The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-12-20
SU SElELD.

0rrespOndence.
The seven desperate criminals oI
Sutfield went up to Kent on the 6ih,
and surrendered before Esquire Irvine.
1t appears they were charged with dis
surbiug y public meeting held at SUI
Iieid on the evening of Nov. ii b
they plead not guilty, and had tn
.emeriGy to engage T., b. Newton. Esq
o defend them, who moved tue CUuI.
for an undertaking for the C, So Al
hOugh the motion WAS 10, K, II upOl
\ ith holy horror, His Honor Iuled IL
Is favor. Other motions Hs uu uefv cts
,uformalities, i G., In the affidavit, were
promptly overruied Twelve wltness
were examined on the part of tbs
state, when the criminal miscreants,
under the ADVICE of their attorney, lie
served their defence and were bound
,ver in the sum UI 400 each, to ap-
.,ear before the Grand Jury at the
January term of the Court of Common
Sleas of Portage Co.
The Kent Courier of Dee s, can't
out with the heading: Mississippi
Methods Resorted to by Democratic
doodlums of Suffield." The same pa
1er, through its MOgadore correspond.
.nce in the next issue, gives us more
of it, but it is SO parrot nike in imiia-
ton of the first that We quote from the
drst. g 1t may Il u prise some of ou,
ceaders, even In Kent. to hear that b
epublican jollification In Portage Co
vas broken up by q gang of drunken,
owdies," etc. etc. II they are I'll,
guilty party it is to be hoped that the,
may be made to suffer severely for
,helr offence" OF course they art
guilty, you 0nOdhaun The outrage,
Je il said to theIf credit, was condemn.
d by the better class of democrats who
ieard of 1t, and some of them told the
epublicans that If they failed to pros
.cute the offenders they ought not to
omplain if the same hoodlums Kept
nem from voting hereAfter.n
Now to be Serious. There is nobody
mere, republican or democrat, except
the few brainless fellows We mentioned
IN our last, but what can see through
it as the most idiotic .attemLt ever
made by worthless politician to
throw. off the we'll meriIeu mantle OF
obscurHy that surrounds him,
L have lived in Suffield for the last
twenty years, and I defy any man to
point out to me a single instance where
! republican WAS insulted for his poll
les, except the good natnred banter
that all civilized people indulge In
more or less Not allowing them 10
,ote, or depriving them of the right to
nold meetings and discuss political
Iuestions, 10 the dirtiesl kind of lying
,Osh. some eight years ago, / Ihiak
.G was in the Garfield campaign, our
peace loving. law abiding republican
leighbors from Mogadore honored US
with visit, thusly: About q dozen
IF them, in band wagon. all armed
with revOlvers, about two bushels OF
stones and n regular ripsnorter from
Akron. TO remind US of our shortcom-
Tugs. They pulled up In the most CEN
trail point they could lind, and intro
Iuced their champion The poor fel.
.oW worked hard Tor about an hour
aud n half, foamed from the mouth,
truck wildly out with both hands,
called US every vile name he could
think of in the most fluent manner,
out he could not provoke US to fight
They had to carry their stones and
10: d I'd revolvers home and could not
tind decent pretext to use thom The
democrats of Suffield looked upon
them as harmless cranks, and refused
to make q martyr to republicanism.
They could not even complain of dis.
turbing the meeting.
But the last fiascO was better man.
aged You see the first fellows forgot
the fish horus. This time they come
from the west, shooting off revOlvers
The Senator mounts the rostrum, gives
them dose of He'll and Texas, rt.
minds them of their ignorant brutality
and comes right down to scurrility In
using personalities entirely uncalled
for, aud seemed to be dead set on pro
voking the people to lawleesness. !
wonder Ii such could be called a meet.
ing for lawful purposes. If this Is
specimen of republican minorities In
Mississippi snd Texas. / pity the peo.
pie of thuse States. The two meetings
in this letter are the only
ones they have honoled US with. 1
suppose they call them political. The
tirsL we have given n faithful account
of. and 1t shows tor itself who are the
hoodiums the last will show In time
how God in His inscrutable wisdom
provides SO many ways whereby a
man can prove to the world that he IL
q id f! Excuse me, sir. / was
going to say bad word, and sure Its
meself that wouldn't like to do that.
Yours truly, M. CAHILL.