The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-09-08

The New Time, magazine of social
7cgress, has an article in its September
tsue, under the caption Suppressed
gews from Washington" The author is
zone Of the suppressors. A reference
70 Brother Abner Is not without interest
n Canton, where the promotes" is known
by some whom TO is said to have pro-
7noted--towsrd the lower rounds Of the
adder Of SUCCESS. The reference reads;
Abner Is person of much business
sgaoity. He figured great possibilities
N his kindsdip and has realized on nearly
all Of them. AbneT has taken broker S
ueroentage on nearly every ship sold TO
the government. He was party Interest
10 the wannamaker shoe contract. The
eminent Philadelphian sold to the govern
uent shoes for the volunteer soldiers
His price is 50. so per pair or some suoh
dgure. He obtains the shoes at sS, 10
from the Massachusetts, manufscutrer'
Why does not the manufacturer furnish
them direct to the cOmmissary or quar-
isrmaster? Abner knows. One OF the
arst bills to go before the Fifty-htth con-
Eress was proposition to raise the pay
II postal carriers. The measure was
ueritorious enough and would no doupt
have been successful. Abner Mckinley
10 ade it certainty by chaperonins IT,
he received $50, 900 for his friendliness'
Ehereof S24, 900 was as the velvet of COM
uerce, for he expended but $4,000.
rhsre are some references In the same
Article that are pertinent at this time
Ssit is alleged by the defenders of the
var 'department, and Incidentally those
,rpans of the spoilsmen, that insists
that the ills Of the soldiers are more
iapcied chan real, and who urge that the
Droper and palatable spread for hardtack
"a an uncanny variety of worms, that the
yommissary department is not to blame
Ior the treatment Of the soldiers. This
xoud indicate that those in higher
authority are amenable to the alega-
yons for while these organs spoken OF
insist that the soldiers are liliDg about
,beir treatment, the people believe the
defenders of their flag in preference to
the traducers of the soldier heroes, who
,ome back to their homes weakened not
Nv wounds inflicted by the enemy but by
Munger Incident to association with the
u,nmissary department that somebody Is
70 blame for. Here Is what the New
Time says of shafter and his appoint
mems:
Soarstary Alger Ia one Of the strongest
,opn in the cabinet In point OF influence.
Hs Is so blandly insistent that PRESIDENT
moKinley cannot Withstand him. How
..hers,se can the elevation Of Shafter-
peeos Bill Shafter-to aigenerafs position
A. aYplainedY Shafter is thel most remark
,hIa combination of grossness and In
,aDacitv that ever disflgured an army
establishment. He is not only rude In
manner, but ignorant, and as to morals
"A upspeakable. For years he was senior
,a,opel OF the army, and for his sins ex-
,acted TO die In that rank. His name
ms presented to succeeding presidents
sor promotion, but succeeding presidents
,scoiled. Away back when Shafter was
IN command at Ft. Clark, Texas he as
,auIted q negro girl The girl came
,,amorous to the courts for satisfaction
somehow and in some way the matter
,w.s settled; that is, the criminal prose-
.ution was prevented. But the record
a,Il exists in the war department Even
cleveland, whose past is not so clear as
many past one may meet could not
.nproye Skaters application for promo
t,on. Yet this man was raised In grade
NV President Mckinley His history
making is known. Never was there such
,Iamentable exhibition Of inaoility.
The appointing power cannot escape