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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
A cANToNIAN IN WASHINGTON.

Our old time Abolition friend Reuben
Erwin, who has been taking In Wash
ington sights and scenes, and has spent
some time in our great National bear
garden, known as the House of Repre-
sentatives. Here is what Mr.. Erwin
writes us about that august body:
"Well have been attending Congress
some, especially the House of Represen.
tatives, and must confess l was not a
little surprised to 6ud what disorder
and confusion existed there. For in
stance the Speaker would attempt to
call the House to order; would rap and
pound on his gaVel, then hello at the
top of his voice, and no one seemed to
pay the least attention to his Efforts to
quiet the audience. Then the secretary
would commence amongst the tumult
to read, in loud and strained voice,
the business and bills that were to be
passed or rejected by the great Congress
of the United States of America.
Then the President would call for the
vote, in favor of the bill just read and
from one to four would generally vote
either pro or con, then the President
would announce that the bill was either
passed or rejected, as the case might be;
not one in twenty voting at all. Nor
do believe they heard it read. l do
believe the people of Stark county
should know of these facts"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

In West Liberty, o., the white people
have ordered the negroes to leave the
town, and have tarred and feathered
one of them. This is in Ohio, not
Georgia, nor Alabama, nor any
Southern state. 1t took place in For
aker's state--Fire-Alarm Foraker's
Where is his able -bo1ied voicep Why
does he not call for a Congressional
investigation or urge Mckinley to call
out the troops New York World.
1t is unjust to censure Foraker for
this outrage, when he has no influence
with the present state administration
That the perpetrators of this glaring
outrage go unwhipped of justice is
chargeable solely to Governor Mckinley
and General Pocock, who commands the
Ohio National Guard. But there is an
election due in Ohio this year, when the
patriotic justice loving and law abiding
citizens of Ohio will pass Judgment or
this outrage. When the Pecksnifliar
hypocrites, who do the rabble rousine
for the g. o. p, get up on their hind legs
in the coming campaign, to speak fol
the great party of immoral ideas anC
tar and feathers for negroes, some poo
Uncle Tom, in the rear of the audience
will sing out in saddened falsetto
"How about West Liberty?" In thI
meantime the wind VIII continue tC
blow through Corporal JohnsOn's whis
kers, at Youngstown
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
A SPILL AND A RUNAWAY.


the st. Nicholas, going over a twelvN
mile course in "a minutes. The wind
was blowing gale. Shortly after the
first race violent squall struck the
Frost, and her skipper was thrown
out. Catching the end of the boom,
he was dragged over the ice q mile q
minute, until the yacht suddenly
wheeled and threw him of. The wind
again struck her mainsail heavily, and
she started off at q fearful rate of
speed. The ice was dotted with skaters,
and several ice boats lay near the club
house.
Groups of spectators, standing along
the shore, held their breath, terror
stricken, for it seemed certain that
some one would be killed. The skat-
ers fed in every direction. A general
shout went up as the yacht swept
within few feet of one who in the
excitement had fallen. The ST. Nicho-
las and the Snowflake were standing
heads to the wind, about fifty feet
apart. The Frost tore along in their
direction, and was shattered into
kindling wood. Nobody was hurt, but
the scene was one of the most exciting
ever witnessed in ice boating in that
vicinity.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

THE officers of the Ohio National
Guard will meet in Toledo on Jan. 1ith
and 18th, when the Gen. Pocock scan
dal will be discussed. Iu the meantime
several prominent officers OF the Guard
have called upon Gov. Mckinley, and
suggested to him with more or less We
hemeuce, that he remove Gen. Poccck
from his position as Adjutant General
OF Ohio. The POcock scandal was de-
veloped at Chicago, when Gen. POcock
was missing at the time he was called
upon to command the Ohio National
Guard, in the expensive dress parade
show of 0hio's opening of the Worlds
Fair. A maiden LADY from GAINESVILLE
is charged with part Of the responsi
bility of Gen. POc0ck's failure to COM
mand at Chicago.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
THE CRIME OF CASTE.

