The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-12-02


more talk of purchase or consolidation,
wins then an unwilling stockholder IN
the Democrat, and had sent several law
suits in pursuit Of bad investment, but
all to no purpose. thought l would
begin the new year with q new row, and
was in a fair way to make things lively
in the bowels of the Democrat, when my
attorney suddenly turned his attention
to negotiations between Mr.. Fishback
and Messrs. McKee& Houser, atthe sulr
gestion of the first named gentleman,
This was more than q month before the
inauguration OF the whisky war, and the
! price named at the start was precisely
that given in the end. The Globe had
distanced the Democrat out of sight, but
there was still the dangerous possibility
Of combing Grosvenor out of the latter
journal, and making it a rival to the
former, Thisgreatly enhanced the value
of the Democrat to the proprietors of the
Globe. At last the sale and consolidation
took place, without the use of a dollar in
money or property, except that belong
ing to McKeet& Houser. The whisky
Ring exposures" occurred after every pa
per necessary to the transfer had been
signed and sealed. u,W ri lnHI
Thus much for GrosvenOr's story oi
'how newspaper was bribedY in the
interest of the Whisky Ring. It is the
story, rather, of how a notorious loafer
and dead-beat was kicked out ofa news
paper; for / need not say that among
other liabilities assumed by the new pro-
prietors, hummer Bill was not one. He
has been in search of employment ever
since, but beyond the precarious exist
ence temporarily eked out of the Repub-
liCans of Ohio, and such levies as he
could make upon the credulity Of the ex-
Senator and the Teutonic editor already
referred to, his lines have not been cast
in pleasant places. ......
There is as little of gratitude as Of
honor in this poor wretch, Otherwise
he would pause, before assailing Mr.. Nc
Kee, to remember time when, left PEN
niless by bawdy-house revels, lie was in
need of the means of decent intermenl
for wife whom he had left to die in
cruel neglect; and when Mr., Mckee
stepped forward as the only one willing
to save the mother of his child from the
Potter's Field. There is grave in Belle
! fontaine Cemetery whose occupant, could
she speak, would be quick to rebuke in
Grosvenor any arraignment of the avar-
ice of Mckee. Others might, perhaps
make the charge, but not not the MAJ
who allowed his wife's tomb to be a
monument to his own neglectful bru'
tality. jYd -.,. '.a.|N'
William M. Grosvenor is not compe-
tent witness against any mali, or in any
cause. Heis destitute of everything that
makes manhood respected and respecta'
BILE. He has disgraced every public cause
with which he has ever been connected
and he has polluted every relation oi
private life known to the family or to So
ciety. He has disgrlced the army of the
United States with cowardice, and a de-
pravity which was worse than cowardice
He has disgraced journalism with prac'
'tices ranging all the way from discredita'
BILE to felonious. He has disgraced poll.
tics with shams and swindles, which
should have sent him to the penitentiary
long ago. His whole character-whether
as soldier, citizen, editor man or hus'
band-is q dull monotony of baseness
which it would puzzle Hell to produce
or OmnipotenCe to duplicate.
These opinions are not expressed by
me now for the first time. still less be-
cause Mr.. Grosvenor is absent from the
city. There is scarcely an epithet in this
article which l have not applied to him
often, and when he had ample opportu.
nifty to seek such redress as best suited
him, MACK.