Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-04
THAT DEADLOCK
Was Fully Discussed by
Mayor Young.
Told Who Is Responsible For Non-Ap-
pointment of Commissioners.

p0intment OF commissioners.
Mayor Young, in his Turner hall
speech, gave some very interesting
facts in reference to the present City
Commissioner deadlock. He said
that it bad been charged by Judge
Anderson that he was responsible
for the deadlock. You, who are
readers of the Akron edition of the
Cleveland Press, will remember"
said the Mayor, that within two or
three days after the spring election,
the Press reported Judge Anderson
as saying in an interview that
Messrs. Crisp and Paige, the men,
hers of the Board of City Commis-
sioners, whose terms were about to
expire, would be retained. This was
some time before Judge Anderson
and myself had any conversation
concerning the appointment of City
Commissioners. The Judges state
ment to the representative of the
Press left me without any voice in
i the matter, whatever.
sWhen we held our first meeting,
the Judge said to me: Who is
your man?'
I said to him: "Who's yours?'
He said: 1.-The present incum-
bents are good enough for me-"
4 I said I could not consent to their
disappointment. Thus ended our
first conference.
1--WE met a few days later. The
Judge again wanted to know who
my choice for the Democratic men,
Der of the Board was. 1 replied to
him that did not propose to name
any one until he said to me that he
was willing to consent to the ap-
pointmen3t of some one other than
Mr.. Paige; that I was not fool
enough to name a man, as long as
there was no hope of securing his
appointment, and then have that
man hanging up in the air as tar
get for him and the other candidates
for the place to be firing at during
the time that this deadlock lasted.
'sAt a subsequent meeting finally
told him that / would consent to
any Republican he might name, not
even excepting Mr.. Crisp, providing
he would allow me to recommend
the Democratic Commissioner. This
he positively refused to do.
II understand that he now says to
his friends that he would not consent
to such an arrangement for fear that
I might name an incapable and in
competent man. l said to the party
who brought this report to me, You
can return to Judge Anderson and
say that yOu are authorized to ar
range meeting between the Judge
and myself, at which you and such
friends as the Judge may select are
to be present, and we will then see
who is prolOnging this deadlock. Ii
! the Judge is so fearful that that L
might select totally incompetent
and incapable man, l am perfectly
willing to let the question of the
capability of my choice to a COM
mittee of three, one member of
which is to be selected by the Judge,
another by myself and the third by
these two This was reported to tt 9
from them since.
''There is one peculiar thing about
the Judge. A promise made by him
to Democrat, he always regards as
more sacred than one made to a
member of his own party. The Judge
has promised to retain Mr.. Paige in
office and if reelected, am salts
fed that he will keep that promise.
''In reference to the City Commits
sionership, I have made but one
promise and that was made at time
when had legal right to make it,
after reelection. [ have promised a
delegation of the Fourth Ward citi-
Zens who called upon me in behalf
of candidate from their ward, that
when Mr.. Paige's successor was
named, he should come from the
Fourth Ward. 1 said to them that
one-half or more of the entire pOpu-
lation of the city lived south of EX-
change street; that the Fourth and
Fifth wards were known as Demo-
cratic strongholds and that, by every
consideration of justice and fair
play, the southern part of our city
was entitled to representation on the
Board. AS to whether that repre-
sentative would be Captain James
Burt, August Miller, Jacob Geyer, |
A. G. Bachtel, John Sharp or any |
other worthy Democrat from the !
Fourth Ward, no one would know
until the appointment had been
made; that 1 didn't propose that any
of these men should be held up to
the ridicule and abuse of Judge An
derson and his friends. when there
was no chance of his appointment.
And I think that every sensible man
familiar with the facts, will agree
with me. not only in my position on
this matter, but also in the course
that have pursued regarding the
re-appointment of Mr.. Paige"