The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-01
GREAT AWAKENING
OF DEMOCRACY

pect the present campaign has assum-
ed from that of recent years. He said:
1T Is the first year for a long time
that 1t has seemed worth while to hold
Democratic meetings and to enter the
campaign in earnest. For many cam
paigns the Democrats have been ruth
lessly slandered by the statements
that their administration was respon-
sible for the hard times, and on this
account, the general sentiment has
prevailed that with the election Of
Democratic nominees, hard times
would Immediately slip in through the
open door, before it could be again
closed. We don't heart that any more.
Not for years have the Democratic
such perfect harmony. The days Of
the inner dissention of the party are
past, and it only remains for the Dem
ocrats to march through the thinned
ranks Of Republicanism and take the
country by storm. Every known
ranks have been used by the enemy,
but to no avail. The flood of popu.
lar feeling has arisen and overwhelm-
ed it all.
ours is a state campaign, and
therefore Of much more Importance
than the national campaign. The av-
erage citizen has very little to do with
the federal government aside from
getting his mail through the postof1ce
department. We live in Ohio, and not
in the United States. The latter is
but union of the states. The issues
which should occupy our attention are
state issues. / am in this fight in
earnest, and ! don't propose to be di-
verted from this campaign by other
things that have nothing whatever to
do with 1t. / want to see that for
every dollar that is taken from the
tax payer, he shall receive in return,
10 cents in good government.
COMPATIBILITY.
Investigation of the departments
of the state government have shown
that Illicit profits are being made By
those who have charge of the public
money. Astonishing disclosures have
been made which sound like fiction,
but which in reality have been in
Columbus. The Columbus authorities
have been able to by the strength of
the bosses in the larger cities of the
state to build up an organization of
astonishing strength, of which one of
the main factors is Cox, the man who
relieves the people Of the responsible
ity of self government. 1t is by means
Of the clique which has been thus
established, that the officials are able
to make illegal uses of the peoples
money.
STARTLING DISCLOSURES.
"An investigation has shown that
$2,000,000 of the peoples money has
been placed upon deposit among the
banks of the state, and the state Of
ficials got the benefit of the interest
derived from this money. Much of
the money misappropriated in this
mai ner was put in Columbus and Gin
cinnati banks, and at least 100000
was kept in Canton banks. The state
treasurer is the president of a large
Columbus bank, and other officials are
likewise connected with such institu-
tions. 1t was shown that many of
the banks with which these officials
were connected, were allowed the use
Of the money free from interest, and
the state officials, who held stock in
them, received the benefit. When, at
first an attempt was made to ascer-
tain whether or not, the officials own
ed stock in the banks, they replied
that 1t was nobody's business if they
did However this came out later,
and the officials confessed that they
had acquired all the stock since they
were in office.
SCORES HARRIS.
while all this was going on, Gov
ernor Harris never Investigated, never
protested against such wrong doing.
He said that he had no power TO re-
move those officials, but even If he
didn't, all the power he needed was
the power OF speech, to order them
to stop their Illegal use Of the public
funds. And now he comes out and
says that they are good men and de-
serve the support of the people.
There is a difference between
Democratic and Republican wrong
doing When a Democratic Office
holder goes wrong, IL VIII be in such
a manner that he can be easily detected
and be put in the place he belongs.
They will not work any such gentle
manly game as the Republican Office
holders, who have circuitious manner
of handling the money so as to pre-
vent 1t from going into the treasury
and getting 1t in their own pockets.
REPLIES TO HARRIS ATTACK.
Il have been accused by Gov. Harris
of being the president OF two railroads
in the state. which for years have
been negligent in their tax paying.
He states that these railroads owe
the state $5S,000. want to say that
am not the president of any rail-
road and / never expected to be. At
one time l was appointed receiver of
the G. H. & d. line which operates
1000 miles of railroad. mostly branch
lines. Every dollar OF taxes was paid
into the treasury of the state from the