The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-05-14
DON PIATT ON OUR GREAT BUCK
FYE6

After an absence of six years from
the newspaper haunts of Washington,
Col. Don Piatt has quit the quiet hush
OF his farm near Mack k-a-cheek and
again planted himself in Washington
as correspondent of the New York
World. His fist letter is on the Ohio
situation, which induces him to discuss
three great Buckeyes: Sherman, For
aker and Mckinley, In the order named.
During Col. Piatt's 10 years career in
Washington, Immediately following
the war, in which the Colonel was
mostly a Republican, he frequently put
his legs under the family mahogany
table of Senator John Sherman, and he
was on terms of social intimacy with
Major Mckinley. Here let US quote
from the renowned infantry Colonel
ut is not that personally Bill Mckinley
meets with much opposition, but he
makes one OF a class singularly obnox-
posed OF eminently respectable men,
pious bankers, brokers and merchants
who solemnly say on all occasions, In the
name OF God omen, let us rob some one.'
At the head of this class stands John
Sherman. The honorable John was born
10 be respectable. His length OF limb and
intense solemnity OF countenance and
character marked him for white choker
and q mahogany high poster among the
elders. The honorable John has q surface
indication OF not only great wisdom, but
of that sound condition of moral nature
that comes OF being as cold as the key
hole OF an ice chest, and rots only on ex-
posure. And the honorable John has no
exposure. And yet he belongs to that
group OF senators who have grown rich
yea, verify, into the millions-on meaRer
salary of IS, 600 u year."
Col. Piatt next pays his respects to
Foraker, whom he regards as the most
popular and brilliant of the trio. He
thinks Foraker will come to the front
again, and says:
"Keep your eye on Foraker and bis
merry, merry men. As n storm signal,
the tail Of tho goat, ever erect against the
wind, is nothing to him."
Col. Piatt has not much admiration
for the so-called Protective tariff, and
he does speak of the author of the Nc
Kinley bill with that high regard which
seems to pervade the minds of current
commentators in this neighborhood.
We will, however, rick paragraph
from the farmer of Mack.a. Cheek, In
order to prove that all great men do not
think alike:
"Of course the Hon. Mckinley will be
nominated for Governor. This 10 no joke.
He is an intense man of that solemn
nature which never jokes. The immortal
Tom Corwin said that all the great mon
uments on earth were built to the memory
OF solemn asses' II this is true Mckinley
has won his monument. He goes to and
fro, up and down, over the land uttering
the most atrocious nonsense with SOL
emn, portentious manner that imposes
nightly on the feeble minded. There
are no two of his assertions that consist
with each other; indeed there are scarcely
two that are not in deadly antagonism,
but this makes no difference to the hon
orable Mckinley. He is so earnest, so
jealous that an intelligent observer is left
in doubt whether the ex. solon really be-
lieves in his stuff or not. 1t is hard to
recognize one with a bulbous termination
to his backbone that looks as if it might
have thimbleful of brains as such an
idiot. But to that ia what we are driven.
He is an idiot to believe such stuff; he is
no less an idiot to think he can make
others believe it.n