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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
WOMAN TOLD SHE
HAS LEPROSY AND
BECOMES INSANE

Bisbee, Ariz., Aug. 2.-Gen. David
X. Wardell and his wife, the Ieper
whom he spirited from the contag-
eous ward of the hospital at Los An
geles several nights ago, are quar-
antined on a mountain side near
Tombstone, by order of the county
physician.
General Wardell and his wife arriv-
ed at Tombstone Friday from Naco,
Ariz., where they went from Los An
geles. Late last night DR.. Green said
that Mrs Wardell was a raving man
lac, having lost her reason following
the examination at Los Angeles, when
her physicians told her she was af-
ficted with leprosy.
Mrs. Wardells mother, an old resi-
dent of Tombstone. is said to have
died of the leprosy, there many years
ago.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06

ors of the Municipal Traction Com
pany tell materially different story.
They state that the deficit for May,
caused by the strike, was materially
decreased in June. and the officers Of
the company assert that the figures
for July WIFI show the operation to
he without loss. The fact is set forth
that the reduction in fares has re-
suited in an increase of 100000 pas
sengers per day. The discussion Of
the directors is stated to have been
on propositions to make a fiat IN
fare without transfers. or a sale of
nine tickets for quarter, and cents
cash fare, with an extra charge of a
cent for transfers. There is wide
difference between this and the re-
ported purpose of restoring the old
five-cent fares.
The News has recognized the inse-
cure basis of the experiment and the
necessity of waiting for the full test
before accepting it as a success. But
the early and abundant reports of its
failure are to be taken with decided
caution.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
REPUBLICAN ExTRAVAGANcE,

The United States Treasury is pay
ing out nearly one million day more
than it is receiving, that is the deficit
for the first II days of July was $16,-
157, 61S. The last session of con-
gress appropriated the enormous sum
of 81 ,0O8, 1897 ,543.56 for the fiscal year
beginning July l, 1908, and the session
of congress beginning next December
may be expected to appropriate as
much for the fiscal year beginning
July l, 1909. This would give our
present Republican Congress the
unique record of being a two billion
dollar congress. Every dollar the gov
ernment eXpends is paid in some way
by the people, and the voters should
remember that this year they will pay
$12 in taxes for each member of their
families-a total of about $50 for each
average family of five persons.
, During the last four years of Re
publican extravaganza there has been
appropriated $3,42S, 900, 900, or $83, ,SOO,-
900 more than the vast expenditures
during four years of civil war, so thai
during that period each head of fam
lily had paid in national taxes over
5000 and what has he got for it?
Under Republican policies the tax
paid by the poor man is as great as
the tax paid by the rich man. In fact,
in some cases the tax paid by the poor
man is greater. For instance, when
Mr.. Rockefeller or any ether rich man
buys flannel for underwear valued
above 70 cents per pound he pays "a
tariff OF S6.39 per cent. but when a
poor man buys a cheaper grade of
flannel for his underwear, valued at
not more than 40 cents per pound, he
pays tariff of 1887 per cent. These
figures are the actual duties paid on
flannel for underwear" as officia!ly
reported by the government for the
year 1907, AS the present Republican
congress refused 10 consider any re-
vision OF this unequal tax or the many
other like cases which the present
tarin law imposes, the high rate of
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
EIGHT YEARS AGO.

In 1900 the Democratic platform
said: "The failure of the present
Republican administration, with an
absolute control over all branches of
the National Government, to enact
any legislation designed to prevent
or even curtail the absorbing powers
of trusts and illegal combinations, or
to enforce the antitrust laws already
on the statute books, proves the in
sincerity of the high-sounding phrases
of the Republican platform" 1t is a
commentary on the patient endurance
or unfailing gullibility of the people
that this truthful indictment of Re-
publican incapacity and treachery to
public interests is as apt and appli-
cable today as when penned eight
years ago. The people have hearkened
with infinite patience to the oft-re-
peated promises of the Republican
party through it's leaders.
The conditions which justified the
Democratic denunciation in 1900 have
been getting steadily worse. Even the
full dinner pail, about which so much
stress was laid in this and the last
campaign, is now empty, and has long
been in disuse for those who have put
their faith in the promises of the pro-
tectionists. The steel trust can pay
dividends on huge, grossly watered
capitalization, but it didn't hurt itself
any paying wages during the panic or
then cutting prices to stimulate trade
and keep its men at work In the
eight years that have elapsed since
this prophetic denunciation was made
affairs political have been going from
bad to worse.
A bluff at%enforcing the laws has
been made. but the people are further
than ever from the proper control
over their Government and the equal
protection of the laws guaranteed by
the constitution. There is hardly an
item in the expense account of the
average family which is not now con-
trolled by trust and the political af-
filiations of these combines are all
with the Republican party.-Pittsburg
Post.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
THE SACRED COURTS ARE
ASPERSED.
From the Chicago Public.

