The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-10-15
THE STRANGLER'
WHO is NOW RUNNING FOR
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
He Was Shown UP Once as an Enemy
of the Republican Party-Repeiied
Decent Peopie-An Article the
Repository Should Explain,


prosecuting attorney on the Republican
ticket, lays claim on the Republicans Of
the county and asks their support,
though 1t must take an exhibition Of un-
mitigated nerve to do It. Hardly any
Of the Republicans Of the county know
him. He has only recently raised his
voice for the Republican party. What
old-time Republican remembers UphamP
When did he make any speeches for the
partyP When any one else was oandi-
date, or when he was himself oandidateS
A few months ago Upham sat In his
Office and of a sudden an idea struck him.
1t worked on him to such an extent that
It overpowered him. and rising from his
chair, with great beads of patriotism
breaking out at every pore, he rushed
out into the air and on through the
county, shouting that he wanted to de-
fend the Tag. Nobody had ever heard Of
him worrying about the flag before, and
as nobody was assailing the flag the peo-
pie thought 1t strange that he should be
so suddenly taken with patriotism. After
running around for awhile and finding
no one who wanted TO get into q row
with him over the flag, Upham decided
that he was worked up to such high
pitch that IL would never do to come
down suddenly, so he thought he would
run for prosecuting attorney, using the
place as parachute to let himself down
from the height to which he had scared,
without bodily injury. BY hiring lot Of
ward workers, thus breaking the law Of
Ohio, he got the nomination, wrestling
1t, by questionable methods, from ster-
ling Republican, Allen Carnes, a man
who is clean in his private and profes-
sional life, and whose voice has been
heard for many years, in every school
house in the county, in defense of Repub-
lican principles. After swearing to an
account and taking an oath that he had
broken the law Of Ohio by employing
men to work for votes for him, Uphatn
sailed out, and now for the first time IL
his history his voice is heard, shouting
for the Republican party, not that he
cares anything about the party or ever
did, but because he is on the ticket. 1t
might be we'll to inquire what sort of a
Republican Upham is. He succeeded in
disgusting the respectable element Of the
Republican party, as the appended will
serve as testimony.
What the Repository Says.
Following is an editorial copied from
the Weekly Repository of Thursday morn
ing, April A. 1889, under the caption,
"Why They Did Not Vote"
"The Canton News Dem ocrat said yes
terdsy: At 2 O'Clock this afternoon, 1t
looks as If Democratic victory was
assured. The Democrats are out in full |
force while many of the Republicans are
disgusted with their candidates and re-
fuse to go to the POLLS at all. 1t will
probably be some time after midnight
before the ballots are all counted"
This was mistake. The ticket was
generally a good one, but the charge that
Charles Upham was running canvass
for the mayoraltyc andidste at the head Of
the ticket, which Mr.. Rex did not deny, |
Is more particularly what caused the
showing under.
And Upham not only defeated Rex,
but the odium Of his dictation and his
orders for unscrupulous trading, cut the
ticket right and left.
1t is now claimed that as early as two
weeks ago, the presumptuous strangler
of the Republican party passed the word
that he had defeated Republican candi-
date and would next elect Republican
mayor.
The Repository, since then, when Up
ham openly worked against Republican
candidates, published his treaohery. To
reward this paper for that he joined the
Democratic forces in defeating Captain
Crawford for sheriff, by small majority,
and boosted Of the achievement
In addition to his work in the defeat of
Sam Roberts for mayor, and Crawford for
sheriff, Judge Underhill, &C. Bow, Re-
corder Daugherty, and a dozen other life
long ana deserving Republicans, have
been sufferers from the political treaohery
of the self-elected dictator and local polit-
ioal strangler. As a man, George Rex has
the respect Of the citizens Of Canton. So
far as he was personally concerned, he
made record as mayor OF Canton, of
which he may well be proud, and we be-
lieve and have believed that the extent Of
the dictation of Upham during Mayor
Rex's term of office, has been grossly ex-
aggerated. Yet the very fact Of Upham's
1t is now proven, was not
only unable to excite sufficient antipathy
In the Republican ranks to defeat Rex's
two years ago but also to
his reelection Monday.
So far as the head Of the ticket is
concerned, 1t is not Democratic victory.
Mayor Blake was scratched at the Demo
cratic primaries when there was no oandi-
date against him, by scores Of his own
party, and 1t developed early yesterday,
that hundreds of Democratic votes were
going in against Blake in Democratic
wards. So far as can be judged, the
effect of this was merely to stimulate Re-
publican support of Blake in other parts
Of the city.