Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1853-11-19

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For the Advertiser
To the Democratic Party of Richland
County.
discover in the Shield and Banner of Nov
,, an editorial, the caption of which is as fol-
lows: "Anothor attempt to crush the Shield
and Banner, and destroy the Democratic Party
in Richland." l must confess that'after reading
the Shield ever since its commencement, with
the exception of one or two years. l never have
had sagacity enough to understand that it really
composed the Democratic Party of Richland
County, or that if its Editor should stray from
the path of duty, no one, ten, or fifty, or five
hundred of the party dare to say, or even hint
the fact, without being denounced as "disor-
ganizers," "cork-legs,'' "fusionists," and '.de-
stroycrs of the Party" And every reader of
practice of this accomplished editor, to cry out
" "disorganscrs at the North, "dsorganizcrs at
The South" 'disorganizcrs at the East" and
"disOrganzcrs at the West, ," but "disorganizcrs
at the Centre" never, ana why TO throw sus-
picion from him, where it righfully belongs. In
the editorial | have alluded to, this sclf-sulli-
cicnt editor has branded the Trio, as he calls
them, (mysclf one Of the numbcr) with false
hoods of the blackcst kind, and some other
members OF the Committee who drafted the res
olutions at the meeting spoken Of by him, as
being in the clutches of tlislying trio, but whom
he will find in due time Qikc the ignorant Dem
ocrats who voted the counterfeit tickets without
reading all the namcs,) have talent enough of
their own not to be caught in the clutches of
any trios or dictators, even be they like Louis
Napoleon Of France.
Now wish the Democrats of Rchland Coun-
ty to read tie res o.utions, Those that cun read
passed at the meeting in Rome, the date of
wqich is not mentioned and JohnnyY.'s cdito-
lial, and as lie has been so tenacious about
truth, let us see how near he has adhered to that
principle which must prevail in cases Of cohtro-
verSy. The very first paragraph in his notice Of
this trio, is as false as the heart that inditctl ii
is to Democratic principles. lie accuses us OF
attacking him i'll a dastartIly manner. Now
does not the resolutions sufficiently and open.
y al,vM What lllis attucK Is: Is it Rule or
Ruin, VIXEN Democrats dare to say to the Editor
whom they arc patronizing, ''You have done
wrong" The first resolution he docs not OBJ
,ect to. The second is ambiguous, and does not
fully show their hands. But the third stirs the
bile within him, and why? merely because it
tells the plain naked truth. That he did refuse
to publish certain communications in 1910, he
will not deny, and whether anything in that rcso-
luton has any tendency to muzzlc the press, the
Democratic Party can judge for themselves
For my padt, think Mr. j. Y. Glcssncr had
better inform the ''ignorant Democrats the
meaning of muzzlc. Another thing beg to be
informed about, as one Of the ignorant, when,
how ar where it become part of the Democrat
ic creed, that the Party must PRESUME that an
Editor who has stood at helm for twenty years,
must not be ccnsurcd whether he does right O.,
wrong, even should his character be worth the
enormous sum of S54, SO? The fourth resolu-
ton, like the third, acts like calomel, directly
upon the liver, and the consequence is hasty
visit to the sca-shorc. He says--"Now on
whom did We make base and ungcntlcmanly
attack? My answer is--John NJ. Smith, A..
Smcad, B. Lockhart, j. Gcddis, J. L. Sash, and
JAS P. Bayham. Nowpcrhaps it does not affect
the private character of 4 person to insinuate
they have sworn falsely, and again, perhaps it
does. Democrats, judge for yourselves. Mr..
Glessncr says in his editorial of Sept. 2lst: ''We
look upon them Mr.. Crum's friends) as reason
able men, and when the fact is known that cr-
rors exist in the counting of the talics, in the
same poll books, for Daniel Riblet, James T. Hal
fcrty, Thos. Cook and John 2. Drennin, they
will checrfully concede that no fraud was in
tended or committed d'--and he might have ad-
dcd that wo have sworn falsely for be it known,
that the aflidavits arc positive. And now, while
l am upon this subject, let me enquire how it
happens that all the mistakes in that awful Poll
Book, that the tallics count more than the fig
urcs. My answer would be that it is easier to
make tallies, than to scratch them off.
The 9th resolution Mr. Glessner thinks is ri
diculous in the extreme, because it sets forth
that he took sides when there was difference
of opinion in our ranks, and now, when it is too
late, Mr. Glessncr himself has admitted that he
thought likely there was fraud practsed upon
Mr. Crum. Aye, verify, this is ridiculous.
The 9th resolution caps the climax, says Gless-
ner and he acts from principle, and speaks from
dictation. Docs Mr.. Glcssner remember ton or
twelve months back, when his General Agent
perambulatcd the county, soliciting subscrip-
tions for the Shield, that the inducement held
out to new subscribers was that the sheet was
to be enlarged four columns, with entire new
new type. and that the Pittsburg Road would
soon be in operation to Mansfield, and furnish
additional news, and that it should be second to
no political paperin the State, except the States
man? Has it been. done, or is this pretended
visit to the sea-shore now, to redeem s,plcdge