The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-12-27
HAS TAYLER'S BOOM
ON HIS own HANDS
And Will Not Mix Into the Big
Scrap " He Can Help it--lob-
byists May Have a Finger In
at the Finish.
(From a staff Correspondent

tfTOTn Il COrTeSDOnuent.D
Columbus, Dec. 24.-Everybody is
looking toward Ashtabula county at
present, and wondering whether Nc
Kinnon is strong enough to have the
good delivered to him in the speaker.
ship contest. All admit he has the
nerve to try. Price is not dead yet
by any means, but he has not the sup
port of Hanna, and that means he has
not the support of the state machine.
But there are other machines, though
not so powerful, and it is said the
state machine has been punctured in
places. For instance it is declared that
State Treasurer Cameron who is, in
cidentially, the chairman of the Col
umbiana county committee, is for the
Rurtz candidates, whoever may be
sgreed upon, and that he will lend his
IYauence to whoever is selected by the
slate makers on that side of the quar-
rel. This may mean some votes,
though it does not necessarily change
the situation. Treasurer Cameron has
never been looked upon as the strong
est adherent of the Hanna faction. 1t
was stated last fall that personal popu.
larity would make him the strongest
man on the state ticket and that he
would. in all probability, lead it, but
that he was under suspicion by the
Hanna people, who would have at
tempted to defeat him for a second
nomination If they had dared. He was
a Dougherty man when Nash was first
named and has not been quite for
given for it.
So the Hanna men were not count
ing seriously on his support, and will
not be disappointed if they do not
get it. Friends of Mr.. Cameron insist
that he is taking no hand in the fight,
but that he would be justified in doing
so If he so desired. He could take
Senators Foraker and Hanna at their
word, and say he had as good right
to be for his friends as they had for
theirs.
CAMERON HAS OTHER FISH.
But Mr.. Cameron has other matters
on hand. He is not going to jeopar-
disc them by mixing into this fight,
save as a possible spectator with
vote or two up his sleeve. He has
not been standing about the hotel lob.
bies calling anybody names, and when
the door opens nobody expects that it
is he that Is coming In. Just now
he Is the custodian of the boom of
Congressman Tayler, for governor
which was launched by Lisbon man
few days ago, just before the mighty
frost came on that has been nipping
everything out of doors and some
things indoors ever since. The plan
had not matured and in the present
fracas may have been exposed too long,
for 1t Is difficult to get the attention
of politicians just now for something
that cannot, In the language of Gov
ernor Nash. be pulled off" for year
and half yet.
But whatever that situation may be,
the story that Mr.. Cameron is taking
hand of any great dimension in this
fight seems without warrant of the
facts. He may aid the Kurtz people
slightly, but 1t is believed he would
prefer to see the contest quietly COM
promised.
INNINGS OF THE LOBBYISTS.
Thus far the politicians have been
doing the quarreling and the wire-pull-
Ing, but some gentlemen who were to
get some bills through, and will be
interested in the personnel of COM
mittees, are just about getting ready
to take their gloves cfi and look into
the whole matter. II their special
friends cannot win on their own polit-
ical merits 1t may be necessary for
these men to select some special friends
through the agency that is usually
employed by lobbyists.
Meantime there are hundred or
more candidates for lot of $3.50 and
80 day jobs both branches of the leg
islature have to give away, and the
man with stationery to sell is also
looking on with some degree of inter-
est as to who goes on the committees.
There is about $4,000 in expense
money, outside of salaries, that is to
be handed out In small parcels, and
there are still quite a few hungry cit
liens, despite the general prosperity
of the country.
BER e. WILLIAMSON.