The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-11-02
CARO-, PLAYED FOR IRUMPs, ON
The Eve or The ELECTION.


The Republicans are now playing
bold game In politics. They are claim
iDR thai certain manufacturers nave
not shut down until after the election,
In uIder to help McKinley's Presiden-
IT, b. I'M.
rhey have gone 80 far as to publish
e. .d.h,- leu Dy a number Vi manufAc-
rers, So giug Icy mad not kept closed
Il accoul, 6 OF any letter received from
,oy. Mckinley or Chairman DICK, OF
ne State Republican Commute.
!. Very likely the gentlemen who sign
his card tell the truth with technical
recision.
Very ike none of the gentlemen,
v 40 signed The statement received any
J tier from either Governor Mckinley
o. Chairman Dick; but this proves
l. ming. Letters OF this character are
k. profoundly secret. 1t was not
1t 'sary for Chairman DICK to send
an such letter to Canton. 1t may have
beeu thought safe to pass the word
around by trusted confidential agents,
who have been all over OHIO, giving out
pointers and distributing money to the
local committees.
The NEws-DEMooRAT has made no
charges, on our responsibility, that GER
tain shops here are kept closed on &C
count of politics, but we have printed
statements, sent to this Office In writ
ing from reliable Democrats,
who are manufacturers, charging
that certain plants here are
silent and at the same time were re-
fusing good orders for their goods and
wares.
We know to a certainty of Youngs-
town manufacturers sending their
orders to Pittsburg to be filled, while
they kept their own shops closed down,
aud their workmen idle.
1t is unquestionably true that Chair
man Dick, (who is known to be q man
of heartless and cruel methods) has
sent out word not to start up shops
shut down until after the election.
1t is also true that he wrote
a letter to a certain Akron
manufacturer making this suggestion.
The fact that the contents of this
letter leaked out, and was telegraphed
over the state, made Dick very pru-
dent.
Al er that expose, he probably wrote
no , co letters, of that chal acter.
',s believe the manufacturers of
c. pn, who sign the card, that Dick
w. 80 no such letter here.
lie did not have to.
Nei'hsr did Chairman Dick write to
Oh" ~. IN Fawcett to use any of the
n sent him, from the general
- fund, to buy votes with.
40 did not have to.
chairman Fawcett knew what the
money was for, without asking.
Here is little item from the Canton
Sunday Herald, which is good enough
to point q moral and adorn tale, on
this subject:
"Ao Interesting dialogue was overheard
by IL Herald reporter on the Public Square
day or two ego. The participants we're
a great big, burly looking fellow with q
nose like d red search light and a face the
color OF purple turnip, and forlorn ap-
pearing little woman who was evidently
his wife. The masculine portion of the
family had, II seems, Cotton hold of q
couple Of dollars from some candidate
and was about to start out to celebrate.
AS tho scribe came along the woman had
him cornered up against the court house
fence, and she was giving IL to him lively.
Now, don't you dare to spend that
money for whisky,' abe snapped, and the
big fellow WINGED and crowded the fence
closer than ever. "If you go off and get
drunk, that will be the end of your she
continued: You shan't come in my
house again."
No doubt If Chairman Fawcett was
interviewed, he would deny that he had
paid out one dollar of the big Doodle
fund to any person to bribe said person,
or to buy whlskey with,
Let US call up truthful and forceful
pointer, from McKinley's last great
Doodle campaign in this county.
Henry A. Wise had charge of the funds
Just before the election real hummer,
dead open and shut hummer, was
found drunk in the street,
with a check on his per.
son, signed by Mr. Wise, given for
his services to the great party of moral
ideas. And Mayor Blake (before whom
he was brought and others, saw that
check. Now when Mr.. Wise heard of
| that check did he not rush over to the
Mayors Office and demand 1t, and did
he not, In demanding it, say it was
given without any consideration, or
words to that effect.
OF course he did.
And would he not have denied, had
not the evidence of the check con-
fronted him, that he ever gave this man
q dollar for improper purposes.
OF course.
Many very good men, we are sorry to
say, do things In politics that they
would not think of doing in private
business affairs.
This ought not to be so, but 1t is.
The shops In many places have been
kept closed for political purposes.
Such is the very general belief, aud a
card, published on the eve of the cleo
tion, making a sweeping denial, that
| 1t is not done for benefit to the cause
IL Mckinley, will have few believers
among those know the cold blooded
and cruel methods used In these highly
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