The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-05-19
THE STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT


Democracy for fifty-eight years, and
starts upon its lifty-ninth, hale and
hearty, with more stauuch friends and
larger clientage than ever.
The STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT has
been published continuously in Canton
for fifty-eight years without change
of Bame, and it bids fair to out.last all
of us now living and all who
are about TO be born.
1t was born in Canton in the early
June of 1893, when Andrew Jackson
was President of the United states
Henry Bernard was the first editor. 1t
was printed on the second floor of the
building now occupied by }. \. Bach
mann, on East Tuscarawas street, near
Walnut. The next year tie Asatic
cholera took Bernard away, and VIM.
Dunbar, then a teacher in the old
Academy, took editorial charge Of the
paper.
Dunbar continued as editor until
1917, when the Office was sold to Letter
81 Carney,who ran it for year or more
and sold out TO John MCGregor & Son.
McGregor, ST., died within ayear or UwO
when the son, Archibald, became the
manager and editor
Mr.. a. McGregor edited the STARK
COUNTY DEMOCRAT for forty years,
from June 1913, to June 1883, and made
it a name aud fame, as an able Dem
ocratic exponent, equal 70 that Of any
weekly journal i'm tn United States.
In 1858, June Isl, the plant was pur-
chased by the presel proprietors, who
have aimed to make .hs phper worthy
of its name and ancestry.
Great things have happened in this
county since uheSTARK COUNTY DEM
OCRAT was born. This country was
then known as the West. When the
STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT was estab-
lshed Stark county held a population,
including what now constitutes parts
of Summit and Carroll counties, of
about 2G,0)O people, or less than Can
tons population in 1892. Carroll county !
was formed from Columbiana, Stark, !
TuscarawGs, Harrison and Jefferson in |
the winter of 1882 80, and in 1910 Sum |
NIT county took large slice of valua-
BILE territory off the Northwest corner
of Stark.
At that date US33) Canton, including
the village and township of the same
name, contained less than 5000 populS-
ton. Cincinnati, with its 297,OOO pop
ulation then numbered about 24OOO, and
Cleveland with It's 2Gl,OOO was then
scrambling village with less than 1000
population.
A half century is not far to look
back, when we estimate the great cata-
logue of the ages, but in this country
what marvels 1t has wrought.
1t is difficult for the Young and
middle aged of his generation, in the
midst of populous cities and highly de-
Yeloped country, TO fully realize how
we have sprung from a prim-
itive land.
AT that date the Mississippi river was
the fSG west and the Rocky Mountains
our Pillars OF Hercules. This was only
80 years after gaslight was first uGli-
lied; and only 27 years after Robert
Fulton launched his first steamboat
1t was only q years after the first
steamer descended the Ohio river, and
only Is years after the first steam yes.
sci brOks the silent echoes OF The great
lakes. 1t wGs only four years after the
first locomotive sped the irOL rails, and
only four years since any steamer had
ventured across the Atlantic, 1t was
four years tefore the immortal Morse
perfected the electric telegraph, and
eleven years before the first telegraph
line was built, (4O miles between Wash.
ington and Baltimore in lS44
The Ohio river then lay hushed and
swoOning between two beautiful but
neglected shores, and the great Mis-
sissippi knew no richer traffic than the
sluggish Spanish barges, lettering
around the Gulf
The newspapers Of that day were
largely devoted to editorial discussion
of the vital principles of Republican
The news was six weeks
old Unpublished from Europe and very
often four months old if published
from the remotes5 Wes9. In local news
the editor seldom dealt. If space was
vacant he quoted from Horace or
Juyenal, or wrote an essay on original
sin.
How vast and stupeudous the change
today,
We talk to Europe now by pulse
beats across the ocean. We get the
news from central Europe quicker than
the world can turn the sun light on this
land to mark the hour of its happening
We ride the Continent from ocean to
ocean in 80 hours, and with wing upon
the land and a wing upon the ocean,
we lead the world in Christian civiliza-
ton.
And the STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT
is in it. AS in 1888 it breathes the true
Democracy of Jefferson and the early
fathers. 1t touches elbows across the
chasm of half a century, with the great
spirits of Democracy, who first made
free representative government pos
sible, and who set the young Republic
on its career of Empire.
Again it is Presidential year, and
So 900, 900 of Americans are in it,
we commend the STARK COUNTY
DEMOCRAT TO all lovers of free repre-
sentative government, and may you all