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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
COMPUTING THE VOTE.
Now York MAI and Express tRepl.

Computations of the vote cast in the
country at the election last November
have been made In a manner sufficient
ly accurate to give the figures value for
comparison. The totals are as follows
Harrison, Rep, 5,l72,a3; Cleveland,
Dem, 5,554 ,6S5; Weaver, Peoples, ,040,.
600; Bidwell, Pro-, 273,314; scattering,
1858; total, 12,068,595.
In 1888 Harrison, Rep, had $40, ,708;
Cleveland, Dem, 5,536242; STeeter,
$40; total, II, ,370,662. In 1884 the Re
cratic, 4,874,9S6; Greenback, 175,37O;
Prohibition, i50,36O; total, 10,052697,
The increase of the Democratic vote
over 1888 in 1902 was 18, ,443 and the de-
crease of the Republican vote was 267,-
g65. The Prohibition vote in 1892 was
26,47S larger than in 1883. These
comparisons reveal the fact
that there were no great changes
in the vote cast last year by the
parties which also had Presidential
candidates in 1888 from that cast by
them in the latter mentioned year, the
most marked detection being the Re-
publican loss.
In 1888 each of the two great parties
made gain of, roughly speaking, about
10 per cent. on their vote of 1854. If
the same rate of increase had contin-
ued 1883 to 1892 the Republicans would
have added $4,000 to their total, in.
stead of incurring loss of 267960 and
the Democratic vote would have had
an aggregate gain Of about 1900. The
two parties would have had an aggre-
gate gain of about 990,00O 1t is a coin
Cidence that the new Peoples party
vote last fall was only about $4,000 in
excess of the increase that the two
great old parties had right to expect.
The conclusion is that the Peoples
party vote including that cast in the
four new States that participated for
the first time in November in q Presi-
Dental election, is about equal to the
increase in four years of qualified cleo
tOra
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
IN THE MORNING LAND,

"Are you happy" was the favorite
morning salutation of the dead Presi-
dent who lies in the chill chamber of
death at his home in Fremont, desolate
since the departure of his noble and
beautiful wife. With heart full of
all sweet humanites, a face aglow with
kindly feeling aud hand ever ready to
grasp the hand of friend or
foe, in proffered fellowship, Ruth
erford Il. Hayes passed through
his little span of three score years and
ten to bless and frightened so far as in
him lay.
He was not a great diplomat
or. an astute politician but he was the
apostle Of the better era of fraternal
amity. He was hundred years in ad-
vance of his generation and his diligent
efforts for charity and reform and the
betterment of the world will live long
after the unseemly wrangles of petty,
partisans have been forgotten.
In the morning land he is happy and
the kindly thoughts of great people
brood above his casket of clay.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

A hundred day soldier, out In Ne
braska, who is drawing 500 a month
pension, suggests that 1t would be only
fair for the over one million people in
Chicago to turn over the city to the
over one million pension drawers of the
country and let them run the Fair and
have its proceeds for the Columbian
year. There never was anything little
about hundred day veteran. Another
six months veteran from Nebraska has
disinherited his son, who is twenty
years old, because he was not born long
enough before the war to have been u
soldier. The primitive Nebraskans,
the getters of this goddess herd, and
successors of the jack-rabbit, not only
fed their little fires, but fertilized their
brains with the juice of the buffalo
chips,in the rare. hard-up old emigrant
days. The strength of their loins is in
the blood of the descendents.-Wo Wooster
Jacksonian.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
AN IRISH WILD FLOWER.

