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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-26
STRAWBERRY PLANTS.

] offer for sale several varieties of choice
Strawberry Plants, among which are the fol-
lowing:
Sharpless, Cumberland Triumph, Duchess,
Crescent Seeding, Capt. Jack, Great Ameri-
kcrr's Late Prolific, Wilson, and several other
varieties.
Owe ROBT. GOODYEAR.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-26

J FOWLER.
T.. \. PIERCE.
4. a. SPAILDlNG. Committee.
FRED. lASSDM.
Nm. :. ut GIiES,
Mankato. August ~.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1881-08-26

Mankato. Angus -
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

REPRESENTATIVE 7. C. Snyder, we learn
was not happy in MS serenade respons g
at Waynesbrrg. 1t was very brief, and
had about as little in it as an empty
stoughon bcttle. The opinion at
Waynesburg is that Snyder is not sue
cess in this line. He finds his railway
passes, got as a legislator, quite convent
ent in his roofing business. Snyder's
serenade fell very fat, and his speech"
was the fattest tn ng of all. 1t did not
exhibit the life and vim seen in the
Fred. Mack aman serenade there. Sny-
der, too, had ample time to prepare, as
he was previously informed of the sere.
made. He ought 70 have stimulated up a
little more. Let MIN not forget it next
time.
Mex time Snyder has a sweet serenade,
Let him take little more " strong lemonade,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

ONE Of the Governors of the North.
western territory was Arthur st. Clair
and in the archives Of Ohio are many
Of his papels, which the state govern
ment is having copied, A Columbus
dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer says
"There has been considerable nonsense
displayed in the expense which Cover.
nor Foster and his fellow officials have
put the state to in this matter. Publish.
ers of leading magazines would gladly
have published whatever was worth
reading otsinterest to the people of the
state, free Of charge. AS to great por
ton Of the paper-, they relate to routine
matters of no more account than a last
years bird nest. There has been a con-
siderable expense already incurred il
making the COPIES"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

THE Toledo Bee, an independent pa
per, is trying to persuade the Republican
papers Of Ohio to quit electioneering for
Bookwalter by the following very wise
and sensible observation:
ut is really none of our business. but
then we beg to suggest that if it is the
purpose of the Republican organs to elect
Bookwaler, they are pursuing precisely
the proper course. Nothing is more lik ..
ly to disgust Independent voters, and
thus turn their sympathies and ballot
in that direction, than the howl about
buying a nomination. The pretense
that this can be done in the convention
of any party iG Ohio is ridiculous. Pos.
sibly tharo may be few mean fellows
in convention of any party who would
accept money for their votes, but the as
sumption that the majority of a state
conven ion can be bought up is an insult
to American citizenship, and any party
which attempts to win it's campaign with
such an argument ought to be beaten"
The Republican press of Ohio are
unanimously dissatisfied with the Dem
ocratiC convention, platform and ticket,
but they have not agreed as to which
they despise most, the platform or the
ticket
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

The spoils system, so persistently ems
forced by the Republican party since ii
assumed power, has become deadly dan
gerous to the party and dangerous to the
country.
No land can stand long a corrupt con-
dition Of governmental affairs-a condi-
ton maintained by those in power to
perpetuate their power. In this connec'
ton we need only refer to Star route,
crooked whisky, &c.
In addition to the corruption referred
to and winked at and concealed by
leaders in high places of trust; new Off
ces have been created to provide for fol.
lowers who were clamorous for spoils
Truly, reform is necessary
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

JUDGE CLIFFORD, who died Monday,
was native OF New Hampshire, and
would have ceen seventy eight years of
age next month. He was appointed a
Justice of the Supreme Court by Frank,
liz Pierce, January IL, 1857. Roger B.
Taney was Chief Justice, and there is in
this paragraph, from sketch of Judge
Clifford, striking chapter of history:
"His associates were John Mclean Of
Ohio and James M. Wayne Of Georgia
who had been appointed by Andrew
Jackson; John Catron of Tennessee,
whose commission dated back 70 1887,
and who, although born in 1878, kept
his place until his death in 1865; Peter
V. Daniel of Virginia, Samuel Nelson Of
New York, Robert G. Grier Of Pennsyl
vania, and John A. Campbell Of Ala
bama. With the exception of Mr.. Camp
bell, the Chief Justice and all the Asso.
Ciate Justices of that day died years ago.
Nor is there to-day in service single
Circuit Judge who was on the bench in
1857, and only three or four OF the over
fifty Judges of the United States Dis.
triCt Courts holding commissions signed,
like Clifford's, by Franklin Pierce"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