From the Chicago Public.
The old proverb about the difference
it makes whose OK is gored finds
many exemplifications. In 1886 a tenn
perate allusion to the Democratic
platform to the dissatisfaction of
Democrats with the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States
on the Income Tax, although that de-
cision was by an almost evenly di-
vided court and under circumstances
which were at least peculiar, was
hotly denounced by the Republican
leaders and the Republican press with
unanimous voice, as an attack upon
the most sacred of our institutions,
and as tending to destroy all respect
for the courts and the law they inter-
preted and expounded In 1900 even
the recollection of it caused many
strong Republican Anti-Imperialists
AAhN N'As NoAANt5ASJ " ouPpOll
ley against Bryan. Today the utter,
ance of unanimous Court of Appeal,
reversing criminal conviction and a
penalty that we are creditably told
seemed to the legal profession gem
orally out of all proportion to the Of
Tense, and which turned upon very
doubtful points of law and fact. pro-
vokes extraordinary criticism from
the especial friends of the Admins
tration. They profess to see in it
personal maIignity towards the Pres
ident and his CHOSEN candidate for the
succession. The President himself
who was second TO none in his horror
at the "anarchism" OF. the Chicago
platform of 1896, has already de-
nounced with indignant protest
former decision of an irreproachable
Federal judge. who construed Grim
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
OUR MERCHANT MARINE.

The Panama Canal will be of but
little service to the United States ex-
cept for warships and the coasting
trade, if the American merchant
marine is to continue in the decrepid
state that Republican policies have
brought 1t to. When the Democratic
policies prevailed the United States
had the finest merchant ships afloat
and our Baltimore clippers were seen
on every sea. But persistent tariT
protection for infant industries" and
especially for the shipbuilding trust
has driven our flag from the oceans
by making it improbable for Ameri-
cans to build and own ships for for
eign trade. 1t costs 80 per cent or
more to build a ship in the United
the law will not allow a prospective
sbip owner to buy his ship where he
can buy it the cheapest so he can COM
pete with the cheaper built foreign
ship.
The Republican policy is to over
come this unnatural state of affairs by
paying subsidies to American ships,
either as direct ship subsidy. or as
an extra subsidy for carrying the
mails to foreign ports.
Under such policies our taxpayers
are ,doubly taxed, they pay the tariff
tax on all they buy, ,aeither to the sav-
/ eminent on imported goods, or to the
2 trusts and manufacturers who can de-
mand high prices for their products
because they are protected by the
. tariff from competition from abroad.
Then the taxpayer would also have to
pay the ship subsidy as well as the
freight, so that both these expenses
would make the freight rate by an
American ship much higher than the
rate charged by foreign ships.
How can the American Merchant
Marine prosper under such conditions? I?
Instead of paying subsidies why not
try free trade in ships so that they
can build ship and sail it under the
american flag?
The United States will never have a
profitable merchant marine until the
tariff is revised so that it would not
weigh heavily on that industry. With
free ships and tariff for revenue only
American pluck anG ingenuity would
successfully compete on the sea with
all nations.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06

tariff taxes on fannels and everything
else that is included in the tariff law
still continues.
Yet many business men, farmers and
those who have to rely upon wages
still vote the Republican ticket, which
is virtually to endorse the Republican
policy of taxing those with small in
comes more than those with large in
comes.
Surely it is time for retrenchment
or reform, and experience shows that
neither can be expected from Repub-
lican politicians.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
THE FARMERS INTEREST.

