The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-25
Is KeeIey a FrnudY


For the last eighteen years Kelley from
his Philadelphia workshop, has met ridi-
cule and criticism of his ideas about n new
force with Delphic utterance and the
citations of testimonials from eminent
men. This thing has gone on so long
that he has been voted fraud by large
section of the public, led by. such papers
as the Scientific American. We presume
IL will be safe to say that about nine
tenths of those who are capable of form
ing an opinion on the subject have coin
cided with this view
And yet in our opinion these people
have nothing more substantial as basis for
such theories than such facts as these 1, the
great length of time that has been allowed
to lapse since Keeley first began to talk 2,
the lack of substantial results; the great
mystery surrounding Kelley who they
think by this time should know some
thing that he would be willing,to,impart
to the public; 4 the fact that the force
which he claims to have. harnessed. is u
new one that the public never heard of
before and of which few if any scientific
writers even give us a glimpse Itsdoes
not require much reasoning spower to
demostrate that such objections lack the
very conference and substantially, that
hcse objectors think are absent from the
claims of Kelley. THERE'S hardly great
discovery which science has heralded in
the past but that trenched on our credul-
ity. How about the telephone the phon-
ograph and telcgpaphy? HowEabout the
doctrine of evolution? Dolwe forget that
Galileo was forbidden upon pain of death TO
teach the fact that all the planets, ,revolved
around the SUM- AS to mystery all these
discoveries and hundreds of others were
proceeded by the usually long period of
incubation and adumbration-a mys-
terious shadowing forth of the sgreat
principle in physics that was soon to be.
come the common property of mankind.
AS to Keeley here is probably another
case Of prophet not being without hone
save in his own country. The force the
Phyladelphian is working with is sup
posed to be the cohesive force that binds
up llS utoilS ~ 'lShliS lllo lnoitCults
that they can hardly be broken asunder
The molecule of water is simply formed
by the firm union of atoms of different
gasses and Tyndale teaches that sucf
atoms not only exert great force on eacl
other but are capable of vibration. W,
cannot follow such reasoning far becaus,
we have not been placed in possession o
Keeley's alleged discoveries but the fac
is very potent that he has carried, d,convic
tion TO hundreds of men like Boyd Elliot
the eminent mechanical engineer, PROF
Koenig, Of the University Of Pennsylvania
the late Prof. Leidy, Prof. Daniel G
Brinton, who have inspected his wonder
full motor in operation and sbecome be
levers. Now we have the definite an
nouncement that Kelley has finished hi
third experimental engine, which is me
chanically perfect, and that the 800 hors
power machine is nearing completion
That it will work perfectly there seem
no doubt in the minds of many who hay
followed Kelley closely an the fact tina
its tremendous energy will all be devel
oped from a costless force will lndicat
what revolution will follow perfec
construction on such new lines tn
world waits and hopes.