The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-06-09
FAST and LOOSE.
That Is the Way Some Of the
Fellows Played.
JOE REED WAS THE MANAGER
But He Could Not Pull an Old Soldier
Through a Republican Primary for
the Republican Party Wants
the Soldier Only to Vote.


Through Republican Primary for
the Republican Party Wants
the Soldier Only tovote.
There was woeful lack of TIRE too
much-Johnson element in Saturdays Re-
publican primaries, and Congressman
Tayler's name will undoubtedly again
appear on next falls congressional
ticket. The official returns are not In,
but Attorney @. G. Bow, who engineered
Mr. Tayler's campaign in this county,
states that Of Stark's l06 delegates the
Tayler forces have secured "a. In the
city Mr.. Bow claims go delegates out of
the 32, and his positive assurances that of
"a delegates in the county Tayler has 6S
while are anti.Tayler. The vote cast
throughout the county was very light,
being about half che usual vote.
There was time when the opposition
to Mr.. Tayler and there was and is
plenty of it--could have accomplished
something. There was strong talk OF
Allen Carnes coming out for congress
and he would have given Tayler merry
chase for the delegates. He declined to
make up his mind what to do until the
golden opportunity had passed and Con-
gresham Tayler's man Kirg had made
all the arrangements. The conduct Of
the Tayler campaign was we'll placed in
this county and the congressman had all
the prestige attaching to shrewd and
successful management Besides the
failure of Carnes to get his mind in such
piable shape that he could make it up
left the other fellows In somewhat Of q
predicament. They tad no candidate.
Silas Williams was willing-Silas always
is-but the antis could net agree on him.
Joe Reed would have nothing to do
with him at all, and some of the others
were equally aggressive when his name
was mentioned. Judge johnson of
Mahoning, capable man, came out and
the boys there decided to support him.
Then some local fellows began playing
fast and loose and it was at one time
rumored that Allen Carnes had succeed
ed in getting his mind made up, This
excited some comment, as that was some-
what Of a new condition for Allen. In
quiry led to the disclosure that his mind
had actually been made into a made-up
condition, but further inquiry led to the
discovery that Allen himself couldn't tell
what it was made up to do.
So things went along ard johnson was
the only candidate against Tayler. His |
manager, Jim Townsend came over here,
but he was here day or two before he
could make up his mind whether to make
mp his mind about anything. After his
partial recovery he made overtuTes to
prominent local Republicans and they |
undertook to do the managing. Meetings
we're held in the back room of the office
at present presided over by Recorder Joe
Reed, but there seemed to be hitch
somewhere. Coroner McQuate was to
have been the johnson manager for
Stark county, but Doc was foxy, and
while tacitly agreeing II do some thugs
he was silent about others. Reed got the
sinews from Townsend and then attemp-
ted to organize McQuate was chosen
TO take care of part Of the town chiefly
for the exercise 1t afforded, but Doc
has either forg often his old cunning or,
IS is suspected, he was for Tayler all the
time. At any rate Tayler carried Nc
Quate's ward with whirl and the opposi-
ton is wondering how it happened.
The real fact that defeated johnson,
however, was the fact that he Is soldier.
A man of that oaliber Is not expected to
get anything from the Republican party
In late years, and when one does 1t is
after the very hardest kind of a scrap.
That he vas an old soldier was what de-
feated johnson. What nominated Tayler
dating the contest from its incipiency-
was the fact that the local men who had
the power behind them could not agree
on a candidate after the one they had
a1raad IN nrova6 incanahle of dacIsinn