The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-10-10

stand, i will try to explain for some or
the ladies are at loss to know what
stand pat means. In this country we
have game known as draw poker
1t is a game of bluff, of deception, in
which one tries to deceive the other.
It is the art of trying to mislead your
opponent and the highest play, the
most scientific move Is to stand pat
with five cards-you may want 3 or
more, but you don't ask for any.
You may have hearts with spade
in the middle. Standing pat means to
hold your cards close and not let
the other fellow know what you have
got
THAT Is Mr.. Hannas political
move. He is proposing in this game
I to stand pat with the issues; he pro-
poses to have Jackpot that may
mean bis United States senatorship,
and he is standing pat to fool the peo-
pie.
Down in Columbus right now they
are considering a municipal code; they
are considering constitution for
every city in the state. 1t will govern
almost as many people as came in our
first constitution, very nearly the pop
ulation of the United States when our
]
islature would do the right thing every
citizen should vote for 1t, and hold
Iup their hands and say, we'll done.
thou good and faithful servant But
look out for what is coming from that
conference committee! These confer
ence committees are usually made up
of about three men from each house.
They didn't put single Democrat or a
. n fa nf
Cox's scheme. They put all FIVE of one
color-four Republicans and one rem
egade Democrat, man named Sharpe,
who voted for the Cincinnati steal.
They will bring in a bill that cannot
be changed. They are in that con-
ference behind closed doors They
will write the bill that will give us
a board government modelled after
Cincinnati in the interests of boss rule.
II they would follow home rule they
would provide something by which
you could settle the size of your gov
ernment and the number of offices you
will have. They ought to do so. ut
instead of that they propose to fix
1t in such way that it will suit Boss
Cox and Mr.. Hanna and others, and
they propose to make that, not a code
in the interest of the people of these
municipalities, but in the interest of
some petty bosses of the Republican
party, aided by renegade Democrats. .
QUESTIONS ASKED.
Mr. Johnson then invited any of the
audience to ask him any questions
they wished. The first question was
asked by p. ID Luke, as follows:
"Will you endorse the last admins
tration of Grover Cleveland?"
Il think 1t is hardly an issue. o.I
could not however endorse it because /
did not vote for the principal bill that
was passed during that last admins.
tration when the Wilson bill came
back to the house. / voted against
it. I can only speak for myself. l
am an absolute free trader and would
abolish every custom house tomorrow
morning IL could. tax collector at
the custom house makes more burden
on a man with family of ten chill
dren than on a millionaire bachelor >
, Luke then asked: "How does the
election this fall affect the legisla-
ture?"
"a very proper question. will
tell you. We are starting out this fall
to lay the ground work to elect mem
bers of the legislature next fall who
will get before the people and declare
their position on certain questions
, The other side is working now. Com
mence now and make any man who
runs for auditor or for the Legislature
! declare what he will do on the sub
, ject of riding on railroad passes
, Make him declare on the subject OF
home rule to let our municipalities to
, control themselves. Vote for the man
you can trust, whether Democrat or
Republican. 1t is more important to
, the people Of this state to elect the
right man and vote right than to send
somebody to the United States SEN
, ate"
Luke's third question was. "Is it not
! fact that every Democratic state ad
ministration in the state of Ohio since
the war has run the state into debt
and increased taxation?"
NOT BAD ENOUGH.
} ''I will say I do not know. There
! have not been enough of them my
} friend for me to really find out. The
J best way in the world to have poll.
J tlcal meeting is to have debates; next
have questions come fairly.
Stephen Francis then asked, "What
does single tax mean?"
MY 1rlenu, tnat. Is q Dig subject.
The single tax is theory of taxation
promulgated by Henry George, what
is known as the Henry George philo-
sophy 1t is the rule by which !
square my political life. Anything ]
do in a public way, do it according
to the philosophy of Henry George. 1t
proposes to take the burdens off of
labor and labor products, houses and
lots and factories and goods and all
those things that labor produces. The
proposition of the single tax is to ex-
empt them from taxation, and put the
taxation upon the land value, fran
chise value, etc. In other words 10
tax privilege and monopoly, and ex-
empt labor and labor products. The
farmers have land value. You must
include their buildings and their stock.
They have some land values, but
nothing like we have in Cleveland