The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-11-02
MAYOR JONES' PAPER SUPPRESSED.

1t is reported that Mayor Jones' paper,
the Toledo Saturday Night, has been re-
fused admission to the mails as second class
matter. The grounds for such refusal are
probably based the assumption that his
paper was conducted solely for the propa-
cation of his peculiar IDEAS and, therefore,
had too little general interest for the public
to come within the scope of the law regu-
latlng the mailing of second-class matter
A narrow Interpretation of the letter of the
law might place this ba/ on his publication
where liberal construction of it's spirit
would not. His readers were undoubtedlv
as enthusiastic over the doctrines taught
as the readers of any paper could be, and
in this respect, it was as great public
benefactor as any other publication within
its limits of circulation; but this is an
instance in which the ironclad statutes of
the law are made to serve the prejudice
and enmity of those opposed to any innova-
lions. Were he not a candidate for gov
ernor and making inroads on opposing fac
lions, it is probable his paper might have
pursued the even tenor of it's way unmolest-
ed; but, as it is, the rule or ruin policy of
his enemies found recourse in statutory
provisions for harassing him in his reform
work through free press. AS persecu-
ton more often accelerates than retards
the growth OF a movement, his followers
and supporters will only wax the warmer
because Of this attempt to down him. He
is teaching the practical truths of universal
brotherhood, and such doctrines are ema-
nations from the divine and cannot be
wiped out by the Vaccinations of the devil
No language can too strongly condemn the
artiflce that resorts to techniealities de-
murrers or other subterfuges in law to take
advantage OF honest purposes, to carry a
point against them. Such action discloses
a moral obliquity that makes us almost de-
spair of the human family The bold
bungling crime of the ignoramus is soon
ofnr 0bf
punished but the sleek tongued scoundrel
who is sufficiently learned in the laws
hooks and crooks to evade it's clutches while
perverting it's spirit is most dangerous
enemy of society He who practices perfidy
under the cloak OF the law to suppress free
speech is a tyrant at heart, and is in no
sense true citizen.-Coming Nation.
And all this occurs in Ohio, the home
of our president, and in an election in
which he himself is deeply interested.
Nash's election would be an indorse-
ment of the Mckinley administration
and probably lead to his denomination
in 1900. McLean's election would be a
declaration from the money power of
Ohio that in their judgment it was time
to again alternate and in 1900 elect a
Democratic president.
Ohio, New York and New England
can be counted in the same political col
umn now and hereafter
The election of Jones would be a
triumph of the people or popular will
and a rebuke to boss rule and corrunt
craftsmanship.
Large interests hang upon the Ohio
election. National politics are danger
cusly close to this storm center.
The Nash managers and Mclean
managers recently held a close confer
ence and Immediately following Nash
orators exhorted all their hearers to
vote for Mclean who could not vote for
Nash. Mclean orators, in turn,> ex-
horted their hearers to vote for Nash