The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-09-09
CORRUP TION AT WORK.
The Cox and Hanna Colonial
tion Scheme of Last Year
TO BE REPEATED AGAIN THIS.


the Same Thing win BE Attempted In
All other Parts OF the State, Honest
Men should Take Action at Once.
Cincinnati, o., Sept. 4.-tSpeclal.1- J.
Mark Hanna's skill as a corrupter of
the BALLOT box by means of colonial
tion and the shipping of groups of
Illegal voters and repeaters over the
railroads of Ohio last year made itself
manifest to the honest voters of all
parties in the state last year.
The state was saved to Mcinley by
Hanna's methods, aided by bulldozing
and coercion, which the millions Of
corruption funds at his command en-.
sbled him to carry on successfully.
. His method accomplished his object
last year.
He bases his hope Of electing himself
to the United States senatet his year
by the same wholesale system Of de-
bauching the elective franchise this.
He has supreme confidence in the
power OF money.
He believes that If a majority Of the
voters can not be corrupted with
money, that they can be cheated by
the expenditure Of money.
Destitute alike of all ideas Of politi-
cal honesty and craftsmanship, he pro-
ceeds upon the theory that political
honors can be bought by any man who
is willing to pay the price.
Mark Hanna is probably not the
author Of this particular political gos-
pei.
1t is more probable that George B.
Cox, his boon companion and right
bower in Ohio, is the author and fin
isher of this doctrine.
At all events, for a decade Cox has
sold at auction all the local Offices here.
He began business as poor as Jobs
turkey, with its single tail feather, but
in ten years he had more Doodle feath-
ers in his tail than Juno's peacock.
Mark Hanna envied him for his gen.
ius, and began to WOO him because he
was one among ten thousand, and alto
gether peerless when it came to bood-
ling.
Accordingly he secured a half inter
est in Cox's copyright last winter and
took the senatorial appointment as his
first dividend.
Cox made Hanna, and now Cox and
Hanna are synonyms in the art Of poll
teal corruption.
The Siamese twins were not more
closely allied than are Cox and Hanna.
Each is necessary for the political ex-
istence of the other
Destroy Cox politically and Hanna
ceases to exist. Destroy Hanna as a
political factor, and it is the end of
Cox.
Here where Cox and his methods are
best known this is most thoroughly
understood.
Last year Cox and his gang Of pollt-
ical PIRATES stuffed the registration
books with the names of fraudulent
and fictitious voters, to make sure that
he could thwart the will of the honest
citizens.
Things were becoming desperate
with him. So many honetst Republic
an voters were in revolt against him
that he saw that the mere purchase OF
votes would not be sufficient to save
him in the near future.
Then he resorted to colonization
and false and fraudulent registration
as a cheaper and surer metheod of de-
flying and thwarting the public will
Mark Hanna, with millions of cor
ruption funds, contributed by trusts
combines, banks and millionaire cor
ruptionists, quickly caught anto Cox''
idea, and the result was the polling OF
some thousands more votes than there
were male persons in Ohio 21 years OF
age and over, in the face Of the Off.
cial statistics, which show that there
were 1850 unnaturallzed foreigners
21 years of age and over in the state
who had no right to vote, and who
as a matter of fact did not vote, alons
with over $4,000 others Of the voting
age, including stay-at-homes, prison
ers in confinement, lunatics and imbe'
Giles.
But Mark Hanna saw to 1t that there
was vote counted for every one o
them, with a few thousand over FOL
good measure. And George Cox die
his share of the work In this part o.
the state.
Hanna had the money, and that mod
ern inferno Of political corruption
Pennsylvania, could spare 100000
voters to debauch the elective fran
chise in Chic and Indiana.
While Pennsylvania Republican
plurality was increased last year, it
aggregate vote fell off almost or quite
100000. What became of the absent
ees? What purpose did they serve II
last years great battle between tn