The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-14
RANTANKEROUS ROBERT.

The tide has been turned the whole ground
work Of American freedom has been rooted up
and set before a small but perplexed organization
in new light, Washington has been set forth in
new and important phases of character; and they
must be true, cause Robert was there he knew
the immortal G. W borrowed clean shirt from
him often. He a so knew Henry Clay and Web
ster, and even latter day statesmen he associated
with and borrowed tOOthpicks from them. Ro
bert must be- from his own intmations, about one
hundred and twenty.Sx years old. He might
have made himself out older, but when he spoke
of the Stuarts PlantagenetS and Charles the lst
he neglected to mention that he was there But
the Hayes club had meeting on Monday night,
and FOlger was there; everybody has seen him,
because he said so himself; every man, woman
and child in the country knows him but for the
benefit of few on the New Zealand islands and
the lower classes of the Patagonians, who may
possibly have never known him, we will try to
introduce Robert H. Folger of Massillon, Ohio
His roundity is equaled only by his verbosity,
which is remarkable; and as he stepped upon
the platform, heads popped up to see him. Ro.
bert is walking encyclopedia of dates and cir
cumstanCes, and can tell, without reference, what
minute of a certain day the largest snowstorm of
any year within the last l26 began. He was years
ago known as the Confucius of Massllon and the
confusion of Monday evening testifes that the IT,
tle has not yet been lost to him. The g. A. Band
and Nilsson club had to exercise their greatest
efforts to get the flock gether; but at last Robert
was introduced and began his oration He gave
the political history of the country from the birth
date of its freedom down to the present A spe-
cial applause committee occupied remote corner
and signaled to the audience when they thought
that point was made, The speaker was particu-
larly bitter against L, L. LambOrn, revertlng to
him several times, interupting the thread, slen-
der wooden thread of his remarks for the purpose
of doing SO. He also waved the bloOd.red shirt
violently, which evoked the only genuine cheers
of the evening, leaving the applause committee
out in the cold In the line of the political issues
of to day, he alluded to the federalists of 1874,
and then jumped suddenly to the Hamburg mas
saCre q? turning as soon to The wars in Britain
unt er the Stuarts and Charles the First then sop
ping suddenly and reciting verse of poetry,
then speaking soemnly of the sailors rights, so
much agitated in 1872 In the end his hearers
didn't know exactly what they had heard. He
said but little against Samuel ]. Tilden, probably
BECAUSE ne COulun T. DuI ne ITleu IO leIl NOW lne
Republican party meant to REFORM but broke
down in his effort, his calculations having be.
come slightly confused from sudden remem-
brance of Babcock and Belknap, whisky rings,
&c. dd libitun. He made this assertion, read it,
look at the state of things now and believe it if
you can,
"Much has been said about Grants admins.
tIation, whisky rings, Washington thi yes, &C.,
which we regret but canHot apologize for. We
have just came out of big war one of the great
est ever known in this or any other country, and
these things are a natural consequence; and we
believe, when history is handed down to poster-
ty Grants administration will take a place beside
any other since the foundation Of the Government.
Reverting 70 Lamborn again, he tapered off
and closed at twenty minutes past o'clock. Thus
ended the Grafton.