The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-09
DICK DOWNBD
DAUGHERTY.
fractional Fight Broke Out al
State Committee Meeting.
SOME PEOPLE ARE SORE YET,
And Promise to Make Somebody Sunei
at Late Day-How the Plan
Was Successfully
Worked.


Was Successfully
Worked.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells a
heretofore unpublished story of lively
contest between Col. Dick and Harry
Daugherty at the Republican state conf
mittee meeting at Columbus, last week.
According to the Plain Dealer. the time
honored fight between the two men be-
came very noticeable during the meet
ing.
The Hanna faction, under the leader
ship of State Chairman Dick, took ad-
vantage of its numbers to outvote the
opposition and attempted to give black
eye to the future political hopes Of
Daugherty. The question upon which
the committees were debating had two
sides, like all questions, but 1t was plain
in this instance that one was the side
of justice and the other the side Of poll
tics.
The Hanna members of the committee
were held well in hand by the state
chairman and at his dictation their
votes were cast on the side of politics.
1t was matter of Importance, because
Daugherty has led determined oppol
sition to Hanna, and 1t has long been
APPARENT to the state boss that no op-
portunity could be lost with impunity
to put an end to it some way. The con-
test in the committees was bitterly
fought. The result has called out a cry
of gross unfairness and Indignation on
the heads Of Dick and his underlings,
who perpetrated what is looked upon
as a mean political trick.
The question involved before the COM
mittees at Columbus was one regarding
the right to recognition of the county
committee of Fayette county. The regu-
lar committee of the county is controll-
ed
BY FRIENDS OF DAUGHERTY,
who was formerly a resident Of Wash
ington c. H. Opposition to the COM
mittee led by Hanna men sprung up and
the question of recognition was carried
before the state committees for settle
ment. The two Cuyahoga county men,
bers of the state central committee
voted with the Daugherty men, because,
they said it was the only thing to do and
Re fair.
) pausherty controlled majority Of
the members of the committee and
would have carried the day had not
State Chairman Dick got in his effective
work on the Hanna members. He in
sisted that Daugherty be downed. Find
ing that the majority of the members
present were in favor of recognizing the
Daugherty committee he put about to
secure control by demanding a joint
meeting of the central and executive
committees, the members of the latter
being his personal appointees and COM
pletely in his control. By combining
the weight of his votes on the executive
committee and the few favorable mem
bers Of the central committee he sue
ceeded In managing the situation to his
entire satisfaction. A tempest Of re-
sentiment was stirred up among the
Daugherty members of the committee
which will doubtless make itself felt
sooner or later. Dick, however, has sue
ceeded in adding another small obstacle
to Daugherty's gubernatorial ambitions
and 80 long as he controls the present
situation Is willing to leave future
events to the future.
r~. DICK LED THE FIGHT.
The voting against Daugherty in the
meeting was led by Dick, and there was
no breaking away from the regular fac
tional lines. Taft, the member Of the
state central committee from the
twenty-first district, is quoted az
follows by the Plain Dealer re-
garding Daugherty's defeat:
ut looked to me like deliberate at
tempt on the part Of the anti Daugherty
part of the committees to ignore the jus
tice of the case and place 1t on purely
political basis. I voted for Daugherty
for the reason that his friends, in my
mind, were justly entitled to recogni-
tion. Dick obviously looked at 1t from a
political standpoint. He voted against
Daugherty and insisted on having
joint meeting Of the two committees.
that is, he wanted the state executive
committee to consider the matter of rec
ognizing the committee as well as the
central committee. opposed that, but
my OPPOSITION was of no avail. also
opposed having any Of the committees
consider the case, as thought 1t entire
ly out Of their province. But was COM
PEELED to yield In both instances. Judge
M. L. Smyser of Wooster, who is a MEM
Der Of the executive committee, looked
ed at the matter much as Ed. Bait and
did and voted for what he considered
Justice"