A surgical operation was performed
on the President Sunday morning The
operation was an incision by Dr.. Agnew
of Philadelphia, three inches below the
bullet hole. The point for the use of
the knife was determined by the touch,
and the pus cavity was opened. Here
was developed the fact thatthe rib struck
by the pistol shot was badly broken and
bent, This rib acted as shield for the
vital parts of the abdomen, and the ball
spending its force passed downward.
The 'pus cavity which caused the chill
of Saturday, and was opened by Ags
news knife, does not seem to have been
found in the vicinity of the ball, but to
have been caused by the shattered rib,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

A PARTY long in power, thoroughly
demoralized by years of patronage and
plunder, can not reform itself. It must
go cut, and give place to party whoee
political interest it is to search out and
reform the abuses Of It's predecessor.
There must be change, The thing to
be reformed can not reform itself in gov
ernment. A letter from Washington to
leading New York paper says "the
people would be appalled," could they
understand tie condition of things
there, and adds:
Not only is there inCompetency in the
public service, but immortality and vice.
v hat would simple minded people pr'b
ably say were they told that the wages
of sin are borne on the pay rolls of the
Departments; that appointments are
made and persons kent in office on
grounds that would put to shame the
face of virtue and shock everv true
moral sentiment. \ n So
long'as United States Senator is able to
quarter his sister, his wife's sister, his
mother, and another relative on the
Government as employees in the Depart
ments he is not going to reform any.
thing that may disturb the happy ar.
rangement.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28
BoOKWALTER.
Mr.. Yaple Of Cincinnati Says the Spelling Is
Right.

Abplo Ol NIuCluuAh NNJb AhO npSAhhb
Right.
The following from the Cincinnati
Commercial, signed by the well known
Alfred Yaple Esq, Of that city, we COM
mend to Republican journals generally,
hoping it will set their earnest souls at
rest as to the spelling of Bookwalter:
MR.. YAPLE ON A NAME.
To the Editor of the Commercial:
Inyour issue of today, July 18th, l find
this paragraph;
The name was once Buchwalter.
Was it too German for the gentleman
who thinks Republican institutions a
failurel'
can conceive of no purpose the Com
nercial and Gazette can have in thus
speaking about Mr.. Bookwalter's name,
other than to prejudice the very ignor
ant and clannish about the Germans, who
it is to be hoped are few against him.
The intimation is that Mr.. Bookwalter
has changed the spelling of his name,
and from prejudice against the Germans.
Now, were wagering man, l would
risk something that Mr.. Bookwalter's
father and grandfather spelled their
names Just as he does-Bookwalter. Two
brothers, Joseph and Abraham Bookwal-
ter, came to Ohio from Pennsylvania and
settled in Colerain township, Ross coun-
ty, some twenty wears ago, near the viii
lage of Hallsville, which some of the
family laid out, naming the place Econ.
omy, which became Hailsvll e, from the
name of its first postmaster. The Book
walters were men of large means for
that time and section of country, and
noted for benevolence and charity for
the poor. There is no more worthy or
highly esteemed family in Ross county
than the Bookwalters.
The father of John w. Bookwalter,
the candidate for Governor, was born
near Hallsville, and resided on what has
since been called the Isaac Bookwalter
farm, near there, until his removal to
Indiana, or to the Wabash, as the many
movers West from that section were in
the habit of speaking of the place Of
their removal many years ago.
The records of deeds in Ross county,
and the township records of Colerain
township will am sure, make the name
Bookwalter oftener than Buchwalter.
One of the family, John WIS cousin,
think, Addison Bookwalter, edited the
Chillicothe Advertiser for several years,
and removed to, and died in Lawrence
burg Indiana.
The name believe signifies book
keeper or supervisor of bookkeeping. l
think too can explain how the German
for book-buch-6rst became anglicis-
ed. BY colonial statutes in Pennsylva>
MIA, those buyiug lands had to translate
their names into English, and as the
Bookwalters became the owners Of land
in the colony, | venture the assertion
that the name can be found spelled
Bookwalter prior to the war of the Revo-
luton.
1t would be interesting as well as anu
sing to trace the connection between the
early land laws of Pennsylvania and
the spelling of the name of many Penn
sylvania families of German origin or
extraction; but it is enough to say at
present that this carping at Mr., Book
walter about the spelling of his name, to
arouse the prejudices of an ignorant few
against him, is the reverse of important
to the people. ALFRED YAPLE.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

