The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-29
FROM DERRFIELD.

Tdmmdny Kelly and the NJ Y World Must mol be
ARotOed 10 Dictate to The Great Democracy Charlie
Burr Refers 10 Ye Olden Times Paris Township,
Peter Sttmmel Arnold Lynch and Robert Mont
gOmery- Early Residents Of Canton.
In quiet, orderly township as ours there is but
little for the itemizer to record. We have good
prospect for heavy crop of wheat and grass,
and the fine weather we have had has enabled
our farmers to get in their oats and fax, and to
some extent to get their corn ground ready. The
prospect for fruit never was better, should no un.
iOrseen accident befall 1t.
In politics we are very quiet-the Republicans
generally are opposed to Grant, bat do not say
much as there is no telling which way the cat
| Will Jump Ihe Democracy here very generally,
| amounting 10 u animity, feel that the great
wrongs perpetrated IN 1876 should be avenged,
and Will hold the Cincinnati Convention respon.
sible in putting that issue forth prominently in
the canvas whether the nominee be Tllden or
some other On one point there is no difference
Of opinion that Tammany Hall nor john Kelly
shall dictate to the Convention who they shall not
nominate nor who they shall nominate. In this
matter OF dicJanon John Kelly and the New York
| WOrtd proteaedly Democratic sheet, seem to BIZ
cheek oy iowl, The uDsophisticatei ruStiCs can.
not conceive why it is, IT, as the World day after
day declares, Iilden is politically dead-that he
cannot be nominated and, If nominated, cannot
be elected, that the World should be at so much
pains daily to traduCe aud villify him Or. II
Iilden Is so politically dead is the World merely
| endeavoring 10 bury him and finds 1t a bigger
cash job" than it expected? The Convention
GhnulI "a pI a.,
quietly inform the Tammany boiters that they
must take back teats or 90 with the Republicans
where they legitimately belong.
was much interested in reading in a late issue
of the DEMOCRAT reminscenCe Of Paris town.
ship, but noticed some omissions which expect.
ed would be supplied but as have not observed
them II made will to some extent at least sup.
ply the omission. In the list of gentlemen from
Paris township who had filled State and county
offices your correspondent neglected to mention
Peter Stimmell, who was Commissioner for two
If not more terms. Mr. Stlmmell was safe and
judicious Commissioner, as well as an excellent
Justice Of the Peace, In fact recolleet Of hear.
ing 1t said that one of his Jealous friends remark
ed, THAT when Squire Stimmell expOstuated
and explored over a case there was no use in ap
bS"AAhb ~ w NOults luuE correspondent also
forgot to state that Arnold Lynch besides holding
the Office Of Recorder, also was elected county sur
Veyor for one or more terms. Mr. Lynch was al
so for time Director OF the P. FL. w. & @, R r
There was also Robert Montgomery who for some
considerable time was deputy Sheriff and subse
quently Superintendent OF the Infrmary. E
Those "reminiscences bring very vividly to mind
the time when sixty years ago first saw Canton,
The first thought that naturally arises is, where
are those who composed the population Of Cam
ton In 182O2 No doubt the most of them have
crossed over the great Perhaps. l briug to mind
the Stidgers, sterlings, Llngefellers Pomels,
Dray!ons, BurchfeIds Harrises, SickaiOoses and
many others. OF those whose children still live
IN or about Canton there are some among the
Dewalts, Dunbars SaXtOns Linds and probably
others that l cannot now bring to mind. 1t is
pleasant to refer back to those days, "the era of
good feelings" among neighbors, when the boys
caught rabbits in the hazle bushes on the lots i'm
mediatey northwest of the Court House. and
when the deer ran wild through the bushes where
is now Cherry street and the railroad station
Recollection also carries me back tn the time
went to school on the corner Immediately north
Of the old SaxtOn residence, with an old German
by name Richter, and subsequently to Andrew
Munks and Barick Mlchener. l might go on and
fill your columns with bOyish recollections-ofh the
fun we had as boys in riding the stage horses to
the "blue hole" to swim and wash them Off
Those were the halCyon days Of childhood OF
which nothing remains but the remembrance,
presume my old friend Dan Dewalt is now the
"Oldest inhabitant" Of Canton. May he live a
long as he can see any body else living,
CHARLIE BURR.