The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-04-10
rHE BEASTS OF THE REPOSITORY.

hood and Blaokguardlam OF the hePOSNViI
Jim. not Joseph.
Two beasts and one babbling imbeCile
continue to pour their walls Of malice
and personal detraction through the col
umns Of the Repository, and no Democrat
seems to be safe from their blackguard
assaults.
They are careful, OF course, not to
name the Republican gentlemen who
also took an active interest in the pas
sage of the Fessler settlement bill
They avoid grapple with Gillespie of
the Alliance Revie,v, seeking to make a
party question of it, So far as the settle
ment act is concerned this cannot be
done, for prominent Republican gentle
men took as active an interest in the
measure as did Democrats The bill was
urged and recommended by 7. W. Sax
ton of the Repository, as well as by Gil
lespie, Taylor, Yockey and A. McGreg)r
No cunning or craft of ] j Clark or Tom
sax'on can wipe this fact out Cunning
and craft are the chief instruments Of
knaves but when met with the shield Of
truth and the lance of honest purpose,
they soon receive the contempt they de-
serve.
But who is this british blackguard
and knave that now champions this busi-
ness through the columns of the RepO8i-
toryP Like Bob Acres in the play, his
courage has oozed out. He no longer
signs his real name nor his fictitious cog
nomen to his articles. We smoked him
out, and he tried to swagger as brave
man. But, like a coward knave, he now
lodges behind Tom Saxton's editorial
screen. He has run up an alley, Who
is this fellow who assails the integrity of
Andrew Pontius Esq'r, and who asks
where Esquire Pontius got the four thou
sand dollars he paid down for the Mon
min farm. Assuredly, he did not obtain
it as business spy for Dun & Co. He
did not get a dollar Of it by applying the
wise of the law to rob and plunder men,
women and children. Nothing of this
kind lies at the door of Andrew Pontius
Hegot none of it by guile, circumvention
and knavery. He never lay in waiting
to pounCe upon aud rob the unfortunate
never was such bird of prey. Moth.
ing the blaCkguard thieves and scound-
rels of the Repository can say of Andrew
Pontius will iDjure his standing and rep.
utation for honesty in this community.
This scavenger of the Repository also
assails Representative Worley for intro
duCing and laboring for the passage of
the settlement bill. He asks-"Could
mot the Rev. Daniel tell us how many
"citizens requested him to introduce the
"billW Well, oCe can partly answer the
question. For instance, he and Repre-
sentative Williams got a letter urging
them to secure the passage of the
bill, and it was signed, T. W. SAxToN of
the Repo8itoryj ]. W. Gillespie, Alliance
ReujeU; Charles Taylor, Massillon Inde.
pendsnty John P. YoCkey, Fulton Sigaal
and A. MCGregor, Stark County DEMO
GRAFT Neighbor Saxton will not deny
the ruth of this. He may not like the
reference now, for he has got himselfre
versed in the stall, like the horse in thu
fellows show:
A wonder!'a wonder wonder to be seen,
A horse with his head where his tail should have
been
In last weeks DEMOCRAT we demon.
jtrated the baseness and falsity in his ar
icle, stating what could be realized on
from each one of the bonds
nen. We referred to one case where he
,araded figures to show that some nine
housand dollars could be collected, and
ret in the late report to the Dun & Co.,
gency this same vagabond has this same
BUSINESS man put down as worth moth.
ng. He was false knave in the one
ase or the other. Why don't he now
ay which?
In long-winded article in the Reposi-
,ry Of Saturday, he says;
"In our article respecting the property
and debts of the bondsmen, we did not
claim absolute correctness"
Why, we thought he claimed "absolute /
1rre egtnsss." Did he not claim he made t
p his figures from the record? Did he :
OF declare they we're correct2 And did
e not dare contradiction
This Jim" Clark has taken great free
om with the private reputation of bet.
n men than himself. We know of no
ian in this community 30 universally
etested and despised, and for cause.
That right has be to set him self up as =,
le paragon Of excellence and purity2 a
oes he take high rank with the moral I
eOple of Canton? Is he pink of per.
ction either in morals or Condnct2 In y
ct, we do not believe this fellow, with "
s british instincts and conceited arro- I
nee, and heart filed with malice aud Ia
'arice aud hate, is, in any sense, the Ete
an to put on airs, and lecture decent d,
'ople as to moral duty or political &C. !
M The few years he has spent in a
.nton will not compare with those Of
seph's in Egypt He would more J,
operly compare with Mrs. P0ipbar. at
e are confident no angel Of the L I'd
er visited Jim" Clark in his sleep; 81
80, it was a julien angel. ce
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