The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-03-20
OPTION BILL
FOR CORPORATIONS.
Ward Feature VIII Be Elimi.
mated by the New Measure.
HAVEN'T GIVEN UP FIGHT
Temperance Element Stin Thinks 1t Can
Get Some Legislation During
This Session-A New
Plan Arranged.

Temperance agitation at Columbus
is not ended, and now it is proposed to
get in bill that will provide for wet
or dry vote in municipalities as a
whole. A Columbus special to the
Cleveland Plain Dealer says:
The Anti-Saloon league has not given
up the fight for temperance bill.
A new measure will be introduced
in the house or senate within a few
days which will not contain the fea-
lures of the Clark bill so strongly OBJ
jected to by men who said they were
temperance advocates, but that the bill
was not constitutional.
The new bill will provide for muni-
cipal local option instead of ward local
option, and it is believed that such a
bill will pass the house.
The friends Of the bill have two OBJ
jects in view. First, what they believe
to be a just temperance measure, and
secondly, to force the national and state
administrations to once more go on rec
ord as against temperance legislation
The friends of the bill declare that
Gov. Nash, President Mckinley and
Senator Mark Hanna were all trying
to carry water on both shoulders.
Mr.. Hanna promised Hon. Thomas
Fl. Clark that the administration would
not oppose the bill or any temperance
| legislation, and said personally that he
would like to see every saloon in Ohio
run out of business.
The day and night before the bill
came up for action the long distance
phone between this city and Washing
ton was used by several senator's and
by the agents of the State Liquor
| league. The parties at the Washington
end of the line were the mouthpieces of
the president.
The wise ones now claim that both
Senator Patterson and Senator Harding
had promised Hanna and Malloy that
they would vote no if it was absolutely
necessary, but otherwise they would
have to vote for the bill.
And this and more the anti-saloon
men say they know to be absolutely
true, and yet agents of the state and
national administrations are already
trying to secure a promise from the
league that it will not make war upon
President Mckinley.
An effort is now being made to even
make it appear that Gov. Nash was in
favor of the bill. Senator Patterson told
a party of newspaper men tonight that
the governor was for the bill, and this
Notwithstanding the fact that the
whole party and state machinery was
used against the bill.
The new bill will be drawn during
the next few days, and if the temper
ance people decide that it is the part
of wisdom the bill will probably be in
troduced next week in it's new form as
a municipal local option bill.
Rev. Mr.. Hissey, who pretends to
speak for Mr.. Dick in all matters of
legislation, and who has developed into
an accomplished lobbyist, is lobbying
against the centennial bill, the Russell
antitrust bill and the Mackenzie bill.
He frankly admits this. He says the
administration wants these three meas
ures defeated.
Rev. Mr.. Hissey draws a salary from
the national Republican committee, and
earns it working the Ohio legislature.
Gen. Charles Dick recognized his SER
vices, and fathered a bill in congress
to pension him at $40 per month.
Rev. Mr.. Hissey says the administra-
ton cannot afford to permit the pass
age of the Russell trust bill this presi-
Dental year. He says it will undoubt-
edly pass the house, but that he has
about paved the way to kill it in the
senate.
He says the administration is also op-
posed to the Mackenzie bill for party
reasons. 1t would injure Mckinley!
Hissey's busy man, but he is not
always working at his profession.