The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-04
IN. SHERWOOD
! TO MAYOR JONES.
Oints Out How He Is Defeating
His Own Cause
BY STANDING INDEPENDENTLY
AS n Candidate for Governor of Ohio and
Casting Aside the True Friends
of Reform and Good
Government.
s ecial to the News-Democrat.

COlumDuS, aug o. NC L IOoS-L OoO
has an extended interview with Gen. l.
r. Sherwood, with reference to poll
tics in the state in general and the al
legged candidacy of Mayor Sam Jones,
of Toledo, in particular. Referring to
the independent feature Of the question
and a talk he had with Mayor Jones,
General Sherwood says:
"I fully believe that Jones intends to
be candidate. | had my first talk
with him since he was elected mayor as
an independent candidate last spring
at his Office in Toledo, yesterday. He
told me that his candidacy did not de-
pHnd upon what the Democrats did at
GAINESVILLE, but upon the petitions that
he received from the state and the
character OF the men who sent In the
petitions, which would indicate what
the demand was for an independent
candidate. II there was a sufficient
demand for an independent candidate
he proposed to run no matter what the
action might be at GAINESVILLE. Mayor
Jones said that his friends were now
having meeting to decide upon
the name of the new party. Some
of his friends wanted to call 1t the
Jones party; others wanted to call 1t
the Jones independent party, and still
others the Jones Independents"
"It would look as though they meant
business" suggestively.
81 learned afterwards that Jones had
engaged headquarters for the campaign
In the Valentine building, lad joining his
Office at Toledo, and will employ COM
petent clerks and stenographers in or
der to thoroughly organize the state.
There has been so many conflicting
reports published by newspapers as to
Jones attitude towards the different
gubernatorial candidates thatI thought
1t best to have square talk with him
face to face. have some convictions
in which Jones has been identified and
] desired to impress upon him the abso-
Lutte necessity for united action in this
campaign against the imperialistic
monoplizing tendencies of the McKin-
ley administration, and that his candi-
.dacy at this time, instead of aiding the
reforms in which he Is interested,
would tend to defeat the very ideas and
principles he has so much at heart. l
told him that had left the Republican
party almost quarter of century ago
Because saw or thought saw at that
time, the tendency of that party to an
entire surrender OF the interests Of the
common people and the masses in the
sole interest of special classes
ow recognized as the exclusive
{ lasses. said to Jones, you
now have the enthusiasm Of a new
convert but that after almost a quarter
of century Of experience in the re-
form movement that considered vital,
In fact, fundamental, to free govern
ment, have learned to distrust some
what the potency OF right to fight
single handed the powers of organized
greed and monopoly.
81 learned while in the army, espe-
cially in the east Tennessee campaign,
where we lived on less than half ra-
tions for more than three months, that
half loaf is better than no bread, and
the only possible hope of any reform of
any character lies in an alliance with
the Democratic party"
; "Did the mayor at all agree with you
In this?"
''Mayor Jones replied that the time
went into the reform movement,
twenty-five years ago, or what was
known as labor movement at that
time, that the people were not then
prepared for it, He said that public
opinion was ripper now than at that
time, and that there were not SO many
conflicting important questions to con-
fuse the public mind. | intended to
j.. say to him with all the force that
could command that as saw the situa-
tion today there were questions OF
more vital moment before the
= American people right now
to be settled at the coming
election, that any of the questions
growing out of our great civil war.
And that these questions were vital and
fundamental to free government and
that all true reformers should be will
ing to unite with the Democratic party
in this campaign against the fatal doc
trine of Imperialism, militarism, and
the present destruction of all industrial
A opportunity by these gigantic aggre-
\ cations Of greed, known as the trusts.
NJ I Hay | am unable to understand how
vi any economic questions in free gov
ernment like ours can be as vital to the
industrial classes as these great funda-
mental questions that touch the hearts
and the homes of all the people,"
"And what, may l ask, prevented
this?"
"Mayor Jones was too busy with
cemmittee for any general discussion
as to what his duties were in this cam
! paign. | desired to impress upon his
mind that all great movements for the
n betterment of the condition OF the peo-
\ pie are necessarily slow, because we
learn by experience that our people are
slow to recognize all reform move
ments; in other words, the vital ques-
I tion of today is to save republican In
stitutions, because every patriotic and
\ intelligent citizen ought to be able to
understand that there Is not
II free government that this Nc
\ Kinley administration has not either
\ violated or ignored. For instance, in
stead of a movement to better, the con-
ditions of our industrial classes, who
are today more discontented than in
any other period OF our history, it is
army of home paupers the direct com
petition in the labor field of ten mil