The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-10-21
A COINCIDENCE.
MIND READERS AT COLUMBUS
KNEW JUST WHAT
Mr.. Dueber's "Business Mems Lea gue''
Wouid Resolve, So They Set About
and Resolved the Same
Thing a Week Earlier.

The Repository, Sunday, urged to &C
tion by the "exigencies of the times, .
printed what purports to be the action Of
Canton business men with reference &c
the campaign in the county and state
The REPOSITORY says;
"At preliminary meeting Of Canton
business, professional men and manu-.
facturers, which was held in the Hurford
houss parlors on Thursday evening,
October IA, 1897, at 2 p. M, John @. Due.
Der was ohossn president and Charles p.
Duff secretary. The following commit
tee was appointed to prepare an address
and secure members to the Business
Mems League Of Canton, Ohio: John @.
Dueber, W. r. Zollingsr G. d. Bachtel,
A. p. Gould, Samuel Lownestein, L. l..
Miller. The following address was re.
ported by the committee and unani.
mously adopted
Then follows an address, couche1 In
terms calculated to deceive, tho burden
Of which is that every "busir ess man"
should set about to "hold up Mckinley q
hands and assure good currency" In
the meantime Mark Hanna will go about
the state asking the people to "hold up
their hands" so that he can go through
them. OF course everybody can see
through this fIimsy movement. 1t is
only one Of the schemes to get votes foe
Hanna. Nobody heard of any meeting
of business men at the Hurford house and
none of the attaches of the hotel saw any
thing unusual about the house on the
Thursday night in question. Mr.. Due
Der and a Repository reporter may have
gone into the hotel for q moment, held q
meeting with themselves and adjourned,
Mr.. Dueber drawing up few prelimi-
naries pointing with pride" to himself
and viewing with alarIn" everybody
else, the reporter furnishing the applause,
but that is about all there was to it, il
there was even that. Now, as quoted,
the Repository says the following ad.
dress was reported by the committee
and unanimously adopted" That is
where a portion of the deception of the
whole thing comesi 10. 1t is direct at
tempt to deceivs the PEOPLE. The reso-
lutions are not the product of the COM
mi tee. They originated in Columbus at
the doodle headquarters in Mark Han
mas agency. The Canton men who are
supposed to have signed the so-callei
resolutions must have lacked originality
Of thought and expression for they have
put forth as their own production exactly
the same resolutions as those ad pied by
a Columbus Business Meu's League"
and adopted also by two or three people
in other cities giving themselves the same
high sounding title. The resolutions
that appeared in the Repository are the
product of Mark Hanna's committee.
The Repository says Mr.. Dueber met o.
tober ii. There is in the possession Of the
News Democrst, a set of so-called resqlu-
tions said to have been edorse6 by the
Columbus Business Mems League, and
which G. N. Lindenberg as president and
E. r. Sharp as secretary hszarded their re-
puta,ions for business sagacity by signing
The Columbus resolutions were passed
October z, week before Mr.. Dueber
saw his reflection in a looking glass
and called hin self to order. Nobody
would think, Of course, that such
astute business men as Dueber and bis
alleged committee would ape the move
,nents of others, and hadn't enough origi
nality about them to get up a set of their
own, but the coincidence Is most re-
markable. 1t simply demonstrates what
smart fellows they have down at Colum-
bus, to adopt October z, what hal no
existence until October IA. The word
ing ia entirely the same, from start to
finish, with the exception that the word
Canton appears instead of Columbus, in
the set palmed off here as spontaneous
movement of Canton business men.
The Columbus resolutions came to a
well known Canton firm and were
handed to the News Dem ocrat today.
They can be seen at any time at the busi-
ness office If anyone doubts their exi istence.
The whole thing is SO palpable that
the exposition makes Dueher the greatest
mirth proyoker in the city.