The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-11
POLITICAL AND oTHEKwIsE.


Where is the need of retrenchment
when the q. 8. Treasury is OverfloWing
with a surplus Of over $100,OO0000P
| Hon. 8. 8. Cox Is a candidate for the
nomination of Speaker of the next
House Of Congress. He would admirably
| fill the bill.
The Plain Dealer says: The senti-
ment of the Democrats of Cleveland is,
that only Democrats should have the Of
fees to be filled by the new administra-
tiOn.
We hear a great deal about cover
work" on the part of professional men /;
but the most of these cases will be found
to be caused by excess in eating and
drinking, neglect of exercise sc.
The Legislature made record last
| week by refusing to reconsider its ac-
tion on the Peet Bill abOlishing the
penitentiary labor contract system, and
defeating the Scott and Taxpayers
League Liquor tax Bills.
According to the fraud Mckinley or
gans the young Napoleon" and his
friends continue to sweep all before
them, In taking testimony at East Liver
pool and elsewhere. They are simply
the greatest liars above ground.
In this State Democratic newspapers
were hlled with rOOsters last week and
Republican papers with explanations of
how the thing happened. As straw
to show which way the blizzard blew,
this fact is worth all the figures in the
census report.
Rev. Talmage suggests Peter Cooper
ism as a preventive against the use of
dynamite. Let the rich stretch forth
toward the great masses of England,
Ireland and America as generous and
q a nj n nd
the age of dynamite will end"
The Tewksbury, Massachusetts, horror
continues. Mrs. Dudley testified to one
infant being smOthered with a pillow
by an insane woman and was told to
keep quiet. While she was night watch
90 babies died and one lived. Rats fire.
quently ate bodies. Horrors on horrors
head accumulate"
Since the days of Guy Fawkes, Lon
don has not been so excited on the sub
ject OF explosives, as at this time. The
recent disclosures and arrests give
color to the idea there has been lately
concerted movement by the dynamite
politicians against the peace and prop
erty as well as the nerves OF John Bull.
Senators Sherman and PendletOn
visited the legislature while in session
at Columbus last Thursday, but not in
company. The House adjourned ten
minutes for each and called on each for
few words which of course, were given.
Mr.. PendletOn expressed himself "much
touched by the compliment and kind
ness shown" him.
The Cleveland Leader has been doing
some interviewing in regard to the pro-
position for a constitutional amend
ment, to be submitted at the October
election. 1t is strange but trIe, that it |
And
tton. Some OF the interviewed claimed |
that the result would be to cause Ohio |
to go Democratic next fall by $4,000 ma |
jOrtty. That would be sad, indeed.
The defeat of the liquor tax laws re-
moves the possibility of the supreme |
court passing upon the constitution |
ality of taxation under the present con-
stitutiOn, and thus, unless another bill |
Is passed, defeats one of Charley Eos |
ter's schemes for saving the "grand old |
party" The many views of the subject |
developed in the Republican ranks |
seem to preclude the possibility of re-
consideration.
An exchange says: Since the cleo
tiOns week ago the wall of Republican /
despair has resOunded on all sides. The
grand old party is in bad way. The
Democratic party in almost twenty /
years Of uninterrupted defeat, never de- |
SPARED. So often as 1t was knocked /
down it came up smiling. But one or
two defeats seems to have taken all the /
courage out of the Republicans. They /
are apparently ready to surrender.
The Cleveland Herald special from
East Liverpool yesterday is headed:
"a Blow at Wallace" 1t is "a blow" all |
blow, nothing but blow; and no truth in |
it. II should be remembered that East
Liverpool is strong Republican, was al
ways a stronghold of Mckinley, that |
the officials, judges and clerks Of cleo
ton, were as rule Mckinley RepubIi- |
cans. Did these men try to defraud Mr..
Will the fraud-organs ex-
plainP Will the Repository, Liverpool
ct al, meet thisp Let these
lying sheets shut up, or explain.
Lou HOuk, the Delaware county MUIR
derer who has been bounded for five /
years by detectives over both continents,
has at last been brought back to the |
scene of his crime, Delaware, and lodged |
in Jail. To tell the story of his wander
ings in foreign elimes, in the wilds of \
South and Central America, Mexico,
Southern California, leading a hunted |
life with unerring eye of the tracer"
ever watchful on his movements, here /
and there, by day and by the still hour
of the nights like a shadow, would be
hos FOR OF