We are in receipt of book of 430
pages by Benjamin II. Davenport on
"The Crime of Caste" This book ap-
pears to have been written since the
elections of Nov. 9th, 1892, as 1t dis
cusses the causes in clear, concise
and vigorous manner, that wiped the
g o. D. from the face of the earth on
that memorable day.
A circular accompanies the book,
which says: "The most remarkable
book of the age written by Benjamin
Rush Davenport, remarkable man,
Snobbery and other aristocracy ex-
posed, dissected and resented. The
true cause of Cleveland's election dem
onstrated. The common people did 1T. u
We have read enough of this book to
see that it Is worth reading. 1t Is pub
lished by the Keystone Publishing Co
of Philadelphia, and is sold at $3.50, in
cloth.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
ALLOWANCE for tho CzareyItch.

The Car has announced his decision
of increasing the allowance of his eld-
est son, the Czarevitch, when the young
Grand Duke enters upon his duties as
President of the Council of the Empire.
At the present moment the Care
vitch's allowance does not exceed $50,
900 year, which is obviously made,
quate, since the British heir apparent
finds it impossible to make both ends
meet on $500, 900 year.
The allowances of the imperial fam,
lily of Russia are, however, exceed
ingly small considering the vast
wealth at the disposal of the Car. The
young Grand Dukes do not receiv,
from the crown more than $40, 900 {
year, this being of course in addition
to any private and personal resources
of their own.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

News comes from Washington that
President Harrison, within week, will
issue an order extending the civil SER
vice law and rules TO all free delivery
postotlices. This is a political move,
in order to save letter carriers in cities
like Canton, from removal, except for
cause, when the Democratic admins
tration comes into power If President
Harrison had issued such an order in
the earlier days of his administration,
he would have been commended for q
worthy and brave act; but to issue such
an order now, just as he is about to re-
tire from power, will not commend him
t. civil service reformers, or any other
class, who believe in fair play and
square deals.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

THE proposition to make Gen. John
NJ. Corse Commissioners of Pensions
meets with general approval. The hero
of Altoona would make an excellent
successor to the hero of the bogus re-.
frigerator stock.--New York World.
General Corse was Cleveland's post
master at Boston and the man that the
Bostonians, irrespective of party, petit
toned Harrison to have retained.
AT Altoona Pass, with q cheek bone
half ohot away, Corse sigualed to Sher-
man, Hold the fort for am coming"
Since General Black was Commis-
sioner of Pensions under Cleveland,
"the best man that ever held that
Office" says prominent Washington
Republican soldier, no man named has
furnished so many qualifications as
General Corse. Of course 1t should be
COrse
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
ANOTHER OHIO OUTRAGE.

The youngstown Vindicator, an Or
gan of pure and uneullied Democracy,
endorses every word and sentiment OF
the NEWS DEMOCRAT on the case OF
the colored man, who eloped from
Springfield to West Liberty with a
white waiter girl. 1t will be remem-
bered that a mob took this colored man
from Jail and tarred and feathered him,
and would have hung him to tree
limb had he not escaped to the woods.
All this occurred in the Republican
town of West Liberty, in the Republi-
can county OF Logan, which gave Nc
Kinley 1,497 majority for governor.
Still the governor of this great state,
who was saved by the colored vote,
never referred to this terrible outrage,
In his annual message.
The youngstown Vindicator refers
to another case, that has just transpired
In Youngstown, that, while less aggra-
waited, is serious. We quote the Vindi-
Gators observations
"The NEws-DEMoCRAT should not
forget that other outrage which hap
petled In Youngstown last week and
which our friends on the other side of
the political fence have not mentioned,
to wit: the Coroner johnson case. Let
US repeat. Coroner johnson Is color
cd man; his business at present Is that
of managing Jubilee singers, exhibiting
playful coons and plaintive coyotes; he
has, no doubt, exhibited in Canton and
hundreds of white people there been
delighted with the amusement and en-
tertainment furnished. Now the Coro-
ner, like great majority of men need
ed q shave and entered a youngstown
barber shop, hung up his coat and was
about to SIC in chair when he was in
formed by the white man i'll attendance:
"We have no black soap here"
ALI the while the Coroner behaved
himself and after espostulating went
away indignant, but unshaven, and the
last time he was seen, to use the old
| street and stage expression, the wind
was blowing through his whiskers.
Is there any civil rights in thisH Not
much. If it happened in the south and
newspapers like the Cleveland Leader
heard of it, the outrage would be dis
played with bold headlines and much
indignation in the magnified report
| The Coroner, however, has brought suit
the justice, who, by the way, is a Re-
publican, is afraid to handle it himself
and will insist on jury, and what the
| jury Will do remains thing unknown
but basing our opinion on commuu
report, we would wager a keg of nails
against bottle of hair oil that the ton
sorial artists do not suffer much at the
hands of their fellow citizens, civil
rights law, or no civil rights law.
"And the Coroner still has his whisk-
ers with him, and the winter winds
blow, and the civil rights law is on
paper, and Republican newspapers
never say work"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

