Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-05
ANDNAN N CLEVELAND
Some Observations of Hawk
eye Mar on the Buckeye
State and People
POLITICS AND OTHER THINGS
With Few sideliehts and Compare
sons With the Conditions at Home
The Home View of Men Who Have
Become Famous in Both State and
Nation.
,eciaI to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Cleveland. Ohio, May 5.-l have been
spending several days in Cleveland, the
guest OF my friend, Professor Emerson,
of Western Reserve (AdelberO Uni
yersity. Cleveland is big town. 1t
now contains over 100000 people, and
is growing at a rapid rate. This is
about all care to say about Cleveland.
Ii is not my purpose to describe the
town. Cities all look very much alike
TO me, and it is only in the special fea-
lures of 4 town, the peculiarities of its
people or the characteristics of its mu-
nicipal government that find things of
interest TO the intelligent reader This
going about from place to place, writ
| ing of this towns water works. that
towns parks and school houses, always
seemed to me an amateurish perform
ance. ] remember that distinguished
correspondent, w. Z. Curtis, OF the Chi
cago Record Herald, tried it on the
| Iowa people year or two ago with
most disastrous results to the reputa-
| ton of Mr.. Curtis as newspaper cor
| respondent He thought Iowa people
were green"
F.! But Cleveland is a big town. Here,
rs elsewhere, where population is cons
densed, Dives and Lazarus dwell side
by side 1t is only a step from the
stately mansion of Euclid avenue to the
squalid home of the worker in the mill.
Euclid avenue is simply the old Euclid
road, hence its name, selected in the
carly history of the city as residence
street for the aristocratic. 1t CORE
/ spends to Michigan avenue in Chicago.
Fifth avenue in New York and Beacon
| Hill in Boston. 1t has been famous for
many years, but eventually it will live
only in tradition. for the encroachments
of commerce are steady, and when the
remaining mile or two of Euclid avenue
yields to the trolley it will live only in
/ history. That irresistible commercial
spirit which we call business wants it.
and is going to destroy it, and tho
stately mansions and ample lawns will
have to give way to the modern sky
| scraper.
Men Who Made Cleveland Famous.
To me Cleveland is more interesting
than many other big towns, because il.
is, or was. the home of three remarka-
BILE men who are known and talked
| about all over this fcountry-Tom John
/ son. Senator Hanna and John u.
| Rockefeller.
Hanna.
! Senator Hanna is gone but the grea.
Industries that he built up move on au-
| Dramatically and thousands of men
still answer to the call of the o'clock
/ whistle. Senator Hanna left no son
| capable of managing the great indus
/ tries of which he was the heart and
/ life; he knew this and so he placed
/ trustees in charge and the great wheels
continue to turn just as If the great
Hanna We're Still transmitting the brain
power. Senator Hanna, like the elder
! Pullman and many other rich men,
| had the brains and energy necessary to
develop a great business, a great for
| rune, but lacked the tact, the horse
sense, the something, necessary to edu-
cate, the son to be a worthy and cap
able successor.
Johnson.
Tom johnson is mayor of the city of
/ Cleveland. He has tried to be COVER
wants to be president OF the United
States. Whether his ambition will ever
be achieved, no one can say. Probably
not, as that seems to be the one thing
that no millionaire can have. Tom
Johnson is a very rich man, million
aire many times over To now pose as
an advocate of the doctrines of Henry
George and as champion Of the peo-
pie seems just little inconsistent. lie
may be sincere but there is suspicion
abroad that he is not sincere, and thefe
lis certainly ground for the suspicion.
He made his money dishonesty, so he
says; not by graft. not by stealing,
but dishonesty, nevertheless we nave
a right to take his word for 1t. He says
the system under which he was per-
imitted TO fitch millions from the people
lis a rotten one: that he didn't care to
| denounce it until he had got enough;
/ and now that he has enough he is go
ing to devote the remainder OF his life
to putting his fellow citizens next"
Like Golden Rule Jones of Toledo, this
man is conundrum.
1 whether man making confession
tof this kind and then promising re-
ipentance can ever win the confidence
of the people at large remains to be
lseen. That he has won Cleveland and
lis strong here, there can be no doubt.
iCleveland is an overwhelmingly repub-
lican city and yet it elects this demo
Icrat: this man who is called by many
and with reason--a demagogue, may
or, by a large majority. 1t not only
lelects him, but it seems to like it. for
lit has repeated the offense
A Question Of Partisanship.
A recent paragraph in the T.-R.
leads me to digress here for moment,
Brother Cole, of the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican seems % be very unhappy be-
cause the editor of the T.-R. is a dem
locrat." II Cyrenus lived in Cleveland
he would learn that calling a republic
can a democrat or democrat repub-
lican does not lessen the influence of
the object of a small mans spite. On
the contrary, it augments it. 1t IS not
only true in Cleveland, but DIT is true