Mrs. S. NJ. B. Piatt leads all the
American poets now living in the high
rank she has taken in the literary ranks
in Great Britain. The Athenaeum re-
Gently said:
"Tbere is no need at this time of day
to assert her claim to recognition on
our side of the Atlantic--has not her
genius been honored by hundred
pens?."
The Queen gives her q place in the
galaxy of English women who are
CotempOraneOus writers of standard
verse and both the Irish and English
have sounded her praises.
Hon. John James Piatt, equally dis
tinguiehed among American poets, has
been for nearly dozen years the United
States Consul at Cork, Ireland, having
been one of President Garfeld's earliest
appointees. When Grover Cleveland
was elected President the first time, the
citizens of Cork, led by Charles Stewart
Parnell, petltioned for his retention, as
they did, four years later, when Presi-
dent Harrison was inaugurated, and
from what we personally know of his
great popularity in the Emerald Isle
we would not be surprised If Mr.. Cleve-
land would be the second time petition
I'd on his behalf.
While in Ireland Mrs. Piatt has issued
five dainty volumes of verse, can Irish
Garland,""In Primrose Time" "Childs'
World Ballads" and "Fhe Witch In th
Glass" and "The Irish Wild Flower, g
and the last, to our mind, is the sweet
est of them all.
There is subtle delicacy of thought
and expression in Mrs. Piatt's poem 1t
ia difficult to define. A word, slight
urn of phrase, suggests whole train
If thought, or flashes an instantaneous
picture before you. Take this, the
initial poem, on barefoot child at a
castle, for an example:
'she felt, think, but as a wild flower can,
Through her bright huttering rags, the dark. the
cold,
Some farthest star remembering what man
Forget, had warmed her little head with gold.
"Aboye her, hollow-eyed long blind to tears,
Leaf-cloaked, a skeleton OF stone arose
Oh, ca,tle-shadow OF a Thousand years,
grows?"
Here is another, voicing the yearn-
ings of our sweet poet for her old ohio
home, patriotism and song are syn
onyms In her heart and the blue bird
of the West wakens dearer lays than
the skylark of the English meadows:
WORD WITH A SKY LARK.
II this be all, for which I've listened long.
q, spirit II the devil
You did not sing to Shelley such song
AS Shelley sung to you.
Yet with this ruined Old World for nest,
Worm eaten through and Though
This waste OF grave dust stamped with crown ant
what better could you do?
Ah. me! but when the world and I were young,
There was an apple tree,
There was voice came In the dawn and sung
The buds awake--ah mel
i Oh Lark OF Europe downward fiutterlng near,
Like some spent leaf at best,
You'd never sing again II you could hear
1 My Blue Bird OF the West
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

THE Philadelphia Telegraph has got
its eyes peeled by recent events aud
admonishes fellow Republican in the
following plain talk:
"The adage is ancient but always
true-there are none so blind as those
who will not see. Gov. McKinley's face
is still turned to the wall. The Ohio
ex-statesman simply illustrates the
unwise Republican leadership Of the
hour, which seems fully determined to
learn nothing, TO ignore the lessons of
1892, Of 1890 and 1888. He wants one
more engagement-and one more de-
feat. And then wonder how much will
be left? If the representatives of the
Republican party in the coming Con-
gress are not wiser than some of those
today seeking to influence them, it will
be sad thing for R-publicanism
This is the long and short of it. No
political party can continue indefinitely
to ignore and defy the popular will. If
McKinleyism was blunder in 1890 and
1892, it threatens to become crime in
1893"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
TIE death of General Butte

THE death of General Butler removes
another manager of the celebrated i'm
Bingham, o.; Stevens, Pa; Butler,
Mass; Boutwell,, Mass; Wilson, To-;
Williams, Pa, and Logan, Ill. Boutwell,,
against Andrew Johnson. Hon. John
A. Bingham still lives at his old home
in Eastern Ohio, aged n. He was a
historic figure in Congress and in add"
ton to the part he played in the john
son impeachment proceedings, was
Special Judge Advocate in the trial of
the assassius of President Lincoln.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
THE REPUBLICAN SENATE.
From the pn,ladolpnIa rolesraph.--Rep.