Gov. Long of Massachusetts, the other
day at religious picnic, took occasion
to say that he disapproved of the fund
that is being raised by the New York
Chamber of Commerce for President
Garfeld's family. He thought no chief
executive, whether of the Nation or of a
state, should accept gift from favored
few, because it would have tendency
to place the executive under some obi
cation to the giver. Said Gov. Long:
Should the President die, which God
forbid, the people of the whole country,
from sea to sea, through all the different
chains of society, the high and the low,
therich and the poor, the learned and the
unlearned, would contribute with an un-
precedented spontaneity of sentiment Of
their means, to raise sufficient sum of
money to make the President and his
family independent.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28
BooKwA1rHR AND FOSTER.


One of our esteemed Republican con-
temporaries is much exercised because
Mr.. Bookwalter, tho Democratic candi'
date for Governor Of Ohio, is no more
than euccessful business man. Itsneers
at his alleged disposition to make his
"barrel" stand for brains and expert.
ence, and wonders what is to become Of
US when vugar ups'art wealth sets up
such pretensions.
But will our neighbor tell us Whit
other qualifications little Charley Foster
possesses? Bookwalter made his money
setting the machinery Of vast 'manufac
turing industry in motion, and giving
employment to many hands besides his
own, Foster made his handling yard
stick, and is best known to the general
public as Calico Charley. 1t may also be
prohtably remembered that the Republi-
cans carried Ohio last year by false and
fraudulent appeal to the fears of "busi'
ness men," and they have small reason
to complain that one of that very clas
is now set uI to try their sincerity.
The practice of running men for office
because they h. We money aud are will.
ing to spend it, is most pernicious and
alarming one. We do not admit that
this is the case with Mr.. BOokwalter.
But if it were, honors would be easy be-
tween MIN and his opponent, They
have both displayed sense enough to
make money and to keep it; and that is
about all that the people at distance
can say for either. Foster, to be sure,
has had some experience Of a very bad
and discreditable kind. He traded
Hayes into the Office to which Mr.. Til.
den was elected; and he filled every de
cent Republican with deep sense Of
shame by betraying the Soutt ern Re-
pubhCans that the Ohio crowd might en-
Joy the Federal Offices through Fraud
uent Administration. He took special
charge of Sherman's canvass at Chicago,
and treacherOusly knocked him in thu
head because he had a previous and
better understanding with Garfield. He
was a nobody in Congress; md he is
nobody anywhere. except where the
trade of an unsCrupulous political trick.
ster can be piled to advantage. Mr..
Bookwatsr has had no sue / experience,
barring that he stands on the same lt vel
with Mr., Foster, whom the honest stall
warts of Ohio may take this occasion to
settle with for long account of treach-
cries personal and politically Y. Sum-
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

Certain lawyers are determined that
the notorious courtesans of this city and
their reeking dens of vice and shame
shall not be broken up. They have re-
Gently been very much discouraged by
Judge Soldlers's determined action and
heavy fines, and so now they demand a
Jury when these cases come up for trial.
This seems to suit them exactly. Two
or three bulbous-nosed jurors seem to
be all that is necessary to procure dis
agreement or an acquittal. Noted pros
titutes sit almost daily in the police court
by the side of lawyers of social and pro-
fessional rank, and pour feted informa-
ten into their ears as their cases prog
ress.--Cleve. Penny Press 2Ist.
Cleveland is not the only town where
these 'reeking dens of vice and shame
and disease need breaking up. 1t a
shame they are tolerated as they are.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28
TWO GREAT STATES.

