The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-03-14

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THE JOHN SHERMAN REPOSITORY

letter, written in 1868, that the $50 bonds
of the United States Government were
payable, under the law, in greenbacks,
and denounced the bondholders as a
pack of repudiators and sCoundrels for
claiming these bonds were payable in
coin. The very next year Mr.. Sherman
in the U. s. Senate was the father of the
bill to make these very bonds payable in
"Coin," and of late, we believe, wanted
them to be paid in gold. Mr.. Sherman,
in fact, has been the obsequious tool of
the bondhoders, one of the chief man
ipulators of those schemes of legislation
that have plundered and robbed labor,
and plunged the country into general
bankruptcy. He has been one of the
chief leaders of the financial policy of
the Republican party, and 80 continues.
And yet the Repository says-"He 81
above reproach !"
1t was John Sherman who brought out
Mr.. Hayes as a candidate for the Presi-
dency, and his skill and scheming that
secured Mr. Hayes's nomination at Gin
Cinnati. This same John Sherman vis-
tied New Orleans, and no doubt helped
to engineer the Wells Returning Board
and have Louisiana counted for Hayes.
Indeed, there is talk of him being indict-
ed there for being parttcepS crtminlS in
the crime. No one can reasonably doubt
his aid and connivanCein the fraud. Yet
the advance Repository says-"he is
above reproaCh."
After Mr.. Hayes was made President
by fraud, Mr.. Sherman became the Sccre-
tary of the United States Treasury. Could
the moneyed interest have secured a
more willing tool2 In fact, is he not
himself one of the shyloCks? Has not
he accumulated a large fortune by inn
proving his golden opportunities Mr..
Sherman was poor when he entered Con-
gress. He is not a0,U in narrow cirCum-
stances.
True patriot he, for in his time Of need
He piled up thousands with a careful greed"
~ Andthe Repository declares che is above
reproach |" Truly, the Toodleses are not
all dead
But the advance editor of the Reposi-
tory came bounding among US fresh from
the embrace of the immaculate John
Sherman, and at once plunged into our
county affairs, fierce as ten Furies." For
time we wondered,
"On what new meat doth our new Cesar feed,
That he hath grown so greatP
AT last it was apparent, he fed on Sher-
man meat, whom he lauds as "above re-
proach." It seems he came to convince
our people of the beauties of Sherman
ism. The wrecks and the ruins Of the
Sherman Republican financial "Protec.
tive" policy receives little or no COM
ment from this Sherman light.
But our new neighbor claims to be a
great reformer-esp especially in Stark coun-
ty. And his first job was to arraign our
County Commissioners and other county
officials. A proper and full showing up
settled the Repository for time. Last
week, however, he broke out again, CEN
suring the Commissioners for paying up
so promptly Messrs. Kelly & Jones for
the steam heating arrangements in the
County Infrmary. "Pay as you 60" is a
very good motto, and as the money for
this purpose was in the Treasury, there
was surely nothing criminal in paying
Kelly & Jones for their most excellent
job. The firm that put in the steam heat
ing at the Children's Home haYe also
been paid, we understand, and money
additional been expended, with view
of trying to make it success Those al
the Home, however, are failure, and
yet they have cost the two counties over
NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Those at the
Infrmary are grand success, and cost
as per contract, five thousand eight hun.
dred dollars, and cheap at that; simple
safe and easily managed are the steam
heating arrangements of Kelly & Jones
so that one OF the inmates oftheInfrmary
a one armed man, is the engineer. They
put in double boilers and mon explo
sive." The machinery is mostly self regu
lating-but we advise our citizens to cal
and examine.
We have frequently invited the RepO8
tOryS attention to the steam heating ex
pense at the Home, where the Columbi
ana authorities took prominent hand
but the John Sherman editor pays NJ
attention to that.nine thousand dollars. W.
have also referred to another case, of the
purchase of an old wagon that broke
down with the:very first load, and that {
small one, and that cost $95, when anew
wagon could have been bought for less
This, again, was Columbiana operation
This also receives no attention from the
John Sherman Repository. In fact, thC
Sherman organ seems to go on the princi
pie that "a lie well stuck to is as good al
the truth" It is now about two months
since the Rep. stated our County Com
missioners had let the fill at the Luphel
bridge in Pike tp., to favorite, and haC
paid him therefor $75. We Immediately
corrected their statement in the DEMO
Graf, showing that the fill cost ten dollar
instead of. f.seventyfre; but to this day the
Repository. .ad- Vance people have not con
descendedito correct their falsehoodl
But "John fisherman is man above
reproaeh." Under these circumstances
we cannot tsssay the Repository is "abovt
reproaCh." 1t is easy to make ia mistake
but an honest man is ready and desires
to correct errors. He who refuses to dc
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