THE Governors message will not rank
highly as a state paper, either in meat or
manner. Compared with the crisp and
lucid paragraphs Of his predecessor it
suffers severely. The document shows
our Napoleonic Governor to lack origins
ality, as has frequently been charged. He
is dealing in new aud diverse subjects
and is not at horne. The matter ia dress-
ed in the plainest platitudes Mansfield
Shield.
The Governor did not feel like per-
petrating his best effort on the audience
now in our State Capitol. 1t would be
literally casting pearls before swine to
address great message to the present
General Assembly. The Governor
doubtless remembered his first message
which was not needed in any particular
by the General Assembly For instance,
he recommended that they be fair in
redistricting the State for members of
Congress. With this advice in mind
they proceeded to perpetrate the most
infamous gerrymander ever known in
our history. The Governors message
was made to fit the audience to whom
addressed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
A CANTON ARTIST.

We are indebted to A. W. Bomber
ger of Canton for an elegantly bound
Volume-a Photographic mirror of the
great battles of our Civil War, Not
only the great battles of our Civil War
but actual photographs of the great
leaders In the conflict. This is the
most unique, the most realistic and the
most authentic reproduction of the
great events of the heroic days from 81
70 %, ever before attempted. The vol
ume sells for 81; and it is volume
that every patriotic American ought to
own. Mr.. Bomberger has spent $8 $50
IN the preparation of this souvenir vol
ume. The pictures were made il
Frankford, Germany, at great expense
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
THEOLOGICAL TALENT.

There is a great deal of ethical talent
loose in Canton. It l. quite remarkable
that we have 81 many citizens who
think they are better and smart.
er and more astute theologians
than our preachers. We are now IN
receipt of number of communications,
whicn aim to blaze the path of duty for
our pastors, through the tangled wild.
WOODS of their puissant lives. None OF
these will be printed until the authors
consent to print their names with theiI
high wrought lessons in theological
ken. We find large element in ouI
population that attend churches and
profess Christianity, that Is thor.
oughly versed in the way congrega-
tion should be governed. There are
also some worldlings who want to
be in it. AS Browning says:
"And wordllngs in 1t are less merciful.
And more pulssant."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

MRS. MARY V. PROCTOR IL editor OF the
Lebanon Patriot. We have spoken Of the
Patriot in very complimentary terms. l!
is one of the best county papers in Ohio.
Mrs. Proctor Ia mentioned in con-
nection with the Lebanon post
office. Senator BFic0 will do q graceful
act IL he shall secure 10 her that appoints
ment, and tho Democratic preaB OF Ohio
will commend him FOR it.-Wooster Dem
ocrRt.
we are for Mrs. Proctor. She is a
well punctuated patriot, who edits the
only Patriot in the benighted Republi-
can county OF Warren, and she is a
Democrat, from the crown OF her head
to the soles of her feet. Senator Brice,
we are quito sure, will not forget Mrs
Proctor when he fixes the Lebanon
pOstofllce.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
THE DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY.

