The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-06

mtion not TO participate in the lnaug-
ural exercises next Monday, and after
adjournment marched to the Neil
House and serenaded Senator Hanna.
The senator responded in short speech
and then retired to the conferences
with his workers.
The scene about the Great Southern
hotel was animated in the extreme.
The Democratic senators had been in
session for over seven hours, and had
Just come to an agreement. The Hanna
people were greatly encouraged. claim
ing that five of the ten Republican
people "held out" from the Republican
deck would be ip line for Hanna.
The ten Kurtz Republicans were
closely watched. From Saturday until
/ Monday they were under constant sur
veillance.
Grimth's wife Figures.
Representative ]. p. Griffith, who
was elected speaker pro tenn, has been
having an exciting time. He received
| kilograms from his Union county con.
stituents asking him to resign, saying
he would be hung in effigy and that
delegations were enroute to Columbus
to hold an indignation meeting. Mr..
Griffith has withstood much agitation
the past week At midnight the Hanna
workers got him into a conference at
the Neil House, and it is said that he
was "almost persuaded" about o clock.
but he did not want to change without
consulting his wife, who was strongly
in sympathy with the combine that
nominated her husband speaker pro
TEN.
Ip nF fn
the Great Southern hotel, got Mrs.
Griffith up and escorted her to the Neil
House, where she remained with her
husband till a, m, when the kurtz
workers missed both Mr. and Mrs.
Griffith and proceeded to the Neil
House after them. While being es-
corted out of the Neil House the rival
workers got into a fight as to who
should escort Mrs. Griffith.
The anti Hanna men succeeded in
getting Mrs. Griffith to return to the
Great Solthern hotel, where she had
tho last interview with Mr.. Kurtz Just
before the procession formed to start
70 the state house for the opening ses
!. siOn The wives and relatives and
other friends of some members who
were in the doubtful list have had eX
periences the past few days and night;
| "a
tirh and their troubles have probably
Just begun in that line While the
Joint senatorial caucuses are held neXI
Wednesday night, the balloting in th'
legis atura does not begin for nine days
Oh Wednesday, Jan. IL.
Goyerntr Bushneil's Message.
Governor Bushnell in his annua
message to the legislature thus referred
TO the necessity for primary election
: law TO the state
The election laws of our state ar,
designed TO be broad enough to afforC
ample pro eetlon for the purity of tn,
ballot, but ii must be admitted that re
form is needed In our system of con
ducting primary elections To max
/, the conditions more satisfactory in re
lation TO the exercise OF the electiv
franchise, it seems to me necessary tha
there shall be such extension of tn
laws as will place the primaries rnde
the control OF the board of election
city and county.
! "a method which will provide tha
the primaries of each party shall b.
. held under control of boards Of elec
tion at the same time and under tn
saue rules, permitting only registere
lots for delegates TO conventions, o
8 candidates for nOminotion and attach
r ing proper penalties for violation OF tn
laws will effect reforms which shoul
long ago have been instituted in behal
of sovereign right OF the people
Such departure from our preseit sys
tenn will be IN harmony with advances
: ideas concerning election processes, an
! will be approved by all good citizens.
/, respectfully present the subject for con
: sideration and hope to see the seventy
third general assembly take the inI
. tlatlve in this matter y
The state nnances are reported in eS
+, cellent shape. The state met ever
! debt when due ana Nov. 10 had ba
, ance of $435, ,3t4 ror contingerci Tn
bonded Indebtedness Of the state ha
4 been reduced TO ST, ,29l ,6B5, which wi
be discharged at the rate of $2d0, 90
yearly. The excise tax OF one half Q
1 per ce { on the gross earnings of cei
, tain corporations produced Sd2G, 15C
which was promptly paid. Total rt
. ceipts for the year were 81 13l, 27f
] The message saws biennial sessions hav
proven good thing, and met wit
popular approval,
, State institutions supported l9,712 il
! mates at an expenditure of S2,46S, S6'
/ or $ ,7Bn /, uedurtiug earnings, Th
: new Eastern Hospital for insane q
, Massillon Will soon lie completed an
i accommodate 200 unfortuuates no
IN tae hospitals inRrmaries or Jail
4. The governor recommends cottage
Q capable of accommodating 80 person
r each, on the grounds OF the various no
o pitals, Tor the accommodation Of insan
:. who cannot get admission TO the no
O pitals, The present female prison
!. pronounced almost a disgrace 10 II
' state and prison for females shoul
' be the next penal institution
a The governor recommends the col
: tinuance aad necessary improvemeI
!. of the Miami and Erie canal, almo
e self-suppofting, ana OF the Ohio can
y from Cleveland TO dresden. The stat
e he says Is proud OF It's national guar
!, which including the nayal BRIGADE, b