Show MA YOR JOHNSON IS A POOR MAN Devotion to Affairs of Dead Brother Causes Famous Politician to Land on Financial Rocks While He Must Give Up His Fashionable Fash-ionable Home and Begin Life f Again In a Cottage the Fighting Fight-ing Mayor Will Again Run for Office Cleveland OMayor Tom L Johnson John-son who for years has been credited with possessing a very largo fortune on Thursday announced that ho had Jost everything and would be compelled com-pelled to give up his beautiful homo on Euclid avenue nnd move into smaller and less expensive quarters Tho mayor also stated lint ho would give up his automobiles and other luxuries because he could no longer afford to keep them His fortune was wrecked the mayor declared by his devotion to the affairs af-fairs of the estate of his dead brother Albert who was heavily Interested in traction properties in the cast Im not out of commission ho salt Theres a thousand fights left in me Ill move to a small house Ill rIde to work In street cars and sell my autos and Ill run for mayor at the next election After Alberts death a question was put up to him whether ho should resign re-sign his office as mayor and take uptime up-time management of Alberts estate I decided that I would not I had entered the light In this city with certain cer-tain Ideals before me I wanted to light privilege and special interests end I had already decided to give up working for dollars So I concluded to stay right here and do what I could to help my brothers children at long distance Why did I choose tho course I did Ill tell you Its not because I am a philanthropist for I any not I acted from a purely selfish motive I wanted want-ed happiness find nothing else when I closed up my business affairs and took up civic activity And I have been happy too The Iast seven years have been tho best of my life leaving out of consideration considera-tion the losn of my brother I am going to ho happy yet too We may have to go back to a cottage but thats the way we started and wo can look upon life Just as joyfully as we did In the big houso on Euclid avenue |