Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-06
POLITICS IN OHIO.
Tom Joanson's Recent Schemes Described
by John Gould.

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and writer upon agricultural topics, more
especially those appertaining to dairying,
left Monday in company with Secretary
McKeen of the State boarl for institute
work in Aroostook county.
Mr.. Gould has been in the State before
at the request of Mr.. McKeen and those who
have listened to him once always gladly do
40 again. He is an loft hand" ready and
pleasing speaker, apt in illustration, and has
an Astounding sense of humor which he
cleverly draws upon.
Mr.. Gould came here directly from his
home in Aurora, Ohio, in the district of
Tom L. johnson, millionaire, iron manu-
facturer, street railway king, speculator,
politician, free trader, and possessor of a
bluff hearty manner which he has artfully
used to ingratiate himself with ".he boys"
"Tom" feels so secure in the ownership OF
one of the largest iron and steel plants in
the country that he doesn't doubt that with
free trade it will be his workmen who will
surrender part of their wages rather than
he part of his business, and so he is for
free trade out and out, in season, and some
of his Democratic colleagues thought out of
season when the German bill was under dis
cussion.
Mr.. Gould says that johnson is working
lilo beaver for reelection but it is
doubtful if he possesses the popularity he
shored ut the last election. Toms protesta-
,ions of iutere st in the welfare of the city
of Cleveland have fallen somewhat flat in
the light of recent Developments. Just now
instead of bringing his two million dollar
steel plant to Cleveland, he is planning to
take it to Lorain, about 40 miles from
Cleveland and build up town or city at
that place.
lie has shrewdy taken advantage of bis
time in Congress to get that body to appro-
pirate money to build breakwater at
Lorain, which is now provided with an ex-
cellent harbor. He bought up the land at
that place, plated it seven lots to the acre,
and is now selling the lots at 500 each and
corner lots at $1,000. In brief he is going
through the same manipulations that he did
at Johnstown which place he proposes now to
abandon, and will have second Pullman at
Lorain. Instead of buying at Cleveland the
machinery that he must use in his new plant,
and there is none superior to that manufac-
tured there, he buys it in Glasgow, Scotland
and getting it in for small duty, as he
brings it in parts under the head of repairs.
Just how much effect these new enterprises
will have upon Mr.. Johnson's popularity in
that district remains to be seen.
But how much of majority are the
Republicans going to get in Ohio tomorrow,
Mr. Could"
81 shall be satisfied if they get $4,000,
but there are some so sanguine as to set it as
high as 100, 900 and bet on those figures.
The farmers in the State are feeling sore.
You can buy the best Merino sheep in
hocks at fifty cents head and good sheep
for 50 cents, while the price Of wool is
from to / cents with no demand at that
1t is said that the Quakers and Dunkards
or large maj ority of them will vote this
year and that their votes will be for Re-
publican candidates.
with the exception of Johnson, the
Democratic candidates for Congress seem
to be doing little, hoping that God will
temper the wind to the shorn lamb.
You will be surprised, perhaps, when tell
you that the Republicans feel that they've
got to do their livelest hustliDg down in
Coxey's district. That man is an enigma.
And it's unaccountable the influence he ap-
pears to have down in that district since he
got rid of Carl Brown. The majority OF
of the Democrats will vote for him and he
is arousing the Populistc sentiment to its
highest pitch.
Mr.. Gould is an admirer of Gov. Hoard
of Wisconsin as well as a co-worker with
him in advancing dalrying in this country.
81 have heard Gov. Hoard and Bill Nye
get at each other for hours at time" said
Mr.. Gould. They are great friends
and one is as great wit as the
other. Mr.. Hoard has trick
when he meets an old friend of firing po-
ser at him. He caught me that way sew
eral times and determined to get square.
So one morning when l met him l said
Governor, why do the heather rage! quick
as flash Hoard replied with smile
Why do the heather rage? why bless your
soul man because they can't get but cent
on the dollar contributed for foreign mis-
sions.'"