The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-10-27

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of reckless assertions, Misrepresentation
and deliberate ~falsehOOds.
The whole and true history Of the mat.
tercah be Sammed up 10 a few words. Ayear
ago, last spring. 4efies was q candidate
sgrihst me wishes Of he party for rs-homI-
nation The third time. He had, BY virtue
ofhIs ONCE, the disposal Of ne county
printing. There were also two Democrat,
&c papers jn the county, One. the Eagle, de-
handing the whole o flt,--the other, the Tel
eOroph, begging for a portion Of Il. Ne
masthave the support Of both papers. 40 the
influence Of either against him would de-
feat him. The ASSESSOR blanks, a very
Jat job, were to be printed. II he gave
them to the Eagle the Telegraph would be
down upon him and If he divided them and
gave a part to the Telegraph the Eagle would
come down on him alike a thousand bricksl''
To avoid a rupture with either, he all at
once discovered that the law required the
printing Of the AssessorJ blanks to be gv-
en- out to the lowest bidder. The Telegraph
bid IS cents a quire. Ellis swore he would
not put in a bid-that he might give il to
the Telegraph, but with the understanding
that he. Ellis, would appeal to the Democ-
racy against such a course. Jefries pro-
tested, declared he did not want the Tele-
graph to get it. But what should he do with
the price, the Telegr tsph was the lowest, and
if he did not give it to him he would be
down upon HIM. Mr.. Ellis refused to bid
said il he could Rot have his price he aid
not want the job.
To silence both, Jeffries made a secret
bargain with Ellis, by which Ellis was to
bid one cent a quire, and he would, after
the election, pay him full price. This Ellis
agreed to, and the sham Bid Of one cent o
duire was made, a contract drawn up, signed
land placed upon the Journals. He not only
placed it on the Journals, but he declared
to the people that it was made in good faith,
andth he had SGued one hundred and Gty
a liars to the county by the operation, and
used that very contract as an electioneering
hobby all over the county, He was re-nomt
mated, and after the election Ellis wanted
him to "walk the chalkp and pay up as he
agreed. Jeffries was afraid. He had, dur
ing the canvass, made this SO purblic,ahhd had
go strongly praised his financial skill as isuuf-
fcieut reason Why he should be continued
in Office, that he was AFRAID to confess him
self a hypocrite And a.far, 90 soon after ask
ing their votes for a recollection. He fought
it off as long as he could, and when Ellis
would wait no longer, he proposed to Ellis
the idea Of smdgglingit in so that no one
would know it. There was not a word said
about ltenisiag and. correcting accounts af-
ter Ellis returned; but the facts and figures
published from the record shows that there
was no attempt to make a fair and open ac-
count, and never would have been made il
the Commissioners had not discovered and
forced them to do so.
The whole history of the matter shows
that there was a deep laid plan to defraud
the honest taxpayers of the county by
smuggling through false accounts-cheat
the Commissioners out of the difference be-
tween one cent per quire and one dollar,
and to lead the people into the belief that
only the contract price was paid, and that
they had a very skiIlful fnancier and an
honest man for county Auditor.
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