The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-10-06
NUMBER 80
A MILLION DODCER.
Multi Millionaire Johnson's Ten
Years of Taxes.
Let Him Come With Clean Hands
First, Before Processing to Teach
Ohio People About Just Taxation"
His Injunction and Officials.

Let rifH Some WIKI Siedh 6dno1
First, Before Processing to Teach
Ohio People About Just Taxation"
His Injunction and Officials.
Not until he cleans his own hands
In the matter of tax lodging can John
sons words have any weight upon the
subject with the people. He must take
the citizens of Ohio for consummate
fools to imagine that they will accept
him as authority in the ethics of this
important matter. while he is himself
the largest individual tax dodger
known of in the state. Were he silent
upon this subject what he does would
not amount to SO much, but with his
parade Of superior virtue as to "just
taxation" Mr.. Johnson's personal rec
ord is put into the campaign by him
self by that very fact and needs to be
kept continually in mind.
Another very important circum-
stance in connection with Mr. John
sons position is the point so well put
by General Dick in his open letter,
wherein he showed that Johnson's tax
lodging is all of it at the expense of
secure its revenue somehow and some
where. IL Johnson owes a million dol
lars in taxes, conceals his property,
and refuses to make payment, that
million dollars must come out of the
rest Of the people of the city, county
and state.
That the amount due from johnson
on this account must now be practic-
ally million dollars. is easily deter
mined For four years he has kept tied
up under injunctions from the United
States court at Cleveland, the suit be-
gun in the local court by Cuyahoga
county officials claiming s432. .3s4 of
taxes and penalties from him, under
the laws Of Ohio. and nobody imagines
that the property now belonging to
Mr.. johnson and subject to taxation
under the laws of Ohio is less than it
was the last year covered by that case.
Cuyahoga county claimed that in 1899
MIR. johnson owned of property legally
subject to taxation s3054 900. and that
there was due from him to the county
on this sum about sl35.0O0 for that
year. The Cleveland city tax rate un-
ucl JOuuSOu administration mas gone
up considerably, so that the annual
arrearages for the succeeding years
would surely exceed the sum named
/ That is to say for the fiscal years 1900,
| 1901, 1902 and 1903 Mr.. johnson would
be subject to claim from Cuyahoga
county upon this basis of $40. 1000 ad-
| ditional, and probably much more;
enough to exceed a present aggregate
| of million dollars.
This vast amount is due primarily
to the city. county and state, but II is
| actually owed to the honest taxpayers.
and particularly to the people of mod
crate means; those for whom John
sons crocodile tears flow so freely.
They need never expect any action in
the matter however, so long as every
official of Cuyahoga county charged by
law with any part of duty in such q
case is a Johnson man. as is now the
fact in that county. The United States
court injunction was not enough pro-
lection for Johnson. and he has got
his own officeholders into the particu-
lar positions that will protect him
most completely from any attempt at
getting from him the million dollars
in taxes that he is lodging.