The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-11-12
I FEW WORDS WITH THE RE
I POSITORYn


Repository Office and Mr.. scdaeier the ann
has been, to
Nothing extenuate
Nor set down aught in malice"
And now, let us see. We have stated
that Louis Schader is one Of ths editors o.
the Repository establishment, and all TINS the
article iu question admitsl This would
seem to settle the whole matter; but a
few questions may still further enlight-
en- all parties as well as readers.
When Mr.. schaefer last year made MS
Opera speech against Old Bill Allen and
the Democratic ticket, did not the Rep
ository publish it with monster head
lines2 Did not the Repository praise him
without limitP Was it not then his Or
gan2
Did not the Repository ant Mr.. schaef-
er work zealously and lovingly to,ether
for the adoption of the new Constitution
Did he not stump the county for themf
And has not this man schaefer been
acting as a whipper-in for the Repository
in getting job work. Did he Hot, catin-
like. manage to draw the wool over the
ewes of our Democratic Executive Com
mittee, and get the Democratic campaign
printing, bills for Democratic meetings
| And Democratic tickets, printed at The Re
poStOry o6icel
For the truth of this we refer to j..
Alexander, Esq, chairman, and s. g.
Geib, ksq., secretary Of our committee
And wewould add, nothing of this con-
temptible character was everbefore done
in the history of the Democratic party
of this county, This fellow, schaefer,
had the presumption last fall to suppose
that he could transfer the Democratic
party of Stark county away from Old
Bill Allen and the Democratic ticket
He did manage to transfer the printing
this fall, but that was small affair, al
though it gave the QuiEoic Mr.. schaefer
great consideration with his Repository
confreres. For
behold the child, by natures kindly law
pleased with rattle, tickledwith straw.
Some liyelier plaything gives his youth delight
A little louder, but as empty quite"
And now let the Repository meet fairly
and answer squarely our questions
Truth is whatwe are after. Their loving
arrangement has been going on for some
time, and some people have been fooled,
if not badly sold. 1t is time the trickery
was somewhat exposed, and the trick
sters as well as the knavery better under
stood.
We are thankful that the Repository
, opened up the question so fully, and adj
mitted that Louis SchGefer is one cfhe edi'
Z tors of the Repository establishment He
has been working, more or less, in thai
e direction for some years.
g The Repository claims Louis Schaefer al
a Democrat. Well, that concern is o
doubtful authority in that regard. 1t il
a man himself that makes himself
Democrat or not Is the man that be-
trays the party that elected him a.
1 county commissioner in lS67-opposeC
and helped to defeat the Democratic
4 ticket in 1869 when in the service OF thu
= ring, and buying the gas fittings, Dem
n ocrat? Is the man Democrat that op
posed and tried to defeat Governor AL
len, Sheriff Baxter, George Fessler, ant
the balance of the Democratic ticket il
+ 1873? A man fixes his own status il
e these matters. We have no right to sa.
G who is. or who is not Democrat Eacl
e individual must do that for himself.
+ Now that our neighbOr editors, on
and ALL seem to be in earnest, we inyit
their undivided attention to little mat
ter or two that our taxpayers have, an
do vet, take some interest in. One is tn
i cost of the gas fittings for the CouI
House, and the other is the enormou
cost of building our Canton city waite
works.
The general opinion is these wer
" "Boss" Tweed operations, with considel
9. able addition" not much division
re and entirely too much Silence" hithe
a. to. The prospect now is there will NJ
id be so much silence.
,e Will Louis Schaefer, editor of the X
t. pOsitoy establishment, general slandert
n and back-biter, the brave man that draw
le cocks and levels his pistol at little scho
ic boys, &C., &C., explain? How comes
that the investigation in 1871 into Il
gas fitting purchase by the Republics
r. County Commissioners was quashed al
he never resumed? Why was it about th
e. time that Mr.. Schaefer made a sudd
in trip to Philadelphia? How comes
n that the county commissioners Gle
gh could get no satisfactory answer frC
or the gas fitting house2 Cannot schaei
explain2 Dealers in these articles
there was "swag" in the case.
lat Mr.. Schaefer also might vouchsaf
'le little explanation about the Canton C
lai water works, especially about that def
w. Of E1aHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS found
". the committee Of the city council, VII
ost they examined his accounts. These
's'- live questions-not dead or settled on
Wehope he will meet these questio
Il. and not run away from us as he did
that beautiful and memorable sumo
o morning, October -. 1852. when, wit
nc pale face, he left us standing solitary
.re' alone at the upstairs entrance Of the
eat county building, saying, II goes up