The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-05-03

purporting to be the testimony in the
case should be sent out from the court
room. He claimed that II the testi-
mony were printed there would be
difficulty in securing jury in the coun-
ty in the other cases of the same char
acter that are to follow. There is
some question as to the authority of
the court to enforce such a ruling. II
is the business of the newspapers to
give the news. No newspaper, in its
report of trial. purports to give the
complete testimony in any case, and
IL the testimony is not complete and
it is so stated and understood, it is
not seen how the cases of the men who
are to be tried later would be preju.
diced. This has been declared to be
the law in numerous instances in Stark
county. An effort has been made to
set jurors aside because they read the
newspaper reports, but as the reports
were not claimed to contain all that
the witnesses stated, it was held that
only such persons as had formed an
opinion by reading the complete tes-
timony before the coroner or some
other official could be excluded from
the jury. IL an effort is made by a
newspaper to prejudice the case then
on trial, and it can be proven that the
newspaper making such an effort circu.
lates in the court house, it is case of
contempt, according to the ruling in
the celebrated Post case, in Cleveland
which ruling, though assailed in higher
courts, was not set aside. If the Up
per Sandusky papers give a concise re-
port Of the trial, without attempt to
give the exact language of witnesses
in a connected manner, the Judge who
made the ruling would have difficulty
sustaining his position. The order of
the court is too sweeping. One of the
safeguards of society is the fear of pub
lication. Remove that fear and harm
will result. The newspapers in wy
andot county ought to find way to
get the news of the trial, and they
ought to keep their -eaders advised as
to its progress and what the Testimony
tends to show. They will be safe in
doing it, if they keep within the law
as laid down in the Post case.
President Mckinley has been made
LII. d. by Harvard university. This is
not because of any great career in law.
for Mr.. Mckinley has practiced little
law except when he was prosecuting
attorney of Stark county, and some of
the records show that some of the law
he practiced then was not in harmony
with the holdings of higher courts--an
experience too common with young at
torneys. But in these days position is
everything, and one need only to be
versed in the law of politics to be-
come custodian Of a degree yard long.
College lads attach various meanings
to the affix, some contending that it
really means Devilish Little Learning.
OF course this would not apply in the
case herein referred to. Possibly the
lay of one of Gilbert and Sullivan's
minstrels would fit better. 1t went
something like this:
"A self made man you behold in me.
From county prosecutor to the aristo.
cracy.
I've feather in my cap
And ! don't care O rap
How gather up my LII. d.,
My Ii. ID.
Those who are interesting them.
selves in the prosperity and progress
Of Canton are building for themselves
imperishable monuments.
They shot off more than eleven cents
worth of fire crackers in the opening
that Buffalo show.
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The bank clearances a great advance
over the corresponding month of last
year, show that Canton's boom has
bottom. The town is not only talking
apout h1oiC DuolhcbS Dut 10 uOlHB more
business than ever before in its his
tory.
Will the Canton gentlemen who
framed it up for Mr.. Mcconnell, for
county auditor, be able to deliver the
goods?
In the contest for representative at
the Republican primaries, Saturday,
the thing is somewhat mixed. The
anti-saloon people are for Metzger but
they have not concentrated their forces
against either Of the other two can.
didates. On the other hand, the liquor
vote will go to Pollock and Martin,
and not any of 1t to Metzger, while
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