The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-04-11

fort to put them In good condition,
with view to subsequently putting
them on a ship canal basis. The bill
does not say so, but Mr.. Painter has
visions of big ships going through the
Ohio canal on their way to the Ohio
river, from the great lakes and event
ually finding their way to the gulf
The appointment of commission to
investigate the whole matter is in
cidental to the bill, and the whole
serves the dual purpose of keeping the
canals and dropping the question for
political purposes Mt the same time
The next legislature will have to deal
definitely with the proposition. The
present legislature was afraid to either
keep the canals or abandon them on a
straight vote.
Stark county common pleas judges
who may be elected after the present
judges have completed their terms,
will receive $1,000 year extra com
pensation, making their salaries $4,000
The law cannot be retroactive, so the
passage of Mr.. Pollock's bill will not
affect the present incumbents. There
was some talk of including Columbana
county in this bill, but it was not done
because the Columbiana representa-
tives declared 1t would be setting a
bad precedent. The real reason, how
ever, was that they do not like Judge
Holl They think he got In court on
suspicion anyhow, and they realize
he will have to have another term,
and think he can serve for $4,000 a
year, IL he Goes live in a subdivision
in which two judges receive more
money.
Another of Mr.. Beal's bills has
been passed by the senate, making 1T
law. It provides that the board OF
education of the Harrison township dis
trict in Carroll county shall be en-
powered to transfer some funds.
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! Archer's bill providing penalty for
giving liquor to people in jails and PEN
itentiary has passed the senate.
Street railway men in Columbus are
contending for a ten-hour day, and
among other cities to which they point,
Is Canton. The swing run Is the
bone of contention in this city. Its
abolition in Canton worked much good
| for all parties concerned. The men
there organized and brought about an
amelloration of their condition. They
had the nerve to contend for their
rights. In Columbus the men are
afraid to organize. They had an Or
ganization at one time, but II was de-
feated by the company discharging men
one at time, till it had its own
friends in. flow the men wantsto work
straight hours, but the company OBJ
jects. The senate committee is the
scene of the Quarrel. Representative
! Wilhelm is a member of that commit
tee, and its work on this humane
measure will be watched with interest.
OLUMBUS, April 10.-"Yes sir,
4 it's all right" said Harry
~ Daugherty to your correspon-
dent, Thursday, at noon, just
! after the house of representatives had
by party vote, concurred in its caucus
arrangements and had gerrymanded
the Twelfth district so that the Repub-
licans would be more likely to carry
! it than when Fairfield was in it. I'VE
have things in pretty satisfactory
shape" he added.
Those not in touch with Mr.. Daugh-
erty and his friends are figuring how
the thing happened. But few days
before it occurred Senator Hanna de-
clared there would be no change
The senate had voted for no change
Hanna stated that the Democrats
would only use gerrymander against
the party in the campaign, and that
gerrymanders never did what was ex'
pected of them. He had even gone sc
far as to point to the gerrymanders OF
the Eighteenth district, placing Will
liam Mckinley in Democratic dis
trict. That was done without the con
sent of old party leaders, and was car
ried out by two or three little fellows
WHO did not have sense enough to have
what little political learning they hat
transmitted into wisdom, nor have
they improved in that regard since
The gerrymander was SO successful
that 1t made Mckinley president Sc
Hanna pointed out that the way to de
feat John J. Lentz was not to gerry
mander district for him, but to g
into the district and beat him fairly
If possible, but beat him. Mr.. Hanns
was figuring solely from the standpoin
cf wisdom. He did not himself know
that the Daugherty men had mad
overtures to some renegade Democrat
to help them out in their fight agains
IIentz, and against the present Repub
lican congressman, Emmett Tompkins
The Daugherty men did not fear wha
Hanna feared, and before the old mai