The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-04-06
TgF REp0SIT0RYS MARES NEST,

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shall seek all day ere you find them; and
when YOU have them, they are not worth
the search.-liycham Of Venice.
Neighbor Bascom in his last week
Re6oatoyy reminded US of the gabby
and windy Gratano, for he devotes hve
or six mortal columns to the school treas
uryship Of Alliance, trying to give 1t a
party character, and attach blame to the
County Auditor and Treasurer, We can
only stgmatze this as it deserves, as a
piece of contemplate party malice which
loses its influence by the miserable old
bore that sent the charge. Sensible Re'
publicans condemn his course, though
our neighbor imagines he has found a
mares nest full OF unadded eggs.
We gave fair history Of the case, not
wishing to screen the guilty in any shape
We also gave Auditor Sourbeck' S plain
and fair statement, showing that he only
did his duty according to the law that
Mr., Fessler also fulfilled the require
ments of the law, following in the foot
steps Of his Republican predecessor,
The Alliance Re0ie7o, the Republican
party organ of that town. contained the
following article in its last weeks issue
Except fling or two at the Democracy
by way of relieving its own party, the
Re0ie7O manifests the proper spirit and
seeks not to implcate innocent parties
for the sake of making political capital
The article is a cold shower bath on the
Repository gang, We give the article
entire;
A friend at Canton writes us "conf-
dentially," that we are being roundIy
cursed by some of our best friends on
account of our silence as to the failure OF
c. K. Greiner, the Democratic School
Treasurer and the consequent loss Of
the school funds" Our friend adds:
ut will not do for Republican editor,
and delegate to the State Convention,
to let matter of this magnitude pass
without notice, especially when such
good opportunity is afforded to silence
the guns of the opposition in this county
about Republican plnndering, and that,
too, without telling anything but the plain
truth" We publish this much OF om
friends letter for the purpose of afford
ing us an excuse for word or two in
connection with this unfortunate matter.
First, we have no sympathy with the
guerrilla system of warfare, which poun-
ces upon every delinquency of the indi-
viduai, and holds it up as evidence of the
corruption of the party, True, our op
ponents practice it largely, and we are
sorry that some respectable Republicans
who should know better, are only too
willing to follow their vicious example.
But what is gained by such a course
Time was when the unthinklng masses
could be scared from their propriety by
such political scare-crows, but not now
What did the Democracy gain III New
Hampshire in the late election by its on.
slaught on the Republican party, be-
cause of the disgraceful conduct of Sec
retary Belknap2 Nothing, absolutely
nothing. Indeed we are not sure that
the increased Republican majority in
that State was not the result OF the con-
temptible meanness of their opponents
in charging the party with the sins OF
one Of its conspicuous members. There
is nothing in which the beneficial effects
of our common schools and a widely
disseminated spelling book are so plainly
seen, as in the growing contempt with
which the people regard the efforts of
demagogues to hold parties and church
es, or organizations OF any kind, respon-
siple for the shortcomings of individual
associates. When a man is admitted to
membership and given position in
church, a political party, or bank direc-
torship, or firm, he is supposed by his
associates to be honest and worthy and
if they are mistaken in the man-if the
partisan is dishonest, the church mem
Der vile and corrupt, the bank cashier or
director swindles, and the partner in the
business firm a defaulter and forger, he
is either fool, knave, or both, who at
tempts, for any such reason, to rally the
people against the party, the church, the
banks, or business firms and corporations
and has the contempt of all honest, SEN
slble people, and the loss Of his own self
respect for his reward.
So much for the general principle, and
now a word on the particular case in
hand. c. K. Greiner has been mem
Der of the School Board in Alliance for
some eight or ten years, and though
Democrat of the strictest school, was
placed there by the votes of Republicans
as well as Democrats, and in School
Board constituted of four Republicans
and two Democrats, Mr.. Greiner was last
April unanimously elected treasurer of
the board for the third or fourth time.
We do not, at this writing, know to
what extent Mr.. Greiner's official conduct
is susceptible of explanation or defense,
if at all, We wait for the facts, all the
facts, and shall deeply regret, for the
sake of the good name of our town, as
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has stood high in the esteem OF this
community, if his grave offense may not
in some way be extenuated, though we
do not see how
But no matter what may be the result
Of the investigations now going on, and
the legal investigation that may follow,
we now say that the attempts made here
and elsewhere to give to this unfortunate
financial failure political significance,
are utterly without excuse or justification,
and in our opinion will do the Republi-
can party, if persisted in, more harm
than good. We say to our good friends
in Canton and elsewhere, do not waste
your maledictions on our poor head,
you may need them for a more worthy
subject. If not, we fear that we are SO
set in our way, of doing as we please
with our own paper, that we apprehend
you will make nothing of us by attempt