Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-10
Ohio Democrats Meet In Akron
to Hear Addresses of the
Candidates
THE THREE GREAT QUESTIONS
These are Home Rule, Equitable Taxa
ton, and the Destruction of the Al
lance Between Republican Party
Managers and Owners of Valuable
Special Privileges.

Akron. O.. Sept 1o.-The democratic
state campaign was opened in this city
last night, addresses being delivered by
Hon. Tom L. Johnson, candidate for
governor; John Fl. Clarke candidate
for United States senator and Henry
George, Jr, of New York.
Mayor Johnson, accompanied by
Messrs. Clarke and George, arrived in
the city from Cleveland yesterday af
ternoon. An informal reception was
held for several hours at a local hotel,
and after dinner a parade formed and
marched from the hotel to the place
of meeting, where Johnson's temt was
already comfortably filed.
Mr. johnson said:
1--WE have in this campaign three
great questions 10 present to the people
| of Ohio. These are the questions of
home rule, equitable taxation, and the
destroying of the unholy, il not corrupt.
| alliance between certain managers of
| tiles ItI}uuiICdL anu the OWueIS
| Of valuable special privileges.
The city of Cleveland furnishes an
excellent Illustration of the issues of
the democratic party in this campaign.
Cleveland has become known as the
most completely enjoined city in Ohio.
Since I have been mayor fifteen in
! functions have been issued against the
| city in the interest of the owners of
valuable special privileges like the
street railways and the gas and cleo
trio light companies. And after each
| injunction the democratic pluralities
have been larger than before.
Senator Hanna, who is financially
| interested In some Of these public serv-
| ice corporations, with the aid of At
torney General Sheets, has been able to
prevent the city from compelling the
public service corporations to pay their
just share of the taxes and has SO far
blocked the establishment Of three
| cent fare street railway to compete
with his five cent fare monopoly.
The last injunction issued against
Cleveland strikes at the very liberties
| of the people. Senator Hanna, thru
junction from the supreme court re-
straining the people of Cleveland from
expressing their opinion as to whether
they would operate their own electric
light plant or allow 1t to be operated
for private profit. The injunction
prevented the election.
Senator Hanna is standing for vim
dication. He stands for vindicatipn on
~, y, iya
which, thru the ship subsidy, proposes
to pay into the pockets of Mr. Hannas
friends from ten to fifteen million dol
lars annually in ship subsidies. ] will
be satisfied with the verdict of the vot-
erS"
Mr.. Clarke said:
LET well enough alone Stand pat
Continue to stand pat Hands off.
For Gods sake keep letting well
enough alone This. in his own Lam
guage. 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, forsootil, he thought the
national life of this great people and
the business of 1t, would stand still,
not move. at his command.
The business of the country has re-
fused TO stand still at MIR. Hannas COM
mand, but, on the contrary, has run
riot in speculation such as was meyer
seen before, and now stands on what
all men fear is the verge or collapse,
ana capital and labor halt in daily ex-
pectation OF a pallc--a fear IN which
the president and the secretary oil the
treasury by their public speeches show
they distinctly share. This condition
has largely been brought about bl the
disturbance of business caused by the
high tariff taxes, through which mill
lions of dollars have unnecessarily been
taken from the people and the channels
OF business and locked up in the United
States treasur,, or loaned out by II TO
favored banks.
..While senator Hanna has thus been
urging this do nothing policy, there has
beer worked out unrestrained i'll our
country the greatest industrial revolu-
ton of modern times. which has placed
every branch of business and manufac-
ture in the control of form of mon
sopoly which all the world except Mr.
Hanna agrees to call "A trust
The decision in the Northern Sseurs-
ties case is proof positive that thra all
the seven wears in which the trusts have
been taking possession of the business
of the country. there was ample law II
II had been enforced, to have prevented
the formation or to have restrained the
exactions at least of every trust en-
gagged in interstate commerce and most
OF the great ones are SO engaged.
AS to remedies in the way of con-
trolling trusts the first is the taking
Of the tariff from all articles, the manu-
facture or sale of which is controlled
by q monopoly, and the second the Inn
iting of the capitalization of all corpo-
rations engaged in interstate commerce,
strictly to the value of the property in
vested The last I think, is most
sweeping remedy because / am salts
fed that the schemes of oppression are
always worked out through fictitious
stock: that is to pay dividends on such
stock that monopoly prices are alWays|
exacted. and that II such could be pre-
vented, or If the capital could be limit
ed so that The profits would show when
monopoly prices are being charged the
people could be depended on to apply
the remedy.
Referring. to the Philippine policy of
the republicans, which he denounced,
Mr. Clarke said he was in favor off
granting the Filipinos immediate in
dependence, reseving coaling stations,
which they have always been ready toi
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