Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1846-10-02

MR. EDITOR.
In the last Picayune appeared Card,
signed By the I.ocOfoco Central Committee OF
Carroll county, in which they charge me with
having said, in public meeting, that Two men,
bers of that committee had signed an address
wilhodt knowing what was in ii; and then say,
that the charge was false. did state that one
member of that committee did not know what
was in the address, and that was informed ano-
ther did not-and | here repeat the same thing
and the members of that committee had better be
little more careful Of the truth before they
charge others with falsehood. The person TO
whom alluded, as not knowing the contents of
the address, was Gen. Stdger. When the ad-
dress first attracted my attention, called Gen.
Sudger into my office, and in the presence Of at
least three respectable men, told him that the
charge in the address that the last Legislature had
appropriated two millions of dollars TO bald a
State House, was not true, and that he ought TO
/ look at the law. He replied that there was no
such charge in the address. insisted that there
was, and be that there was not, until read that
part Of il to him, and he then said that he thought
that il only appropriated convict labor. | told
him that the charge against the Wings with re-
gard to the sale Of Stale Stocks was a mistake, to
which he replied that he did not know and did
not like that part of the address. This is sub.
stantially the conversation, and those who heard
! il recolect it as distinct as do, and the General
can have their names or certificates as he pleases
As 10 the other member of the committee,
spoke from the information of others, and am
inclined TO think, Notwithstanding the Card o
the committee, that my information was correct
For have since been informed, and that too by
Democrat, that the address is not in the hand
wiring of either member of that committee, anC
that neither of them signed it, and that the man
uscript will show that fact. Now Gen. Sudgel
may have LIED to me in the conversation, bu
certainly | was not TO blame for drawing the
only legitimate inference that could be drawn
from his words, and the other member of the
committee may have imposed on my informant
but am not to blame for that. ] stated nothing
but the truth; the address is tissue Of falsehood
such at least, as the scrupulous Elder Cameron
should not have signed-and repeat again wha
| said in the meeting, and what was authorize;
to say from the words of the General himself
That if he told the truth he did not know wha
was in the address to which he signed his name
and by way of testing the truth of the matter,
will venture that the General cannot tell who tht
J' M IGIkHlS ISL w nat HIS DuSlneSS IS Ill va,
city New York! and by authority of what law
the bonds were sold TO which they alluded in tht
address, or what connexion this Perkins had will
the State. If the General will answer these
questions to one respectable man of each party
and do it without aid from any one else, vii
yield the point that he does know what was il
the address.
To the language of that Card, might we'll take
exceptions. 1t is not the way to correct eithel
an error or mistake; but committee that coulC
publish for truth such an address as they claim tc
have published, can make any charge agains
any person if they thought by that they could ad
vance the interests ola party that is sunk so low
in political degradation that the power of human
agency can never raise it.
Z. R. ECKLEY.
September 30, 1916.