The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-29
DEDUCTED
8 Per cent From Pay of
Hospital Employees
For
REP. CAMPAIGN FUND

KEP. CAMPAl6N FUND
The extremities to which the Repub-
licans are pushed in procuring cam
paign funds, in spite of the large do
nations of the corporations, were
shown last week at the Massillon
State hospital, on the day when all
of the employees received their monthly
salaries.
Every employe instead of being re-
quested to donate toward the fund,
was met with detraction from his
pay check, of five per cent of his
yearly salary, which left~buL small
remainder Of course there is no law
that will compel the employees to sub
init to such a preposterous infring-
ment upon their rights, but the ma
Jority Of hem PLACE too much yIlua-
tion upon their position to make any
great protest, openly. There were a
few however, that did protest against
this action of the state officials, and
in the face of threats to resort to the
law to procure their money, the hos
pital authorities were forced to pay
these in full.
Certainly the officials have no legal
right to hold up the money of the en-
ployes in this manner, but those who
refused to submit, are said to be
marked for dismissal from the force,
at the first available opportunity.
This will come, when some pretext
can be found for accusing the men
of disobedience of orders or some 9th
rtrivial neglect Of duty.
There are a large number of attend
ants and other persons employed at
the State hospital, and inasmuch as
but few were bold enough to refuse to
accept the dock" it is to be assumed
that a considerable addition to the
fund for the Me Too"s" campaign
was made. Many of the physicians at
tached to the staff of the hospital
were forced to contribute heavily, as
were all others on proportion to their
salaries. Thus if one received $1,000
per annum, he was expected to give
$50 out of his monthly salary.
1t is a matter of speculation as to
Wudl VIII uC ltSOIlS " uCAb
by the G. o. p. to gather the lucre
with which TO carry on their CAM
paigns.
The Democrats of Navarro held one |
of the largest political meetings Sat |
urday night in the history of that |
place. The Bryan followers OF all the
southwestern portion of the county
flocked to Navarro, and the attend
ance was a record breaker for politi- |
cal meetings there. The gathering
was addressed by Charles Krichbaum,
John F. Blake, NJ. J. Braucher and
John Monnot, all of Canton. The au-
dience was afforded a thorough and
at the same time an attractive discus
sion of the campaign issues, from
every angle, county, state and ma
tional matters, being touched on free
ly by all of the speakers. According
to the advices received in this city
from that district, Bethlehem town
ship promises to show an astonishing
plurality for the Democratic nominees
at the coming election.
An enthusiastic gathering of Lima
Vile Democrats Saturday night was
address by John T. DeFord, of Miner
va, H. c. Moore, of Alliance and Hon.
Atlee Pomerene Of Canton. The meet
ing was one of the beEt held during
the present campaign in the rural
districts of Stark county, and was at
tended by several hundred voters.
One hundred and fifty voters Of
North Lawrence were present at the
Democratic rally held there on Satur-
day night, and they were afforded the
pleasure of hearing two of the best
of local speakers, Rhodes l. Gregory ,
and Attorney P. J. Collins. North
Lawrence is small town situated in
the northeastern part of the county,
where most of the men are Afforded
employment in the mines. Naturally
they have reason to feel prejudieed
against the Injunction Expert" and
Bryan, together with all of the other !,
Democratic nominees are assured of
sweeping majorities from that dis
trict.