Hhe two greatest States of the Union
the Empire and the Keystone-will
swell with fresh pride in their pre-
nirence when they look at their repre-
sentatives in the Senate. We say moth.
ing ABOUT the private character of any
of these Senators; they may all be le'
spectacle enough at home, But Mr.Cam
eron, the only one of the four who ia
known beyond his native village, makes
no pretensiOns to stat smanship, and is
incapable Of making len.line speech
in defence of any interest Of his Constit-
uents. Mitchell sits under his coat tail
and shows himself when hidden. He
will be used by the Pennsylvania stall.
wart to bridge the chasm between him
and the Administration.
As to New York, Lapham is Lspham,
and Miller IS wood pulp from Herkimer
The will both appear at Washington
plastered with the muck of Albany. 1t
will seem like a sad change indeed 70
Mr.. Cameron when his subdued eye
wanders oyer the seats of New York and
encounters Lapham and Pulp where
men we're wont to be.-N. Y San.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

THE "PULP" PARTY AT ALBANY
Got through with their work last week I,
by electing Mr.. LapAam to Mr.. Conk-
ling's place in the United States Senate.
Miller, the paper pulp monopolist, had
been previously elected to Platt's place.
This Senator Miller, elected for the six
years term, is worse than lobbyist, for
he was elected to Congress, not to repre- :
sent the people and their interests, bu t
to champion,his own monopoly which
taxes every reader of a book or of news
paper in the land. A few years back,
when the people by thousands were pc
titioning Congress to cut off this pulp
monopoly, this pulpy Republican states
man went before the committee and ar
gued for his individual profits and boun'
ties. That is the only event in his po-
litical career that ever gained him men>
ton; and few people in New York, out
of his own district, knew he was men,
Der of Congress. He is promoted to
the Senate as representative of pulp,
and as the defender and promoter of the
monopoly. He is a machine man as
long as the machine helps pulp.
These are the kind of men that run
the Republican party. They call it pro
lection to American labor! These are
the frauds whose political creed begirs
and ends in SELF-little self. The Con-
stitution, the ends Of justice, and the
true interests of the people, these pull
fellows care nothing about. They are
for pulp first, last and all the time,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28
rREAsURER SULLIVAN
Removed from ONCE as a Deraulter.

An early MonCay morning issue OF
the Repository annou ced to our citizens
trouble in the Treasurer's Office, by pub
fishing the report of W. W. Clark Esq.,
examiner, appointed by Probate Judge
Heldenbrand.
The report will be found in this paper,
and it will be seen that the deficit is put
at $13, ,7O2 68.
On Sunday the County Commissioners
were sent for, and on coming, took pos
session of the Office, and at meeting on
Monday, removed Mr.. Sullivan from of.
fee, and appointed Henry A. Wise to
fill the vacancy. The proceedings Of
the Commissioners will be found in this
paper
The news on Monday startled every
one, for all had confidence in Mr. Sulli'
van. He always seemed to be attentive
to his duties, and careful in his manage
ment of the offiGl. In fact it has been
asurprise to every one.
Mr.. Sullivan claims error in the count
and through his attorneys asked for a
recount before he should be removed
He is rot lodging any responsibility
but remains to meet all contingencies
We shall defend TO official who violates
the law; but by all means giv' the accus
ed fair show aud cnance for yindlca.
tion.
Mr.. Wise took possession Of the office
at 9 O'Clock Wednesday morning, and
commenced to count the funds, with the
County Commissioners and in the pres
enCe of others.
Mr.. Su livan's friends, we learn, assure
the c unity Commissioners that as coon
as the deficit is ascertained, the amount
will be promptly pait over
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

THosE daily advertising interviews
with DR.. Bliss are becoming bout as
siCkening as the slush pertaining to the
conspicuous Major Swain. Day after
day the wonderful medicine man repeat
and the blanket sheets publish as fresh
news, the following formula; The Pres
ident is quite comfortable; CAN'T sav he
is out Of dam er, but the chances ale, un
less he grows worse he will recover. Re
cent investigations have proven my first
iisgGosis Of the case correct. We have
no fear of blood poisoning. The chances
are favorable; unless something unfor
seen happens we believe the worst is
passed. or course he is weak but ae l
spid before, our diagnosis was correct
laudsble pus-rigor-febrile symptoms, y
etc.-CgeUe. Penny Press.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

