The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-01
NORTHERN OHIO MATTERS.
Rush Field Something More About the FeSSler
DefalcatiOn, &c., SC.

Rush FleId-SOmOthIng More About the FesSler
DefalcatlOn, &c., SC.
Special Correspondence ofMe Enquirer.
Cleveland, July 27.-On my way up here from |
Newark dropped in on Rush Fields, at Mans
field, and had pleasant chat with the handsome |
mine host Of the Wilder house and present Demo
cratic candidate for member Of the Board Of
Public Works Rush Is one Of the cleverest fell
lows In the State and as popular as he is clever
Though not possessed Of that gift Of the CAB that
Is essential TO public speaker, he is a man Of
great business ability, and predict that he will
make q valuable member Of the Board to which
he aspires to membership Richland county is
ordinarily good for about 700 Democratic msjori.
ty, but will be much mistaken fit does not give
Rush from 1900 to 600 of a send-of in the way
of majority,
From Mansfield went to Canton, to see how
George Fessler, the defaulting Treasurer OF Stark
county, was getting along, l found him in the
county Jail, within one hundred feet of the Treas
urer's Office, where for years he had been master
of 1t and It's contents, and ruling spirit in the
politics Of his county His wife was sitting in the
cell with him, keeping him company and ne
looked completely unnerved and cast down. His
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fused, and the refusal seems TO have quickened
his long dormant faculties into an appreciation
of the terrible position he now occupies, He IN
formed me that in obedience to the wishes and
advice of counsel he did not wish to be inter
viewed, though he was perfectly willing and
anxious to talk on other subjects
"Very we'll i" said l, ~ have no desire to induce
Won to disobey your counsel, but as l understand
| of "a fon nt that
| took the money found in your possession In Can.
| ada from the safe In the Treasurer's office,
| should like to have you tell me whether you took
| the money during business hours, and whether
or not there was any one present when you
took IT,"
ooh, yes, I'll answer that" he replied my
deputy and three or four clerks were present
when took the money"
"Dld they see you take III" asked.
mo don't think they did" was the answer
Then, recollectng himself, he continued "But
that ia matter do not want to talk about now.
or course have a statement to make, but this is
NOT the proper time. When that time comes l
will be ready, perhaps to talk
took the hint and bade him "goodby," and
AZ left the corridor he returned to the side of
his poor wife, Who Wiie;ilke, cllngs 70 nun III nS
hour OF adversely with all womans love-
With reference to the admission Of Fessler
noted above have this to say: 1t is now known
that there were no less than six persons In the
office Of the Treasurer when the funds were alb
Stracted from the safe. The money taken was In
packets piled up carefully In the back Of the
sub.treasury, and when collected in one pile
were bulky enough to all small-sized hand va,
lse Fessler not only took these packets from the
safe, but he piled the money he left behind in the
front OF the sub.treasury in such manner thai
l H. 49, naA vi n
, the appearance of being filed with money To
abstract the stolen money and to pile up that LEFT
behind in this smanner must have taken some little
, time and 1t does look extremely singular that
none of those in the office at the time were cog
infant of what was going on at the safe. am
informed by the best OF authority that tessler mas
l put the State in possession OF the names OF the
/ parties who put him up to steal the money and
Nv to Canada, together with m uch other valuable
information as TO whom the parties are to whom
he loaned the countys money, and II his case
ever comes TO trial there will be such rettllne
among the dry bones hereabouts as will put tC
nets in the land. By the way, since Fessler ha'
been brought back from Canada the Republican
papers have ceased harping on the TACT that hi
was a Democrat and are disposed to let the
0 whole matter of his defalcation drop as quietly
) as though 1t had takeE place hundred year
e ago.
An effort is being made to raise the bail requir
g ed for Fessler OOO) by subscription and the
parties most earnest in circulating the subscrip
, tion papers are the chief Republican Wire'puller
= in the district and Fessler's brother in'aw Mill
er The effort is not meeting as yet with muct
success but that FeSsler will be bailed, and thai
the amount of the detacatlon Will be paid int
the treasury am certain.
"What are you looking for?" said a gentleman
riding through the woods one day to you'll
whom he saw energetically burrowing in the
ground. "A woodchuck," was the answer."-
Evil YOU get himT queried the gentleman
i "Get himR" interrogatiyely replied the youth
a Hell, got to ge. him. We're out Of meat"
The Youths case somewhat approximately re
sembles that of the Fesslerites He has danger
GUS knowledge and loose tongue and unles
+ thew get him out of trouble he is very likely tt
+ get some Of them into 1t.
. The nomination of General Aquila Wiley give
: general satisfaction In the Sixteenth District
, Had Eshelman or McGregor, or Warwick beer
nominated the Republicans would have made
, bloody shirt campaign Of the wlckedest kind, bu
General Wiley's war record has deprived them o
7 this thunder, and the ensanguined hued carmen
will not futter in the breeze to any great eXten
in this especial contest. The Republicans will
renominate the present incumbent, Major Nc
Kinley, and do their best to elect him, but Wiley
T will appropriate the NJ c. in the Majors name
and use 1t as an addendum to his own after thu
I I 4th of next March.
l want to tell you OF hIue elecuoneerlnt
trick that was practiced at the Soldiers and Sail
ors' Reunion, at Newark, in behalf of Mckinley
The latter marched out at the head of the Cantor
, , delegation and had as his side partner, Webt
! Hayes the son of the President, and as the dele
CATION passed In front Of General Sherman, "0ld
Cumph' exclaimed, Boys, remember the Ma
jorl"
Ilearned at Newark that General sheTmGnt
title to the William in his name was not acquired
through any baptsmal rite, He was named by
the father of Governor stanberry "TeCumseh" and
so christened, and, until he was good.Sized
chunk Of lad, he had no other front name.-
Then his father, who was prominent lawyer oil
Licking county, tired of hearing him universally
called HCump," dubbed him William, and that's
how he came by that cognomen. MACON