The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06

out ambition and has solemnly declar-
ed that in the contingency of the
Republicans of Cuyahoga county elect
ing delegation to the next general
assembly he would not sidestep its
support for the senatorship. Mr.. Bur-
ton says, however, that the senator
ship is an Office so high that 1t should
the office.
Mr.. Burton has gone to Europe,
where he will sive the senatorship
merry race of hide and seek. 1t is
understood that he will soon be in
hiding either in the castles along the
Rhine or in the monasteries and alb
beys of southern France. Mayhap in
his elusive fight from the distinguish
ed honor that he imagines is now in
hot pursuit of him he will later be
found in some dark recess in the tenn
pie of Thebes or under the protecting
influences of Isis and Osiris at Luxor
or Memphis.
'Mayhap he will go farther and be-
take himself to the jungles of India
or the wilds of Tartary the better
to wrestle with the awful phantom
that is now pursuing him. Not since
the fight of the Tartar tribe, which
DeQuincy so graphically described, or
the days Of old, when Jacob wrestled
with the angel, has there been any
thing SO solemnly and frantically dra-
matte as the fight of Burton from
the exalted Office of the senatorship.
Meantime such cruelty practical poll
ticians as Senator Foraker, Harry A,
Daugherty, Brother Charley Taft and
others are busily engaged in tying
the grass across the paths wont to be
trod by the elaborate pedal extreme
ties of Mr.. Burton"
Soon the noise of the Republican
free boiler plate foundry will be heard
in the land. Manufacturing will be-
gin next week.
There are to be no broadsides,"
announces Chief Publicist Shimansky.
Our matter will constitute digni-
fed, calm and dispassionate discus
sion of the issue, of the campaign"
No one about Republican headquar-
ters is ready to say just what the
state issues are to be- No attention
will be paid to the campaign for the
initiative and referendum. 1t is the
plan to ignore any agitation for direct
legislation
The activities of both parties will
be transferred from state headquarters
to the legislative reunion at Ce
dar Point next week. The Republi-
cans are expecting to make some hay.
Included among those who will mingle
with the lawmakers, present and
prospective, will be Arthur l. Vorys,
Chairman Williams and Secretary
Phipps of the state executive commit
tee, Malcolm Karshner, chairman of
the organization committee and Wal
ter Brown of the state central COM
mittee. Secretary W. L. Finley of the
state executive committee, with aides,
will be on the ground to represent the
Democratic organization.
The opening of the Democratic cam
paign will be determined upon at a
meeting of the state committee to be
called for week after next. Akron
and Chillicothe both want to do the
entertaining. Without any real hope
of acceptances both William Jennings
Bryan and John w. Kern, on the
Democratic national ticket, will be in
vited to speak at the Ohio opening.
The prospects are, however, that the
opening will be confined entirely to
state matters with Judson Harmon,
candidate for governor, and James
Campbell, Endorsed for United States
senator, the chief speakers.