The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-07
THE B UCKEYE STA TIE AND REPOS.
IT0RY.

of knowledge, and at no period more
than now. All departments of know
ledge are subjected to the inquiring pens
Of probing, plodding authors. History,
science, politics, religion-in fact, all au.
thorship is subjected to the searching
reviews of able writers.
Too often in this country political dis
cussions are conducted without regard to
propriety or fairness, more especially in
country papers, The object seems gen.
orally to be merely to libel and villify an
opponent without regard to truth or de-
cenOy. No wonder Horace Greeley,
when assailed by all the horde Of little
radical sheets, run (not edited, } by their
consequential blockheads and black
guards, wondered why God, in his prov
idence, permitted country to be afflicted
and.infested with such things.
Some weeks ago the Repository, under
its new John Sherman editor, assailed
our County Commissioners, charging
them with corruption and favoritism
and bad judgment in awarding contracts,
and specially dilating upon the Massillon
bridge and heating the Infrmary by
steam. Knowing nothing about these
cases, we proceeded to Investigate, with
view to publish the unvarnished truth
through the columns of the DEMOCRAT.
We had always believed Messrs. Poor.
man, Raber and Wood were honest men
and good citizens, and we were not dis.
posed to condemn them on the say-so of
stranger.
The readers of the DEMOCRAT doubtless
perused our various articles and drew
their own conclusions. 1t is only neCes-
sary to say here that the Repository has
nothing more to say about these cases
and since the steam. heating arrange.
ments at our Infrmary, put in by Kelly
& Jones, are grand success, not much
can be said except to commend the job.
We have been inquiring Of the Buckeye
State and the Repository about the steam
heating at the Fairmount Children's
Home, originally costing some seven
thousand dollars, and by repairing, with
view to remedy the failure, over two
thousand dollars more, making over NINE
THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ALL, We say we
have been inquiring of these two radical
John Sherman organs about this job at
the Home, mainly managed by the great
Commissioners of Columbiana county
but not word can we get out of them
Indeed, we understand it is still failure
Their false Observation-Disclosures Of
error, we may say-they have not the
manhood and fairness TO correct. The
Repository three weeks ago stated that a
little fill at the Lupher bridge, in Pike
township, was given to a favorite to dc
for seventy-five dollars. Two weeks age
we corrected the Repository, stating the
fill cost but ten dollars. The stranger
editor has not condescended to notice
the correction, but laments, in long.
winded editorial in last weeks RepoSi.
tory, that the DEMOCRAT gives it no "Co'
operation" in its great work of ventil'
at!ng and reforming Stark County. Yer
/ lily, "a Daniel come to judgmentP
The DEMOCRAT can cooperate with nc
one who is not devoted to the plain, un.
vanished truth. Our new neighbor may
therefore cease his wise ,Solomonic, John
Sherman airs with us and come down to
business. His lofty 1--WE" has little inhu'
ence with "we'uns," unless accompanied
with the powerful "sword of the spirit
of truth.
We fear the strange editor has fallen
under Satanic influences since he came
to our city. There are such evil spirits
quite convenient who think malevolenCe
but prefer to use others as their instru.
ments to utter it. The spirits that con.
troll the Buckeye State seem to be of the
weakest possible kind but even the
BucEeue is more candid than the RepoSi.
tory, and says: "Three weeks ago we in
advertently published false statement
in regard to the Stark County Treasurer.
The Repository had not the manhood to
thus acknowledge its false statements
about the Lupher Bridge fill. The Buck
eye some weeks ago, in comparing the
expenditures of the two counties, gave
an item of $989 for attorney to advise
Commissioners" We said this was a
fiction, for our County Commissioners
had needed no legal advice and hence
had paid no attorneys. We knew then
as we know now, there was an item oi
1899 for Attorneys fees for County"
Undoubtedly the county has, for some
years past needed legal counsel and the
Commissioners have had to allow pay.
a county, like an individual, unfortu-
nately reqnires help of that kind and
lawyers generally know how to charge
and how to get their pay. This is all
there is of it, and the explanation is
sufficient for reasonable men. .
We much regret the advance editor
of the RepositSfy should have fastened
thus to write himself down an-G,sump-
tious oracle in this way, and to persist
in his folly. We have already referred
TO the fact that his Republican cotempo-
raries in the county give him no aid and
comfort in his course, one of them say
ing, 20, pshaw |" The gentlemen re.
ferred to have resided in the county for
years and know well the situation and all
concerned, but they do not consider that
their duty to their party requires that
they should misrepresent political op.
ponent and falsify the facts,