People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Democratic in Thought and Action. [ARTICLE]

Democratic in Thought and Action.

Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, the millionaire street cur magnate and free trader, is a red-hot disciple of Henry George, the great single taxer. Some time ago the eratic Johnson thought of locating a steel mill at Youngstown. Ohio. The board of trade was in ecstaeioa and appointed a special committee composed of the most representative business men to receive the Cleveland congressman. They were all present when the train rolled in. Johnson was warmly welcomed, and a carriage was ready to carry him off to the banquet hall, when he asked: “Where is ‘Billy’ Radcliffe?” The committee was horrified. ‘Billy’ Radcliffe keeps a small restaurant on a side street, and is known wide as the best street fakir But in conjune tion with his fakir business Radcliffe has a little blackboard upon which, between funny stories, he works out single tax problems. Thus he became a friend of Tom Johnson, and the free trader set Youngstown by the ears when he turned his back on the merchants’ committee, and made a bee line for “Billy” Radcliffe's hash house to talk single tax,—Boston Traveler.