The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-10-10
CANTON CANDIDATE
DELIVERS AN ELOQUENT PLEA
AGAINST coxisM AT AKRON.
Hon. James A. Rice Spoke With Hon
John M. Pattison at a Notable
Gathering.


John M. Pattison at a Notable
Gathering.
Hon. James A. Rice of this city, the
Democratic candidate for attorney gen.
eral, who spoke with Hon. John M.
Pattison at Akron one night this week,
delivered vigorous and truthful ap-
peal against machine politics. He said
| in part:
I'm my opinion, Gov. Herrick will
come out of this saloon fight of his
own raising in the same condition that
usually befalls man when he emerges
from q saloon row-a sadder Bud
weiser man.
Il wouldn't expect your fellow towns
man, Senator Dick, to believe that
| there were any bosses in Ohio. |
wouldn't expect Gov. Herrick to be-
lieve that bossism existed in the state.
wouldn't expect George B. Cox to ad-
NIT that there was boss in Ohio. 1t
cannot be expected that persons receiv-
ing great benefits from the machine
would make such admissions.
OLD SOLDIERS DISCHARGED.
Gov. Herrick used strong language
In this hall last night in an attempt
to answer the charges against him that
he has been unfair to the old soldiers.
He said that he could answer the charge
in three words, 1T Is lie.' am here
tonight to repeat with as much en-
phasis as possible that Gov. Herrick
has been unfair to lthe old veterans;
that the soldiers have been unjustly
| treated / refer to the management OF
one institution particularly in making
the charge-the penitentiary. During
the administration of Warden Hershey,
an appointee of Herrick, 20 old soldiers
were discharged as guards. Nine other
old veterans were permitted to retain
their places for the sole reason that the
committees in the counties from which
they were appointed refused to recon-
mend other men to take their places.
Specifications must be specific, and |
will read list of the names of the old
veterans who were told that the ad-
ministration no longer needed their
services. They were:
| HERE AXE THE NAMES.
William II. Parshall, Orrin Fell,
James r. Boyle, John II. Elden, Reu-
ben Wall, William II. Chandler, Clark
l.. Barlowe, Erwin B. Simpson, John
w. Alexander, William l.. Warley,
Thomas NJ. Branno. Peter Miles, DAN
lei Condor, Herman Michaelis. Mr..
Shaffer, Mr. Carreil, Mr.. Doyle, Mr..
McManus, Mr.. Geores and Mr.. Miller.
"The names of the nine who were
retained because the committees in
their home counties defied the orders
of the machine and refused to name
men to take their places were:
Samuel Bishop, Geo. M. Bowman,
P. C. Jackson, P. M. Hartshorn, VIM.
H. Farrell, Ephrim Costello, c. H. Nit
tendorf, William Jones, Alonzo Kellar
"Mr. Ralph H. Wells, formerly dep
uty warden, reduced to superintendent
of yards.
DEMOCRATS STANDING BY RoOSE-
WELT.
"The Republicans-some of them
claim that the defeat of the Republican
ticket in Ohio this fall would be taken
as a rebuke to President Roosevelt
The statement is not justified by the
facts. Every candidate on the ticket
was named by Cox and every line In
the platform was dictated by the Gin
cinnati boss. The defeat of the Repub-
lican ticket this year In Ohio would
be the defeat of machine-made candi-
dates and triumph for the people who
want clean government.
"You Republicans who intend to sup
port the Democratic ticket this year
deserve great credit for your indepeni-
ence, but you are not the only ones
who deserve credit for being inde-
pendent. Where did President Roose-
welt get that 25O,0O0 majority in Ohio
last fall? Where did all the votes
come from? There were not enough
Republicans In the state to roll up such
an enormous majority for the Presi-
. dent. The majority was so large be-
cause of the Independence Of the DEM
. ocratic voters. They believed in Roose-
welt, and they could not be bound by
party ties to vote against him. We
Joined you last year in the good work.
Are you ready this fall to join us?"
/ The speaker than gave a description
; of Cox and his machine and said in
!. answer to Republican promises to do
better that II was impossible for ma
J chine politicians to reconstruct the
machine so that any good would come
, out Of 1t. He told of his visit to the