FROM the fhllauolphia ieieBreph--hoP
Its alamentable fact that the United
States Senate seems to be on the down
grace, with everything going at ter
rible rAte. The present attitude of q
large number of the members of that
body towards each other, the President
elect aud ths whole country is a
striking object lesson Both sides are
simply engaged in n wretched and con-
scieuceless game of partisan chess. One
hour Of honest regard for national in
terests, the dignity and honor or the
Government and the welfare of the
people would settle the present finan-
cial problem in both houses in accord.
ance with the ideas of true patriotism.
The present Senate is bad enough, yet
there is the gravest reason to fear that
its successor will be good many de-
grees worse. The coming Executive
may well view the outlook with pro.
found apprehension. He may be able
TO get some assurance from time to
time as to the action of the House, but
he will never know what to expect of
the Senate.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

II the manufacturers of La Crosse
would keep their business before the pub.
lie in card In each OF the two leading
and old established papers in the city
soy card costing annually about Sl5-
our own citizens would know how to pre-
sent the question of La CrosBe's eligibility
as manufacturing town.-La Crosse
(Wis.) Leader.
This is a valuable suggestion and it
would apply we'll to Canton. Canton
would be a much better advertised
town If our manufacturers would set
up their light where the world could
see it, instead OF hiding it under a
bushei. Hardly any Of the outside
world appreciate the fact that Canton
has over $1,000 population, and is one
of healthiest and most prosperous cities
in theU United States. The columns f the
NEws-DEMoCRAT, (the largest journal
in this section,) are always open to
welcome the many industries of the
city.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

IT is to be regretted that the last
weeks of Charley Fosters administra-
tion should be spent in an attempt to
conceal a treasury deficit. This be-
comes more conspicuous because when
Mr.. Cleveland handed over the gov
ernment four years ago he left bal
ance of $1l0,000,000 in the treasury.
Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. Reeds billion
congress got away with this, and also
with more than the revenues of the
government 1t is not strange, there
fore, that the people repudiated Mr..
Reeds congress and later the extrav-
agant administration of Mr.. Harrison.
Dayton Times.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

THE Louisiana lottery will not go to
the Sandwich Islands after all, but will
be taken under the wing of the little
isthmian republic Honduras. A small
island will be granted it in the Spanish
main, where of old another kind of pi-
rates carried on their operations, very
appropriate location for the most con-
scienceless pirate of modern days,
Thus, also, will this octopus of fraud be
given geographical form correspond
ing admirably with its nature. The
devil fish has small body in compari-
son to its long, blood-sucking legs.
The island of Guanaja will represent
the body, and the legs will attempt to
enwrap the world. The United States
government, having rid itself of the
body of the monster, should now use
unremitting vigilance to keep off its
tantacles.-Chicago Herald.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
PRESIDENT ELIOT of Harvard Col

PRESIDENT ELIOT of Harvard Col
lege who is a student of political
economy as well as an adept in dead
languages and his views 90 the immi-
grafton question are particularly in
teresting as coming from life long
Republican and bolter Of McKin.
leyism, He says:
"I deny that such political and social
evils as we suffer from are TO be justly
attributed to recent immigrants! 1t Is
the experienced voters, and not the in
experienced, who are responsible for
weak or bad legislation and administra-
tion. 1t is not new immigrants who
bly, votes, or who pass the tariff acts
which inevitably breed votebuyers.
Our notorious spoilSmen and political
machinists have been some time in this
country"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

SECRETARY of the Treasurer Foster
has published a decision which he has
made on the subject of issuing the sou
venir coins while the Worlds Fair
grounds are open Sunday for visitors.
He says: "a question has been re-
Gently raised as to whether the terms
of the law providing for the closing of
the exhibition on Sunday have been
complied with, and that question was
submitted to the solicitor of the treas;
ury, who decided that the exposition
has not been formally opened and that
the statute has not therefore, been
violated"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
THE greatest service of his admins

THE greatest service of his admins
tration, however, was its settlement of
sectional issues. President Hayes with.
drew the troops from the Southern
States and left their people free to gov
ern themselves. He put an end for
ever TO the rule of force, aud in large
measure to the possibility of political
preferment through appeals to sectional
hate and passion. This was a great
patriotic service, and those who knew
Mr. Hayes and his feeling oD this sub
iect will bear testimony TO the fact that
he strongly desired to bring about the
happy consummation.-New York
World.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
BOB AND SAM.
Worse Than Box of Monkeys at Feed
Time.

