Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-03
TRYING TO EvADE THE ISSUES

TRYING TO EvADE THE ISSUES
Akron's City Commissioner sys
tenn is as much an issue in this cam
paign as the Administration of the
State or National government.
Akron people might endure the
system were the offices of Commits.
sioner filled by men Of independ.
ence; men who would act solely In
the best interests of the city, and not
turn the Board into a part of polit.
ical machine in order to find favor
with dictator who had abused the
power of appointment.
Bat as the offices have been admin
istered within the last two years the
system becomes simply intolerable.
The DEMOCRAT has been supported
by an abundance of worthy Republi-
can testimony, and by the testimony
Of all unprejudiced citizens, when,
throughout this campaign, it has
charged that a majority Of Akron's
Commissioners have been the serv-
ants of the Republican Probate
Judge and have determined to stand
or fall upon the uncertain issue of
his election.
The DEMOCRAT has simply stated
what every observant and fair
minded citizen knows to be fact
when it said that Judge Anderson
overstepped the authority conferred
upon him as county official by
meddling into the public affairs
of Akron and by exercising con-
tnued surveillance over the Board
of City Commissioners.
Ii was this charge, combined with
the organized protests Of the citizens
against Judge Anderson's dictatorial
policy, that has rendered his re-elec-
tion a matter Of great uncertainty,
for the people know that his re-elec-
tion means continuance for three
years of the abuses to which the City
Commissioner system has been sub
jected.
What was more natural than that
Judge Anderson and his apprehen-
sive friends, in the eleventh hour of
the campaign, should attempt to
check the tide of public disfavor that
is setting in against them by at
tempting to divert the attention of
the people from the real issues. The
whole of the six columns Of the Bea-
cons editorial space was devoted
last night to an attempt to make
Mayor Young an issue in the cam
Paign. The attempt to make Mayor
Young as issue would be humorous
were it not so desperate. The peo-
pie of Akron sat in judgment upon
his official record last spring-upon
issues and under circumstances es-
sentially the same as Judge Ander-
son is now trying to evade-and SO
far as the DEMOCRAT knows Mayor
Young has had no reason to COM
plain of the verdict.
The citizens of Akron declared
against government by proxy for the
benefit of the privileged interests |
last spring. They are called upon to |
decide the same issues this fall. No
amount of evasion of the real issues |
or abuse of men who are not an |
issue in this campaign will blind the
people to this issue.
The citizens of Akron are going to
vote for a man for Probate Judge
who, as Senator Alexander recently
said so well, will allow "Akron's
City Commissioners to be City Com
Henceforth Akron's Board of CITY
Commissioners will be administered
for the benefit of the People, instead
Of for the benefit of Political Ma
chine and the special interests which
contribute to the Machines cam
paign fund.
This is emily one of the many
worthy issues which the Democratic
party has raised and which the peo-
pie can decide in their own favor by |
supporting the Democratic ticket.
Mr.. ORLANDO WILCOX Of Cuya-
hoga Falls and Oklahoma. has writ |
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