguments of Mr. Ingham and Mr. Hynes,
Mr. Foster said:

"All I desire