The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-09-24

4 lVli NHltU avn gnu It ull, | nm
proud, not ashamed, Ot the stand took
~ the Nnllena cIse, and hope that my
! efforts contributed TO MullensH plrdOn,
Undoubtedly there were eight or ten
legal voters In the crowd which Mul.
lens captured nj "HOghead J0hn's"
gambling house and other low dives
along the river In Cincinnati, He
waa notified by telephone from the po,
lice Of ClyllgtOn thBn an invasion OF
OHIO by Kentucky Republicans was In
press, In his anxiety TO defeat II he
l0ok IN u few too many--a few who had
the right To vote and therefore II was,
| and In Ofker 10 save hia cOdffendants
| lhat le plead guilty and served for eight
months III the Hamilton county jail on
a one years sentence, but no ~ an efii
Client ON 'er OF good character, sober hab-
| its an experience, and thought that
| the term Of service which he had already
| pass d In al WAS far more than ado
qnate punishment for the possible Of
tense he might have comm tied In not
more carefully discriminating between
the acamp' from KrnucRy and thu
scampa from Oll0 whom he gathered In
for, Mr., Sherman, lhsse we're scamps
from OhiO-amOng the fellows he cap,
tured, who had the tight TO yOteY They
were aiding Kentucky acamps IN the
Republi 'an attempt, OF which Lot
wright was the nominal chief, TO cor
rnpl our auifragel, IL was proven on
known ~ "lloghead JOhD," offered to
sell the votes OF thlrty'iiye Of his lOdgera
Tor $3.50, aud the gentleman TO whom
thia offer vas made, replied very quick
ly that he would not give 75 cents for
th} whole lot, The house kept by Hog
head John" IL place
FOR SHOOTING "CRAPs."
Do you know what that means, Mr., Sher,
manp ! do not, but ~ "HOghead JOhn"
appears TO be head center Republican
OF Hamilton county, some Of your
friends may have been ut his house and
seen the game In progress and posted
you. II In, | am told, "A game OF dice,
and In the nature of low gambling. /,
was In proof In the Mullen's case that
from the room In which these Republi'
can cOlonlzers were confined by Mullen
they could have emerged without any
difficulty II being q basement under
the station house used for the shelter OF
tramps, who have taken refuge there
sometimes 10 the number OF two hun
dred aud llity AT time, with no lock on
tho door aud no fastenings on the win
dows. II was TO guard against frauds Of
this klnd-against the frauds OF the
party OF "HOgLead John" In Ohio,
aud for the protection Of Gin.
cinnati pOlitcs-that the Demo.
racy Of Ohio passed the registration
law, Are you glad II was passed, Mr.,
Sherman, or are you sorry, or are you
neither for or against reglstratioup
II you are glad II was passed, pray
write to your brethren In Tennessee 10
help the people OF that State pass sim
liar law. II you are sorry II passed,
come out aud tell the people 40, but II
you are ''nelther for nor against" regis.
tration, then keep on scolding the "0ad
lot" OF the General Assembly, az you
have been doing.
REPUBLICAN REBELS.
You complain that cannot see q dlf.
ference between the Ku'Klux Klan and
Key and Akerman, who did all they
could TO put II down, Have you forgot.
ten that David NJ. Key pretended TO be
Tilden Dem0cratY Have you forgotten
that this was true, even at 30 late day
~ that on which he was confirmed as
postmaster Generalp Have you forgotten,
you certainly knew II then, for ho was u
member OF the Senate with you down
to March A. lS77--that he did not do
anything against the Ku-Klux Klau,
that he never became Republican un'
| I'll after he became member OF the DO
fact0 Presidents cabinet, that taking
this pseudo Democrat into the cabinet
was one Of Mr.. Hayes patents, or would
have been had II been AZ useful and nov.
el, as 10 was intended 10 cajOle the white
people Of the South into HIS support and
the revival OF the Whig party2 You
were member Of the Senate, aud OF The
cabinet OF Rutherford b. Hayes, with
David NJ, Key. Don't parade MIR, X y
any more before the American people as
u regenerated Confederate, when what
regenerated him, II anything, was not
The offer OF till'e but the actual percep'
tlon OF its profits. | do not doubt but
that you could make fully twenty cabt.
nets with eX C0ntederates like Mosby
Chalmers, L0ngstreet e Co., on these
terms, but fortunately for the people
the ecepter Of power has departed from
the Republican party and no gentleman
Will ever hereafter be Invited in,0
the cabinet on the condition Of abjur'
Ing the political principles which no IL
advocating In the United States Sea.
ate,
STOLEN by REPUBLICANS.
have not had the pleasure Of reading
Judge Foraker's speech at Portsmouth,
but | am told that In addition to the
Chatham alleged outrage In Georgia,
which, In my opinion, does not rlsp 20
the dignity Of point, he tries TO make
much of the circular Issued during the
late campaign by Messrs, Mcpherson
and Coon, In which II was asserted that
the defacations and shortages under a
Republican administration were 20
small as TO be almost too iblnltealmal
TO calculate Its percentage, viz: Is 364 90
only, Judge Foraker has forgotten that
this lying statement had hardly come
before the public, when II was followed
by u complete exposure by Congressman
Post, who showed conclusiyely that the
, defalcations during Arthur's admins.
tra,i0n alone were more than million
. dollars and these figures he took from
the sworn reports Of the Republican Of
llcera Of the Treasury. Mr., Post proved
by the documents that from March 4,
1861, down TO June 30, 1883 the defalca.
tiOna Of the Republican officials
amounted TO $30G02 1876, exclusive OF
the amounts collected Of bondsmen. MIR.
Post showed by the official reports OF
the Solicitor Of the Treasury, based on
, the official transcripts Of the First Con.
troller, that the total amount stolen by
Republican officials during the three
years Of Arthur's administration was
81, 1856, ,732 n, which was less flS 1888 so,
the amount collected from bondsmen,
leaves net loss to the Government OF
: $1,550,S0027
Mr.. poat'a examination OF tho recorda