The indecency of Gov. Foster of Ohio,
in turning the proposed national festival
to his own partisan account, is attracting
much attention. 1t is stated in a Colum-
bus dispatch he desires to have the date
of the festival fixed for some day shortly
before the state election, rather than on
the Presidents birthday, in November,
so that the occasion may be utilized to
the greater solidifcation and enthusiasm
OF the Republican party, or in political
parlance, to better 'whoop up the boys.
No paper seems to think Calico Char
ley averse to making political capital in
this waJ.-Pitts, Post.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

The New York victory is an admins
trauo1 triumph over Conkling. Blaine
har hle foot on Conkling's neck, or thinks
ne har The condition of the President
absolves h M from responsibility. Never
theess, it was the power of the admins.
tration at Albany that laid out ConkIing
Conkling, though defeated, comes out
with clean hands, and on the other side
are the bribe bearers and perjurers.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

1t is evident from information in our
Washington dispatches, that the doctors
bulletins relating to the President have
not uniformly stated the whole truth
There was a bad appearance of the
wound on Friday, of which nothing was
said, The 'rigor' tulns out to have been
several severe chilIs. Then the Presi>
dent, who was reported quiet Saturday
night, was restless and suffering. He is
very weak and while his condition is
hopeful the question of life or death
may turn on the force in reserve, and
that upon influences it is difficult to
measure. Commercial 2sth
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28
AN ACCOMMODATING MEXICAN
JUDGE.

Bassillo Luna was condemned to death,
having been sent to the Judge at San Fe-
lipe Torrenache for sentence. The Cul.
prit asked for privilege to speak and he
said that as he had to suffer for his
crime he begged the briefe9t time. The
Judge gave his answer, saying: "As he
asks for it execute him Immediately l''
and in twenty minutes afterwards he
was lot,-[From the La Patria, City Of
Mexico.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

Now that Mr.. Lapham has been made
a Senator by the haltbreed machine at
Albany, it is to be hoped he will find
more leisure at Washington 10 attend the
meetings of the body to which he has
been transferred than he did while
member of the House. A Senator may
not be statesman; he may not be ca,
pable of titly representing five millions
of people, and the great metropolis of
the Union; he may not comprehend
their diversified wants; and he may not
be much more than the creation of
caucus of scurvy politicians, eavesdrop-
pers and iobbers; but if he has either
self respect or pride, he will go through
the forms of earning his salary by regu-
lar attendance.-N. Y. Sun.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

In the event of the death of the Presi-
dent, Mr.. Conkling may hold position
IN the Republican party full of interest
to the country at large. In the face oil
the present danger the New York 7imea
throws out the following warning;
Those who imagine that either Mr.
Conkling or the men who have aided his
various projects, can be expected to sus
tain the Republican party in the future
from any other m tive than that which
had heretofore animated them, will be
very much mistaken.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

Peter Hayden of Columbus is mil
lionaire, made it by manufacturing. His
employees are convicts in the Peniten>
tiary He gets done for Is cents what
an employer in Canton pays moulder
s. to do. Convict labor is thus brought
in competition with honest labor, and to
the injury of honest business. The
Democrats in state convention resolved
in favor of a reform in this, altogether.
Every honest laborer is interested in
this reform.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

REPUBLICAN papers are enjoying them
selves, and delighting their readers by
calling our candidate Barrelwalter, Pock-
ethookwslter, &c. They also say he
purchased the nomination" These ly-
ing and blsckguard radical sheets that
sustain Star route rule and Dorsey. Bra
dy corruption, are pursuing their usual
course. With them II is impudent Of
irontery end ialsshood.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-07-28

Two years ago Fosters campaign de-
bauched the state with a flow Of money.
Those who distributed, handled and re-
ceived his cash now make outcry against
Bookwalter's purse, as if he would follow
Fosters bad precedent. Those whom
You hear speak of the Democrat, cans
didate in this connection may well be
suspected of a design to scare Foster
into repetition of the process Of his
campaign of IS79.-[ Exchange.