The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-06-30
A COwARDLY REPUBLICAN PRESS.

The Youngstown Telegram, Hanna
Cox organ, objects to the News-Demo'
Gratis statement that the Republican
press Of Ohio has failed to defend SEN
ator Foraker against the vicious as
saults OF Mr.. Kohlsaat, and mildly in
sists that the Republican papers of the
state, have very much deplored the
Kohlsaat-Foraker controversy. 1t is
true, perhaps, that some OF the Repub-
lican papers of the state-among them
the Telegram-have expressed regret
at Mr.. Kohlsaat's exposure Of Mr.. For
aker's perfdy and corruption in his
private and political life, but not one
has attempted to prove the falsity Of
Mr.. Kohlsaat's charges, and many Of
them have not even expressed regret
at the exposure. The Canton Reposi-
tory published in the home of McEin-
ley, and the personal organ,of the Pres
ident, has not even condescended "to
deplore."
In order to give the Telegram and
the Republican press of Ohio, includ-
ing the Canton Repository, the person
al organ of the president, an opportu-
nifty to defend Mr.. Foraker, we publish
the following from the Times-Herald of
June Goth, '99, in which Mr.. Kohlsaat
says, "the Republican press of his own
state (Ohio) is so fearful of his maligni-
ty, so hypnotized by the illusionary
plea for party harmony, that it shrank
from the unpleasant duty" Not only
has Mr.. Kohlsaat attacked Mr.. Foraker
in this article, but he charges the Re-
publican press of Ohio with cowardice,
crime equally as great, if not greater,
than that with which he charges the
senior senator from Ohio. What has
the Telegram to say in refutation Of
this
"In 1897, when Joseph B. Foraker
Through his man Charles l.. Kurtz, was
lending aid aud comfort to the McKis
son conspiracy to return silver Demo
crat to the senate, he wrote these sig.
nignificant words to Ex-Governor Eos
ter:
If for me to stay out of this fight, as
have done and intend to do, means my
retirement four years from now, so lei
it be. But the people who are making
proclamation OF this programme are
handling a very dangerous subject. II
is full of dynamite, and they should
have care lest the explosion may
come prematurely. 1t will be exceed
lngly important that they cut the time
fuse right. The elections OF 1898, 1899
and particularly the election OF 1900
all come before the election OF 1901.
Thus wrote the truculent, swash
buckling "Black Flag" of Ohio eigh
teen months ago.
The elections OF 1893 are past, the
campaign of 1899 is on, and the linei
for the national struggle OF 1900 are al
ready being drawn. But the dynamit,
with which Foraker threatened tn,
men and party he was then plotting tt
betray has lost its explosive force. I'll,
is an outcast from the Republican fold
a breeder OF factions without follow
ing, a leader of phenomenal natura
gifts who has bartered name, fame anC
popularity for sordid and selfish ends.
| hSAS V 40 oOihOVhihB illOIC Uuuu dCCl
dent or the working OF human desigl
in the swift retribution that has over
taken Joseph B. Foraker.
1t was with no special intention O
lifting the lid from Senator Foraker
malodorous past that The Times Her
aid on May 13 last called attention Il
the black scandal from which the ua
tion was saved by the refusal of tn
President and the House of Represen
tatives to recognize the heavily bonde,
paper Republic OF Cuba. Senator For
aker was cnly one OF the sixty-seve
Senator'S who sought to recognize tina
republic "as the true and lawful gov
ernment of the Island" of Cuba.
But in startling exemplification @
the proVerb, "the wicked flee when n
man pursueth," Senator Foraker rash
ly denied that he had eve
heard OF any Cuban bonds until
week after his recognition res
elutions were introduced into tn
Senate, He did not stop there, bu
went on to make a number OF state