The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-03-23

ders his services to the young Napo-
leon" is enlisted, receives Ills bounty
and thereupOn becomes a. member, in
good standing, in the Mckinley literary
bureau.
He at once falls in line. shuts his
eyes and fires off the following random
shot through the Tribune last week,
which is echoed by the balance of the
bureau in the district:
"The alleged friends of Judge Laubie
in the XVIIth District, assert that Ma
jOr Mckinley promised him two years
ago that he would not again be can
didate for Congress, and would surren-
der the field to the Judge. This is a
pretty tough story. We cannot believe
that a gentleman of Judge Laubie's
standing would bargain in this way for
an office, nor do we believe that Major
Mckinley would engage in such dicker-
ing. The Office of Representative does
not belong to any man, so that he can
promise it to another. We suspect that
Judge Laubie's alleged friends who say
that there was such a bargain are re-
ally his worst enemies
If the above is fair specimen of the
logic used by the parsOn, in his effort to
convert the world, no wonder that he
proved failure as a preacher and
dropped into politics. Such sOphistry
would damn any man in pulpit or in
press. The paTsOn must admit that it
was McKinley's right to run for a third
time or not, as he might choose. Itwa
Judge Laubie's right, also, to be can
didate in 1880 or in 1882, according to
his choice. That he abandoned his in
tentiOn of becoming a candidate in
1880, in order that he might not antag-
Onize Major Mckinley, who only
claimed "the right to a second term" in
his old district, on the promise that
Ink iV,Is, HI
80, was certainly not dishOnOTable.
There was nothing dishOnOTable on the
part of either in making such a COM
pact. The dishOnor consists in its ViO-
latiOn, and attaches to the party YiO-
lating it. Mckinley very well knew
that with Laubie in the field he could
not have been renOminated in 1880, and D.
with one of those promises, the pTOdi-
gality of which has characterized his
congressional career, he got Judge Lau-
bic out of the way, and within twenty
four hours after his election, broke
faith with the Judge by beginning to set
up the pins for 'S2, entrenching him
self behind his pOstmasters, route
agents, mail Weighers and promises of
faYOTs to cOme expecting them to be
the wall Of adamant for Judge Laubia
to butt against in 1855. We are in
formed that Major Mckinley is now en-
gagged in writing confidential" letters
TO his henchman in different parts of
the district, denying that he had made
any such arrangement with Judge Lau-
bic but all the efforts of his friends and
all the challenges of his opponents,
nave not as yet succeeded i'm Inducing
him, over his own signature, to give his
denial to the press. He knows very
well that when he does, the evidence
will be produced that he not only DID
make the arrangement, but was guilty
OF falsehOOd when he denied it.
But this act of bad faith TO Judge Lau-
Cip is bY no mems an isolated case in
McKinley's career. Promises Of patron
age have been about all his stock in
trade from the very beginning. Every
town and precinct in the district has a
full quota of men who served his in
terest under promises of preferment.
which have been likewise broken, and
when he is confronted by the long ar
ray, it will be found sufficient to mate
rally diminish his majority in the dis
trict if not accomplish his defeat, if put
in nomination
Mckinley should instruct his "bu-
reau" to steer clear of all subjects
where a question of HONOR is involved.
-lAlliance Review.