Editing Carter Harrison III (section)

===Haymarket affair===
Harrison's first mayoral tenure was a period that saw many events which brought the city national and international attention. One such event was the [[Haymarket affair]]. Early on the evening of the Haymarket affair in 1886, Harrison had casually observed the then still peaceful demonstration of anarchists and trade unionists and advised the police to leave the demonstrators alone; he then left the scene before the riot and anarchist bomb-throwing occurred. A significant reason for his ability to attend the rally unbothered was that, while Harrison came from a [[Protestant]] background, he needed the votes of and thus made appeals to the city's large ethnic [[White people|White]] [[Catholic]] population as well as its rapidly growing numbers of [[trade union]]ists. His administration gave the impression of being more favorable to trade unions and strikes than those of previous Chicago mayors as well as other mayors of the time, although his police force routinely put down striking workers and trade union activists when they interfered with the businesses hiring replacements.

In the aftermath, Harrison spoke against anti-[[socialist]] sentiments being published in the media. Harrison argued that socialists were not sympathetic with bomb throwers, and remarked that socialists were representatives of the country's "workers, thinkers, and writers."<ref>{{cite web |title=Harrison,Carter H. |url=https://florencekelley.northwestern.edu/legal/mayors/harrisonsr/ |website=florencekelley.northwestern.edu |publisher=Northwestern University |access-date=6 October 2023}}</ref>