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

dreamed Of turning in an expense &C
count for rent of my own house.
Continuing, Mrs. Rooms said: VI have
been struck by the
INTEREST OF JIM CLARK
In this case, particularly during my trial.
It is usually the case that those who did
no fighting during the war, did the most
of their fighting since. Some Of them
seem 20 have better success fighting inno-
cent women than they had fighting reb-
els.n
incensed at the mean, contemplate in
sinuation in the Sunday villifying sheet,
which ought to have been suppressed
long ago. The low lived manner in which
this reference was brought in is only
equaled by the record OF the sheet in the
past. The intimation in the article is ri
diculously absurd, and / have consulted
lawyer for the purpose of having the
villifying editor and his cowardly hackers
sued for criminal libel. Some are said
10 be financially responsible.n
WAR STILL ON.
We had hoped to finish the recital OF the
w. r. c. racket in Canton with our issue
OF last evening. We have published
all the news, and this is all we aimed to
do. With the discussion Of the relative
dement's OF the case, we do not care to
participate. not even to venture All opin-
ion on the value and justice of the verdict.
We have the satisfaction Of knowing that
we have published the evidence in the
case. OF this no responsible person can
deny. While the interest in the case is
spreading to outside towns, and there is
the most intense anxiety to know the
latest items, we believe IL is time to abate
discussion, unless there should be some
new Developments. The outside interest
is well told in letter, received this morn
ing from our Alliance correspondent,
who is an old soldier and G. A. r. man.
He says:
"Please send for the Alliance edition
275 copies. We did not have enough yes
terday. Also send some extras. The
Woman's Relief Corps business Is getting
sensational and the G. A. II. men here are
beginning to realize that something is
going on, and the NEwS-DEMoCRAT is on
everybody's tongue.n
The interest taken in this case is re-
markable. Farmers drive in from 10
miles in the country to buy copies of the
NEWS DEMOCRAT, the only paper that has
had any reliable news Of the affair, Our
street sales alone on Saturday evening
were over 700 extra.
Yesterday evening Mrs. Clark handed
to the Evening Rep. carefully prepared
interview of a column and half. 1t was
printed entire in the Rep. of last evening
and would have been printed in the News
DEMOCRAT had we been furnished with a
copy. However, ii contained no new mat
ter, except the account of the S., which
Mrs. Koons paid for the expense of the
Cleveland expert, who passed an opinion
on the anonymous letter, in an account
which exactly comedies with Mrs. Rooms
statement, it is not necessary to republish
that.
As we are publishing all the news of
this case on both sides we present the gist
of Mrs. Clark's statement.
1t was all right and proper for Mrs.
Clark to furnish the Rep. with her defense
exclusively, as the Rep. has heretofore
been printing only such news as 1t was en-
of the day previous. In fact the Rep.
boldly stated in an editorial that il was not
able to penetrate the secrets of the w. r.
c. trial with a can opener. There is still
another reason why the Rep. should be
favored with Mrs. Clark's statement. The
Rep. printed the official roster of W. r.
c. at good figure (S10o) and the
editorial columns of the Rep. are always
in kindly sympathy with the profits Of the
job office.
This, however, makes no difference 10
graduating the Rep. even on the enter
prise it displays in printing an item that
is handed into the sanctum already pre-
pared, verbatrlm ct literatum ct punctua-
tun.
We print all the interesting points in
Mrs. Clark's statement, herewith:
1t having been stated that Mrs. Rooms
and Clark were, "previous to the late un.
pleasan ntness," intimate friends, Mrs.
CLARK says:
~ have never been associated with Mrs.
Koons except in q business way. have
never made q social call upon her and
only twice during her year as treasurer
was l In her house, and then very briefly
on business" Do
Mrs. Clark also denies very emphatic
ally that Mrs. Koons was elected depart
ment treasurer on her recommendation.
She claims that Mrs. Koons obtained her
Mrs. Clark's) cards, and wrote her own
name on these cards, and that she Mrs.
Koons) was thus pulled through on her
(Mrs. Clark's) popularity. This Is the
sum and substance of this statement.
Mrs. Clark says she was advised by Mrs
Sherwood TO stop at the Hotel Vendome
in Boston, where she paid IS per day,
while she assigned Mrs. Koous,
aud Mrs. Clarke's daughter Helen and
Mrs. Rex to the 81 per day hotel. Mrs.
| Clarke also states that after the Woman's
Relief Corps quit paying her expenses she
also went with her husband and Htopped
at the 81 day house. This covers thai
| statement.
Mrs. Clarke then gives very gratifying
| exhibit of the finances OF her depart
Inent during her administration. As nc
attack has been made on this, on the
other hand as her ministration 10 con-
ceded to be able, il will not intersst ouI
readers to print the detailed statement.
| On the statement IN ,ds by Mira. KoonI
that Mrs. Clarke charged the ". X. G. q
monthly rent for her back parioI, Mrs
Clark says:
"Neither was the first president who
gave a room at her own home for tht
work. Mrs. Carl N. Bancroft of Colum