The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-09-28
RePUsLIcAN CAMPAIGN OPENING,

Some 544 persons, of both sexes, wen
to the Tabernacle on Saturday evening
TO hear Roswell G.. Horr, of Michigan
discuss some ancient and obsolete
topics, not involved In this campaign
1t was quite chilly affair, and the
small number present to hear one o.
the greatest buffoon and monkey.shinC
performers in the party of higf
moral ideas, is very generally re-
marked as bad omen for the Rep1bli
can management.
The Republicans usually have over Q
thousand, and sometimes two thous-
and, at their opening campaign meet
ings, and we have never known Sc
small meeting (544 by actual count
with concentrated effort fora crowd
Mr.. Horr Is one of the paid orators OF
the campaign. He was once q member
of Congress, but was badly beaten fol
reelection, in a strong Republican dis.
trict, and at the present time is very
much discredited In his own locality
But he has a job lot of Jokes, stories
incidents and rhetorical tlourlshes, and
his Grafton is rather amusing to those
who have never heard the recital.
He was announced as one of the
editorial writers on the New York
Tribune, and as that is rat office, Mr..
Horr's ratty appearance on the plat
form Is accounted for.
Henry Harter officiated as chairman
and allowed q lawyers conscience to be
somewhat stretched by announcing Mr.
Horr as a statesman. Mr.. Horr had not
proceeded very far when HenTy'f
blonde complexion assumed q very
pinkish hue, as MIR. Horr proceeded to
tell the audience how he had used up
Henry's brother, Michael Harter, in d
tariff debate down In western New
York. HoTr wabbled over the stage
with a shaky, ponderous belly, that
seemed about to burst his pants but
tons; and in a cracked, falsetto voice
told how he had skinned Congressman
Mike Harter, while most of the audi.
ence, both Republicans and Democrats,
were In broad, elaborate smiles over
Henry's vivid bushes and disgusted
discontinue.
Horr is quite humorous speaker
If he was more agile on his legs, and
could sing song, he would make an
excellent circus clown. Some of his
stories, however, which he tells very
we'll, are at least a hundred years old
and bis tariff talk to Canton audi,
ence, was just so much wasted wind
He said nothing new on the tariff, anc
his references to the tin plate factories
in operation under the Mckinley bill
provoked derisive smile over many
sombre Republican face. This fraud
is too glaring for even ordinary Re-
publican liberation,
On the pension question Horr was
still more demagogical and dishonest
He asserted that President Cleveland
had selected Hoke Smith of Georgia t
take charge of the Pension bureau, be
cause of his reasonable attitude dur
ing the war; when Hoke Smith wa'
only seven years old when the wa
broke out.
Among the more glaring and foolisl
falsehoods that Horr perpetrated wa
his talk on the Sherman silver law. III,
said the Republicans in the last Con.
gress were ready and anxious to repea
this law, but were defeated by Demo,
cratic opposition. This is known to bI
false. The Republicans were then IL
control of the Senate, and made M
move to repeal it, except the introduc
tion of bill, which John Sherman
smothered in his own COMMITTEE
(fnance). At the same time McKinle,
was on the stump everywhere, com
mendiDg this law, as every intelligen
citizen Of Canton knows.
Who can have any respect for pub
lie speaker who goes before an audi
ence with such audacious lies, know
to be such when uttered.
The general impression among intel
ligent citizens of all classes Is tina
Horr's harrangue was boomerang.