I1nes
The ministers Of Atlanta, Georgia,
are conducting a crusade against a
a local literary society, because
of proposal to have Col. Bob
Iugersoll lecture In that city. Rev.
Henry g. Morrison, General Secretary
of the Methodist Church South, leads
the movement, seconded by Rev. j. q.
Tupper, rector of ST. Philips Protestant
Episcopal Church; Rev. DIR. Strickler of
the Presbyterian, Rev. Q. z. Williamson
of the Christian, and others.
The discussion has brought out the
Georgia evangelist, Rev. Sam Small,
who is anxious to meet Ingersoll in
Joint debate.
'If old Bob comes" he said, call !
have TO say is that would like to divide
time with him for about two hours. II
did not make him wipe his bald head
more thon once you may have my hat
"Are you seriousP' he was asked
"Why of course am. If Bob lnger-
soil makes date for q lecture In At
lanta aud will agree to divide time
with me, will be on hand, and tell you
it will be worse than box of monkeys
at feed time"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
A WASHINGTON correspondent

A WASHINGTON correspondent COM
menting upon the proverbially loose
inattentiOn with which business is con.
Quoted In the House gives a ludicrous
illustration. On Tuesday the House
spent quite an hour over bill and
finally passed it with deliberation.
Next day the chairman of the commit
tee which had brought it forward for
passage had to ask the House to strike
the action from the Journal, because he
had discovered that the bill had been
passed by both houses at the last session
and signed by the President, so that it
Is already part Of the statute law.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

have been bothered with catarrh for
about twenty years; l had lost sense OF
smell entirely, and had almost lost my
hearing. My eyes were getting so dim
had to get some one to thread my needle.
Now have my hearing az we'll As ever
had, and can see 20 thread as fine a
needle as ever did, my sense of smell is
partly restored and II seems to be improv.
Ing all the time. think there Is nothing
K. Il. Grimes, Rendrill, Perry Co., o.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
ex.PReslDsNT HAYES AND THE NAMING
OF FREMONT.
IFrom the Toledo Bee. ]


About 1848, the name of the town
where Hayes lived, which was then
finder of the Rockies. Mr.. Hayes, as
lawyer for the petitioners, presented it
TO the court and finished his argument
by offering the only remonstrance
against the change. This was in the
form of humorous versitication, and
Mr.. Hayes read 1t with great gusto.
The first two verses read.
"There Is prayer now going round.
Which dislike 10 hear,
10 change the name of this old town
hold so very dear
''They pray the Court to alter II.
pray 70 God they won't
Aud let II stand Sandusky yet
And not John q, Fremont."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

PENSION COMMISSIONER RAUM now
admits what he so stoutly denied dur
ing the latter days of the campaign, that
he had underestimated the pension de-
iiciency. Secretary Foster has also
practically admitted that the surplus in
the treasury is wholly on paper. There
seems to have been concerted effort
on the part of everybody connected
with the administration to deceive the
,,apt,la
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

GEORGE T. ANGEL, President Of the
American Humane Society, issues a
call in our "Dumb Animals" of Boston,
for an international Humane Con-
gress, at the Worlds Fair, to discuss Q)
the best means OF preventing wars and
(2) the best means of humanely educat-
ing all nations for the prevention of
every form of cruelty to our own and
the so.called dumb races"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

THE proposition to entertain Presi-
dent Harrison at monster dinner in
New York at the close of his term has
been abandoned by the Union League.
A Zig dinner cost us the presidency in
'84.-Ohio State Journal.
The least said about it the better, &C
cording to Republican authority. The
campaigns of education are now wholly
in the hands of the Democrats.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26
HE death of General Butler calls to

THE death of General Butler calls to
mind the celebrated impeachment trial
of Andrew johnson. The Board on the
part of the House was Bingham, o.;
Stevens, Pa; Butler, Mass; Wilson, To-;
Williams, Pa, and Logan, III. Bout
well, Wilson, Williams and Bingham
survive, of the seven who made the his
toric fight against Andrew johnson,
Hon. j ohm A. Bingham still lives at his
home at Cadiz at the age of n.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

THOSE who think our rich women
are wearing to much expensive milli-
merry and too many diamonds, would do
well to remember some of the old time
French women, when women ruled
the camp and the court. The Queen of
Henry w. of France on one great oc-
casion wore a dress sewn with $4,000
pearls and 5000 diamonds.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

