A boom for Judge Joseph Sabath of the Superior Court for next mayor of Chicago has just been begun by his friends. Judge Sabath, who is a democrat, is a brother of Representative Adolph J. Sabath. He is now sixty years old. He arrived in Chicago as an immigrant at the age of fifteen and his first job here was that of a messenger boy.
Friends who are furthering Judge Sabath’s candidacy for mayor claim he is so popular in Chicago that he can draw over a million votes. They base his popularity chiefly on his record as a judge in the divorce court. During the nine years that he has been hearing such cases, the judge has granted 35,000 decrees of divorce and effected 2,100 reconciliations. This, argue his friends, means that he has made 74,000 votes of litigants alone and at least 350,000 more from their acquaintances. Besides this, Judge Sabath can speak nine language—English, German, Bohemian, Polish, Yiddish and several Slavic tongues—is a member of twenty-two organizations and is believed to be in sympathy with the “wet” movement.
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