The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-10-11
Form of Government
For Cities.
SYSTEM NOT LIKED
Though II Is Suggested to
State Board Of Commerce
For All Cities of Any
Pretensions.
From q staff Correspondent.

Columbus, Oct. 1O.-May0r Hinkle
feels tia. he has defeated the oppo.
siLion and that the city government
10 not going to be disrupted. He sayn
that the council can get no standing
in court 10 set aside the Injunction
IIat he has issued and declares fur
ther t;.3, the members he has charged
with conspiracy viii not allow the
facts to pe made public, hence will
leave him alone.
The sc gernment of this city Is a
sample of the one-man power that
prevails where = man selocts his cab
inet-a form Of government that has
been suggested to the state board of
pretensions. The board of control
plan has really been adopted by the
state board Of commerce, but it
WILL HAVE OPPOSITION.
Youngstown is none to well satisfied
with her government and Akron is al
ready declaring for another form
since going substantially into bank,
ruptcy a few days since ami having
a narrow escape from the hands Of
q receiver. The government that Co.
lumbus has, however makes the mayor
somewhat of a nonentity, II he is not
stronger than his director of public
safety. which, in this instance, cam It
be said to be entirely true. Director
Philbrick looks after tho streets, let's
contracts hires the fremen and the
police, and in fact runs things much
to suit himself, and in a manner that
would make many Ohio mayors vince
So the system would hardly be pop
ular in smaller cities, but with the
NUMEROUS INJUNCTIONS
that are being handed out in some
Ohio cities, 1t is likely that some pro.
vision will have to be made to appoint
somebody to keep the town running
when the council is enjoined from do.
ing anything but opening gutter here
and there. The matter of municipal
government is one of the things that
will come up before the legislature
at its next sitting, and the state board
is preparing to meet the situation.
Independent telephone companies
are making an excellent showing in the
valuation fixed by appraisers of the
state board. The Central Union, the
old Bell company, is put in at $2,S15,.
9S6, out of a total appraisement of
$S,1S3,773, the difference being made
up almost exclusively by the indepen.
dent companies. The Columbiana
county line alone is put in at $77,273.
The Stark County Telephone company
DOES NOT APPEAR
in the list for the reason that the val
uations are taken only to the last of
April. Much of the work OF construc-
ton has been done since that date.
The independent line at Youngstown
is put in at $S0,382.
1t was thought at the state depart
ment that many persons would write
in to have their names taken off the
Social Labor petitions because one of
the candidates, Theodore Adams, is
under workhouse sentence in this
city for declaring that he was glad
Mckinley was shot and that he ought
to have been shot a long time ago,
for which declaration he narrowly es.
capped lynching. But no one has yet
written in and 1t is not probable that
1t would do any good anyway. Those
who have signed will just have to
stand by their signatures or break
their pledges.