The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-10
OHIO CAMPAIGN
IN FULL BLAST
Stirring Speeches by Johnson
and Clarke at Akron.
MARK HANNA is SHOWN up
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION
AT CLEVELAND.

/ A KRON. O., Sept 9.-The Democrat
/ n &c state campaign opening meet
ing was held in a tent here to-
night, addresses being delivered by
I Tom L. Johnson. candidate for govern
/ or; John Z. Clarke. candidate for SEN
\ ator, and Henry George, jr.. of New
! York The crowd at the meeting was
| estimated al 1900. In his speech Mr..
/ Johnson said. in part.
we have in this campaign three
I great questions to present to the pCo-
/ pie of Ohio These are the questions of
1 home rule, equitable taxation and the
/ destroying OF the unholy. If not corrupt
alliance between certain managers of
/ the Republican party and the owners
/ Of valuable special privileges.
/ The city of Cleveland furnishes an
/ excellent ilustra ton of the issues OF
! the Democratic party in this campaign.
/ Cleveland has become known as the
( most completely eujoined city in Ohio.
/ Since / have been mayor fifteen iniunc-
I tions have been issued against the city
/ In the interests of the owners of vaiu-
/ able special privileges ike the street
/ railroads and the gas and electric COM
/ panies- And after each Injunction the
Democratic pluraities have been larger
I than before
Hanna's Scheme.
Senator Hanna who is financially
| interested i'm some Of these public serv-
/ lee corporations, with the aid of Attor-
! ney 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 a Scent
! fare street railroad to compete with his
/ scent fare monopoly.
The last Injunction issued AGAINST
/ Cleveland strikes at the very liberties of
] Ine people. Senator Hanna, through this
attorney general. secured an Injunction
from the supreme court restraining the
/ people of Cleveland from expressing their
opinion as TO whether they would operate
/ their own electric light plant or allow I'D
7 to be operated for private profit. The in
/ junction prevented the election.
Must Dodge Injunctions.
THE municipal code which was foisted
! ON all the municipalities of the state,
I Boss CoXs board plan of government.
I by some slip, had left in FL provision al
I lowing cities to have their own electric
7 plant II they desired IL. It was certainly
/ code had only thought of ID they would
nave left us In the same position as we
are now in In respect to street railways.
The state laws are now such as to make
| 1T impossible to build q municipal street
I railway. but it is not irnDossibIs TO build
/ a municipal electric plant III YOU are sue
! cesstul enough to dodge the injuuCtiOus.
Senator Hanna is standing for vindi-
]
through the ship subsidy proposes to paw
/ into the pockets of Mr.. Hanna's friends
N-EV0ta5 % sl2h1eD annually in ship
/ subsidies He stands as opposed TO al
lowing the people Of Cleveland 20 express
/ their VIII rs to whether they desire an
electric light plant. I viii be satisfied
/ with the verdict of the voters"
Clarke's Address.
/ Mr.. Clarke's address was in part as
\ follows:
Let well enough alone stand pat
Continue to stand pat Hands off For
I Gods sake keep letting wei enough
alone This, i'm his own language. is the
sum of the political wisdom and states
manShip i'm which Senator Hanna has
given counsel TO the people of this state
and nation for several years as if. for
sOoth, ne thought the national life of this
1 great people and the business % it would
stand still. not move. at his command
/ The business of the country has re-
| fused 10 stanI still az Mr.. Hanna. s. COM
m3nd. but. on the contrary. has run riot
I IN speculation such as was never seen be-
! fore, and now stands upon what all mon
| fear is the verge of collapse. and capital
and labor halt I'm daily expectation of "a
panic-a fear l1 which tho president ami
secretary of the treasury bv their public
( speeches show they distinctly share This
condition has been largely brought about
/ pE the disturbance OF business caused nF
I the high tariff taxes. through which mil
lions -of dollars have been unuccessarilv
+ taken from the people and the channels
I of business and locked mp i'm the United
States treasury or loaned out hv fl TO f7-
/ vored banks.
Trusts Attacked.
T while Senator Hanna has thus been
I urging This do-nothing policy there has
been worked out uurestraiued in our
country the greatest industrial revolution
/ of modern times. which has placed every
I branch Of business and manufacture I'M
/ der control of form of monopoly which
/ all the world except Mr. Hanna agrees to
call a trust.
'-The decision i'm the Northern Securities
case is proof positive thas through an the
seven years i'm which the trusts have been
country there was ample law FL 10 hal
I been enforced. to have prevented the for
nation Of or 90 have restrained the ac-
tons az least of every trust engaged in
Interstate commerce. and most OF the
great ones are SO engaged.
AS TO remedies I'm the way of control
I the tariff from an articles the manuf3C-
ture or sale of which is controlled hy a
monopoly. and the second the limiting OF
I the capitalization of an corporations en-
gagcd I'm interstate commerce strictly to
( the value of the property invested.
Fictitious Capital.
1.-THE last think is most sweeping
/ remedy, because I am satisfied that the
schemes of oppression are always worked
out through fictitious stock, that il is 20
pay dividends on such stock that mOnOp-
oily prices are always eXacted, and that
II such could be prevented. or If the cap
ltal would be limited so that the profits
would show when monopoly prices are
being charged. the people can be depend
/ cd GpOn 70 supply the remedy
Referring TO the Philippine policy of the
Republicans which he denounced Mr..
Clarke said he was I'm favor OF granting
the Fllplnos immediate Independence re-
serving cOGlin-g stations. which they have
always been ready to grant TO the United
world, Hands Off.