The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-10-07
Business Of the Executive Department Of
the State Neglected
BY Those Who are Paid to Attend to It.
A Witness Who Will Swear to
AnythIDg--That Horse
Trade.

correspondent seated himself In chair
/ In the Office, after learning that neither
the Governor nor any Of his clerks were
present.
The next visitor to arrive was the
agent Of the franklin Touring mills at
| Akron, commonly known as Attorney
General KOhler. The agent walked In
with quick, nervous stride, which In.
dicated that his brain was loaded with q
weighty subject, probably pointer that
some public institution wanted -four
"in car lots" Joe Fsssett, the colOred
messenger, was the highest official pres"
ent and the agent inquired of him,
where's the GOVernOr"
"GOne to Cincinnati to tell the dudes
of the Blaine Club about the state of af-
fairs at the penitentisry."
Where's Private Secretary Kurtzp"
"KUrtz Is over at the peniteniiaTy COL
| lecting evidence from cOuvicts"
"Well, then, where's George BeatOn2"
"BeatOn isdown to the grand jury with
q wagon load of cOnvicts."
"Where In thunder is Charlie Prior,
| thenp"
prior is home sick; he Is worn out
from taking evidence at the peniten-
tiary."
NO ONE TO ATTEND.
The agent was considerably initiated
by this, and so far forgot himself as to
denOunce the gang as follows: "This is
fine state Of affairs, the Governor off
making speech and no one here 10 at
tend to business. There are important
matters coming up which need immedi-
ate attention"
The messenger mustered sufficient
| gall to reply that somebody else occa-
siOnally left their Office and neglected
public affairs to make speech"
In few minutes rather shabbily
dressed fellow, whose appearance indi-
Gated that he might possibly be till0r
of the soil, entered.
"Where's the GOverDOrp" he inquired.
"Gone to Cincinnati"
WILLING TO SWEAR TO ANYTHING.
swell, I've got something important
to tel him. There's feller out where
live. that knows lots of stuff about the
| penitentiary. His name Is Frank Sour
lack, and he used to sell things to the
Democrats at the pen. Now Frank, as
| said, knows lots of stuff; but he's hard
up, In bad circumstances, you know.
He's straight as string, but If the gov
ernOr will just sugar him up little, do
you understand, he can get plenty Of
| smackin' good evidence. He can give
him some affidavits that will make your
| hair stand up, do you understand He'll
do 1t for nothing, but then he needs the
money, and If he gets some 1t will make
him little more enthusiastic"
Joe tried to stop the fellow, but could
not succeed. He insisted that his name
should be taken, and 1t was given as
James Morgan Of Westervllle.
SOME OF THE CONVICT WITNESSES.
The repeated assertions of Private
Secretary Kurtz that the prisoners max
| ing sffidaVits were of the better class,
and are educated, conscientious men
whose word should be regarded, is fast
being nailed as an unpaTdOnable lie,
and Francis and Campbell have been
shown up by your correspondent. The
| prisoner j. W. Nye, who made affidavit
that he manufactured five canes from
human skin under the direction of DR..
Montgomery, physician In charge, dur
Ing the late Democratic administration,
has splendid record as a criminal.
The fellow is we'll known by Hon. Lark.
IN McHugh, the commissioner of labor
statistics, who related his character as
follows: "When / accepted the position
of turnkey at the Hamilton county jail,
| Nye was prisoner there charged with
horse stealing. l was told to watch
him closely; that he was bad man
and must be kept locked up.
learned that he had served two years
for the same offense, horse steal
ing, In the Northern Indiana peniten.
tiary and was wanted In that State on
several indictments for engaging In q
land swindling scheme In several cOun-
ties, involving forgery and perjury. He
was also wanted In Hamilton county for
using the United States mails In q
| swindling scheme. As the Offense Of
horse stealing would give him the long
est sentence, he was tried on that charge
and got twelve years In the penitentiary.
| understand the authorities In Indiana
are determined to punish him for his
rascality there, and will arrest him i'm
mediately upon his release"
VERY RELIABLE EVIDENCE.
This, then, is the reliable evidence
which Is being presented to the grand
jury, and on which Governor Foraker Is
asking that Democratic official be In.
dicted for malfeasance in Office A
| forger, a perjurer and horse thief Is
the convict who makes affidavit that
canes we're made from human skin.
MARRIoTT's HORSE TRADE.
Deputy United States Marshal Bell &C.
cOsted your reDrel entative to-day with:
why don't you tell the people up
there In Cleveland about Deputy War
den MarriOtt's horse trade? You know
Foraker charges that Marriott traded q
| $3.50 horse for $500 one to the wife of
q convict In consideration of MOrriott
securing her husband an easy job In the
hospital"
What do l know about that trader"
| what do ! knOwp Now Just let me
tell you: There are some men, YOU
know, who can tell q spavin-bOned,
KNOCK kneed, distempered horse, bat
Marriott can't. Well, he traded with
this woman, brought the horse here and
on Mise, warm day hitcbed 1t up to a
$3.50 buggy and concluded to take ride.
He didn't ride. The nag got scared and
never stopped kicking that $3.50 buggy
TIL 1t was a complete wreck.
Marriott had his buggy hauled home
TOT klndllng wood, and sent the horse to
friend. The latter hitched the ami
NAL up. and $3.50 buggy was kicked to
pieces. Marriott was then thoroughly
disgusted. he took the horse to the fair
ground, fattened him, rubbed him up,
put a chestnut bur under his tail and
started him around the track. The ex-
hibitiOn was -ufficient, and some fellow
paid him $500 for the horse. / know
that Is fact, because was in the First
National bank when Marriott brought