The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-10-02
date for the United States senate.

state platform that-''steamroads and
street car companies have for years
been able to shift from themselves to
the small home owners and the farm
ers OF the state two-thirds of the tax
alton which in justice these corpora
tions ought TO bear?" Or does he
stand by the argument which he filed
with the state board of equalization,
that such property (railroads) is al
ready assessed at a higher proportion
of its value than manufacturers prop
erty, than money and personal prop
erty, and even than lands in the
state?"
Does Mr.. Clarke stand on the Dem
ocratic state platform in its demand
that the present laws for assessing
steam roads and other public service
corporations should be so changed as
to compel the assessment of those
properties at not less than their sal
able value as going concerns. which
is Tom Johnson's so-called Wall
street standard of value, or does he
still agree with his declaration con-
tanned in the brief referred to: That
the Wall street measure of valuation
should NOT be adopted, because it
leads to excessive and fiuctuating val
uations, and to the capitalization of
purely speculative elements not con-
sidered as property, the subject of
taxation. as is decided in III United
States 154."
Does Mr.. Clarke endorse the table of
figures lately prepared and circulated
by Mr.. johnson showing losses to each
county in Ohio of large sums by
reason of the undervaluation of rail-
roads. or does he still abide by his
statement contained in his brief afore-
said that such table lis founded on
fiction. is the result of unfair methods
of statement and comparison, and is
untrue in its entirety?"
Does Mr.. Clarke still maintain the
traditional lawyers respect for the su-
| preme court OF his state or does he
join with Mr.. johnson in his assault
upon that body as being composed Of
| lot of cheap country lawyers.
What has been Mr.. Clarke's relation
to organized labor? How does he
istic device for expressing the labor
| ing man? Does he adhere to the posi-
| ton he assumed in his brief filed in
Railroad Company VS. Schaeffer, 65
o. S. Rep, Ala, in which he maintain
| ed that a contract or conspiracy enter
ed into by railroad companies is per-
fectly lawful though they contract not
to employ men in railroad service un-
less they produce service record cards
stating truthfully what their record
was with the company last employing
them? Does Mr.. Clarke. the candidate,
| agree with Mr.. Clarke. the corporation
lawyer, that railroad and other COM
panies may enter into an agreement
among themselves not to employ per-
sons who have engaged in a strike!
Does Mr.. Clarke still believe in the
"black-list?" Does he agree with
henry George and Tom johnson that
the whole great organized labor move
ment is on a wrong line. a line on
which no large and permanent success
can possibly be won; because unions
mean strikes. and strikes mean war
war which necessarily denies a fun
damental principle Of personal liber-
ty, the right of every man to work
when, where and for whom and fol
what he pleases? The attitude o
Senator Hanna on the labor question
Is well-known. What is the attitude ol
MIR. Clarke, the candidate? How doe:
Mr.. Clarke stand on the single tax.
Are all his efforts for lust taxation,
so-called, made in the interest of the
single tax? Does he say with Ton
Johnson that the principles of Henry
George are the moving spirit of al
he does or will do in politics? Doe:
he agree, to quote from the concluding
paragraph of his state board of equali
zation brief, with the Johnson-Bemi!
school of economists that landi
should bear all the burden of taxation
and that stocks, bonds, moneys. cred
its and other intangibles should no
be subject therefor" Will Mr. Clark,
enlighten the voters of Ohio on thi
, subject?
The Republican state platform de
clares that every one of the IVA
amendments" lis binding in homo
upon every American citizen" VIII.
did Mr.. Clarke say in his Akron
speech that that platform winds Vi
with the declaration that amounts t,
, a notification of the Fifteenth amend
| ment?"
Where does Mr.. Clarke stand on tn
"war amendments" Does he believ
, in them or will he favor their repeal
} Does he favor the white supremac
; plank lately adopted by the Marylan
! Democratic state convention with ii
5 poorly concealed threat to entirel
suppress the colored vote? Is he i
harmony with Senator Tillman, VIII
has boasted that whenever colore
voters attempt to exercise the electiv
! franchise in South Carolina, he wi
j meet the attempt with a shotgun?
= elected to the senate will Mr.. Clark
3 ioin his colleague from Tennessee
d MIR. Carmack, and vote for his resolu
5 ton to repeal the Fifteenth amend
= ment? Is Mr.. Clarke willing to ca
4 plain his position on these vital queG
h tions?
] Where does Mr.. Clarke stand on th
Philippine question? Does he stan
r with MIR. Bryan when he was lobbyin
8 at the Capitol at Washington for th
!. ratification of the treaty that cede
:. the islands to us? Or when later
G the campaign of 1900 he advocated a
= american protectorate?" or whe
b still later he declared for their "abst
Lutte independence" Does Mr.. Clarl
: stand for any one or all three of thes
q propositions?
II Does Mr.. Clarke sic with the Ea ;
: arm Democrats. the "Reorganizers