On wednesday evening the stock
holders of the DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING
Co. held their annual meeting and
elected directors and officers for the en-.
suing year.
Mr.. John Q. Harmony was elected
Secretary, Treasurer and Business
Manager, in place of Charles II, Frazer,
who voluntarily retired. Mr. Harmony
purchased block of fifty shares of the
Company of Mr.. Frazer, and has fully
identified himself with the concern,
with the view of making journalism
Lis life business.
Mr.. Frazer has been Business Mana
ger of this Company for four years, and
the success Of the paper has been large
ly due to his alertness, energy and bus
iness sagacity.
Mr.. Frazer Is much liked by all the
officers, editors and employees of the
DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING Co., and all
wish him good luck and abundant
prosperity in the future. BY unan-
imous vote, the directors formally ten
dered him vote of thanks for his able
and successful management of the ex-
tensive business of the Company, and
his satisfactory financial exhibit.
We bespeak for Mr.. Harmony the
generous consideration of all our nu-
merous clientage. He is we'll known
to all our old readers throughout Stark
county as a gentleman worthy of the
| fullest confidence. lie was born in
Stark county, educated in STARK
county University, (Mt. Union) and has
won his way to the front by integrity
ability and honest endeavor. He ha,
long been aiming to enter the journal
istic field, and has only waited for {
favorable opportunity, which arrived
when Mr.. Frazer propussd to sell him ;
block of Dem PUB. Co., stock, and en-
dorse him as fit successor in the bust
ness management.
| The News DEMOCRAT was never 81
prosperous as now; and the STARK Co
DEMOCRAT never stronger in the af
fections OF the victorious Democrac,
of Stark county.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
FOREIGN INN GRAFTON.

The North American Review for
January Is just received. 1t ia an un-
usually interesting number. The lead
ing paper is by Senator Chandler on
one of the vital questions of the hour,
"Sball Immigration be Suspended?"
La view of the threatened invasion
of cholera, Senator Chandler favors an
entire Stoppage of immigration until 1t
abates in Europe. As cholera, If it
reaches us, will kill more Americans in
one year, than our great civil war
killed in four terrible years of killing.
When we think of this, the peril to
our people from cholera invasion is
more terrible than if all the armies of
France and Germany were making
ready, with come and kill us, with all
the terrific destructables that all the
man killers of modern times have been
able to invent.
which Senator Chandler does not di :
cuss in his valuable paper, the question
of the restriction of immigration 10 q
vital question. Here Is what Senator
Chandler says about it.
"These evils are crying and intoler.
able. We cannot safely undertake the
assimilation of the ignorant and de-
based human beings who are tending
towards US from Italy, Turkey, Hun,
gary, Poland and Russia. Our present
foreign born citizens of European
extraction are among the best OF
Americans. They ought to be willing
they are willing, to join in excluding
the classes sofimmigrants against whom
the reluctance of true Americans is
now being expressed"
Senator Chandler favors RESTRICTING
| foreign immigration from certain
European countries, but his paper loses
any specific value for want of line OF
policy, upon which to base his proposed
restrictive legislation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
ENDURANCE OF BARK.
It VIII Remain Whole While Wood
Rots Away.

L VIII homaln "hOle "nue WOOu
Rots Away.
1t does not seem to have been noted
that bark resists the destructive power
of the elements to a much greater de-
gree than the woody substance. An
interesting illustration of this came
before the writer recently. A large
block of greenhouses was erected some
twenty-five years ago, and on a piece of
ground on which had been grown large
quantities of Usage orange plants, the
roots of which penetrated deeply in the
ground. On the removal of these green
houses recently, these old roots of the
Usage orange were found to be still in
existence SO far as the bark which en-
closed them was concerned-but the
wood which the bark enclosed had de-
cayed entirely away, leaving huge
lengths of bark-like hollow pipes,
pushing through the clay. 1t fur.
nished new thought as to the man.
ner in which water is conveyed
through the soil-hollowed roots, or
rather roots represented by the bark
furnishing excellent conduits by which
water can easily pass to great depths
in the ground.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

