The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-09-02
THE LouScHAEER REPOSITORY

Some nosological editors rush to the
defence OF scoundrelism with remarkable
alacrity. Since heishbor Bascom came
from Mt. Vernon, Xenia. Columbus and
sundry other places TO Canton, to run
the Republican party of Stark county
into the ground, and into the arms of
"Hon." Louis Schaefer. we have had a
beautiful example Of Punch and Judy
with Louschaefer, of course, as Punch,
And then, our brother Bascom has
such lofty conceit of himself that he
has constantly and utterly disregarded
our neighborly admonitions as to the
Dolly Warden Punch part of the REpOsi
Goyy arrangement His predecessor, Mr..
Hartzell, had too much sense and too
much knowledge of the situation, and
was too little of nosologist to be caught
thus in monkey trap.
In last weeks Repository was a long
and labored article on Water Works
defending Louschaefer. He even gave
extracts from the DEMOCRAT during the
building of the water works, in which we
approved and expressed the hope and
opinion that all was right, This, be it
remembered, was before the eXamina-
ton and report of the committee of in
vestigation appointed by a Republican
City Council in 1871. On said commit
tee we're H. Cock, Fl. C.. Ellison, r. A.
Dunbar and two others. In due time
report was made to the Council, in which
a large amount, NEAR TWENTY THOU
SAND DOLLARS, was unaccounted for.
That Council, two-thirds or more Repub-
lican, and elected on that issue, every
ward choosing a Republican. fOok, hon.
tysy, no action an the report
1t was not till some three years had
elapsed, that the Council ordered suit to
be brought. The fact of the STARK Co.
DEMOCRAT calling attention to the sub
ject, no doubt, aroused public opinion
and at last induced action Upon the sub
ject. If the report referred to was relia
Bile, action should have been taken at
once. Satisfaction should have been de-
manded, and obtained in some way, rs
it's, Vaiaa6E time may haze teen Lost.
The test Of experience, the great test
Of everything, after all, has demonstrated
the vilanous fraud in the Canton Water
Works. The cement pipe has but lately
been taken up in our main streets, and
good iron pipe put down. We hope soon
to give some figures showing the cost of
the iron pipe, and will, if possible, COM
pare it with the cement pipe fraud.
No doubt the real secret of the RebOst-
tory being Louschaefer's personalorgan,
is the cordial, political intimacy existing
between the two distinguished individ-
uals. The entente eordiae rests doubt
less much upon mutual admiration
somewhat similar to that which Voltaire
felt for his ape, and his ape for him.
The cause of our neighbor's inserting
Schaefer's Water Works articles, and as
editorials, too, is political, Louschaefer
is to help the radical county ticket as he
did last fall and last spring, and two
years ago, when he championed for them
the base assault upon Governor Allen
amid the applause of the Repository
Court House ring and their followers.
The wettest and most dilapidated
rooster chicken among the radicals in
Stark county two years ago, when the
news came that Governor Allen was
elected, was Bascom's water works gas
fitting hero and Boss" Really Bascom
and Louschaefer are happy pair
Purch and JudYin fond embrace Last
spring when it was known our candidate
for Mayor, Mr.. Turenne Meyer, and
Solicitor, Mr.. Lynch, were defeated,
Schaefer was running around, rubbing
his hands. and asking the radical lead
ers: "Ditn't We gif EN- hale, py kote p