Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-03

to DO. Ine statement was then anC
there dictated to a stenographer
After it had been written out Mr.
Paige signed it and put it in, hi:
pocket.
He and Mr.. MCGOWAN left the
city building with the intention of
going to the DEMOCRAT office anG
leaving the statement to be publish,
ed in that evenings issue of the pa
per.
ION picking up the paper that
evening was surprised at not see
ing Mr.. Paige's card. I thereupor
went down to the Democratic head.
Z quarters and asked Mr.. McGOwan
why he and Mr.. Paige had failed to
get the card in the paper. Mr.. Nc
Gowan replied that they had started
down to the DEMOCRAT office, but
just as they We're about to leave the
city building, some one called him
aside for a minutes conversation,
and that upon turning around, he
could not see, rs he expressed it.
'hide nor hair of Mr. Paige
Il understand Mr.. Paige new
claims that promised to re-appoint
him, that I had failed to keep that
promise and that / am therefore a
traitor. Mr.. Paige has several of his
| Democratic friends, who are now
| working might and main to bring
! about the reelection of Judge Ander-
son solely on the ground that the
Judge will retain Mr.. Paige as a
, member of the Board of City Com
missioners. One of these very friends
knows the embarrassment under
which we were placed by Mr.. Paige's
conduct during the campaign last
spring. He even went so far as to
advise me to make Mr.. Paige prom
Use and as he expressed it, turn
him down after election" This l
positively refused to do.
'.Mr. Paige did not come near ME
uuUlk tWo "CChS oitCl eiiC
spring election. He. however, re-
marked to one of my friends that he
did not propose to ask me tor a reap
pointment; that l knew what he had
done as a member of the Board of
City Commissioners. and if / thought
he was deserving of re-appointment,
1 could give it to him.
Il said in reply to this, that he
had at one time asked me to appoint
him and L hardly thought that it
would be beneath his dignity, if he
wanted to be re-appointed. to ask
me again.
''Shortly after this, ne came to me
and we talked over the situation and
F.; I told him very frankly the embar-
| easements under which | was labor.
ing in reference to his re-appoint-
ment. He then said to ME, that
| while at no time had promised him,
yet he felt from the way had talk
ed and acted, that ] intended so to
do.
sit was nearly month after the
election that he first made the charge
that I promised to re-appoint him.
| He based this charge on the fact
that on either Saturday or Sunday
preceding the election, l had said TO
friend of his, who had been called
in to a conference for the purpose OF
devising some way of keeping Mr..
Paige in line, that told him to tell
Mr.. Paige 'he was all right. His
| assertion that l am a liar and traitor
is based upon this.
PERSONALLY I have no quarrel with
Mr.. Paige. 1 have always found him
to be a most courteous and cultured
gentleman. But as Democrat, |
| utterly refuse to sanction his course
in the matters heretofore detailed
and positively decline to re-appOint
to Office a man who is unwilling to
stand or fall by the administration
to which he owes his appointment.
1T sometimes happens that a
man is shrewd enough and smart
enough to make himself solid with
both Sides These instances are
however, few and far between and /
don't propose to increase the number
by re-appointing Mr.. Paige.
/
"There is not man in the city ia
miliar with the workings of the last
spring campaign, but who knew
| then and knows now that Mr.. Paige
had promise of re-appointment
from the other side. He himself on
several occasions told me that Com
missioner Crisp had said to him that
he stood no show of being re-appoint-
ed in the event / should be elected
but if Mr.. Rowley were successful
he could promise that he, Paige
would be retained as a member OF
the Board"