Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-19

at the primaries.
THE attention of Youngstown Is
respectfully directed to Akron S oanR
clearings for the current week
Akron's clearings are nearly double
Youngstown's.
If Prof. C. F. Seese of Hudson is
defeated today for the nomination
for Representative it will be haro 10
convince him that the picture,
which has been printed in the COL
umns of the Beacon, Purporting 10 pe
his likeness, didn't have something
to do with it.
THE Akron Democratic club is the
first organization in the state TO
receive its charter under the newly
organized Association of the ONO
Democratic clubs. The Akron CLUB
will be known as Number l. 1t Will
continue to rank first in point OF
membership, enthusiasm and ehec-
tive work for the cause OF Democ-
racy, as well as in name.
AKRON people will hardly know
their own city during the Free Fair
and Carnival, so complete will be
the transition ito the splendor OF
Oriental decorations and surround
ings soon to be wrought by hundreds
of busy workmen. The plans now
on exhibition in the windows of M.
O'Neil & Co. and J. Koch & Co. con-
yey but a scant conception of the
Transformation in Howard and Main
streets for the Fair.
1T is the same old story in the case
of Representative Rutan of Carroll
county. Mr.. Rutan has been a life
long Republican, but having had the
independence to denounce Hanna
and bossism, he was defeated for
denomination by the Hanna men at
the Carroll county primaries, We'd
nesday. Ex-Representative Conn OF
Akron, another anti-Hanna Republl-
can, knows how to sympathize with
ex-Representative Rutan.
NEXT to Admiral Dewey, Roose-
velt is the great popular hero of the
war.-Beacon.
What a confession! And how
shocking Folks who read the Bea-
con last fall were assured in every
column and upon every page that the
only real and authorized hero OF
Santiago was running for Congress
in the Nineteenth District. But now
they are told without even an excuse
or an apology that ''next to Ad-
miral Dewey, Roosevelt is the great
popular hero of the war;" Alas fol
the Inconsistency of hero-worship.
And by Col. Dicks own organ, too
No wonder the real hero of San
tiago is impelled to say, II perisf
by this people which l made"
AKRON is coming right to the from
as convention city. Among the
conventions to be held here nextyeal
will be the Sons of st. George ant
the German Warriors of America
And but for the bigoted interference,
of Judge Anderson, who, acting
through his proxies on the Boar'
of City Commissioners. prevented
Akron from having representation il
the League of Ohio municipalities
Akron would have had the honor O
entertaining the state convention O
the League next year. Two year
hence, thanks to the enterprise @
Akron's Maccabees, the Knight
and Ladies of the Maccabees will
have their big convention at Akror
Akron should be as well prepared t
entertain conventions as any city c
her class in the land. Convention
benefit and advertise the city, so lie
them come, the more the better.
THE naticn is now in one of tn
greatest crises of its history.
ever there was a time when tn
people should think and act fo
themselves, it is now. The Admins
tration is committed to policies
which, if persisted in, must ult
mately change the entire structul
of the government, destroying tn
very foundations of popular libert
upon which our Republic rests.
would seem that in such time ii
people should be given every oppo
tunity to consider and decide thes
great issues for themselves, in a
Intelligent and dispassionate name