From William ]. BTyan's Commoner.
A Cadillac, Mich, reader of the
Commoner writes: "The farmers
should be with us on the tariff and
trust questions. Around here the
farmers are getting four and one-half
cents pound for hides against eleven
cents year ago. Yet the price of
leather is as high as it was last year
and no immediate promise of a reduc-
tion, and his shoes and harness are
costing him fully as much as year
ago. This year our farmers received
fifteen cents for wool, against a price
of twenty-four cents a year ago, vet
the American Woolen company that
controls about 70 per cent of the lead
ing woolen mills of the country is
charging as much for wooden cloths
as a year ago and the farmer must
pay as much for his clothing as lie did
last year and he is lucky If he does
not get more cotton in his clothes
than he does wool. Let us direct our
efforts to convince the farmers and
laborers that their interests lie with
us. Along that line lies the road to
victory"
Yes, and the farmers should be with
us on the question of an economical
administration. They should be with
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06

In his editorial columns Gen. /. F.
Mack, former department commander
of the G. A. r., of Ohio, and for many
years editor of the Sandusky Register,
staunch Republican paper, broadly
| advised Republican voters to cast off
party obligations without compunction
of conscience, and cites William H.
Taft and Theodore Roosevelt as exam
pies for Independent action at the
polls.
Thls advice was given in the most
remarkable of the many remarkable
editorial utterances in Mr.. Mack's col
umns this year. Go as You Please"
in the issue of his paper for July 27,
and is quoted below entire!
The following was the opening SEN
tence in an editorial article which ap-
peared in the Columbus journal of
Friday, June 5, 1908:
AS a successor to Secretary
Taft, the president, it is said, is
thinking of Luke Wright, a Ten
nessee Democrat. He has al
ready in his cabinet, one Demo
crat, Secretary Strauss. This
shows that party lines are not
all-controlling, and that the ques-
uon is quite as much who? as it
is, what?"
We are specific as to when and
where it appeared because it pre-
sents as coming from an official
source, new political theory as to
party loyalty. We have already, as
has every other newspaper in the
state, over and over again, printed
extracts from speeches delivered by
William H. Taft in which before he
became an avowed candidate for the
presidential nomination, he opened
wide the door to Independent action
on the part of the Republican voter.
Notably in the speech at Akron, in
1905, he declared it the privilege and
duty of voter, who was dissatisfied
with the manner in which a candi-
date was placed before the people or
with the candidate himself, to vote
against him. All our readers are sure
to remember that in that speech he
told them that if he were home on
election day in Cincinnati, he would
not vote the Republican state and
county ticket because the ticket had
been placed in the field by the Re-
publican organization of which
George B. Cox was the head. Subse-
quently, and even after he became an
avowed candidate for the presidential
nomination, he declared in one of the
western states (Seattle, if we remem-
ber) that it made no difference
whether the mayor of the city was a
Democrat or a Republican, that the
people should select the man they
believed best qualified to serve them
without regard to his politics, thus re-
iterating the Independent theory
which he advanced in Akron in 1905.
We now find in the above sentence
or paragraph from the Columbus
Journal, an administration organ, adj
ditional authority from the presumed
head of the Republican party, to vote
as we please at the polls regardless
of party organization or party inter-
ests. The Journal stated what has al
ready been printed in these columns
as well as in other papers, that Gen
eral Luke Wright, of Tennessee, a
Democrat in his politics, had been Sc
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
NEXT !

