The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-08-20
Obt Ganfaster Gazette.
LANCASTER, OHIO:
Friday Morning, August 20, Is47
The County Printing.

h'inScn lhLO d POTlOCL AuiJ OoNo"'O "O
have dared TO expose the extravaganza
of our County officers and have had the
temerity. uot being a practical printer,
10 tell the taxpayers that hundreds of
dollars are annually ~squandered upor
favorites, not the least amount going to
support the paper, over which the Senior
has the present control. We expected
nothing less. 1t is perfectly consistent
with the man, his objects and his inten-
lions. After laboring hard in the capa.
city Of Editor Of BLACKBOARD sheet in
Morgan County, aud in the position of
an underling as associate Editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer and as puppet to
Bill Allen in Washington City, and hay
ing failed. in all these vacations, to reu-
derhimself either honorable, respectable
or popular. he concluded to come into
Fairfield County, and as "Senior' ofthe
Eagle, try his fortunes in the "indomita-
BILE tenth legion of Ohio Democracy"
To this we do not object. 1t may be
that he can remain, it may be that he will
be more successful than those ofhis broth
er radicals, who have tried it before him.
But it seems to us that the Locofocos of
this county have already swallowed one
or two importations Of foreign stock too
many. Perhapsthe soil and climate of'old
Fairfield" are not cOngeniel to the cult
vatiou ofsuch peculiar talents as the Senior
possesses and thatthe Locofocos must send
abroad for whatever ofintellect is requi-
red toedit the Eagle sheet. THE Senior
is certainly a dollhouse plant, not indi-
genoust t our county.) lfthis be the case
and if the Locofocos can swallow the
Senior, why it is none of our business.
But coming into the County and taking
charge of the Eagle for the purpose Of
gain and with a view to win the affec-
tons of his associates in the work Of do
struciion, tits not surprising that his in
dignation should be excited at the mere
prospect of loosing the patronage of his
ofice-for be it remembered, oh! We men
who elevate to power the nominees o the
Red Lodge, that their bird cannot exist
except it feeds from your county treasury
And why this Internationally this
abortive attempt to deceive the peoplel
The Senior has heard sounds Of porten.
tious import. Tho taxpayers, his own
party men, but unlike many others hon
est in their views and designs, are begin.
ming to ask,-why the county expenses,
here, for certain objects, so far exceeds
those of our neighboring counties; and
well he knows that, once the people be-
gin to inquire, the truth will be known
and then those extravagant expenditures
wiH be Topped of. The tai -payers are
willing-we are willing, that a fair, liv.
ing, honest price should be paid FOR what
the county gets, but more than this, we
mistake the people much, il they will al
low. They have already suffered too
much from frauds, poculations, extrava.
gance and carelessness. and they are I'm
willing to pay money into their treasu
ry that it may be paid out without re.
gard to right or justice, To every political
cormorant who may chance to find his
way into their county in quest of pro6ta-
BILE nd VENTURES.
But enough of this. We mako the
charge distinctly and pointedly. We say
that hundreds Of dollars are annually
%squandered, for Printing, for Stationary
aud for Fuel. We do no; stop here. We
will show in future articles, that extrava.
gance, carelessness and incompetency
have u our County thousands o. dollars
in debt and that no effort is made to nav
this debt of. Are We understood
There is a plain charge. Has it been
fairly met aud answered. Darcs the
Senior Of the Eagle, with all his assumed
abilities, meet it fairlyl He has not done
it. Ho cannot do it. Itmatters not what
we arc, what wo were, or what we ought
to DO. W. show TO the taxpayers of
this county that their officers pay yearly
hundreds of dollars for certain purposes
more than aro paid elsewhere. We
prove this by the evidence of County
Auditors Reports. Are nyfacts brought
forward to disprove in None at all.
But we are no practical printerl What
matters in Practical printers in other
Counties do work for less than the Senior
ofthe Eagle and live by it. We knew
as we'll as the Senior what prices are and
what they ought to be-we can know
this and yet not "know one type from an
other" And ifthe Senior wishes to re-
ply to our charges, he must meet them on
different grounds.