THE North American Review for
January, opens with a discussion of
the question, "Shall immigration BE
Suspended" by Senator Chandler,
chairman Of the United States Senate
Committe. Senator Chandler takes the
affirmative side, wholly obvious of
the fact that the g. o. p. and its prohib-
itory tariff is wholly responsible for
the influx of foreign pauper labor which
has been flooding the labor markets of
this country since the Chinese wall of
McKinleyism has been built up In
favor of the capitalists and to the in
jury of labor.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

time. When, like too high-spirited
horse, the rakish little craft throws
her rider and starts of on an unre-
strained frolic with the wind, dashing
here, there and everywhere with tre-
menaous speed and utter recklessness,
the effect is more than startling. Such
thing happens occasionally, in fact,
the occasions ore rather more frequent
than skaters and spectators congregat-
ing upon the icy race courses could
wish. Ono Of the widest runaways
on the Hudson Of late years was that
Of Mr.. A. Rogers Jack Frost, Of
Hyde Park. She was one Of the yachts
of the Hudson River Club Of Pough-
keepsie, and had just won race with
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

the year opens with considerable feel
ing of uncertainty, owing to the revival
of the gold exports, which will be about
S2,000,000 for the current week, and to
the doubts about the action of Congress
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven
days number $40, as compared with a
total of 435 for the corresponding week
of last year.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
SENATOR GAUMER DOES NOT LIKE THE
MESSAGE,
From the zanesvllle Signal.

Governor McKinley's message is dis
appointing to those people who have
imagined him to be sort of little demi
god. The message is more than plain;
it is commonplace and mediocre. Not
one original idea is broached, not one
striking sentence is found in the entire
document. 1t is harmless to be sure;
therein lies its only redeeming quality.
But that quality will not satisfy those
deluded people who have been wor-
shippers of the little tin god; they ex-
pected something besides cold, odorless,
cOlorless inanity in message from
William Mckinley, ,jr.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

The Ohio State Journal is booming
Col. Jim Neal as the Dam ocratic can
didate for Governor with ceIerity that
indicates how small is the Republican
hope for the reelection of Mckinley
The Journal thinks that should the
Colonel enter the racs 'it will be tht
old story of the Eclipse-Fa5hion race
Eclipse first, the balauce nowhere"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

A ST. LOUIS woman in bringing suit
for divorce alleges that on one occasion
she took $40 from her husbands pocket
while he was asleep and that when he
awoks and discovered the peculation
he swore at her. He should be held
responsible for the oath and the theft
should not be considered mitigating
circumstance. A woman's inalienable
right to prowl through her husbands
pockets at night is conceded the world
over.-Chicago Herald.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12
SENATOR PETER of Kansas, has decidr

SENATOR PETER of Kansas, has decidr
ed TO act with the Democrats, thus making
considersble change in bis arrange
ments. 1t was Peffer's original plan thAt
lance Review.
That is still Senator Peffer's plan.
They, (the Democrats) agree TO act with
Senator PETER, whenever he votes for
Democratic measures. AS he has
agreed to vote for Democratic meas
ures, of course the Democrats will al
ways be with him.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

THE new Republican paper in Gin
cinnati, the Tribune, starts off with a
boom, claiming that an edition OF sixty
thousand copies was exhausted, so great
was the anxiety to get glimpse at
the journalistic youngster. News
papers, however, aIe not born
to stay in day, and the new venture
will eat up good deal of money be-
fore it evens It's expeEse account.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

The Ohiv State University won the
first prize offered by the Engineering
News for the best theses In auy engi-
neering course from any American
college. In honorable mention the
University won three of the eight
awards. The tendency in Ohio educa-
ionalinstitutions has been to fall back
of late years, but this looks like taking
a new aud better start.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

INAsMUCH as the penitentiary has a
larger number of prisoners than ever
before, the report of the Board of State
Charities that children are often kept
too long in the homes i5 not a good
one, 1t Is more expensive TO punish
than to train. More money to protect
and educate our social waits in indus
trial trades and habits and less money
to punish after neglect has debased and
criminalized, is the watchword of en-
lightened thought.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-12

HERB SAXToN of the Repository
goes to Akron, as general manager OF
the Akron Beacon. We are sorry to
lose Mr.. Saxton. He is good citizen
an excellent printer, an experienced
journalist and popular with all ouI
citizens. But Us he has decided to go
we wish him that abundant success in
his new field that his ability and merit
are sure to achieve.