The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-12-27
GOSSIP ABOUT THE LoBBIES
At The STATE CAPITAL
Foster Versus the Negro, Pasker-..Suf-
ferlnss Of Columbus FamlIles from
Coal Shortage.. and

Coal Shortoqe.. and
Political.
BY BIER e. WILLIAMSON.
(staf Correspondent
Columbus, December 24,-Some
comment is made here by friends
of Detective George Foster who
was tho body-guard of President
Mckinley for several months at Can
ton, and was one of the guards-but
on the wrong side of the president
when the assassination occurred at
Buffalo, concerning recognition that
has been given the colored man, James
B. Parker, for the alleged part he took
in the capture OF the presidents as
sailant. The negro claimed credit for
knocking the assassin down at the
time, but the testimony of Detective
Foster and other detectives at the trial
In Buffalo, showed that the negro had
nothing to do with the capture and
did not knock the assassin down, as he
claimed. Despite that fact President
Roosevelt has further made known his
love for the negro by recommending
him for a senate clerkship. Had he
been entitled to credit for any
performance at Buffalo, nothing would
have been thought Of 1t, but as he was
not, under the evidence adduced at the
trial of the assassin, there Ia some
wonderment whether President Roose-
welt does not expect some returns
somewhere, from his reported favorit-
ism to negroes.
The shortage of coal in Columbus,
has brought out many heartrending
incidents, and many that produce SIM
ply feeling of indignation. The coal
famine is due directly to the railroad
companies failing to supply sufficient
cars for the demands Of the dealers
and now that there is a shortage 1t ls
accentuated by these concerns by ap-
propriating the coal that is being car
ried over their lines, to their own
uses. Without sufficient foresight to
even supply their own wants in time
to meet an emergency, nor sufficient
energy to secure enough cars to fill the
orders of dealers, they have further
hampered the poor iiy placing extra
guards along their tracks and will
permit nobody to walk on their prem
ises to pick up piece of COAL They
will not be picking this coal up for
their own use, but, with death by freez-
ing staring many families in the face,
they simply play the dog in the man.
ger and make the condition of the
poor worse than it otherwise would
have been, for there are people who
would be willing to buy coal for the
poor, If it could be purchased any,
where. The smallness of great rail-
road corporations has thus again been
eyemplified. But there is little hope
that bill that might be introduced
covering this appropriation of the
rights of dealers, would find favor in
a legislature with it's pockets lined
with passes. s
President Roosevelts promise not to
urge the appointment of George p.
Dunham, of Ohio, till after the holi-
day recess, has given Forakerites new
hope, and has cast a corresponding
gloom in the camp of the enemy. The
Hannaites declare that If the presi-
dent Is at all desirous of carrying out
the pledge he made at Buffalo, with re-
gard to the politics of the late Presi-
dent Mckinley, he will do no better
than to see to 1t that Dunham is ap-
pointed. He was named by President
Mckinley during the recess of con-
gress.
The dissolution Of the cabinet of
President Roosevelt has not pleased the
Hannaites of Ohio. They see in it the
precursor OF a Roosevelt reign, instead
OF an administration that has no ideE.
ity save to carry out the politics of
another.
1t is claimed now that the word has
been passed to Governor Nash that
it will never do, and that he is not
nearly so lively about his corporation
tax bill as he was few days since.
A bill against anarchists Is to be
introduced. Country members will
leave their whiskers in the cloak
rooms while 1t is being discussed.
The railroads that have designs on
the canals are said to be framing a bill
to make 1t worse than sodomy to take
money from both sides.
Representative Price has received a
bad blow, but he will still be member
of the house, and there will be plenty
Of price floating about SO that he can
patch up his bruises.
A great many Of the country men,
bers are Of the opinion that George
B. Cox's talk Of peace means very
large piece for George b. Cox.
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After all, 1t Is quarrel of the pol
iticians. Some of the upstate fellows
are already seeing that they are sim