The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-01-06


| which she Is purported TO have received.
Mrs. Clarke asked Mrs. Koons to retire
from the Relief Corps and threatened to
prefer charges against her unless she
withdrew. Mrs. Clarke further stated that
| IL Mrs. Koons would withdraw she would
give her an honorable discharge from the
corps. This therefore may be seen to be
the origin of the trouble which has shaken
| Canton society from centre to circUTn
ence.
The soldier who gave the reporter these
points is friend OF both parties and
deeply deprecates the scandalous trial.
He said, however, that all the comrades Of
Canton post, with whom he had convcrs' II
on the subject, sympathized with
Mrs. Rooms as they believed sh' was a
prosecuted woman.
MRS. KooNs INTERVIEWED.
During this inquisition Ms. Rooms he $
studiously avoided the NEws-DEMooRAT
reporter, and has given q" the Reposit' ry
a number Of valuable news items, which.
however, we're not given in violation OF
any oath which che had previously ta hen.
The Repository saw fit TO comfort the
statements, and use the facts so gained as
knife with which to stab Mrs. Koons in
the interest of Ada Il. Clarke.
Today the reporter called at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Koons, and found that that
lady was much incensed by the treatment
she had received at the hands of those
whom she had trusted. She was there
fore willing to admit the reporter and give
him a statement, as she was satisfied
that the NEws.DEMoCRAT, being on neu-
trail ground, and having no personal in
terest in the case, would treat her fairly.
Mrs. Rooms first referred to the follow
ing letter which appeared in the Reposi-
ity Saturday night:
HEADQUARTERS Dept. OF o.,
WoMAN's RELIEF CORPS
OFFICE OF DEPARTMENT PRESIDENT }
"XENIA, o., December 81, 1891.
VI, the undersigned, Department Presi-
dent of the Woman's Relief Corps, having
seen the reports that are in circulation, re-
hecting upon Ada 4. Clarke Department
Counselor and Past Department Presi-
dent, do hereby certify that believe that
oil such statements are without founda-
tion of truth. Mrs. Clarke's financial
management had the endorsement oc the
Eighth Department, and also the Ninth
National convention and is supported by
this administration. The intended criti-
cism was upon strictly personal bust
ness transaction with the printers of ros-
Ter, and by this financial management the
bill to the department for issuing roster
was very materially reduced. We hope
the interested public will give no more
heed to false rumors.
(Signed) MARY A. MCQUIsToN,
Department President, Ohio"
Referring to the above Mrs. Rooms said:
I'm this communication Mrs. McQuis-
ton does not say the charges against Ada
F. Clark are without foundation, in fact
not even mention is made of charges in
this communication. But mention is
made of strictly personal business trans
action made by Mrs. Clark, with the print
er of rosters and thereby the bill TO the
department for issuing rosters was very
materially reduced. Mrs. Clark received
all her expenses promptly, drew from the
department her monthly rent for the
apartment she occupied in her own home,
and at the last convention was voted a
suitable testimonial for services rendered
in her official capacity. Whereby can she
in either rules and regulations or red
book, be entitled to nny commission for
work donein the name of the Woman's
Relief CorpsH This financial manage
ment of Mrs. Clark's did not, as far as l
can see, materially reduce the bill for the
printing. When paid the bill of the Re.
pository Printing Co., Mrs. Clark handed
over to me thirty (30) dollars lin money
treasury for seventy (70) dollars and one
for express charges for 81 45. Mrs. Clark
stated positively that this was all the
money she collected.
In the name of the Woman's Relief
Corps she solicited and collected from the
advertisers of the Roster, advertisements
to the amount of sixty-seven (6O dollars,
and turned over to, myself, the treasurer
only thirty 800 dollars of this money,
money, assorted soaps to the value of
ten Q0 dollars and one 500 mile ticket for
transportation over the Valley Railway to
the value OF ten no. dollars.
The reason why the amounts each ad-
vertiser gave does not appear on my
books is accounted for by the fact that
Mrs. Clark refused to give to me the
amounts each gave, and she conveyed to
me the impression that each one gave
very little. / therefore knew nothing Of
these amounts until 1 recently sscertained
them from personal interviews and cor
respondence.
l don't know what Mrs. Clark should
want with 30 much soap, unless she uses
1t to wash George.
When Mrs. Heron, of Cincinnati, was
Department President, she collected on a
roster about $500, every &C mt Of which she
turned over to the Corps. She asked no
commission, feeling that she was working
for a good, charitable cause. I have a
statement to this effect from Mrs. Colonel
Quinton, of Cincinnati, who was Depart.
ment Treasurer during Mrs. Herron's ad-
ministration. Why should Mrs. Clark,
who succeeded Mrs. Heron, want any
commission money! Has she not suffi-
cient means by which to live, that she
must needs take charity money which
should have gone to the support of the
soldier, the widow and the orphan?
is THIS CHARITY?
Does this carry out the purpose for which
the W. II. G. was instituted? 2" The re-
| porter was here shown the receipted bill
from every advertiser in the Roster pub
lished in April, 1891. The receipted bill
amounted in all to s67. The amount turn
ed over by Mrs. Clarke is also shown VI
in statement and it is shown TO be bu
$50, thus leaving $37 which does not appea
TO be accounted for at all. tits on accoun
of the $37, which Mrs. Rooms states Il
missing, that charges have been preferred