The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-07-22
Columbus, Budget

ne disagrees with the governor and
that he may be expected to help shoot
the Nash code to pieces when It is
offered. Painter is chairman of the
Republican steering committee and as
such official is expected to WELD great
influence to get The board plan de-
fcated. He is strong Daugherty man.
Another member of the Republican
steering committee who is expected to
cause more or less confusion to the
plans of the anti-home-rule element
is Representative Buell., of Columbi-
ana. He has been heard from on the
proposition 10 control boards in cities
from the governors Office and being
from small city, Salem, is compe-
tent to speak knowingly. In all this
preliminary talk the small city has
been left ont of consideration. The
large city is to be taken care of and
the little city is to take whatever is
left in the way of compromise, In
Che smaller cities the lack of home
control will be most keenly felt and
for this reason the attitude of Repre-
sentative Buell. is most interesting.
He Is said to have placed himself on
record as being in favor of home rule
for cities and If that is not in the
Nash code, to be in favor of punching
large holes in the code. Thus tive Of
the steering committee are already
won over to the other side. Governor
Nash is going to have rough sled
ding.
Guard Williams, Of the Ohio peni-
tentiary, has been spending a coupls
of weeks in Stark county, his home
and has looked into the congressional
situation a trife. He says Harvey
Smith is bound to win. He thinks
Smith has the key to the situation and
that he can combine with Columbiana
either to take the nomination himself
or hand 1t over to a Columbiana coun-
ty man, thus controlling the district
patronage. AS Williams comes direct
from Canal Fulton, where Smiths
henchmen are strong and as he has
been associating with the politicians
connected with the Massillon mans
boom, the plan of campaign OF tho
Smith followers is evidently one of
combination at an early date. AS
Columbiana is the only county with
which Smith could combine and have
enough votes to either win or give the
nomination to someone else, the
claim of Kennedy that he will get
enough votes in Stark county to win
needs revision.
Fred Lied, formerly Democratic
councilman in Canton, and who re-
Gently suffered the amputation Of a
limb to save his life, was able to get
out Of bed into chair at the hospital
Sunday. Another Canton man, d
brother of ex-Councilman w. E..
Streiber, visited him at the hospital
and declares him to be on the road to
recovery. A growth on the limb ne
cessitated the amputation.
Governor Nash has been spending
the week at Newark and has been
visited there by numerous members of
the legislature who have asked him
to reconsider his intention to call the
legislature August 25. So persistent
has been the attempt to get him to
postpone action that a rumor was
afioat that he had decided to do So
This was denied. 1t was denied sew
eral times. In fact the governor has
done little but deny it for several
days. An extension of the stay Of
custer in the Cleveland case would
solve the problem, but Nash thinks
the legislators can be handled and as
he Is backed by the potent Cox feels
that this summer is the time to fight
it out