The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-10-28
BOHEMIA.
Heroic Attempt to Get Character" TOR
Bohemian Bob.
Desperate Attempt of RepubliCsn Trick
sters to satisfactorily Explain the
Bohemian Oats Racket But
They SIgnally Fail.


b6uu lulu DUubmihS hhsV oLO ISou WNo |
getting d speTate no there, Hence /: |
was no surprise to ma to hear Of his IN |
cUrsion into that land.
But was a little snrprlsed that Gen !
eral B1yntOn should fail into the com.
mon habit and undertake to dispose Of
this whole matter by calling mea liar"
as dying attacks" etc.
Now, undertake to say that my char
scter for truth and verscity, and In ali
other respects. is ss good as tnat or ten
eral BOyntOn, and possibly little better.
At least, it will not suffer by an impair
tisl comparison. 1t isa very old chest
nut for desperate men to call me liar
when they can not answer me in any
Othsr way.
Ole of these virulent defamers of de-
cency and defenders of Republican
Pharisaism went so far In his paper this
being a member Of the G. A. R. Having
no argument to Off4r against what l
have been laying before the public, he
resorts to malevolent abuse, and no
doubt felt ought to be indisCriminate.
ly damned for being member of the
Grand Army, as we'll as beinga member
CT the Democratic party. This gentle
man belongs to the class of purlsts who
regard independence Of thought as a
crime and brains as q bar sinister In a
mans escutcheon, and, being wholly
free of all taint Of either himself, as
sumes TO speak authOritatiV'ly, and as
one Of the very elect
confess to little surprise that GEN
eral BOyntOn should come over to Ohio
and join the slummers' brigade and
howl "liar! liarl" when he fnds his case
is hopeless, and none but the most con-
spicuous swindlers In the State are to
be- found ready to certify that 1 am a
liar because l have exposed their multi
tudinous crimes without mercy.
Now, what is this 'explicit denial" of
what hava hitherto said In relation to
this matterp There is no explicit de-
NAL at all Of a single explicit charge
that | hive made. M. H. Buck
ley and E. s. Clarke sign an eVasive
statement, and that Is allan eVasiVs
statement which sub3tantially admits
the truth of what charged.
charged that they attempted 10 SWIM
dle B'nj imin Kamper. The they admit.
charged that they were the leading
operators in the Bohemian swlndle,
This they DO not deny
charged that they were arrested aud
brought to BelIefOntaine charged with
swindling. This they admit.
| charged that Kennedy by his arts
and bulldozlng got them discharged,
when they ought 10 have been sent be
fore the Grand Jury. This they admit
Icharged that by reason Of their dis
charge, and the slurs put uIOn Mr., Kem-
per, they we're enabled to put their
mOnstrOus sWindle into operation in
Logan County. This they do not deny.
charged that they did subsequently
swindle the Logan county farmers by
wholesale. This they admit by their
silence.
1 charged that they admitted that
their success was owing to the sssis-
tance Kennedy gave them as attorney.
This they try to evade without direct
denial. The best answer to this evasion
is the following, from gentleman III
Tiffin, vino kaCw all about the trial and
the whole transaction, and which ap-
peared ia The Enquirer yesterday morn
Ing:
"The day of the trial came on, and the
accused were defended by Kennedy and
his law plrtner, Jim Steer, King Bob
himself entering the lists as their
champion, securing decision In their
favor Nav heless Kenper's note ttT
$37 so waN returned to him on the spot,
and the three and half bushels Of Oats
purchased by him were sold 70 ths COur',
Squire Humphrey, who had been con
Verted by KenDedy's eloQuence in de
Tending the Bohemian business. Then
fhok Dnhorf KonnofVy yutfh hio
own hand wrote letter recOmmendinR
business to the farmers Of Logan and
the trial before Squire Humphreys, and
tiOns by purchasing q quantity Of the
oats to SOW on his own premise,. Buck
ley stated to your correspondent, and t.
others, as am prepared to prove, thai
he was the only man that had ever sold
oats to the Lieutenant Governor. Now
when Kennedy was nominated al
Springfield In 1885 for the office he has
dlsgraced, and came before the people
asking their support, he bethought him
self Of this letter and bssOUght Buck,
as he Familiarity called him, to restore
1t, stating that IL might be lost, and In
the hands of the Democrats work hin
inestimable harm. But Buck though
imp0rtuned q half-dozen times by Ken
nedy, held on to his p'iZe, and bossted
Of It's possession less than a fortnight
ago."
The gentleman who wrote this Is well
known to Buckley and Clarke, and was
never engaged In Bohemian oats and Red
Line whest transactions. He has NJ
one to shield by evasions and no one tt
injure by misstatements. Buckley talk
cd with him and others about this mat
ter freely before opened up the discus
sion, and before there was the slightes
inducement to either disclose or concea
anything In connection with 1t.
Instead of an explicit denial 1t viii
be seen that there Is very complete ad
mission Of every essential charge that
made In connection with Kennedy; ant
even he will not deny that he was thu
successful attorney Of these swindlers
and that after he got them released
from the Kemper affidavit, and thu
gave them free range OF Logan county
they carried on things with such a higi
hand that they are now under indict
ment for similar crimes to the ont
charged by Kemper when he tried II
nip the rascality In the bud.
General Boynton says he Is going t,
get denial in General Robins0n's be
half also OF course; didn't aaD0uncl
several days ago that 1t was being fixet
up by Judge Lowry, and was to appeal
In a anecial Edition Of the Commercial