The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-01-18
WEAR. WAR PAINT
Carroll County Republicans Are Still
Agitsting
That INSTITUTE RESOLUTION
Still Being Discussed...TaIk Of
a Dea!...CarOIItOn Papers
Comment.

The current issue of the Carroll Re
publican still keeps up the agitation on
the common pleas judgeship, and the
matter is agitated in way down there
that evidently means trouble for some
Republican politicians in Stark.
1t is said by certain Republicans that
the First subdivision of this district Is
so strongly Republican that even il
there should be a strong disaffection in
the party in little Carroll 1t would
make no difference in the result. But
on the other hand some of the more con-
servative ones urge that though the
tudgeship might be safe, the state sem
atorship might be jeopardized.
There are also whisperings of a plan
to give the judgeship to Stark and the
state senatorship to Carroll. There is
at least one candidate in Carroll, it is
said, who would rather take sure thing
on the senatorship than a slim chance
of the judicial position. He has been
to the senate before.
The article referred to in the Carroll
Republican is as follows:
Banquos ghost would not down at the
bidding of Macbeth. 1t persisted in ap
pearing whensoever it chose. 1t consult
own purpose bent and was a law unto
itself. So also is it with the question
of the tudgeship. 1t will not obey the
behests of interested politicians, but
looms up in unexpected quarters and at
unlocked for times. 1t has purpose
to serve and wrong to avenge. Stark
county, strong. domineering, and de-
fiant, has planned to monopolize all the
political honors belonging to the dis
trict With a shameless disregard for
all honorable precedents and the most
sacred promises she proposes to nomi
nate a candidate for the judgeship to
which Carroll county is justly entitled.
Hence all of our people have become
righteously indignant, and embrace
every possible occasion to give express
sion to the injustice they suffer at the
hands of the hungry hordes of Stark
county politicians and show their de-
termination to maintain their rights.
The action on Tuesday at the farmers
institute, a non-partisan organization,
simply shows the trend of public opin-
ion on the judgeship. The resolution
adopted is not a petition for favor, but
a demand for rights which belong TO
Carroll county and which she will
sacredly defend.
What the farmers institute has done
will meet with the honest approval of
all the people of the county and espe-
cially the Republicans. Last year when
robbed of the judgeship they quietly
submitted because they did not wish
to bring local troubles into national
affairs. They were unwilling to do
ought which would in any way diminish
the majority of Stark county's Illus
trious son, William Mckinley, but this
year he will not be an issue. They pro-
pose to hold Stark county to her prom
ise made in last years campaign. Next
year we will concede the nomination Of
the judgeship to Carroll county" If
this solemn promise should be violated
the people of the county should resent
the injustice, and they will.
But this year Carroll county will have
a candidate and whosoever that candi-
date is he will have the solid support
of the Republican party at the primaries
which will chose delegates to go into
the judicial convention pledged to vote
for him. He should have the endorse
mcnt of Columbiana county in return
for the solid vote Carroll county gave
Judge Hole when he was a candidate for
the judgeship in 1898. Besides, there are
Thousands of Stark county citizens, liv-
ing outside of Canton, who have not
bowed the knee to Baal and who favor
"even- handed Justice" whose co-opera-
tion can be relied upon. These factors
combined ought to, and doubtless will,
gain resident judge for Carroll county.
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