The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-02-02
CORRESPONDENCE.
MI. SCHEFER RESPONDS
The ISLANDERS and Lies of the Rep. s. Rep.
AFULL 6 COMPLETE REPUTATION
AND VINDICATION
The Rep. s. Reps False
hoods ~Injuring Canton
and her Interests
THE DUTY OF ALL GOOD CITIZENS.

To the CHze1S of Canton
GENTLEMEN: 1t may be viewed by
some as p~resumptuous in me, to submit to
vour consideration the views herein con-
tained ;..but the subject being of such a
character as casting unpleasant reflections
upon me, not only personally, but also OH
cially as a member of your City Council
at the same time creating a damaging
effect at home and abroad, against not
only the manufacturing, but equally so
against all industrial, commercial, and
financial interests of our city. Under such
circumstances 7 deem it not only my right
but duty to contribute my tribute in en-
deavoring to disabuse the minds of those
at home and abroad, who, through selfish,
sinister, spiteful and ~revengeful publica-
tons in one Of our city papers may have
formed unfavorable opinions concerning
the true and real situation Of Canton.
In 80 far as such publications are de-
signed by their author to injure my per-
scnal or official character, l care but little,
and have for years and up to this time,
passed them over in silence, feeling salts
lied that all the slanderous and unfounded
accusations made against me, from such a
source have, up to this time, proven harm
less instruments to accomplish the purpo-
SCS u hn1CA InCl mClO CSIA4C bUClA ~
thor only thereby exposing his own turpi-
tude and v~indictiveness, which any honest
and well-meaning citizen of Canton or
elsewhere VINO knows him, knows how to
appreciate.
A crisis like the present IN the history
of Canton, when rival interests in our
neighboring towns labor assiduously and
skillfully TO stab at our enviable growth
and prosperity, not only in darkness but
equally SO in the full light of day at a
time when it requires the united and har-
monious action of all our citizens to do all
that lies in their power and influence to
remove false and unjust impression spuri-
ously and surreptitously circulated against
our city and some of its best men At
such q time it is criminal in any Cantonian
falsely, %corruptly and maliciously to assail
its credit, directly or Indirectly, or to so
represent its financial condition as repug-
nant to every taxpayer; that our taxa
ton is extraordinarily high and unequalled
in the State that the members of our City
| Council are thieves and s~windlers, and
have robbed your treasury of upwards of
fifty thousand dollars at least, and put the
money in their private pockets that they
have been jointly and severallY guilty OF
| similar other base and fraudutent trans
actions. When such accusations are made
boldly as facts by a political journal against
the members of his own, as well as against
those of the opposite party, there will be
many honest and u~nsuspecting readers Of
that journal come to the conclusion that
Canton is not the point to select for a
home or business. and not the place to re-
main in.
Such publications by the editor of the
Repository and Republican have been SC
frequent and numerous, that Canton
abroad now is not what it was one veal
ago. The publications referred to have
been so startling that the most prominent
daily journals in our large cities have
copied, and, inluriously to US, commented
upon them. 1t is only surprising to me
that u business men and manufacturer
quietly and silently permit such false, IN
founded and damaging to our city, COM
munications or articles weekly to fill the
columns of any of u papers. Should q
journal in our neighboring towns of Akron
or Mansfield pursue the same course, places
whose taxation is greater than ours, the
citizens would rise up in mass and protest
against such treason to the best interests
of their respective cities.
The editor of the Repository and Re.
publican, counseled by a few politica,
scalawags whose death warrant would
have to be read to them in case they
would have to leave ofice-holding, may
consider it a very fine field for them t.
work in, and a very adroit and skilfully
played card to raise the "hue and cry" o
high taxation, swindling, robbery, against
a Democratic Council, when at the sans
time they know that all the taxes extra
levied are for the payment of improve.
ments passed upon by the unanimous vote
of all the members of our Council, anC
when each political party had an equa
number Of members in that body. Reck.
less and INSCRIPTIONS bread and butter
politicians, no doubt, have pat their head.
together, and have agreed upon the mos
likely successful plan of conducting oul
spring election, thereby anticipating
rlch and bountiful harvest on the second
Tuesday of October next, and what odd.
to them if the best interests of Cantor
thereby have to suffer, if they, through
that, can grab the Stark county '1oave.
and fishes" Ny doctrine is, let local pol,
tiles" go to the "dogs" rather than have
our city to suffer IN consequence of them
You nor l care who is mayor, Justice o
the peace, constable, or what not, so WI
select good men, and not damage our besI
interests for so small a prize; but These
seedy politicians keep their eye on the
main chance, and the editor of the Repos,
tory and Republican stares with a bigger
eye on the prospect. of securing the print
ing for all the county Offices, amounting tc
thousands of dollars per year. Again
another powerful influence may move the
pen of the editor, in addition to the above
His course is well calculated to bring il
about, that is by crying down the credit
of our city. 1.-The Water Works cost toe
much p "Exorbitant taxation p All these
instrumSntalities are well calculated t.
rob the city Of these works, and place
them in the hands of invisible actors il
the drama; and after securing them at
great sacrifice to the city, manage them OF
the principle of our CANTON CITY GAi
LIGHT AND COKE COMPANYr
The editor says, in a communication
written by himself, appearing in las
weeks number of his paper, signed "HoN,
EsTY"-God safe the mark 1--we wan
no more wooden councilmen who bob as
sent to all such foolery and knavery.'
What say you to this, Messrs. Hawk, An.
derson and Lindsay? Why the editor
wants councilmen who bob to him and hi
HIGHER PowER-knavery. For you,
amusement or lnQlgnatlon, L mere give yoI
a full copy of his last weeks elaborate ar
tiele. The only redeeming quality i
seems to have is, that he cowardly at
tempts to give its PATERNITY to semebody
else, and publishes it as a communication
from a contributor:
THE REAL ENEMIES OF CANTON.
EDS. REF. & FIT Stark County DenoerG
makes the charge that they who expose the vii
lanies and Incompetence of those in Office in on
CITY are the enemies of Canton, " while its friends
forsooth, are those who aid and abet the plumber
ers.
Constant attempts have been made, and are be
ing made to cover up the frauds to which the cit
is subjected, but they will not be covered TIL
swindles stand out boldly in the shape of enol
NOUS debts and enormous taxes, and are know
at home to our sorrow, and abroad to our degra
dation.
HOW much have our Water-WorkS COST PROT
l ably twice as much as the should have cost, an
one-third more than they really did cost. Some pei
sons. because they had the power, constitute
themselves a "Water-Works Committee, empIN
ed q water-Works engineer, and after mature de
Hberntionl made a statement that $4,000 woul
bring the water to the city, and induced the cit
zens to vote a loan for that amount.
The money once obtained it was held by thi
selfappointed I'M until it melted into tn
pockets of-Somebody. By this time the wor
Was fa.rlU commenced. and the money "Econom
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