The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-11-03
Joe Reeds Friends Are Getting
Very Tired
OF THE SANITY POSE
OF the Candidates Who, Like Peter of
Old, Deny Their Master.
SOME TRITE SUGGESTIONS
AS to the Condition OF the Nests of the
other Fellows who Claim to Have
Nothing to DO with Joe, After
Dealing with Him For


Dealing with Him For
Many Years.
Joe Reeds friends claim that he is not
getting more than half fair treatment at
the hands Of the fellows about the court
house, t1st he has done SO much for. They
claim in the first place that as private
citizen he had right to seek a contra ct
at the hands of the unity commissioners
for indexing or such other work as hd
might want to do. They insist that he
ought rot to get abused for getting the
contract at his own figures, If the COM
missioners were asses enough to give IL
to him. They say that he has held up
the whole crowd in politics and they are
now going back on him and making him
the tcspegoat for the entire bunch. They
want to say that there are others about
the court b, use that have had fat snaps.
Fer inst ,nce, they point to the report Of
the examiners Of the commissioners re-
port, Prosecutor Pomerene, J. J. Clark
and Frank L. Baldwin, and want to
know il there is anything sanity about
the fellows who claim to be so good and
to have had nothing to do with Reel
during his term Of flee.
They Gssert thaU Joe Reed is not the
only man whi was in the index businf SIS,
and call attention to the exsIuiuers'
report, which touched upon the matter
and stated that the clerk OF courts had
been charging the county not only for
"ke, ping up, continuing and thereby
mpleting the general indexes, direct
and rev rse," but has also been charging
for "keepirg up aud continuing the
alphabe tical index to pending suits and
living Judgments" anu for "n aking
direct and reverse indexes to executions" I"
The examiners went on to say that the
clerk of. courts wgs not entitled to re-
and that the clerk had siRnifled his will
ingness to "reim burse the county for the
mouey Improperly drawn as aforesaid" "
That report Is signed by the exam liners
named. Now what Reeds frit nds Want
to know Is whether he Is TO be daubed
for pll the index transactions in the
court house when the exam liners specified
other inst nces # rather. dubious charges
In the matter Of indexing ia the clerk
flee. The direct inquiry Is made: HAS
the money Eeen paid back?" The friends
Of Joe Reed nave heard that Clerk Cas-
selman, who wants to be reelected, has
been going about tae county saying that
ne never had anything to do with the
court house ring and that Joe Reed and
he are not frienos, and that he would
have not ing to do with SO terrible a
fellow as Reed. They think that, having
taken advantage Of Reeds political
counsel and advice in times past, ht
should now stand up TO the rack and moi
show the white feather and turn down the
men who have befriended him. They
hink and opeT ly state that before cLarg
ing others With nisCor duct he should
look to the olearlir ess Of his own nest.
Another thing that makes them boil
over with wrath is the manner in which
A uditor william Reed, the man who
doesn't keep the records, Is making his
ca m paign in the county. About the
first thing he ssys when he approaches "A
man is mething like this: NOW don't
oonfound ne with that other fellow.
That Joe Reed, that is IN the $40, 600 in
dexing business, is no friend Of mine. "
This 1T once leaves the impression that
Joe is monstrosltV and the auditor Is
going to have uothing to do with him.
They say that since he does not deny
that ice Reed is to be his deputy, he
shou Id be more careful and less selfish.
AS they will be banking together they
see that his actions will have a tendency
10 embarrass Joe when he assumes the
deputy ship in the auditor's office. Be-
sides that, Auditor Reed was in on the
index deal to the extent at least Of keep
ing no record of the transaction, so that
a ccorr ing to the plans the public was
not to know till I'll e bills were allowed,
an d he should assume his part of it and
not now play the coward. They say that
he cannot get back of. bis promise to
make Joe his deputy and should there
fore put him before the people In a lett. r
light Auditor Reed, aside from bis
ncquesc, nee in the indexing business,
has a little index affair of his own that,
according to the examiners Of the COM