The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-03-23
ALLIANCE AND THE REPOSITORY.

The Repository, judging by last weeks
issue, has taken Alliance under its espe.
cial protection, paying more attention to
one Alliance matter than do the papers
published there. We doubt not this is
much more pleasantto our neighbor than
exposing Republican big thieves at Wash
ington.
The dnimuS Of the Repository is visible
when we see that the article seeks, most
infamously, to throw a responsibility
upon Auditor Sourbeck and Treasurer
Fessler that belongs not to them at all.
Alliance, it must be said, has its own
peculiar phase of things. Politics, at
times, runs high; but, above and beyond
this, local arrangements and individual
interest sometimes predominate. For
years past bitter warfare has been car.
ried on between the First National Bank
of Alliance and the banking house of
Greiner, Sourbeck & Co., as to which in
stitution should have its representative
man as the school treasurer of Alliance.
Mr. Atwell, of the former, and G. K
Greiner, of the latter institution, were
candidates for treasurer and Mr.. Grei.
ner, though Democrat and the Board
Republican, was the successful contest
ant, both gentleman being on the Board
People in Canton and elsewhere have
little idea of the bitterness engendered
by the contest.
Bearing all this in mind, our readers
will better understand what follows. A
few weeks ago the banking house of
Greiner, Sourbeck & Co. failed, and then
the party Of the other part thought their
time for revenge had come. Accord
ingly application was duly made to the
State School Commissioner to appoint an
examiner to investigate the school treas
ury of Alliance. That official promptly
complied, and an individual came FROM
Columbus for the purpose. 1t is fortu.
nate Columbus can furnish such ready
reckoners, and it is perhaps equally lucky
that Alliance whisky is about equal to
Columbus Bourbon, otherwise he might
have had to remain two weeks instead of
one.
Well, the examiner found Mr.. Greiner's
books all right, and that there was bal
ance in the school treasury Of Alliance
of some $4,000. 1t would seem the ex-
aminer imagined this balance was to be
handed right over to him, or at least
shown to him, but the law not requiring
this, Mr.. Greiner did not comply.
The Repository seeks to give this local
affair political turn, and tries to impli-
cate James P. Sourbeck, County Auditor,
and George Fessler, County Treasurer
A complete vindication of these gentle
men will be found in another part of this
paper, over the signature Of Mr. Sour
beck. 1t must be remembered that Alli-
ance is Re ublican stronghold, and the
Board of Education that elected Mr.
Greiner was Republican. They took a
bond of $4,000, and within the past year
or 80 twenty thousand dollars were Dor.
rowed for building purposes, and no ad-
ditional bond was required, 1t is to be
hoped the district will suffer no loss. At
all events, moderation is advisable; de-
cency at all times commendable. Our
neighbors refuse to be reconciled to
Sheriff Rauch, Auditor Sourbeck and
Treasurer Fessler, and hence are ready |
TO falsify and villify these gentlemen.
The true province of the honest journal |
Is to give the unvarnished truth, "noth-
ng extenuate, nor aught set down in
malice"
1t is proper to say that Auditor Sour
beck is not and never was a partner in
he firm of Greiner, Sourbeck & Co. He
s young married man, not favored by
ortune, but we'll qualified for Auditor,
md determined to do his duty according
% law. In this we shall stand by him,
Is we doubt not will majority of the
people of Stark county, despite the false
,harges from the Repository or any other
quarter.