The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-08-07
FOSTER FOUGHT, BLED AND DIED
by PROXY.

by PROXY.
II Iwant hero, an uncommon want byron.
Thus wrote Byron, the noble poet, and
he found him in Don Juan. Our Repub-
lican friends in Ohio have found him in
Charley Foster. This party of military
heroes, and of hero worship, find Charles
Just their man. Hes all that fancy pic
tured him." or that romance could wish.
Ye gallant Fosterl The hero of the gal
liant warlike Republican party of Ohio !
The Alliance Review of the I'd inst. es'
tablishes Mr.. Fosters glory and heroism
beyond doubt. That paper thus hap
PLY states it all in men and money to a
t-y ty 1t was even "tDenty good loyal
soldiers" and "$20,0OO cash p "GoOd,
"Ioyal soldiers" remember, and "$2O 900
cash to cent, neither more nor less. 1t
is best to be exact in such matters
And then Foster was no Vallandig-
hamer like Rice, "pretending to uphold
the Government" What if Rice did lose
a leg; that's nothing. But read the Re.
view article, and file it away for future
reference. The hero is found and his
name is, Charles Foster
swell, no. Charley Foster didn't raise
regiment and 60 into the army as a
Colonel or Brigadier, that he might have
more money than he could make at
home, as Ewing and Rice did, but this is
what he did do. He sent tDenty good
loyal soldiers to the front, to whose fam
lilies he paid their regular weekly wages
during The time of their enlistment. He paid
500 900 in cash to the families of other
soldiers who were fighting for the
Union, and of which he never asked nor
received a penny'in return. While Rice
was pretending to uphold the Govern
ment with his left hand, and stabbing it
with his right, by voting for and coop
Grating with Vallandigham, Charley
Foster was using all his powerful infu-
ence, both intellectually and financially,
in encouraging the soldiers at the front.
and keeping the Vallandigham copper
heads, with whom Rice was in full &C.
cord, in subsection. 1t was we'll that the
Government had few men of the Char.
lie Foster stripe, to act as rear guard for
the Union army"
So Foster acted "as rear guard for the
Union army" and "it was we'll the Gov.
ernment had few men Of his stripe p
His was the post of danger, keeping
the Vallandigham Copperheads in sub
jectionl" Gallant hero was Charles
Foster He, howver, may not sing:
when wild wars deadly blast was blawn,
And gentle peace returning;
WI moDy sweet babe fatherless,
And mony widow mourningl
left the lines and tented field
Where lang I'd been lodger,
humble knapsack a. my wealth,
A poor but honest sodger"
But this hero Foster, unlike Ewing
and Rice, did not go into the army "that
he might make more money" Of course
the inference is be, Foster, remained at
home "that he might make more mo.
ney," else whence the means to furnish
twenty good loyal soldiers and $4,000
cash ?" And to these soldiers
families he paid their weekly
wages during their enlistment" So
Foster fought, bled and died,-by
proxy! Selling calico was profitable to
enable Mr.. Foster to be 80 generously
lavish
All this is news to us of Charles Fos-
ter, and it will be news at Fostoria and
in Seneca county. There isn doubt Mr..
Foster worships at the shrine of man.
mon His whole heart is there His
edger of accounts has been his bible
nammon his god Hence he is one of
John Sherman's gang, and is Sherman's
candidate. Philip of Macedon said he
never failed to capture city he was be-
Iieging when he could slip an ass loaded
With gold inside the walls. By some such
means. sideboards Of liquors, &C., did
Charles Foster capture the Republican
State Convention at Cincinnati, and de-
eat Taft, who had at the assembling a
arge majority of the delegates. Will
he Review inform us how many agents
le sent to the "front" there? Did it
,ost him and Sherman $4,000 cash" to
)eat Taft?
"Well, it is something that the Review
Idmits Mr.. Foster didn't raise a regi.
nent and 60 into the army as a Colo
lell" 1t is glory enough for the ReUiew
hat he induced twenty men to leave
heir families. That paper fails to state,
lowever, how many of these "good,
oyal soldiers" failed to return to their
antilles? The ReUieU thus wraps Chas.
Foster in the "bloody shirt" of military
lory! AS in the clark ages" too, Mr..
Foster is saint, as well as herol In
act, is not Republican hero always a
amt, especially when running for Officer
Was Hartshorn such hero as Foster 2
Vas Laiblin, 81 Conrad, ct al2 In fact
re they all heroes and saints in the Re.
ublican calendar? tT