Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-06-16
THE CONVENTION.

to be congratulated upon the entlrely
GOOD work done by the convention on
Saturday. Sound judgment and good
policy marked every part of it. When
1t has come to pass that the Beacon
Journal complains that the Democrats
of Summit county are too harmonious
TO suit its taste for quarrelng, in
stead of claiming, as its custom is,
chat they are all torn upon by intes-
tine feuds. then indeed we may be-
iieve that It Is for once telling the
truth and that the fact is SO.
But aside from the testimony of the
enemy, no fair-minded man will dis
pute that the convention of Saturday
was altogether exceptional in point Of
numbers, good temper, judicious work
and every quality that goes to presage
victory in the fall.
In its utterances there was no de-
parture from the authorized and ac-
cepted standards of party faith, and
no inconsistency between present and
past political professions, and yet no
declaration was couched in terms
making it obtrusively obnoxious to
any honest difference Of opinion as to
matters of disputed policy in the past.
So that our enemies shall not be
able to taunt us with sounding any
note of retreat from the advance lines
of the heroic battles Of former times,
and still all who then wavered can be
made I welcome and self-respecting
soldiers in the conflict of today.
The ticket, from end 10 end, is cal
cnlated to win. 1t was shaped with
the sagacfty easy to be exercised when
excellent material is at hand, ready for
the best use to which 1t can be put.
And that the Democratic party in Sum.
init county Is not yet beggared of
good men for any capacity in official
life the ticket itself is the best evil
dence. There Is not weak or unfit
point of view. on the contrary,
all OF them are highly qualified for
the duties Of the positions for which
they are placed in nomination, and
each Of them is entitled to have, and
does have the confidence of all men
OF this community who are not CON
trolled by partisan prejudces 'h
The issues presented and upon which
the State campaign this year is to
be fought out, were admirably stated
by Mr.. Johnson in his address to the
convention,
They may be summed up In
phrnse,--very old in experience, but
always new and always of vital and
absorbing interest to people entitled
to know how the money they pay for
the expenses of government is to he
raised and expended, 1t is, in short
form. the question of Just or unjust.
right or wrong, taxation. The work
of the late Legislature upon this issue,
will not bear the test of intelligent
and frank discussion not for a mo.
ment. The exemption of property
from the burdens of taxation, but
which II taxed by the same rule that
Is applied to the house and lot Of the
small owner, would bring into the
revenues of the state seven millions
OF money, or much more than enough
TO run the entire State government.
and the partie making up OF the de-
ficieney thus occasioned by an unjust
rule Of taxing the smaller agencies Of
Industry among the people, and the
discrimination SO exercised being In
favor OF outside corporate interests
and against osr own! citizens, these
are some OF the shortcomings for
which Mr.. Johnson purposes to ca the
Republican party in Ohio to account
and depend upon 1t, when he brings
HE tent to Akron, and Invites his ad.