The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-09-21
THE RING FAMILYI
Grant and the Other
MOguIs!
OUR COUR.r HOUSE RING

They are around the county pettifogging
as usual. They all advocate Grants re-
election. The Rings all work together.
They are all in "the family way" "Few
die in Office and none resign"
Of course, these fellows all favor Grants
reelection and defend his Administration
as one of great worth and purity At the
same time they howl horribly over Tam
many. The acknowledged thieving ameng
the Grant officials ali over the country
does not alarm these gentlemen. They
are only alarmed at-Tammany.
They never allude to BoutwelIs report
to Congress, February 18th, 1870, giving
the $40 defaulters who owed the Govern
ment near 81 millions of dollars
They will not name Paymaster Hodge,
who, fond of fast horses like Grant, has
appropriated four hundred aud ftty thou
sand dolLGrSl The authorities have him
in prison, but that will not bring the money
back, and the taxpayers will have to
make it up. What are the officials at
Washington about that they do not pre-
vent these things2
Again, there is Norton in the New York
Post-office has applied to his own use
about one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars of Public money. He is not Tam
manyite. Oh, no He has been strong
advocate for Grant! These men of the
Ring will say nothing about Norton.
They will not explain why Grant has
not sued Bailley's bail, and recovered the
$592, 900 that he took with him to Europe.
An old fellow named Shrock, was treas
urer of Holmes county some years ago,
and defaulted to the amount of twenty or
thirty thousand dollars. He went to
Switzerland, but was followed there and
arrested, brought back and put into the
penitentiary. Grant & Co. have made no
effort to arrest Bailey, who has been trav-
elling and residing in Europe for year
and half Bailley's bail are wealthy
gentlemen of New York ndspecial friends
of Grant, as Bailey himself was.
Now, we learn H S. Martin, of our city,
is on the stump and talks much about his
favorite policy of Protection. He is a
travelling o. S. Treasury agent at salary
of several thousand dollars a year. OF
course. he is earnest for Grant, Sherman
& Co. Can he not say word about pro-
tectiTg the public against Grant and his
plundering friends?
When the radical Court House Ring set
sail in Stark, our county had an invest
ment Of over a hundred thousand dollars
in the P. Ft. Wayne & Chicago railway.
The Ring was not satisfied till the stock
was sold, and sold low, and the money
thus realized has long stree been spent.
Had that stock been held, the county
would now be getting about thirty holt-
sand dollars a gear in Interest. This
would have been a fine revenue these
times.
Now, as Judge Underhill is the father of
the Ring, the great mogul,' as the Car
roll Free Press says, we suggest he try to
explain this matter to the taxpayers of
Stark county. But. we suppose, he, like
the rest, harps on Tammany, matter that
only concerns the people of New York,
ana says not word about the monstrous
doings and corruption of his Ring friends
at Washington, New York and elsewhere.
We understand, Major Mckinley pur-
sues about the same course when he talks
to the people AS Une-of their own Re-
publican hearers said to US, "the attend
ance is small and their twaddle very poor. ;
We learn when Major Mckinley is assailed
by the temperance men for having been
derelict of his duty as Prosecuting At
torney, he promises, if elected, to do bet
ter, and put the liquor men through, as
ne did after he was elected two years ago.
We call upon all the stumpers for the
Ring to advocate reform in the Admin
stration. They know, as we know, it is
much needed. All good citizens are in
terested in an honest Government. For
the General Government we pay an aver
age of over ten dollars head for every
man, woman, and child This is sir hun
dred thousand dollars for Stark county
When we Democrats were in power, it
was but two dollars a head. Quite a
change for the worsel We Democrats ad-
vocate REFORM. Let us return to the
ways of justice and economy.
1t is not to be supposed the men in fat
places will advocate reform. Reform would
turn them out, and they prefer to hold on.
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