The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-04-03

New tactics have been Undertaken py
the imperialistic gentlemen in charge
of affairs in Washington and New York.
The Siberia feature of Russia has been
adopted, the dumping ground for politi-
cal refugees and scapegrace relatives
being the Philippines, where death
lists grow to appalling proportions
and where many soldiers go but few
return. This time Brother Abner has
secured the operation of the machinery
of the war department and a former
Canton boy is the victim of the banish-
ment feature that always accompanies
imperialism.
Back in the seventies or early eigh-
ties, Rev. Endsley, father of Mrs. Abb
ner Mckinley and pair of bouncing
boys, was pastor of the First M. e.
church in this city-the presidents
church, so-called. The family was an
interesting one but it did not know then
that it was to have so much to do with
presidents. The family remained here
five years and it was here that the
daughter met Abner Mckinley. OF the
two boys William is now an attorney at
Johnstown, Pa, and w. C. is on his way
to the Philippines. 1t is of w. c., the
younger son, that the story relates.
After the family left Canton Rev.
Endsley got into some trouble or other
at Johnstown and was stricken from
the church rolls and left the ministry.
There was a woman in the case. Since
that time he has been spending a great
portion of his time at Somerset, the
summer home of Abner Mckinley, and
find models of Printing Telegraph Ma
chimes" in which they invested very lib
orally, without substantial return.
Whether the ex-preacher has charge Of
the models is not just known, but 1t is
known that one of his sons was not en-
tirely model. 1t isn't on record that he
has done anything so very bad, but his
habits were such that 1t was feared by
his relatives that he would get in with
a bad gang and fleece somebody out of a
couple of dollars. The insignificance
of this amount would have disgraced
Brother Abner, and it was decided that
the youth should be exported-banished
from his native heath and sent to the
fever-laden swamps of the Philippines
much as the offenders of the Gear of
Siberia, thousands of feet under the
ground. 1t would never have done to
keep the young man, who was a bright
little tot when the family lived in Can
ton, a resident of this country at such
an important era. Suppose he should
have stolen dollar and a half right in
the midst of the presidential campaign!
Brother Abner never could have recon-
ciled himself to the amount and odium
would have been cast on the various
departments at Washington, where Alb
near does business for the government,
incidentally, and for himself particu-
larly. So the boy had to go. How they
got him away is told in the New York
Journal, Sunday, as follows:
When the mahogany-veneered, silver
plated United States government trans
port Sumner steamed out from South
Brooklyn yesterday afternoon she car
ried with her the materials for sea
tragedy of the days of a century ago.
One of the ruddy checked bright-eyed
| boys who made up her quota of 1876 re-
| ccruits for the Philippines was a young
man who for days has been under spe-
cial espionage day and night, and whom
| the vast machinery of the war depart
ment of the United States governmen,
was bent upon getting out Of the coun.
try.
Impossible"
Not at all. Shanghaiing didn't dit
with the eighteenth century. Reat
this:
WAR DEPARTMENT.
| General depot of the
Quaftermaster Department
Army Building, Whitehall St.,
| New York City, March 20, 1900
Colonel d. V. Sheridan, Adjutant Gen.
Department of the west, Governor
Island, N. Y:
Sir: On the 7th of March recruit w
Endsley was enlisted and sent to For
Wood, Bedloes Island, from which poin
1t was expected he would sail for tn
Philippines on the steamer leaving to
day. This recruit Is the brother of Mrs
Abner mckinley, and Mrs. Mckinle
has expressed to me the desire that h
be sent to the Philippines on the Sum
ner. I brought about the enlistment @
Endsley at the personal request of MI
Mckinley with a view of having hir
sent to the Philippines. I now under
stand chat the recruits at Fort Wood ar
not to go. Under the circumstances ca
you not arrange for Recruit Endsle
to go on the Sumner. Yours very trul!
(Signed) A. l.. KIMBALL.
Asst. Quartermaster General u. s. Al
my, Department Quartermaster.
J HAD GOVERNORS ISLAND sTAMl
This document was endorsed (No.
, under the red ink stamp, "Headquartel
, of the East, Governors Island, Marc
30. 1900" as follows: Respectfully n
, ferred to the commanding officer. Fo
Wood who will cause recruit Endsit