The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-04-01
GOSSIP OF THE LOBBIES
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
Difficult to Lose Congressman DckPeace Patched Up Be-
tween Hanna and Dangherty- Something About
Delaware School Expose.

Dick is q hard citizen to lose. He has
given out evasive interviews on var
ious occasions, sometimes when not
asked to talk and at other times when
nobody cared whether he talked or
not, but he has never said positively
that he would not interfere with the
plan to make State Treasurer Cameron
chairman OF the Republican state com
mittee. All the talking he has done
has been through such Hanna men as
John r. Malloy and other men de-
ployed on the skirmieh line, but these
interviews may be said to be Hanna
interviews more than Dick interviews.
They are fashion more from desire
than from fact. Hanna wants to be
rid of Dick. The old man has trou-
bles of his own and Dick is a load.
it is reported here that Dick is kick
ing over the traces and declines to
be showed aside preemptorily. Hanna
has made peace with Daugherty, but
the latter has evinced desire to lay
on the outside and have the senator in
the interior. This is lion and lamb
theory that Mr.. Hanna has not be-
come accustomed to. he having been
able up to this time to do the outside
work himself. So there is hitch in
the arrangement aud Treasurer Cam
cron has not plain sailing as yet.
What will save him, however, is the
fact that Senator Hanna cannot afford
quarrel. While he has fine start
and will doubtless win his party's en-
dcrsement, he has not secured another
term in the senate yet, and he knows
it. The record the present legislature
has made, is going to make it difficult
for the Republicans to get major
ity the next time. They feel that
they have not accomplished anything
with which they can go to the people.
Even if all the administration bills
pass, it is q leap in the dark and no
man can know what they will bring
forth. They may raise enough money
to run the states business, and they
may not. Again they may raise so
much that the people will rebel on be-
ing taxed more than is necessary.
Many interpretations who appear on
the books in the secretary Of states
Office are not now in existence. Many
seem to be capitalized to large
amount, but just how much stock has
been actually subscribed and issued,
nobody can know. Tho corporations
will not tell about any more than they
are compelled to, so the amount re-
ceived from this source, under the
Nash measures, introduced by Willis,
Cole and others, may fall far short of
what is now anticipated by the pro-
iectors of the plan.
In this event n special session of
the legislature would have to be call
ed. A special session would defeat
the Republican legislature in 1908.
All concede that 1t would be con-
fession that they were not competent
to do the business properly when they
had an opportunity. But there is a
well defined notion among the mem
hers that the taxation measures are
dangerous. because mysterious as to
their effect. 1t was the fact that the
members fear an extra session that
defeated the proposition to draw their
pay FOR next year. They thought they
would probably better wait till they
earned it. The pea was made that
they had no moral right to the money
till year hence, but that was not
the actuating influence that operated
to defeat the salary grab. The ques-
ton of moral right has not entered
largely into the deliberations of the
present body
Taking it all in all Senator Hanna
knows that he is going to have hard
fight. With all of his own party
members in line for him he could not
hope to obtain very large majority.
With Dick to carry, which would mean
the alienation of large body of the
Republicans Of the state, if not in fact
majority of them, he could not win
at all. But Dick cannot see 1t that
way and some of his friends profess
to believe that he is still in the race
and say that he will be the chairman
of the next committee. That he will
insist upon maintaining a sufficient
force to attempt to make Mr.. Cameron
Fand his friends give up some conces-
sions. is apparent.
The personnel of the next committee
is what is going to tell the story, sc
the fight has been taken out OF Colum-
bus and Is now distributed about the
state. Fences are being fixed in the
various counties. The head of the
ticket will be the candidate for secre.
tary of state. There will be no oppo,
sition to Secretary Laylin, hence there