The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-12-03
OFFICE TURKEY
DISCUSSED AT MIR. SMITHS
THANKSGIVING DINNER.
The Foraker-McKin inIey Sherman Mud.
die Again Being stirred Up-The
Foraker Infection Has Struck
Canton and Spies are out,

Canton and Spies are out.
The faithful followers of Mr.. Mckinley
during the campaign, the gentlemen who
took the heavy end of it at the Mckinley
home and in Ohio generally during the
campaign, took dinner with Joseph p,
Smith, who has been at Mr.. Mckinley
residence all summer. The dinner was
given at Mr.. Smiths home In UrbaDa
on Thanksgiving day. Politics is being
pretty closely watched and a seeming
trivial event may mean great deal
The factional fight is on in Ohio and II
extends to all confines of the state. Right
here in Canton, the Foraker men are
large in numbers and while all we're loyal
on the surface during the campaign, the
fact remains that, with Foraker men
largely In control Of the operations, Mr..
Mckinley, candidate for president, and
who got hundreds of votes from Demo
Gratis who voted the balance If the
Democratic ticket, did not carry the
county as strongly as some others on his
ticket who got but few Demr cratic votes.
1t is generally conceded that the purpose
was to simply allow Mckinley to have
the county; but by such small plurality
as to be very humiliating. If the Demo
Gratis hadn't cast complimentary votes TO
him he wouldn't have carried the county
at all, and that's what is stirring up the
n alu Tho MT .pIapt'a frtaDda
know about this condition and have
openly declared what will be done about
it. In fact Mr.. Foraker is here today
an high Mckinley authority, in defend
ing Tom Reed for going through Canton,
without stopping, asserted that no
prominent man came to see Mckinley
unless he either wanted office or was sent
for. Mr.. Foraker has all the Office he
wants now, and he therefore must have
been sent for. 1t is pretty likely that he
heard Of that dinner at Urbana and that
his local friends dropped some remarks
about II. The animals had been stirred
and Mr.. Mckinley sent for Mr.. Foraker
and wants TO know what he Is about.
The dinner was likely discussed. Notice
who attended 1t: Secretary of State s. NJ.
Taylor, Secretary of State.elect Charles
Kinney, ex-Secretary of State D. j.
Ryan, ex-Attorney- General !. X. Rich
ards, Clerk Of the Senate Alex. c. Caine,
ex-Private Secretary James Boyle, and
their wives, and Mrs. Merkel, of Co
lunubs.
OF the gentlemen present every one of
them are steadfast friends of tte Presi-
dent-eleCt and Senator Sherman. Their
coming together today naturally excites
comment but MFR. Smith denied most
emphatioelly that the gathering had any
political significance, nor was politics
discussed. He said further that several
months ago be had agreed with the gen
tlemen who were his guests to give them
their Thanksgiving dinner in the event
of Major MoKinley's election, and that
was all there was to it,
In addition to those who were present
it is known that W. NJ. Hahn, the ex-
insurance commissioner and General |
James G. Howe, the ex-adjutant general |
were expected to be present, but were
detained. Colonel George NJ. Eichel- |
berger, Of Urbana, who was a delegate to
the st. Louis convention and an ardent
Sherman man, dropped in during the
afternoon just to pay his respects. If
Senator Sherman needed help to secure
his reelection to the Senate, where could
be get more loyal or faithful workers
than the guests at Mr. Smiths dinnerf
Look at the array: Messrs. Ryan, Taylor,
Kinney, Boyle, Hahn. Howe and last,
but not last, Mr.. Smith himself. They
carried the senior senator's banner to
victory once before, and would be perfectly
willing to do so again. If Senator Sher-
man is TO retire and Chairman Hanna
take his place, they would naturally be
consulted. If plans are to be laid to have
Sherman succeed himself in the fight now
on, they are the men who would plan
and execute the work, for they constitute
the innermost councils of the President
elect and the Senator's political advisers.
Foraker's hiends naturally became
lnquisitive. They wanted to know what
the dinner meant and if war had been
declared. They desired to call attention
to the fact that Ohio was carried by Mr.. I
by comparatively small
plurality, and that he came close to losing
his own town. They want the President
elect and Sherman to know that they are
running Ohio. Things got warm, and
Foraker was sent for. The fire eater \
probably allowed himself to be patched
up. Certainly. Everybody knows he's
that kind of a fellow. The clash Is on in I
Ohio and the Foraker forces have the
better chance, as they will have no dis
appointed office-seekers to contend with. )
In the meantime, Foraker's local
friends are watching every move at the
home, and he is kept well In
formed of the doingS and the hand the
ia taking in It, Not all
jhe Canton Republicans who pose as Mr..
friends wish him God-speed. :
An Urbana special, concerning the
Inner at that place, says: SIT was
yreat dinner When the walnuts and b
vine and Urbans perfeotos had been a
cached the host announced: Now,
)oya we must get toOether III We stick 7