The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-07-08
: OLUMBUS, July 5.-Governor
Nash is very touchy on the
y question of the government of

Nash is very touchy on the
~ question of the government of
Ohio municipalities. The scheme Of
Senator Hanna to build great per-
sonal machine in every city In the
state through the medium Of the police
commission and the police force has
been pointed out SO plainly that the
governor is fearful that somebody may
think he has something to do with 1t.
Everybody knows how Lawyer Nash
got his first nomination for governor
lie was not his own candidate and he
has not been his own governor. Ev-
erybody knows the controlling power
so his reported willingness to fasten
onto all of the cities of the state a
police system which few Of them want,
has simply developed into the Hanna
rlan of perpetuation. The suit brought
by a pair Of Republican politicians to
oust johnson in Cleveland has result
ed in the best chance Hanna has hal
to make himself solid for long tine.
He knows that the people are disgisted
with the actions Of the Republican
majority in the legislature last winter
and that 1t will not be the easiest mat
ter in the world to elect Republican
legislature the next time. But some
kind of a government must be given to
Cleveland, he figures, and for that rea-
son is willing to chance the extra ses-
sion IL it gives him what he vents in
the various cities of the state. He
will have a machine of no mean pro-
portions to help carry the legislative
ticket through, or enough Of it to see
that he is returned to the senate.
Then Hanna wants to get even with
Tom Johnson for some of the social
triumphs he has had in Cleveland. The
biggest rivalry EXISTS between the fam
lilies of the two, though it is not in
evidence that johnson has taken more
than passing interest in the contest
for social supremacy. He cannot help
being popular and as Hanna's popu-
larity in Cleveland is waning 1t has
been comparatively an easy matter for
him to set the Hanna clique pretty
severely to one side. If he is ousted
from the mayors Office and shorn OF
his powers Heuna thinks he will have
him beaten.
Incidental to all of the plans pro.
posed Is the interest the railroads are
taking in the matter. OF course it is
apparent at once that the railroads will
not be for Johnson. He has been after
them to make them pay their share of
the taxes too often anti too earnestly
to make friends of them. So when
Governor Nash looked about for adj
visors to take to Put-in-Bay with him
next week, while he figured on the new
bill to be offered to tie
special session he at once decided that
Judge w. b. Sanders, of Squire, San
ders and Dempsey, Cleveland, would
he the proper party to aid in the work.
Sanders may be expected to draw
bill that will not only take care of Sen-
ator Hanna's machine making, but
will benefit the railroads, steam and
electric. ]!
That Sanders is just the fellow for
the work and that he knows just what
is good for the dear people is evidenced
by his environment and association.
AS one of the firm named he is attor-
ney, in record, for the following corr
porations: The Big Consolidated,
Cleveland; the Little Consolidated,
Cleveland; the Cleveland Cas- Light
and Coke company; the Peoples Gas
lhght company the Pennsylvania rail,
company and numerous other large