The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-08-12
Capital GorIip
BY BER E. WILLIAMSON.
(staff Correspondcnt.)

Columbus, o., Aug. IL.
Governor Nash knows his ideas on
municipal code will meet opposition.
For instance, Senator Wilhelm, Of the
Stark Carroll district, is ON record as
favoring home rule on the police ques-
ton. How far he could carry his mo-
tions is problematioal, as the senator
has not always been able TO go full
steam ahead He has reversed his en-.
gines severa, times and may do 80
again, but it is believed he will stand
against the governors plan. Repre-
sentative Pollock can be depended upon
to insist that the cities and towns in
Stark county be given the right to run
their own affairs. He might concede,
for the. sake of the argument Nhat IL
would be good thing for the state
to have the police under its immediate
control, but he is not running for stale
senator to succeed Wilhelm in the
whole state. He will doubtless be glad
of the opportunity to make himself
solid with tho villages and municipali-
ties in his district.
Representative Metzger has stated,
or various occasions, that he is neither
Foraker man nor a Nash man, but Is
independent enough to do whaa he
thinks best. He has proven 1t on sew
eral occasions, also. He has not been
heard from specially on this question
and the code makers seem to have gone
on without him, as well as without the
other representative from eastern Ohio,
save and except Senator Connell, the
village expert. They may need Metzger
later but he has probably talked with
his Massillon constituents and is pretty
well loaded with facts by this time.
Senator Connell, it is said,. has FASH
ioned the village code after the plan
prevailing in Lisbon, Columbiana coun-
ty. A curfew clause is to be one of
the strong features, it is said. VIII n
the bell rings the blacksmith shop
closes, and anybody caught out after
o'clock will be deemed an insurge mt
and will be given the water cure, as
provided In the Beal law, as soon as
the town wakes up next morning
Anybody caught really alive in the vii
lagos, day or night, will be subjected
to the severest penalty, as is now pro-
vided by the Lisbon authorities.
But Governor Nash declared at the
Newark camp of the militia, that he
will not recede an iota from his original
position on the police board PROPOSE
tion. TIe thinks the people of the
CITIES have no business to be governed
by policemen selected by themselves.
A board representing the governor
should do all this. He has stated that,
whatever other things he may permit
to go in under pressure, the police
government by boards appointed by the
governor shall remain in the code and
become part of 1t.
Guard Williams, of the o. p, whose
home is in Canal Fulton, and who has
charge of the Stark county colony in
the penitentiary, is receiving much
commendation for the manner in which
he detected Oils Hurley, who was en-
deavoring to make his escape. Guard
Williams watched Hurley for over a
week, while he was at work with his
plans for getting out, and nailed him
at the proper time. Hurley, who is
now in the charge of Williams, is kept
in his cell and Is allowed to talk with
no one. IT,
The Columbus base ball club manage.
ment tried hard to get Kettler, the
Mass'llon ball player, for its infield,
but word has been received that he
signed with Strobel's Toledo team.
Nothing has been heard from Flooi
OF the Canton-Wheelmg aggregation.
who was offered about three times what
he is getting with the Canton team.
He evidently likes the company he is
In.