The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-29
WARWICK VS.. ROSE.
Mr.. Warwick's Generous Liber-
ality and Noble Traits.
Rose a BigOted Member Of the o. A. U.-
AS Mayor of Cleveland Had the Military
Ready to Shoot Laboring Strikers.
[From Cleveland Catholic Knight. ]


| attic career of misrepresenting the char
acter. views and opinions of the stand
| ard bearers of the party. This organ
lied attempt to blacken the character
| and misrepTesent the opinions of the
| candidates is especially noticeable in
the case of Hon. John G. warwick, of
MassillOn, the candidate for Lieutenant
Governor on the Democratic ticket.
Shortly after the adjournment of the
Columbus Democratic Convention the
story was started that Mr.. Warwick was
an Orangeman. Who started the story,
from whence it came, who was its au
thor, no one knows; but the Republican
papers, as we'll as the leaders of the
party throughout Ohio, Immediately
caught up the cry and spread it broad
cast among the citizens Of the State.
We desire to say that we have thoroughly
and fully Investigated this charge, and
now give it as our candid opinion that
| there was no foundation for it, no truth
| in it, that it Is base fabrication and a
lie made out of whole cloth.
Shortly after the story was circulated,
Hon. John II. Farley, Mayor of the city
of Cleveland, wrote to Mr.. Warwick con-
| cerning this charge, and in reply to his
letter WasIinformed by Mr.. Warwick in
communication to him, that there was
| no foundation for the charge; that Mr..
Warwick was not only not an Orange
| man, but that he had never joined a
| secret society in his life. This letter
Mr.. Farley still has, and it may be seen
| by any one desiring to investigate the
matter. We have personally seen Mr..
| Warwick and interrOgated him upon
this very subject, and we have his per-
| sOnal assurance, the assurance of can
| did, honest, truthful man, that he never
| was an 0rangeman, that he never be-
lOnged to secret society, that he has no
affiliations with Orangemen, and that he
| does not approve of the tenetS and prin
| ciples of their society.
| Another charge made against Mr..
Warwick, and which may be also de-
nominated fabrication and lie, is
| that Mr.. Warwick has always been an
| enemy to wOrkingmen; that 1t has been
| his policy to always oppose the Organiza-
tiOn of wOrkingmen; and, to crown the
| sum of his infamies, that during the
| strike in the MassillOn coal regions, dur
/ ing the summer of 1876, he was instru-
mental, If not directly responsible, for
l calling out the militia to suppress the
striking miners. This charge we have
also fully Investigated and find the facts
| to be these: At the time the strike ORR
| ginated in the MassillOn coal region,
during the summer of 1876, Mr.. War
wick, in company with DIR. Streator, of
this city, and Judge Tyler, also of this
city, was in the city Of Washington.
/ The sO-called OutrageS that were cOm-
mitted at that time, including the shoot
| ing of the engineer, and the personal in
| jury done to Mr.. George II. Warrington,
of this city, were telegraphed to Mr..
| Warwick at Washington. Mr.. Warwick
at that time owned One-eighth interest
| in the mine at which the outrage was
| committed. Instead of Immediately COM
| ing home to Ohio he went to Philadel-
4 nh Do in ruit nf
tlemen and remained there nearly a
| whole week before he returned to his
home In MassillOn. Vigorous appeals
/ had already been made to the Governor
| to call out the militia Mr.. Warwick did
not join in these appeals, and it was
only after one of the shafts, including
the machinery of one of the mines, had
been burned down that Mr.. Warwick
/ was induced, If he did at all, to write
| to the Governor of Ohio brief outline
of the affair and his opinion as to the
| necessity of calling out the militia. In
/ settling the differences between capital
| and labor, he has always believed that
more can be accomplished in that dlrec-
| tiOn by calm, cool and deliberate appeals
| to the men themselves than by the i'm
| piled threat always incident to the ap-
| pearance of an armed force at the scene
of those difficulties.
i While the strike was in progress, it is
well known to every person in Massil-
lon that Mr.. Warwick contributed of his
means directly in money as we'll as by
| orders upon his store, to the support of
he men. Several miners, during the
| strike, received flour, provisions and
money from Mr.. Warwick to enable them
| to maintain their families during their
difficulties. SO generally well known
| was it that MIR. Warwick was cOntribut-
ing to the support of the men that Mr..
| Warrington, of this city, wrote Mr..
Warwick a letter, insisting that he
(Warwick) should cease from giving the
men this support, as by so doing ne was
prOlOnging the strike. After this letter
| which can be produced, was received by
Mr.. Warwick, it is still fact that can
be demonstrated by proof, that Mr.. War
| wick did continue to feed the men, to
give them provisions and money when
ever they called upon him to do so.
Upon another occasion strike origin
ated in one of the mines in which Mr..
Warwick had particular interest. A
riot grew out of the strike, and some %
of the miners were arrested and arraign-
ed before Justice of the Peace in one
| of the outlying townships in which the
mine was located. This Justice of the
Peace, believing he was a sort of Chief
Justice in the state, refused to admit
the miners to bail, and threatened to in
| caTC6raL6 I06m Ill III u SOEb VI CdldDOOSo
or Calcutta black hole up in the mining
regions. Mr.. Warwick, upon being no.
titled of this fact, procured an attorney
in Massillon, and together with that at
tOrney went before the Justice to insist
upon the men being admitted to bail
and after his request having been COM
piled with by the justice, Mr.. Warwick
himself signed the bail bond Of these
twenty-eight striking men. The rec
ords OF Stark county, at Canton, Ohio
, can at any time be investigated in proof
of this fact. 1t is also well known that
John Mcbride, who Is President of the
. Miners Union, was a candidate for the
, legislature in 1881, and his assessment
was paid by John G. Warwick.
In our opinion, as public newspa-
per, we are free to say that acts Of this
character do not show that Mr.. Warwick
is an enemy to wOrkingmen. On the
contrary, we contend that they show
most eonclusively that If the miners and
working men of Stark county have a
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