The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-10-09
tom JOHNSON
IS SANCU|NE
The Campaign Is Going Lruch to His
Liking.
UNCLE mark Doing The WORRYING
Special to News-Democrat.


ton d. Baker, city solicitor of Cleve-
land and Peter Witt, head of the John
son tax school, which was put out of
business by an Injunction, were ad-
dressing 5000 people in tent No. 1 at
Sidney last night, Tom l.. Johnson was
speaking to over 5000 people in tent
No. 2, in the iron ward OF this city
Beginning Tuesday Mayor Tom will
have both tents in service in the north
ern part of Ohio. Except where the
distances are too great he will speak in
one tent in the afternoon and the other
at night. Ii John II. Clarke's voice
returns to him he will be occupy one OF
the tents and in a few instances will
divide time with the mayor in both.
A telegram from Sidney conveys the
information TO the mayor that the red
devil is again in condition to show its
heels to anything in the state, which
was more pleasing to Mayor Tom than
advices that Senator Hanna he'd found
some new epithet to apply to him.
Past experience in Cleveland has
shown that when Hanna began to lose
his temper and call names he had be-
come persuaded that his was losing
cause, and Mayor Johnson takes Han
mas loss of self-possession in this cam
paign as an evidence that Hanna is in
fear of the balance of the state going
against him. So outside of information
that the red deyir' has been ditched
or that the water has escaped from
his trout preserves and left his ten
thousand brook trout to die, there is
nothing that would give Mayor Tom
more concern than that Hanna had
ceased to heap abuse upon his personal
character and has begun to praise him
HOT TIME IN CUYAHOGA.
The local campaign in Cuyahoga
county has begun to sizzle and from
this time until November there will
be things doing in every ward and pre-
cinct in the city and county. The anti
Johnson Democrats, and there are a
few hundred of them to be found in
this neck of the woOds-men whom
Johnson has denounced as crooks in
their affairs private as well as political
at swarming time. They are all trav-
cling toward the Perry-Payne build
ing these days-that's where Senator
Hanna's Offices are located. And
while they have all kinds of money to
spend and bet-and they are doing both
lavishly-no one intimates that it is
not the remuneration for their own
honest toll, though it's hard to remem-
ber when any of these folks toiled
Formerly Cleveland saloons had regu-
lar hours for free lunch customers, but
now the counters are bounteously |
spread every hour of the day and
night, up to midnight. The liquor dis
pensers aver that the Republican COM
mittee is paying the bills. 1t used toI
be roast rump of beef and now it's tur-
key. sweetbreads and such. Truly
there are new tricks in politics dis
covered every day.
Mayor Johnson reached Cleveland
Sunday morning from Cincinnati, and
he will leave again to join the tents
Tuesday. Continuously since his ar
rival he has been deseged by the faith
full teeming with reports of the doings
of the TRAITORS" Chief among thesoI
are Tommy" Graves, who has figured
in every municipal scandal as go-be-
tween for the past ten years, and John
Dunn and Dick" Butler, ex-city en-
ployes. Dunn was lieutenant of po-
lice until Johnson became mayor, when
he was made superintendent of police
He proved such a rank incompetent
that Johnson didn't reappoint him
Butler was superintendent of the work.
house until Johnson removed him
shortly after beginning his second
term. Butler was satisfied to let the
matter drop without asking that a rea-
son be assigned. These three men, dis
gruntled Republicans complain, now
stand closer to Senator Hanna than any
local man in their own party Ward
leaders among the Republicans say
they have to kick their heels in the
Senator's ante-room while Democratic
traitors are shown into his private
sanctum Immediately they announce
their names.
RELIE TED ANXIETY.
All this activity on the part of the
snemy had begun to worry Mayor
Toms partisans not little, but the
return of their chief soon dispelled
their fears. With breathless anxiety
they poured their troubles into his pa
tient ear and he laughed Them away.
For every sorehead we lose" he told
them, 1--WE draw into our ranks dozen
Independent voters. They may spend
millions, but they can't buy voters
enough to win. The people of Cleve-