The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-05
WHY MCKINLEY SHOULD
NOT BE ELECTED.

During the late primary canvass for
Congressional hOnOrs in this district
there was a hot contest between Judge
Iaubie. of this county, and the present
REPRESENTATIVE, Mr.. Mckinley. Judge
Iaubie represented the labOriDg class
in this county, and having grown up
among his people was hOnOred by them
for his honorable character, pure mo
tiVes, and was fit man TO represent the
labOring men of this district. But cap
italists and political bosses thought diff
ferent, and in the canvass which ensued
SO corrupt and infamous were the means
employed by the MeKinleyites that
Judge Laubie, finding that honesty and
principle had no show in the contest,
withdrew from the canvass in disgust,
(see letter of Withdrawal9 We do not
make this statement upon our own au-
thOrity, but we depend wholly upon the
testimony furnished from Republican
newspaper. The WellSville Union, one
of the ablest edited Republican news
papers in the county, in It's issue or
May ~, 1882, on the eve of the primary
election, in an editorial entitled "Lau-
bic and Mckinley" contains the follow
ing:
ARE THEY PERJURED LIARSF
''The Republican readers of the Union
should support Judge Laubie in his
candidacy Tor congress
First-Because Laubie Is better man
in all the essen tials OF good Congress
man; and as strong tariff man as any
in Ohio. Laubie, If elected, would, in
the broadcast sense of the term, be In
Congress a statesman. Mchlnley's
friends do not claim him to be anything
greater than politician.
Second-Laubie should be nominated
because Mckinley made solemn prom
ise two years ago, that II Judge Lau0le
would at that time withdraw from the
candidacy for Congress, in 1882 McKin-
lev would not be a candidate for Con-
gress against him. 1882 has COME, and
with it Judge Laubie a candidate, and
Mckinley in the field against him.
McKinIey's friends claim once more
your votes; and to recommend their
candidate point to broken promises and
the fact that he already has had three
terms. His friends when they deny
such an agreement as mentioned, ask
you to believe the page of attidaYits pub
lished in the Buckeye two weeks ago
were false, and dozen of your best cit
izens perjured liars.
A man who would deliberately violate
such promise is not the man to repre- |
sent this district You could not point
with pride to a man nominated under |
such circumstances. How much conh- |
kind in a position where self again |
might ask him to violate his yOwsY
In closing this editorial the Union, in
referring to the active part the East |
Liverpool capitalists took in this can
Vass, says:
ATTEMPTS TO BRIBE.
"We ask you to vote for Judge Laubie |
to rebuke those mOneyed upstarts from
East Liverpool who came to our town |
and tried to buy the vote of this town |
ship for Mckinley; whether or not they
succeeded time will tell. Let us show
these gentlemen who attempt thus to
bribe, that this township can Lot be
bought OF sold; or, if we are in the
market to be bought and sold like dumb
brutes by a rival village, let us cast
aside our claims to the right of suffrage
for we are no longer entitled to this
badge of free citizenship"
Now, our Republican friends can not
charge us with malice III this matter,
as we only quote the language of Re-
publican newspaper, and one, too, that
has had backbone enough to hold to its
assertions, and not like the Buckeye
State, eaten the nauseOUs dish of crow.
i Wellsville Sun.