The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-03
DEMOCRATIC OFFICIAL DISHONESTY.

The Canton DEMOCRAT quotes from
the Leader and comments upon the quo
tation.- We give both quotation and
comment below:
"The Republican gains in the State
elections this fall have been largest in
the Democratic counties where Demo-
cratic officials have been guilty of appro-
priating the peoples money. The usu-
ally Democratic counties of ClermOnt,
Henry, Stark, Wayne and Van Vert have
all been carried by the Republicans, and
large Republican gains have been made
in nearly all the twenty-One counties in
! which defalcatiOnS have recently Oc-
CURED. The people are getting sick of
Democratic misrule, and want honest
local officers; hence the sweeping char
acter of the Republican victories
| cleveland Leader.
OF course the people never get sick Of
Republican "misrule." The Leader and
such sheets see no Republican mis-
rule" in Star route, etc. Whatever Re-
publicans do is all right, and whatever
Democrats do is all wrong.
| In Wayne, the only county treasurer
the Republicans ever had was a de-
faulter, and ran away And in Stark;
the chief borrowers, or robbers, were
Republicans. A ten thousand dollar
Republican loan is not yet
paid into the County Treasury. Why
don't the Cleveland Leader advise its
party friends here to settle that claim?
Why don't that sheet state the whole
truth? Why not also refer to Kennedy,
the Auditor, fOrger and rObber of TTum-
bull cOunty?-DEMoCRAT.
The Leader does see ''misrule in the
star routes" ETC., and condemned, and
now condemns a Democratic House of
Representatives for not investigating
the matter when its attention was called
to 1T, and allowing the charges made
because some Democratic members were
involved in them. 1t remained for a
Republican administration to investi-
gate and prosecute the swindlers after
the Democratic House had refused to
interfere. The Canton DEMOCRAT makes
a great ado about Republican
thief in single county. 1t speaks of a
ten thousand dollar loan not yet paid
into the treasury of Stark, and says that
the borrower is a Republican, but fails
to state that the thief who stole the
money and loaned it was a Democratic
treasurer. The fact of his lOaning the
money to Republican does not Justify
the crime in the least. But it may be
| justification from the Democratic stand
point of our Canton cOtempOrary. 1t
failed to allude, after making this ado
over the shortcomings of a Republican
| official in Wayne county, to the defalca-
tiOns of nineteen Democratic Treasur-
ers throughout Ohio within the last four
years who have stolen in all about half
a million dollars. Put on your specta-
cles, Mr.. DEMOCRAT, and scan your eX-
changes more closely, and ascertain the
vast stealings of your party officials, and
cease apOlOgizing for the stealing of
your Stark County Treasurer, before
cackling over the GOings of solitary
| thieving Republican Treasurer in Wayne
cOunty.-CleYeland Leader.
There is big Republican thief nam
ed Gibson, still about in Ohio, lately
Governor Fosters Adjutant General,
and high in favor with the Republican
party. His steal was three quarters of
a million! Suppose the Leader drops for
a brief time the small fish and pay lit
tie attention to this whale! Let it
''cackle" while over this Republican
leader!
The DEMOCRAT don't apologize for
delinquents; don't even ask favors of
Governor Foster in that direction. Dem
ocrats enforce the law on Democratic
delinquents. Republicans screen their
thieves from punishment "Put on your
| spectacles," and tell the whole truth,
Mr.. Leader, and also touch on Trumbull
county.
But the Leader condemns a Demo-
cratic House, &C.; but don't condemn"
the Hayes fraud administration. The
Hayes set gave the Star route thieves
| the chance to steal and concealed them
in their rObberies. The Leader don't
condemn Hayes, Key & Co. Oh, no |!
But claims great credit that a Repub-
lican administration investigates and
prOsecutes the swindlers~ This is rich.
ness! Credit for one Republican admin
istratiOn in exposing their own robbers
who stole millions; but no cOndemna-
tion for the Republican administration
that was particeps criminis with the
swindlers!
AS we say the Leaders claim is-'Re-
publicans never do wrong, and Demo-
Gratis never do right"
In Trumbull county, Kennedys crime
has rather improved the Republican
majority. In Stark county our misfor-
tunes have not affected US in this way.
Notwithstanding the culpability of Re-
publicans, officials and otherwise. The
Democratic party don't honor their de-
linquents with office; the Republican
party does. Was it not Star route Brady
& Co., and their steal in small part ex-
pended that saved Garfield and Arthur's
election? Did not the whiskey ring
sterS who stole millions during the
Grant period, in like manner save the
party then?
For paper that has charming con-
tempt for facts which reflect upon the
Republican party, give us the LeaderI
Babcock, Belknap, COlfax, Gibson, ETC.,
ETC., are by no means excluded from its
long line of ReDnhlican saintaI