Eugene w. Chain. the Presidential
nominee of the Prohibition party, in
his discussion of campaign issues as
they bear on the Prohibition plat
form, is reported recently to have
said:
IF I am elected President of the
United States / will have a Congress
which will pass prohibitory law, and
If there are any communities that re-
fuse to enforce ii, | shall have the
power conferred upon me by the
Constitution and call out the militia,
the standing army and the navy and
enforce prohibition on every inch of
territory under the American flag"
This is characteristic utterance of
the Politics which refuse to consider
ways and means and the Religion
which proposes to maui it into sinners
whether they will or not; the Gospel
of Force applied to Government and
Morals. The Mohametans have applied
it with certain success in Turkey
and in Turkey alone-for nearly a
thousand years. The Christians, or
alleged Christians, tried it elsewhere
for some hundreds of years of futile
burning at the stake and other forms
of pious logic and holy torture. But it
failed lamentably.
Il will have a Congress-" says
Brother Chain. On a chafing dish?
No, that would involve the use of
alcohol for fuel. In a cage, perhaps,
kept live ready for use? Nice Presi-
dent Brother Chain would make
Roosevelt without the brains, or the
corkscrew, and, of course, without the
hogs lard!
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
PRIsoN.MApE CIGARS IN OHIO.

The Cincinnati Post. in a recent is
sue, describes the condition under
which the state of Ohio manufactures
cigars for contractors on the piece
price" plan in the Ohio prisons. IN
der the plan that state makes cigars
for the George B. Sprague Cigar COM
pany at so much per thousand, doing
the matchmaking, stripping and roll
ing for less than free labor receives
for rolling. Outsiders are not per-
mitted to see the interior of the cigar
shops unless they have a pull. Cigar
shop No. l is a more horrible place
to look into than the insane asylum.
1t was a shockingly dirty, unventi-
lated place the day | was there, filled
with senseless men and cripples, Here
was a man with a strange growth,
larger than banana, on his neck
here a man with chorea; and all
around were hollow-faced men cough
ing and expectorating. The light of
human intelligence was in the faces
of few, most of the men being what
are known in expressive slang as
half dips" and prison simples."
This is the place we send this
class" said a guard.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
GREAT DECREASE
Noted in the Revenues Resulting from
Collection of Aiken Liquor Tax.

Columbus, o., August 2-Auditor of
State Guilbert today completed the re-
port in detail of the collection of the
Akin liquor tax in the various coun-
ties of the state. With but a few
exceptions there is loss in the num-
Der of saloons in each county, while
Harrison, Highland and Morgan coun-
ties are dry spots, and in Geauga eoun-
ty only one attempt was made to es-
taDlish an oasis. In this the collec-
ton was enjoined. The greatest loss
in any county was Cuyahoga, where
ttere are llS less than six months ago.
Hamilton county Topped OF S. Frank
lin Il, Lucas 10. and Montgomery So.
The greatest gain in the number of
saloons is Erie county, which is IA.
The total revenues from this source
for the past year were $S,SO4 ,254. As.
OF this amount S4.60O,659.41 was re-
ceiyed in January and $4,203, ,595.04 In
July.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
TREASON 1

We would not for the world engage
in criticism of the court. But surely
there can be no harm in reproducing
Republican editorial (for whoever
knew Republican editorial to be out
of accord with the accepted rules Of
polite society?) The New York Press,
a Republican paper, referring to the
Grosscup decision says:
''The judgment of the court of APP
peals, which calls for careful scrutiny
and cool reading, can not alter the pub
lie conviction that the offenders be-
hind the Standard Oil corporation in
its rebate crimes deserves to be in the
penitentiary and will be sent there
when the law is enforced by those
who take oaths to administer it"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06

