The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-05-25
HOW 1T WAS DONE.
The Dark Ways of the Youngs-
town News-Register.
How Mckinley Changed Mahoning County
Newspaper Neutrality Into
Active Support.
[Mahonlng Dispatch. ]

/
| ing a biography of a citizen of an ad-
| joining county, the title of which book
was to be Combining, Conniving, and
| Overreaching."
Many years ago there was published
in this county a newspaper known as
the Register-Tribune, and later as the
| Register. By reason of some real or sup
posed grievance, wealthy citizen of
| Youngstown, resolved that the aforesaid
paper should die, and that upon it's ruins
| should grow and flourish a piratical
| sheet, ridiculOusly dubbed "The News"
For many years the struggle was
fierce and bitter. The sO-called News
resOrted to all the artiaces known. 1t
changed its political position with every
moon. 1t was independent, neutral,
mixed, democratic, republican-nOth-
| ingl 1t "ratted" on advertisements. 1t
obtained circulation on the very benev-
Olent plan of take what you please and
ask no questions for our slim conscience
sake. The Register Tribune still lived.
Up to this time the editors of the
| News were shifted as often as the pOlit-
ical position of the paper Qf it had any
to pose upOn)
| The wealthy citizen aforementioned,
| like the redOubtable WOuter Won Twill
ler, cOgitated very deeply in his bowels,
and after several fretful and agonizing
retchings, is supposed to have made
these utterances: "The American peO-
| pie love to be humbugged; Twill pander
to their vitiated tastes; will buy me
managing editor whose will shall be my
will, and in whom there shall be neither
honor, principle nor conviction, except
as may take occasion for the subserV-
ience of my own ends, to freight him."
Such an editor was procured. He had
all the requisites deemed necessary, and
one understandable cunning. This
| folIONu duid fn tho TUnalthu nifizan w
must make some pretense to tone and
respectability. The suggestion was act
ed upon, and genial and urbane gen.
tleman was imported from PennsylVa-
mia. The egister-Tribune still lived.
About this time there was Congress-
man to be elected. The wealthy citizen
and the managing editor took counsel
worth, despised Mckinley, and as the
result of their meeting, the wealthy cit
| izen instructed his annual attorney to
get Judge Laubie to enter the canvass.
Laubie declined. Nothing was left but
to acquire title to Mckinley. This was
done without difficulty. The W. C. and
m. g. were to have control of the federal
patronage in this county. The alleged
News was to abandon it's former piTat-
ical character and assume the guise of
Republicanism, and do the serVile bid
ding of Mckinley. The rafting" con-
tinued, however. Mckinley was elect
ed. Sangrave's political grave opened
to receive him, he dropped into it, and
its unhOly turf closed over him. Even
as Jonah swallowed the whale, the News
gulped the Register, and it is seen no
more only, as tail to the News, and
only recognized by its scalp dangling
at the belt of the wealthy citizen,
Money and cunning had triumphed over
brains.
The wealthy citizen and the manag-
ing editor thereupOn became proud, and
bOastingly said one to the other: 10,
we are mighty; we have successfully
slaughtered blind man; in our wan
tOnness, we have buried forever from our
gaze the Rhode Island school master,
whose short official pathway we planted
with thOTns; and we are the owners in
fee simple of the mighty statesman"
Then the m. e. said to the W. G., eve are
Republicans" and the W. C. smiled. The
m. e. then said, "whOmsOever shouts not
for our statesman, is not Republican; -
and the W. C. said, Eyes, by Cd, who
dare deny itP"
The year of grace 1880 came. McKin-
ley was sore with trouble. His reputa-
tiOn for honor and Veracity was serious
ly impaired. The m. e. and W. C. at once
betOOk themselves to counsel. Said the
m. e.: Mckinley waves the flag of dis
tress; we must go to his relief. l will
sound his praises on three pages of the
News, while our nice old man shall hyp-
ocritically play the role of neutrality
upon the other page; and the W. C. from
the depths of his thoughtful bowels,
muttered, "ThOu cunning cuss, it is
well let it be dOne.'
The nice old gentleman from the an
cient domain of Lawrence county, Pa,
prOVerbial for its hindsights in every
thing, wandered somewhat in his mind,
and in his alteration said l have caught
the infection OF cunning, can remain
neutral and boom Mckinley, too; and
the m. e. said, utter thy thoughts to the
people; let them become cTaZed also.
And thereupOn the o. G. Taved about cor
ruption, and frantically cried out
against what he termed buying and
selling"
And it came to pass, that a young
man, noticing the rawlings of the o. g.,
prOpOunded certain inquiries, and when
they were received at the office of the n.
R., dismay mantled the hoary brow of
the o. G. The inquiries were called to
the attention of the IN. e., who upon a
moments meditation, said, "this comes
of your d-n miserable attempt to be
cunning; you ought to have known
that absorb all there is of that COM
modify in this concern; but fools step
in where angels fear to tread.'" The O.
| q ~ 40 bOO 1AbO w lldb
now; can these inquiries be answered ?
The m. e. irascibly replied: no, they
cannOtl Then we must leave them un-
answered, and say that the young man
Is indiscreet, bOyish and babyish; and
the m. g. said so let it be.
Upon the return of the young man to
the city he caused to be prepared an an
swer to the o. g's. rawlings about silli-
ness, etc., and sent it to the Mr.. office
| on Nav 1st. This answer the Mr., SYM
dicate, without refusing to publish it,
delayed its publication until a large
portion of it became inapplicable; and
the o. &. kept up his hypOcritical pre-
tense Of neutrality, in the column or two
that he is allowed to devote to his aber-
rations. The people of Youngstown, and
others who came there and knew some
thing of the little warfare that was 60
ing on, were some of them amused,
| some disgusted, at the duplicity of the