Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-01-28
REPLY
BY MIR. Tompkins
To Congressman Lentz's
Challenge.
Tom |. Johnson Will
Enter Politics.
Anti.Saloon Leagues 0pposi-
'''' tion Weakening.
SUBMITS Land Values to be Con-
sidered Tomorrow.
Especial Correspondence.)


Columbus, Jan. 2S--Emmet Tomp.
kins, Congressman elect from the
Twelfth district, has replied to the
notice of contest served by Congress
man J. j. Lentz, his opponent at the
polls last fall. In his answer, which
is very long, Mr.. Tompkins has made
the same error as did his rival in
preparing the original charges and has
devoted himself more to personal
abuse than to proof that the accusa-
tions of Mr.. Lentz are false. He de-
MES each charge in toto, however, and
makes counter charges to the effect
that some votes secured through cor
rupt means were cast and recorded
for Mr.. Lentz. There seems to be not
tho slightest chance that Mr.. Lentz
will secure his seat in Congress, al
though Mr.. Tompkins fails in large
measure to refute the charges of cor
ruption.
In referring to the former Congress-
mans charges that Marcus A. Hannas
seat in the Senate was won through
bribery. Mr.. Tompkins says:
This paragraph teens with egotism,
libel and scurrility. In it you accuse,
In the grossest and most wanton lam
guage, the President of the United
States of malfeasance aud misfens-
ance In office: Of high crimes and mis-
demeanors, even to accuse him of
bribing member Oh the Ohio Legis-
lature, and by innuendo make him ripe
for impeachment and removal.
These charges are false and wicked
and should emanate only from dis
loyal and Vicious citizen, and not from
one who has been honored, all too
much, by the people of this district.
These base and brutal accusations
against the chief executive of this ma
tion should find no place in the arch.
ives of Congress, but they serve to
show that II you had Il thousand plur-
ality Of votes you are unfit to sit IN the
House of Representatives.
The egotism displayed in this para
graph is unhearably excessive You
say, In substance, that large cOrrup-
ton fund was raised outside of this
district and sent in here to defeat you
because certain Republican leaders
connected with the National Admins
tration feared the effect of certain eN-
posures you would make. l deny that
any sum was procurtd III any manner
aud sent into this district to corrupt
voters against you, and l deny that
anybody is afraid of YOU When you
assert that you are the exclusive re-
pository of certain information and
possess such peculiar powers of denun-
citation and enunciation as TO make
men fear you, you exhibit robust
specimen of vanity running wild"
The whole answer is abusive and
insulting in the extreme. However.
the charges of Mr.. Lentz We're of the
same sort and Ire cannot complain very
much.
Hon. Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland.
the we'll known Democratic leader,
and Hon. F. S. Monnett of this city,
former Republican Attorney General
of Ohio, who will probably be a can
didate for the nomination for the same
Office before the peXt Democratic State
convention, have submitted to the City
Council of Columbus, proposition to
buy the property of the Columbus
Railway company. the street car mo-
nopoly of this city, and to grant the
city three cent fares, with universal
transfers. No action has yet been
taken and the proposals are now in
the hands of the Council, sitting as
committee of the whole. The offer
comts as the result of the hard fight
which is being made against the grant
ing OF 25-year blanket franchise TO
the Columbus Railway company. Two
of the Counclmen supposed to be in
under the control Of the corporation
have been won over to the side of the
people by the great pressure of pub
lie opinion and II is practically assured
that the grant of the proposed fran.
ehise will be refused at the meeting