The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-03-13
!. ]. CLARK AND THE REPosI-
TORY AGAIN. .


Ishmaelite attorney, whose sole mission
is to hound, through piratical CONNER
cial agency, its business men, He can,
as has been repeatedly done in Canton,
throw doubt and discredit upon the most
honest and worthy, and drive them to
ruin and bankruptcy, thereby making
business for himself and possibly oppor'
tunity fol- cheap investment by money
in his hands belonging to distant clients
The above indicates the calling of the
scurvy fellow who assails decent people
through the columns of the Repository,
over the signature of "a Taxpayer" We
could cite case after case in illustration; +;
of shoe man, an old citizen of high
business character and undoubted re-
sponsibiity, bounded and driven from
the town: of an honest furniture man
given no ch ,nce to save himself but
driven to assignment; of a young man
in dry goods line, ofa high reputation,
good habits, and careful, unable, through
evil reports, to get credit or extension,
compelled to yield, all through the false
and evil reports of the base spy and in
former. More instances of the de hlism
of this reporter" could we give, but
these are enough to illustrate. Such a
fellow, if fully known and understood, +,
would be drummed out of some commu-
mites to the tune of the "rogue's
march" Judas and Benedict Arnold
were honorable men compared to him.
One evil deed consigned each of
them to eternal infamy this fellows
snakish, cut.throat career is one Of un'
mixed evil. To have fair report Of
their standing, business men must often
times pay heavy tribute to these legal
ghouls, otherwise credit will disappear
and the law step in. In ancient times
Lowland farmers sometimes in Scotland
paid yearly tribute to leading High
land chief, so that their cattle should not
be stolen away. With honorable men
the bold robber is more respected than
the spy sneak, and cut-throat reporter
whose obi9ct is sordid gain.
]. ]. Clark, the baser part of the
brotherhood Clark Law firm devotes over
a column in last Saturdays Repository to
McGregor, giving us the entire credit of
securing the passage of the settlement
bill, and carefully avoiding the names Of
the prominent Republican gentlemen
who took part also in urging It's passage,
The man who, in a controversy of this
kind, fears, or wilfully fails to state and
meet all the facts, is a knave who deserves
exposure While we shilk no RESPONSE
bility, we claim no credit that belongs to
others. The settlement plan did not
originate with US, though when consult
ed, we approved, and said the columns
of the DEMOCRAT should not be used to
oppose a fair and acceptable settlement,
T. W. Saxton was also consulted, and
gave a similar promise, and went further
than we did, declaring he wOuld rather
haze the bail released entirely. j. j. Clark
and the Repository had better talk about
"perfdy," and whining like a whipped
whelp." The pitiful "whelp" whom ]
J. Clark uses and makes ridiculous is
surely an object more worthy of con-
tempt than wrath.
], ]. Clark and the Repository do not
deny one of our statements They ad-
NIT the genuineness of the editorial
agreement as we gave it last week. They
do not deny that prominent Republican
gentlemen, whose names we gave last
week, went to Columbus to help the
WOrley bill through the Legislature.
They cannot deny that the bill was pas
sed largely, and by Republican members
voting for it as we'll as Democratic mem
bers. 1t IS not, then, party question,
and cannot be turned into it, yet this is
what the Repository, under the control of
]. ]. Clark, is attempting to do. The AL
lance RevieW, Massillon Independent and
Fulton Signal have acted fairly and con-
sistently, for their editors are honorable
men, too much men to be controlled by
some sneak reporter and trickster, who
claims to be lawyer,
A learned author says: "the affairs of
this world are kept together by what
little truth and integrity still remain
amongst u.s." But, how utterly unwor.
thy of respect is that man, who ap-
peals to the judgment of the public and
yet suppresses important facts in the
case, or makes statements utterly and
knowingly false. This man has been in
the habit for years of throwing out his
venom through the Repository, concealed
under a nom de plume This of itself
shows the baseness of his character, the
weakness or bad heart of the ed
itor, and the unworthiness of the jour.
nal. An honorable editor will not lend
his columns to a knave under conceal
ment, to throw his vile detraction at good
He will either refuse the use
of his columns entirely, or require that
TIE cowardly sneak puts his real name
to his malice.
We have thus attempted to vindicate
the propriety of the settlement plan
with Fessler's bondsmen, and also the
Worley bill; have explained our own
connection with the matter. as well as
the active interest taken in it by other
gentlemen, both Republicans and Dem
ocrats; and in thus defending ourself,
have shown up "a Taxpayer" in his true
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