Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-10-26

TO TELEPHONE Ihe UEMUCHAI GRLL-
NO. 100.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2s
VOTE for the Republican county
ticket and Higher Salaries.
TRUSTS are raising the price of
everything the people have to buy.
How much are your products and
labor increasing in value?
WHAT farmer or workingman in
Summit county can make 5000 in a
single year? This is what some of the
Offices at the court house pay their
incumbents. If you believe in a con-
tinuation of these high salaries, vote
for the candidates nominated by the
local Republican Machine.
REPRESENTATIVE KEMPEL is
pledged by his party's platform to
introduce bill in the next Legisla-
ture doing away with the fee system
under which Summit county's office
holders receive from $4,000 to 5000
year. No other candidate before the
people is so pledged. Vote for Mr..
Kempel.
For wooden man. which the
Dobson paper calls Representative
Kempel, the latter made an excellent
record in the Legislature. At least
the people of Summit county, espe-
cially workingmen, seem to be very
well satisfied with Mr.. Kempel's
record and they are going to give him
another term.
To DATE the only thing the Dobson
paper has been able to say against
the candidates upon the Democratic
county ticket is that they are mon
entities" 'do-nothings," wooden
men" and ''weaklings. 1t Is an
easy matter to call candidates for
public office harsh names; 1t is
another matter to convince the peo-
pie that they are deserving of such
treatment.
REPRESENTATIVE CHARLES w.
KEMPEL was referred to as a
wooden man" by the Beacon last
night. If there had been few more
wooden men like Mr.. Kempel in the
last Legislature the Republican
office-holders of Summit county
would not have succeeded in defeat
ing the Russell Salary bill when
they sent men and money to Colum-
bus to work against it.
CHAIRMAN STUART will be con-
ferring favor upon the people by |
pointing out to them what great |
public enterprise Judge Anderson
has ever headed. Who knew with |
certainty where he stood while |
Akron'S citizens were trying to force
the Telephone Monopoly to recognize
their rights? Ask Senator Alexan-
der, who was the head of the Citi-
zens' Committee of Fifty, whether
very much dependence was placed
In the Judges professions to stand |
by the people.
WHEN Judge Anderson wants an |
office he relies upon his own political |
machine to pull him through. |
When the other fellows are up for |
election they have to use crowbar |
to move the Judge along. Some of |
the other fellows now holding Office |
at the court house have caught on to |
this quaint characteristic of the |
Judge. The grim satisfaction with |
which they are wet blanketing his |
canvass carries moral to all office
seekers who are always for them
selves and for nobody else.
JUDGE ANDERsoN and Clerk Her.
shey are holding series of secret |
conferences throughout all the town.
ships of the county. At these meet
ings the political healers who are a
part of the private political machines
of these candidates are called in.
How many of the farmers who have
to pay exorbitant fees and salaries
to these officials are invited into the
conferences and given a chance to
get back some of their own money
by working for the reelection of
Messrs. Anderson and Hershey? |
Don't all speak at once.
WITHIN the last thirty-hve years
the fees of county officers have been
reduced several times by acts of the
Legislature, but an inspection of the
records of the court house will show
that i'm some cases fees collected to-
day are higher than they were forty
years ago. The Russell salary bill,
which was defeated by the efforts of
the Summit county Office holders,
placed the officials on salaries and
did away with the obnoxious fee
system. Taxpayers who want to
save themselves $4,000 year in the
amount of compensation paid their
county officers, should vote the
Democratic ticket.