The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-12-07
UNSEEMLY SCRAMBLE
viii be Made For Good Political
Berths In Coming Campaign.
CANDIDATES IN THE FIELD,
Al Present, Too Numerous TO Mention---
Lively Battle TO be Waged In
Republican Conventions.

The politicians will be in clover next
summer. There will be common pleas
judge and six county officials to select,
to say nothing of the minor offices, to
be filed. '.,.
There will be state senator, three
rorrerontptivos on o"dito-. 'r7o-"~er.
clerk of courts, sheriff, commissioner,
and infirmary director to select. This
means that from now on there Will he
nm unseemly scramble for the places.
Democrats are saving wood but Re-
publicans are already beating the
bushes, looking for friends. or plastic
Dnes who can be moulded to their Will.
The precedence of a plurality of 1000
Dr more in Stark county for the Re.
publicans naturally shifts the main
Sight from the election to the nomina-
ton. The primary contest then viii
be hot one, with indications of some
bad blood already cropping out: for
one can hear of derogatory stories be-
ing circulated about certain aspirants.
For the common pleas judgeship it
looks as though the Hon. Henry w.
Harter would have an undisputed field
in Stark county, so far as local opposi-
tion Is concerned, but there are dire
rumors of Carroll county threatening to
invade the borderlands in an effort TO
gain a few delegates for some one OF
her favorite sons of legal acumen.
The attitude of Columbiana is expect
ed to be passive. 1t is none of her
funeral yet she will have to send dele
gates to the convention.
Senator Wilhelm will be up for a
second term. Such a courtesy Is usu-
ally extended without protest. But,
here, again, little Carroll is threaten
ing to be aggressive and make trouble.
She will not be good. Her turn was
years ago, but her big sister, Molly,
+ took her birthright and omitted even
the mess of pottage. >ts.ts
Carroll threatens to bring out a can
didate. in the hope that Wilhelm's
career assenator may help to right the
alleged wrongs of the past. There Is
aschance for fight there.
The Hon. J.'B. Snyder is through be-
ing representative and incidentally
will not WELD the gavel in the absence
of the speaker. His title aspro tempore
speaker will hereafter be preceded by
the prefix, Tex" A successor will have
to be nominated for Mr.. Snyder.
Representatives Metzgar and Pollock
are supposed to have earned a renomi-
nation, or at least courtesy it Is
thought. demands that they get sec
Ond chance to draw their six hundred
per year, whether school keeps or not.
All that they need to do is to look wise
and pay their assessment to the county
committee. r,., -
For Auditor Reeds place three per-
sons have already SHE'D their castors
into the ring. The first is Mr.. Reeds
deputy. Oscar e. Zimmerman. of Can
ton. The city clerk of Alliance, for
getting the throw-down that Lexington
township men have been getting at the
hands of their fellow Republicans, will
try for the place. Then Massllon will
make an effort to run NJ w. Oberlin in
to. the place.
For treasurer, Deputy T. Royal Sny-
der, of Osnaburg township. will try to
succeed his chief, But he will have
company in the scramble. He cannot
go out and skirmish all by himself, for
in the contest will be Ephriam Pickens,
of Washington township, Aaron ].
Stoner. of Jackson, and Austin Hay, of
Beach City.
For Clerk of courts, another deputy Is
In the line of succession-John A. Bliss
Oh ObIltlDurS--Dut up DODS mayor wise
of Massillon. with well defined am
bition, while Harry Keyes Is nursing a
fond aspiration to file petitions and
collect fees as side issue.
- In the scramble for sheriff, there will
be deputies galore. Deputy Frank
Mckinney wants the place; Deputy
James Calhoun, ditto; Deputy w. S.
Crubaugh. ditto, ditto. And, there are
others, among them II. j.. Ridwell, of
Canton.
For the offices of commissioner Ia
frmary director and the minor places,
there are scores who are reluctantly
waiting for numerous friends" to in
sist upon their being candidates. The
names of these insisting friends are
Personal Desire, Esq, and I. Want
Office. They are very urgent. inward
monitors and cannot be withstood.
The mud singing will be something
to amaze the gods, doubtless, when
all these ambitions clash, and may
result in Democratic opportunity.