The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-10-17
THE MAYOR
SPEAKS OUT.
Says the Chicago Jubilee Was a
Republican Affair
AND GIVES 1T A ROAST.
Says 1t Was Run In Behalf of the Re-
publicans aud Hints Few Things
About the Bad Taste of
Public Oficials.

| uphO OAhOh"sos
Chicago, Oct. 13.-Mayor Harrison
has sharpened his stilletto and plunged
| it deep into the management of the
Fall Festival. Mr.. Harrison issued q
deliberate statement and declared with
out equivocation that the festivities
which have engaged the attention of the
city for the last week were made the
instrument of the Republican party in
an attempt to promulgate the doctrines
of Imperialism and land grabbing.
The mayor admits that he has been
duped and vows that he will never
again be made the adjunct of a Re-
publican love feast conducted under the
guise of non-partisan demonstration.
| VIGOROUS STATEMENT.
Mayor Harrison gives his views in the
following statement:
II want to say, first of all that
think sume of our over-zealous Chicago
friends have put this city in very
ridiculous light. About two or three
months ago, before the council vacation,
the council passed resolution authoriz-
| ing the appointment of committee to
invite Admiral Dewey to come to
Chicago, and to take charge of his enter
tainment when he came, IL he should
come. Acting on that resolution the
committee was appointed, and when the
admiral arrived in New York the COM
mittee invited him to come to Chicago
as the city's guest This committee
was the only official body and the
only one that had any sort Of standing.
"We went down to New York and
found that on the morning of the day
arrived Alexander Revell had gone out
to the Olympia to invite Dewey to come
to Chicago-on behalf of who or what
1 do not know. Then a few days after
the municipal committee-the official
committe-invited Admiral Dewey to
visit Chicago at his leisure.
Next, General McNulta appeared on
the scene with an invitation rendered
on behalf Of the Naval reserves. and
then General Anderson invited the ad-
miral to come to Chicago to attend the
meeting Of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, to be held in this city next year.
Now, If we don't get Dewey 1t Is because
Dewey does not know who is inviting
him or which invitation will be the cor
rect one for him to accent.
|. SHOW FOR THE PEOPLE.
Another thing, If Admiral Dewey is
to come to Chicago and we are to have
1 CtltDTdllOI III utS L WOulu
like to see a celebration carried out
in behalf of the people and voicing the
lpublic's greeting to Dewey, and not a
succession of banquets where the
privileged few stretch their legs out
under mahogany tables at SIS per.
think there were 800 persons at the
Auditorium banquet while 1,999,20C
stood out on the outside. President Nc
L in1 wv via Wi I'M O
parades on account of these banquets.
"In my speech at the Auditorium
tried to leave out everything that
savored of politics. The invitations to
the corner stone laying and to the
Auditorium banquet were extended by
the people of the city of Chicago. II
there were any meetings that should
have been nonpartisan these functions
Should certainly have been. But al
the corner stone laying Postmaster
General Smith made a speech that was
political from start to finish. At the
Auditorium Secretary Long, Congress,
man Henderson, Governor Tanner
General Anderson and the president
himself made political speeches. Only
1.-TWO speeches were made excepting the
lone made by your humble servant which
were not political. They were th'
speeches made by Secretary Gage ant
Senator Cullum.
/ BAD TASTE DISPLAYED.
"It was in especial bad taste, wher
Iyou consider the array of distinguish
ed guests present to whom matters O.
! that kind would have very little in
terest. I refer to the Mexican anC
Canadian parties. / do not think the,
were treated with the proper degre,
of courtesy. If any boquet throwing wa
to be done the distinguished foreigner
should have been made the recipients
and we should have refrained from
lheaping our flowers around the altar o
imperialism and the Philippine islands.
'The peace jubilee of last year was
/ patriotic affair, and i was glad as
Democratic official to assist in tn
: celebration. This year was told tn
celebration was to follow the sam
lines, but the opposite was the result
The whole thing was Republican an
it looks to me now as If there was a.
attempt to play Republican politics.
Next year there will be other cele
brations in Chicago, and they vii
want the mayor to take part. Now,
want 1t distinctly understood that un
less these celebrations are conducte
in such a way that politics will b
| eliminated and the mayor given a
u opportunity to direct things and kee
politics out of these demonstration.
will have nothing to do with then
do not intend again to be made tn
adjunct Of a Republican political cele
= bratioH."