The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-05-28
GREED OF GAIN
ALL THAT ACTUATES CERTAIN
ALLEGED DEMOCRATS.
An Outrageous Action Taken by So
called Executive Committee, to
Make Place for Political CUT
throat aud Betrayer.

called Executive Committee, to
Make Place for Political Cut
throat aud Betrayer.
The people of this city and county and
particularly the Dem ooratic people, are
now face to face with the spectacle of q
few hairs at the extreme end of the tail,
attempting to wag the Democracy Of
Stark county. For years the Democrats
have had but one rule concerning an ex-
ecutive committee 1t has been the pro-
duct of the candidates at the fall election,
and has always held its place until the
candidates Mt the rext election chose
another committee. That has been the
custom. There is no law in the statute
books touching upon this matter, but in
the absence Of law, custom is as potential
as If it were spread oil over the statutes.
Two appointments for the board Of
elections are to be made from the Demo
cratic ranks, and according to the new
law, the appointments are to be made by
the secretary of state, upon recommenda-
tion of the executive committee. There
was and is an executive committee, but a
little clique of non.competents and in the
face of the enemy, omhatants, got
control Of the central committee, declared
there was no executive committee, and
then appointed committee to appoint
one. OF course the committee appointed
itself and it is now oontended by the al.
legged Democrats that perpetrated the out
rage that the executive com mmittee is now
composed Of DIR. j V. Lewis, William
Simonet, e. Stanton Howells, John Hay
and John c. welty. This so-called exeou-
tive committee met Tuesday, in John G.
Welty's office. Prior to that time the
regular and legal committee had named
for the Democratic members of the board
of elections, Archibald McGregor and
Phil ]. Borrower, both men who are
tried and true and who never falter In
their loyalty to the party of Jefferson
This recommendation is before The secre-
tary Of state, Is entirely legal, and it is
believed that the secretary of state will
act favorably when considering it, as 1t
is legalized by custom, whereas, the So
called committee, the creature of few
warts on the body polite, has no legal
existence, has no precedent for its appoint
ment and nothing basic to its claim Of
authority.
This product of the heelers, when 1t
met at. Welty's office, totally ignored the
wishes OF the masses OF the people, ana
recommend for the board of elections
Ed. L. Roger, of Massillon, and one Her
man Eckhardt, Of anywhere that there s
anything in it, Concerning Roger, the
mass Of the Democrat party has moth
ing particular to soy. He Is probably
competent enough, and those who have
been in his place Of business say that he
runs pretty fair sort of saloon. But
whatever his fitness and his claim to
preferment, it must be conceded that he
is in mighty bad company when he mixes
with the Schweitzer- Welty. Weiss Eek
hardt outfit of fellows that know no poll
tics save for personal aggrandizement
and gain.
The leader of the little set OF would be
dictators is Conrad Schweitzer, who has
an interesting way of opposing Democrats
for Office and bstraying them at every
turn. Cooney Schweitzer hasn't been
Democrat for years. He is a
masquerader without political princi-
pie. Last summer he was writing single
gold standard letters, in his versatile
style. The budding .spring time finds
him in his Office drafting silver resolu-
tions to be presented before the central
committee by a fellow who openly ac-
knowledged that he hasn't voted the
Democratic ticket for three years, who
bolted Larry Neal for governor, and who
voted for Bushnell last fall; who has no
affiliation with any political party that
has any defined principles. That there
may be no misunderstanding it may te
interpolated that reference is here made
to John NJ. Myers. Schweitzer didn't
intend that there should be an honest vote
on the currency question when he had
his henchman introduce the resolution to
submit the question to the people. He
simply wants to go as a delegate to the
Chicago convention and sees chance to
get there by hoodwinking the people.
He don't care two hurrahs about the cur
rency question: save to see that plenty of
it flows in his direction. II he were sent
as delegate to the Chicago convention
he might be expected to be on any side of
the question save the Democratic side.
Why he should continue to WELD an in
fluence Of any sort in the Democratic party
of Stark county, cannot be seen by decent
Democrats who have at heart their
party's interest. He is not Democrat.
1t is paying the party a compliment to
make that statement.
Next to Schweitzer is the cool, Galculat- |
ing, oleaglnous Welty, who votes for
Democrat occasionally, simply to relieve
the monotony Of being on the other side
all the while, Welty has an abundance |
Of palave, is really plausible fellow
when he wants to talk face to face with |
any one, but he can seldom be caught
Vis-a-vis His position on the currency
question is quite picturesque, bobbing
up and down as the silver mining stock