The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-30

have been showing that his street raii
 roads, which are valued at x0oo0.WO wer assessed at only seoO.0oo, while an aggrega
 ten of small properties. some of then owned by motormen and other empioye of MT Hanna's railroad, with an aggre gate selling value also of sl0000,000 wer' assessed at s6,0000o0
 | Tn this way am endeavoring to poln the moral that Senator Hanna paid oni, q in taxes for every s1o paid by his owr motormen and employees.
 The principal objection to Hanna tha am urging in this campaign is that ht forced his people at Columbus to pass a new code which practically takes the tax ing power out of the hands of the people or the cities. and in this way. although ws nave carried Cleveland repeatedly against him, he has ben able to defeat every effort to secure equitable taxation. We are demanding home rule in tax matters, and I believe the people of the State sooner or later will follow us in this mat ter"
 Hurt by Single Tax Theory.
 In the closing weeks of the campaign the Republicans have made strong and apparently successful effort to injure Mayor Tom with the farm element by laying particular stress upon the mayors single tax theory.
 | There is not the slightest suspicion of | said the mayor. "It will take a constitu- lonal amendment to get that matter be- Tore the legislature. have not discussed the single tax because 1t is not an issue, but not because I wanted to dodge 1t. whenever any one in an audience has asked me about the single tax l always have answered them on the spot. As you know. would gladly talk the single l tax all night. and I am thoroughly conn mitted to that theory of taxation. When the right time comes shall not hesitate to submit it to the farmers directly. and II the Republicans wish to make 1t an is- sue l am quite willing"
 AS he has found it necessary to have | TWO tents so there are two red devils, a.- though one of them is not red at all Mayor Ton, Is his own chauffeur or most occasions, and. while the machine may be | red or not. the Mayor is certainly a devil 'n the matter of driving. had one short experience with him on the streets of Cleveland, and the way in which he tore around the corners and violated the speed ordinance as he flew up Superior Street Is something which must be experienced | to be understood.
 The automobile has proved itself an al- most indispensable means of locomotion between the country towns. It frequently breaks down and sometimes fails to ar- rive just when the Mayor wants it most, but taking one consideration with an- other. the two machines have enabled him to cover the State in a remarkable fash ion, and they have furnished a pictur- esque element which seems to be appre- ciated thoroughly by the country people. NOW and then an automobile strikes an unexpected stretch of bad road or sud- den shower turns everything to mud and there are delays and disappointments fre- duently regarding the Mayors arrival at particular point. but on the whole there are less of these annoyances than would be the case if he depended wholly upon the railroads.
 Worries Republican stenographer.
 As 1t is, MT. Johnson, with his auto mobile, trolley cars. and steam railroads, is enabled to get from place to place with extraordinary rapidity, and he makes things extremely uncomfortable for the tall strong, good looking stenogra pher who is assigned by the Republican State Central Committee to follow Mayor Tom around the State and take note of all his public utterances. This stenogra pher, by the way. affords the Mayor great | amount of fun. He scarcely ever fails to cal the attention of his audience to the hard working reporter, who is announced to them as Senator Hanna's private stem ographer.
 Tt Is just like q private rural free fast mail delivery" says the Mayor with one of his most beatific smiles. as he tucks his hands into his trousers pocket and thereby exhibits to the audience the ple- I thoric abdomen, which, like his smile, won't come of. This is my daily letter | to your Uncle Mark, because all I have | to do is to put a thing into my speech 1 and this young man writes it up on his | typewriter and sends 1t to Uncle Mark before breakfast. So you see that while I am talking to you I am talking to the | Senator too, and in that way cannot be accused of saying things behind hls back"
 Fishing His One 1.elnSation. | With all the tremendous strain on his | physical capacity 1t is evident that this Mayor of q great Northern city, who has announced himself openly as a devoted follower of Henry George. needs some sort ot a safety valve. There were a few | of his friends who the other day when the Mayor could not be found from the rising to the setting of the sun knew where he was.
 Tom Johnson's fad is fish. He leaves his house in his red devil, and after | breaking the speed ordinances for from twenty to thirty minutes he finds him. self at his own little farm out in the hills. There he has conducted a series of l springs through pipes so as to form an l DTOOk, ana III InaI DFOOk are 1 do not know how many thousands of trout which range in size from an inch | or two up to a foot and a half.
 There the other day the Mayor forgot the tolls and troubles of his campaign and the details of his official duties while he i helped in the work of sorting and distri- outing the trOuNinto the different sections of the artificial brook so that the little fellows could be fed and protected sep arately from the ravages of their canni- balistic brothers.
 Start Mayor Tom talking about his fish | and he is even more entertaining and his smile shows fewer signs of wearing off than when he stands on his own platform under the ghastly gasoline lights in his | own tent.
 ''I am getting to love those little fish so and I'm getting to know em all so well, I'm not sure that I'll ever be able to bring myself to catch 'em or allow any body else to do it," he says.
 
 A Hungarian Strong Man.
 There :s a strong man in a certain will lage in Hungary. Not long ago he was