The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-22
(For the DEMooRAT.)
WILSON j. VANCE,

Late OF the Repository, but now or JOhn bhers
mans Treasury Department at Washingi On-lils
Swell and Style In Canton-Ills Liability 10
an Editor and Business Man-Iis hllkmAn and
Others Would Like to Hear from Hlm-His FL
nanclsl Experience Qualities Him to Assist John
Sherman Canton, that Knows Him TOO we'll
Now, VIII Know Him No More Forever, Flnan-
clally.
CANTON, Aug l6, 1878.
TO ohe Editor ofhe Stark County Democrat:
1t is remarkable that 80 accomplished
and graceful cheat as Wilson j. Vance
could sweep like comet through our
gossipy city, and escape with so little
comment on his prettily played game.
Vance has, as far back as bis history can
be traced, been an adyenturer, always in
his unctious, winning way, making prom
ises-p promises to pay being not the leas
of them and always skipping away
without fulfilling them, as he did here
in Canton.
Having left a record and a great many
unpaid bills in Piqua and Washington,
Vance dropped on Canton. and, without
a dollar, bought Mrs. BasCom . half in-
terest in the Repository, the modtW Oper-
aadi being as follows: He borrowed
money enough in Washington to come to
Canton and Examine" the Repository
finding out whether it was the kind of
journal he wanted, you know and hav-
ing decided that it was, (Mr. Bascom
having died, and Mrs. BasCom's extreme
anxiety to sell, putting the Office within
easy reach ofalmost anybody who would
entertain thought of purChasing), he
returned to Washington, borrowed 81 900,
raising the mortgage he had already put
upon his trusting .wife's property to So.
000 He paid Mrs. Bascom $500 of this
thousand and gave her mortgage for
$4,000 on the property purchased, and an
other on the before mentioned property
of his wife in Washington. OF course it
was Mrs. Vance who made the mortga-
ges, and Mrs. Vance who owned the of
fee, but Wilson j., was to edit it, and
gave Mckinley and the Republican lead
ers to understand that he would stick
his little pen through the Democratic
party in Stark county, and exhibit it,
kicking and struggling, as boy would
fly. And he did sail in very prettily,
He rented a very fine property, and mo"
we'd his family here with the remainder
of his thousand dollars. Tom was over
flowing with tickle, fora half dozen
oaths or more-wasn't Vance going to
do the brilliant, and wipe out Mac. and
patch up the Republican county ring
again. True enough, the Repository pulse
did quicken, and Vance invented lies
with a facility and dispatch that rivaled
anything the Mckinley people had ever
seen; and good old Mr. Bascom's quiet,
steady, digni6ed Repository went swear.
ing, tearing and lying, from one end of
Molly Stark to the other.
This lasted few weeks, and Vance
concluded they must have daily. Tom
didn't want daily, but Vance said he
could clean out the Democrat in few
weeks with daily, and make $4,000
year; while Mckinley thought 'twould
keep his name before the people more
continually, and be good thing for the
party; 30 Tom was compelled to Costively
ante up a pretty two thousand dollars
with which to start "that id daily"
while Vance, true to his swindling pro-
pensities, promised to "Cut down expen-
ses" and "make' the thing pay" while
drawing from the firm between $50 and
$50 a week, besides which he Was re.
Ceiving $45 month as rent for his wife's
house in Washington. Then, while he
was swimming along 30 beautifully, be.
ing wined and dined by the Republican
he began preparing way out
before the fall he knew must come, and
spent a short time in Washington, with
Mckinley and Sherman, insisting on an
representing that he was
engineering Republican organ in Ohio
in the interests of and for the enCoring
of them both; and, as the paper was not
paying, they must furnish him with a
government Office which would help
him out, so he was made appointment
clerk of the Treasury, an Office paying
between $4,000 and $4,000 year. He
came back, telling Tom that now they
were all right, he could commence pay
ing into the Office, and make everything
square, thus getting away without any
trouble.
On the day he left he said to his milk.
man, (who, seeing the fine property and
style Mr.. Vance lived in, did not urge
payment Of his bill, of 81 or So, until he
saw the house deserted "bring in your
bill o.morrow" To his landlord, with
whom he had lease for term of years,
he said, II will pay the rent as usual,
until I can sub-let it." But he lied about
It just as he did to Tom, when he prom
sed to send him stated number of
hundreds "next month" The thing
worried along several months, Vance
to pay the interest to Mrs.
Bascom, and she was finally compelled
% take back the Office, which she did
asst week, while Vance sent lawyer here
md protested against the sale. And now
Com is anxious to know where the $4,000
8 to come from, and we understand he
las made an application for dissolution
If partnership. Can't Mckinley and the
import more reliable edi.
or?
The editorial columns of the Reposi-
ory are being horribly conducted at
present, and man should be put at the
lelm if they want to hold together the
catered and disgusted Republican
heep. Don't bring anybody else from
Washington though. The Republicans
It Washington are apt to be scallawags,
int they TomP J.C.R.