The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-10
Democratic Candidates for Governor
and Senator Conducting a Cam
paign of Slander and Ridicule.
TWO SPEECHES AT AKRON
HANNA ACCUSED BY JOHNSON OF
BL6CKING LATTER's SCHEMES.
And Charged by Clarke with Attempt
ing to Make the Business of the
Country Stand still.

AKRON. o. Sept 9.-The Democratic
State campaign opened tonight with
meeting in Akron. Addresses were deliv-
cred by Tom l.. Johnson, candidate for
Governor of Ohio, John II. Clarke, candi-
date for United States Senator and Henry
George, jr., of New York.
Mr. Johnson said in part: 1--WE have in
this campaign three great questions to
present to the people of Ohio These are
the questions of home rule, equitable taxa
ton and the destroying of the unholy If
not corrupt alliance between certain man.
ayers of the Republican party and the own
ers of valuable special privileges No one
denies that every locality should have the
right to control its own local affairs. The
justice of local self-government is univer-
sally conceded. This is also true of equit-
able taxation. And no one claims that we
have either local self-government or a sys-
tenn of just taxation.
"Some men will deny that there is a cor
ruptf alliance between some Republican
leaders and the owners of valuable special
privileges in this State. But our hope of
success not only for the Democratic party,
not only for the government of the State
of Ohio. but our hope in republican institu-
tions rests on this fact: that when the peo-
pie realize the existence of this conspiracy,
they will not only resent it, but by their
votes destroy it. Such bargains and in
trigues cannot stand exposure.
1.-The city of Cleveland furnishes an ex-
celIent illustration of the issues of the
Democratic party in this campaign. Cleve-
land has become known as the most COM
pletely enjoined city in Ohio. Since L
have been mayor, fifteen 1n1unctions nave
been issued against the city In the interest
of the owners of valuable special privileges
like the street railroads and the gas ana
electric light companies. And after eacn
injunction the Democratic pluralities have
been larger than before.
HANNA AROUSED.
Senator Hanna. who is financially inter-
ested in some of these public-service cor
porations, with the aid of Attorney General
Sheets, has been able to prevent the city
from compelling the public-service corpora
tons to pay their just share of the taxes
and has so far blocked the establishment
of a 3-cent-fare street railroad to compete
with his 5-cent-fare monopoly.
The last injunction issued against Cleve-
land strikes at the very liberties of the peo-
pie. Senator Hanna, through this attorney
general secured an injunction from the Su-
prerne Court restraining the people of Cleve-
land from expressing their opinion as 10
whether they would operate their own cleo
tria light plant or allow 1T to be operated
for private profit. The injunction prevented
the election. :,
The municipal code which foisted on all
the municipalities of the state Boss Cox
board plan of government, by some slip had
left in it a provision allowing cities to have
their own electric light plant If they desired
il. 1t was certainly an oversight III the
men who made the code had only thought
Of hey have same
position as we are in respect 10 street, rail-
roads The State laws are such now That
it is Impossible to 6mid mmncipai nSpe
plant if you are skllifui enough 10 oouse
the injunction.
Senator Hanna is standing for vindlcation;
He stands for vindication on that variety OF
municipal ownership, which through the
ship subsidy proposes to pay into the pock-
cts of Mr.. Hanna's friends from SlOOoo,ooO to
S15OO0OO0 annually in ship subsidies He
stands as opposed to allowing the people OF
Cleveland TO express their Will as TO
whether they desire an electric light plant.
/ will be satisfied by the verdict of the vo-
ters."
CLARKES SPEECH.
Mr.. Clark, in the course of his speech,
said: "I4et well enough alone. stand
pat continue to stand pat hands of.
for Gods sake, keep letting well enough
alone This in his own language is the sum
of political wisdom and craftsmanship in
which Senator Hanna has given counsel to
the people of this State and Nation for
several years, as if, forsooth, he thought
the national life of this great people and
the business of it would stand still, not
move, at his command.
1.-The business of the country has refused
to stand still at Mr. Hanna's command,
but, on the contrary, has run riot In spec
relationship as was never seen before ana
now Stand upon what all men fear Is the
Of CAPITAL labor
hating in daily expectation of a panic-a
fear in which the President and secretary
that they distinctly share. This condition
has been largely brought about by the dis
turbanoe of business caused by the hlgh
tariff taxes, through which millions OF
dollars have been unnecessarily taken from
the people and the channels of business and
locked up in the United States treasury or
loaned out by it to favored banks;
while Senator Hanna has thus been urg-
ing this do-nothing policy there has been
worked out unrestrained in our country the
greatest industrial revolution of modern
times, which has placed every branch OF
business and manufacturing in the control
of form of monopoly which all the world
except Mr.. Hanna agrees to call "a trust.
1.-The decision in the Northern Securities
cases is proof positive that through all
the seven years in which the trusts have
been taking possession of the business OF
the country there was ample law, If il had
been enforced. to have prevented the for
nation or to have restrained the exactions
at least of every trust engaged in interstate
commerce, and most of the great ones are
so engaged.
"As to remedies in the way of controlling
trusts, the first is the taking of the tariff
| from all articles the manufactured sale
| of which is controlled by a monopoly, and
| the second, the limiting of capitalization OF
all corporations engaged in interstate COM
merce strictly to the value of the property
| invested. The last, / think, is a most
sweeping remedy, because / am satisfied
| that the schemes of oppression are always
| worked out through fictitious stock. That
| il is pay dividends on such stock that
| monopoly prices are always exacted, and
| that If such could be prevented, or if the
| capital could be limited so that the profits
would show when monopoly prices are be-
ing charged, the people could be depended