The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-11-26
Correspondence New York world.

| money and we beat you,N That is a brief
and truthful summing up of the case, A
| week before the election 1t was common
talk that the Democrat Committee was
bankrupt. There are eighty-eight counties
IN ONO. About twenty-five of them are
exceedingly close and seventeen are al.
ways classed as doubtful. The party
with the most money and the best organ
lzation usually wins, and this year the Re-
puolicans carried them. 1t was natural
the Democratic Chairman of these coun-
ties should demand money. Chairman
Neal told them that the Committee would
be short of funds, but he expected gener-
Gus aid just prior to the election and
would help them all he could. When they
came down TO Columbus, four or five days
before the close of the battle and we're
disappointed, the air around the hotels
and headquarters was sulphuric. This
was the Democratic situation.
| ENORMOUS CORRUPTION MONEY.
With the Republicans il was different
| They opened their campaign IN August
Directly after Major McKinley's nomina.
| ton he went to Pittsburg and held a
levee. Immediately thereafter Marcus
| A, Hanna, OF Cleveland, Republican iron
king and banker, went to Pittsburg, sug-
| gested the propriety of raising purse TO
| help out the cause OF Protection, "a aud car.
ried away with him $4,000. 1t is a matter
OF history that he repeated his visit three
times, making the last draft Oh the Pitts
burgers only five or six days before the
| election.
The Ohio State League of Republican
Clubs acted in conjunction with the Re-
| publican State Committee, and with Sl0,.
| UOO as "A starter 1t began work in August,
and organized 800 Republican clu0s in
| the State. Fifty thousand dollars (ac-
| cording to reliable authority was spent
IN club work. and II was not thrown away.
| Putting the best Information obtain
able together, the Republican Campaign
Committee in Ohio, in conjunction with
the State League of Clubs, had S25O,0OO at
| It's disposal, contributed as follows:
Pennsylvania manufacturers, 100000;
protected interests in Ohio, $50, ,OOO pro-
| tected interests and individual contribu.
tons from all other States, so 700; assess
ment OF candidates., $4,000; contribution
by Washington clerks, &C., $4,000: by
State and Federal office holders in Ohio
including Postmasters OF all grades,
$4,000: total, S250,000. The officials OF
the Deshler Bank, in this city, in which
the Republican Committee has banked
for years, and whose President, Mr.. Sinks,
Is Treasurer OF the Republican Committee,
have admitted that they handled for the
Committee four times as much money
this year as ever before.
MONEY FROM THE PACIFIC STATES,
In proof that money was poured into
OHIO from other States, William Il, Bob
den, member of the State Canal Com
mission, says that when he was in Seattle,
WASH, month before the election, a
petition for aid for Major Mckinley was
being circulated. there and freely sub
scribed to,
sRIBING DEMOCRATS TO REMAIN AP' HOME.
., As to the illegitimate use of money on
the part of Republicans, this is largely
matter of conjecture. During the cam
DaIQn Dpmn0ra tin
papers were warned that the Republicans
would hire Democrats to stay away from
Inc polls. Instances of this kind were
given, and the State Committee was SO
impressed with the force of the charge, !
that Chairman Neal issued a mantle sto
declaring that the Democrats who stayed |
away from the polls would be universally |
suspected. The returns show that the |
democratic vote fell off wonderfully in |
Democratic counties. This ia especially |
true in the Democratic Northwest, a sec |
ton which had no grievances or disap- |
pointment, factional or otherwise. How |
much the 100000 sent to the counties by |
the Republican State Committee had to |
do with this, if any, cannot be told.
sTAY-AT-HoMEs.
In one ward at Greenville, Darke coun- |
", nfty-three Democrats stayed at |
home. They were of the class known as |
"hoaters." G. Il. Lambert, a leading |
Democrat OF Darke county, is authority |
for the statement that they "went fish. |
ing"
Paulding was lost to Campbell because |
the Democratic vote did not come out, and |
the same can be said OF Van Vert In |
Williams, close county, the Republicans |
elected representative and carried their |
State Ticket A man named King,
OF Williams, who has always been |
classed as Democrat, boasts that he was |
paid $50 to work for the Republican ticket. |
The stay.at-home vote in Auglaize, Put. |
nam, Defiance, Wyandotte, Ottawa, Nor |
row, Hancock and Crawford counties was |
large. In the city of Columbus a we'll |
known man sat in q barber's chair when |
the exposure Of the Pittsburg contribu- |
tions was made. He jocosely asked the |
barber why he did not go to Republican |
Headquarters and claim some of that |
money. The man remarked that he |
would. he left the shop and was not seen |
again in the shop until after election.
HE PROBABLY HAS NOT HEARD, OF STARK |
COUNTY.
Adams county for fifteen years has been |
the most rotton borough in the United |
States, 1t was the first county in the State |
to be corrupted by the use of money. Votes |
there have been offered for sale at so |
much per head as horses are auctioned. |
The purchase OF votes has been taken as |
Inatter OF COURSE bOtn parties nave piled |
the traffic IL has been thoroughly un- |
derstood that II was a question OF which |
party had the most money in Adams and |
such thing as "squealn was uDheard |
of until, in the last Democratic LeRisIa- |
ture, the seat of the Republican member |
was contested on the ground of bribery |
and II was proved that several hundred |
votes were bought. |
Pike county, which under the new ap-
portionment, Is in the same Assembly |
District as Adams, has caught the conta- |
gion and she reduced her Democratic ma
jority about five hundred at the recent
election. Both counties have a natural
Democratic majority.
THIS IS A DISGRACE TO AMERICAN CIVIL
IZATIoN.
The votes of the soldiers in the National
Military Home, near Dayton, are a COM
mercial commodity. The veterans are
"employedn TO work In the election and
each party is equally guilty. This year
the Democrats had only 81 800 to use at
Dayton. The Republicans spent 5000
there. The Democrats lost 1Sl votes lin
the Home alone, which assured the cleo
tion of one Republican representative in
this strong Democratic county of Mont
gomery. Besides using the money direct
ly the men were piled with whiskey, beer
and cigars. The whiskey was given TO
them in pint and half-pint TASKS. In ad-
dition to the money argument the Repub-
Iicang had the power TO promise increased