Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-09-29

with an urgent recommendation that
they be acted on, and that the same
Senate, with Hanna all the while a
member, has refused to SO much as
take one Of them from its table for
consideration, and that all this has
been at the insolent dictation of the
tariff-fed trusts which will tolerate
no freedom of trade. no matter how
Just 1t may be or how crying the need
Of the people for II. IL it will interfere
with their extortlonate profits. Mr..
kasson. in disgust nt such treatment
OF his work, offers to throw up lis
commission, but all the while the Sen
ate-inoluding Mr.. Hanna, says never
n word, and much less votes n vote to
discharge this moral responsibility"
which he now says "rests upon the
American people,"
Senator Hanna also asks the people
OF Ohio to agree with him when he
says OF the Republican party, as now
controlled by him. that ut stands up
on the platform that was made on its
birthday" No well Informed man will
deny that the Philadelphia convention
or 1896, to which lie thus refers, made
Its appeal in the most solemn manner
TO the reason, the convictions, the
Judgment. and--above and beyond all
else, to the qulckened and aroused
conscience of the American people.
Every man, ,-none better than Mark
Hanna, knows that to bring together
the crowd he was at the time address
Ing, 1t was thought necessary to use
herd of elephants as the prime at
traction of the occasion. All men
know also, that, the prime immediate
purpose of the Republican party at
Its birthday" was to give freedom
| w VIC o'"Sh man anu 10 make him
the equal In right with the white. II
surely was sarcasm on this central
ract or the party's history, that at
Mr. Hannas meeting the black was
relegated to the function of dealing
with the only source from which votes
10 stand pat could not be looked
FOR, !. e., that Of "utterlng the invoca-
tion," as the newspapers put IL. This
was the whale which the Republi-
cans have been promising to the voters
or African descent.
a state campaign is going on in
Ohio The issues involved in # have
been largely discussed for some weeks
past by a man named johnson. These
issues have been declared to the nub-
lie by Mr.. johnson in n manner which
certainly does not lack for definite-
ness Of statement. He charges dis.
tinctly that certain favored corporate
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interests in this State have evaded the
payment of their just share of the
public burdens in an amount RUNNING
up into the millions; that the load of
taxation which the people of Ohio
nave to carry is thus made that much
heavier, and that this result has bean
made possible by conspiracy of Of
flce-holders, who either are Republi.
cans themselves, or who are CARVING
out the settled policy of that party
Inc debate on these issues has closely
touched Mr.. Hanna's own business md
political conduct, and has involved
charge, clearly supported by the
evidence Of his own admissions, that
he attempted to saddle upon his own
city--the largest in Ohio, the incubus
OF a perpetual franchise for his per.
sonal profit. and with no adeouate
equivalent to the people whose It is
Mr.. johnson and his fellows in tbe
campaign have thus far carried on
their discussion of these questions
with becoming dignity and no lack
OF force. And yet to all this ana
to the Intelligent people of Ohio TO
"hom cent fares and lighter taxes
ana getting something in return for
perpetual uses of their streets bv
Mark Hanna's Savings bank" mean
something, however little they NAV
look to sleek, well-fed and well paid
politicians and trust attorneys like
Root aud Foraker, or the trust-owners
ana savings bank" proprietors. like
Hanna himself,-to the public of the
State. We say, the only answer the
Cleveland Senator vouchsafes Is
this' TON Johnson viii give himself
away. ] myself told him he was a
liar and he believes It,"
This We suppose, is one OF Mr.
iianna's ways of standing potr
There We're men of culture among
MS hearers, who must have been