| lected by Mr.. Roosevelt to succeed
Secretary Taft in the cabinet, and we
were also told by the above admins
tration organ that the president had
already placed one Democart in the
cabinet namely, Mr.. Strauss, the Sec
retary of the interior, and the Journal
thinks that this action by the presi-
dent shows that party lines are not
| allcontrolling.
We are also told by newspapers
that have long been regarded as Re-
publican, and were stout advocates
of the nomination of William H. Taft
for the presidency that it is not only
the privilege but the manifest duty
of the Republicans of all Ohio to vote
against the Republican candidates for
three of the most important offices
in the administration of state affairs
namely, the candidate for attorney
general, the candidate for state treas.
urer, and the candidate for auditor of
state. OF course, there is no stopping
this when we once begin it. Nobody
can say that we must stop short of
certain candidates. The President of
the United States can not claim that
he has the right to put Democrats in
his cabinet without conceding to the
individual voter the right to scratch
any Republican candidate for any Of
flee under the sun and vote the other
way If he wishes. Mr.. Taft has no
right to say that if he were in Gin
cinnau on election day he would vote
against the Republican state and
county ticket because he did not ap-
prove the way in which the ticket
had been selected and deny to any
other man the right to say that he
would not vote for the Republican
candidate for governor or any other
state Office, because he did not ap-
prove the way in which the candidate
was selected.
The Republican papers in Ohio,
which are denouncing portion of the
state ticket as undeserving of Repub-
lican support must admit that the
end OF their reasoning leads to abso-
lutte independence on the part of the
Republican voter on every candidate
in the field, no matter what he may
be running for, from the president
down. If the president can put Dem.
ocrats in his cabinet, then Republi-
cans can vote for Democrat for pres
, ident, for what would an administra-
tion at Washington amount to if all
the members of the cabinet were
Democrats and simply the president
was a Republican? Imagine Repub-
lican president with a Democratic
cabinet, or fancy the justice of auth
, orizing Republicans to vote against
their state ticket and state candidates
, and still requiring them against their
I, conscience to vote for William II.
Taft for President of the United
States. The reader will at once see
that there is only one conclusion, if
this theory is put in practice by Mr..
Roosevelt and advocated by Mr.. Taft
and his supporters in Ohio, we say, if
these theories are correct there is but
one conclusion that no Republican
-forfeits his standing as such by voting
next November for any man he sees
fit for president, for, under the policy
put in force by Mr.. Roosevelt and ap-
proved by Mr.. Taft (Mr Taft ap.
proves of anything the president
does), Mr.. Taft may fill his cabinet
with Democrats and still call himself
a Republican.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06
CANTON WOMAN
Submits Recipe to Magazine and Is
Proves Winner of First Prize.

Miss Sadie Lewis, 912 West Ninth
street, Canton, is the winner of the
first prize in the recipes, Kitchen &
Dining-room Suggestions Department
of the National Food Magazine for the
month of August. Miss Lewis contri-
button is entitled Rose Flavored
Dishes" and is reprinted herewith
with the special permission of the
editor of the National Food Maya
zine. 1t is as follows:
AT luncheon given by a hostess
famed for her originality the bread
and butter sandwiches had the deli
cate fragrance and flavor of roses.
They were truly delicious and delight
ed as well as mystified the guests.
The hostess afterward confded that
she had placed in the jar with the
butter, which was fresh and unsalted,
bunch of roses, which was allowed
to remain several hours. Butter, as
every housewife knows by expert
ence, readily absorbs flavors and
odors, therefore the result have men,
toned. If she wishes the effect to be
more pronounced she also treats the
bread to a flower bath The sand.
wiches thus made are small and
dainty, being usually stamped out
with biscuit cutter.
For desserts. one can make a
dainty fiavoring sugar by pounding in
a mortar two cupfuls of dried rose
ueaves and one -cupful of granulated
sugar. Pass it through fine sieve and
keep in an air tight jar"
Thousands of contributions are sub
mitted to the editor of the Kitchen
and Dining Room Suggestions column
every month. Many of them are from
the pens of noted writers from all
parts of the United States and Can
ada. The contribution may be old or
new, original or copied, and hence,
among those sent in to the editor,
many noted authorities of past and
present day were represented. Thou
sands of contributions failed to re-
ceive notice even in the favorable
mention column. The fact that Can
ton woman should have been awarded
first prize in this contest for an orig
inal recipe written and described by
herself, is very high compliment, not
only to Miss Sadie Lewis, but to the
whole city of Canton.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-08-06

Recent newspaper reports have
spread over the country the idea that
the three-cent experiment in Cleye-
land railroading has already turned
out failure and that the manage
nlent is about to raise the fare to FIVE
cents, or perhaps six tickets for a
quarter. While many people recog-
nize the hazardous basis on which this
experiment is conducted, most Of
them were able to perceive that an
assertion OF this sort. predicted on
less than three months business,
which was made unpIOfitable by a
strike, is rather premature.
AS matter Of fact. these reports
appear to have come from the news
paper organs of the interest that will
profit by the failure os the experiment,
and which is accused of having for
that reason inspired the strike. Other
reports Of the meetings OF the direct