Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-12
Five Hundred Speakers En-
gagged for This Fall.
ELECTIONS
METHODS OF CONGRESS WILL BE
BROUGHT UP AND ATTACKED.
Democratic Plank Favors Choice Of
Senators by Direct Vote
Of the People.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
CLEVELAND, Ohio. September 12.-
Chairman Dick Of the republican state ex-
ecutive committee has invited more than
900 speakers to participate in the campaign
| in Ohio this fall. All the republican sena-
| tors, representatives and governors OF
states are included.
A hundred or more Invitations have been
accepted. Some of the older senators, such
as Allison and Frye. whose campaigning
days are over have declined, but Fairbanks
and Beveridge, Depew ana men of their
| oratorical stamp will be billed extensively
all Of the congressional leaders will be in
Ohio. There is an unprecedented demand
all over the state for Senator Hanna.
The county leaders all expect the senator
to defend himself. Hanna will travel alto
gether by private car. He has been warn
ed by his physicians against overwork, but
has stated positively that he will finish the
campaign as originally intended.
The speech of Mr.. John F. Clarke at
Wadsworth last night Is regarded as the
real democratic keynote in this state. The
speaker made a particularly earnest plea
in behalf Of the democratic plank which
favors the election of United States sena-
tors by popular vote. He referred to Platt
of New York and Quay of Pennsylvania,
men, he said, of such character as would
never have been elected by the people.
Quay, he said had made the name Of Penn
monwealths.
Noxious Addicks Scandal.
"The present system is responsible for
breeding the noxious Addicks scandal in
Delaware. A sovereign state was disfran-
chised in the United States Senate because
he had spent 100000 to buy a seat for him.
self, and when the democrats OF Delaware
came to the antiAddicks republicans and
proposed coalition against Addiclks.
whereby the honest republicans would take
the long term for one of their number and
the democrats the short term, II was Sena-
tor Hanna who telegraphed down to Della
ware and commanded the republicans not
to listen to this proposition. The party, he
said. was entitled to the fruits OF its VIC
tory. .
IF were in the Senate of the United
States would favor any combination to de-
feat the ends of such man as Addicks I
would favor every democrat voting for q
republican rather than to send such a man
as AddckS or q representative Of Addicks
TO the Senate year after year. Resolutions
go from the House of Representatives to
the Senate favoring the constitutional
amendment to provide for the popular cleo
ton OF senator's each year. These are buried
by the Senate Mr.. Hanna by his silence
has acqulesced. l promise you that II am
elected shall work early and late and all
the time for this reform. How is that for
a fad or an issueT'
Praise for johnson.
Mr.. Clarke eulogized Mr.. Johnson, the
leader of the new democratic movement in
Ohio. one who seeks to lift the burdens
of taxation from the shoulders of those
they bear upon most heavily. and to place
them upon the shoulders of those who can
bear them most easily. AS at the Akron
meeting, Mr.. Clarke referred to the sum to-
tai of Mr.. Hanna's political wisdom
stand pat" Let we'll enough alone.' and
the like.
"See," he said. IF YOU ever heard such
advice from those statesmen of former days
when to be a senator was greater than to
be q king. Stand pat sounds like Daniel
Webster does. doesn't it?'
The speaker dwelt at length upon the
Philippine policy Of the republicans. de-
nouncing 1t in the most scathing terms.
He deduced that the lynchings in the SOUTH
q recrudescence of savagery, were the result
of barbarities practiced by the government
upon the brown people Of the Philippines.
Lincoln said this republic cannot endure
half free and half slave.
Il say that this republic cannot endure
half republic and half empire"