GOVERNOR John Z. Osborne, the
young and plucky Democrat who has
taken charge of affairs in the New
State of Wyoming, has sent his mes.
sage to the Legislature. Among other
things is one for an immigration bu-
Ieau. He wants the population of the
state increased. He says that Wyom-
ing "needs more men and fewer steers"
Wyoming cannot have too many men
like Governor Osborne.--Chicago Her.
nIA
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

SENATOR Wolcott of Colorado, has
given notice that he will offer a substi-
tute for the silver purchase repeal bill.
His substitute provides that all the
silver bullion that has been or shall
hereafter be purchased under the act
of 1880, shall be coined into silver
dollars as rapidly as possible, and that
the gain arising from such coinage
shall be covered into the treasury.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

DIRECTOR GENERAL DAVIS Of the
Worlds Fair Commission, has set aside
200 square feet in the manufacturers
building, to bs devoted exclusively to
by women. The space was
granted in answer to personal request
from the board of lady managers. 1t
will be assigned by Mrs. Virginia q.
Meredith, member of the board from
Indiana, subject to the director-gener-
ais approval,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

THE probable choice of ex-Minister
Phelps, by PresideuC-eleCt Cleveland,
for Secretary of State, 10 meeting criti-
cism from old line Democrats who de-
clare him too much Of a Mugwump and
want the Cabinet drawn from Demo-
cratic or doubtful States. Don NJ. Dick
enson seems to be the fayorite.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

UP to date eight Kentuckians are
talked about for the succession of Mr..
Carlisle in case the senator becomes q
cabinet officer; Watterson, Proctor
Knott, General John Brown, ex. Gov
ernor Buckner and four congressman
Breckinridge, McCreary, Stone and
Goodnight.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

WE denounce the Republican legisIa-
ton known as the Sherman act of 1890
as a cowardly makeshift, fraught with
possibilities of Danger in the future
which should make all of its supporters
as we'll as its author anxious for its
speedy repeal,-National Platform Of
the Democratic party, 1892.
The above are now Sherman's senti-
ments concerning his own measure.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

THE real reason why the much pro-
posed Republican banquet of Canton
Republicans was postponed from Feb
ruary to March, was not on account of
previous engagements of some of the
speakers, as announced, but on ac-
count of general want of interest in
the Respondent breasts of the comatose
patriots of the q. o. D.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

REBELLION has broken out in Hayti,
and President Hippolyte has disp ttched
to the seat of war an army consisting
of three hundred men and twenty COM
manding officers. The makeup Of this
body of troops indicates that the trou-
bic must be of very serious nature.
Under ordinary circumstances Hay
tien army of that size would have con-
sisted Of twenty men and three hun
dred commanding oilicers.-Chicago
Herald
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

THE Illinois Republicans loom up as
prophets. Last fall they said it would
be a cold day when the Democrats
inaugurated a Governor in that state
ard it was. The thermometer stood
nine degrees below zero When Governor
Altgeld and his Compeers took the oath
of office
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

GEORGIA HopLEY makes her debut
as editor of the Columbus School Jour
nal, monthly, devoted to school and
college notes, art aud music. Her first
number is as blithe as a spring crocus
in January snow drift, and bespeaks
for her success.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

THE Illinois Senate has passed a res
olution, by a vote of 80 to 10, calling
upon Congress to keep the Exposition
grounds open on Sunday. The drift Of
opinion seems TO be that people should
have a chance to enter the grounds and
look around, just as they do in the
parks and gardens.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

FIVE Congregational clergymen of
California in the past few weeks have
gone over to the Unitarian faith, four
of them to take pastorates in that de-
nomination. One of them took his en-
tire congregation with him into the
new fold,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

WOMEN now vote for school commit
tee In twenty states and three terrific
ries; In municipal elections In Kansas
and for president in Wyoming Twen-
ty-tive years ago they had none of these
privileges. The world Is moving along
faster than we seem to see IL.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-01-26

STEPHEN NJ. WHITE, Democratic
SenatOr-aect from California, goes in
by a plurality of one, having received
this one from Populist from his own
town, Los Angeles. Senator White is
a lawyer and orator and popular with
all parties.