American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-05-24

Msnypenny's interest, as a rival of Medlll
were to be nipped etfectually ,al least ii this
county.
What further lave the people OF the
county gained by this game? The presses
we're united for the express purpose OF pre-
venting any developments which they
(tAe Clique feared might bc made public.
a. setne lime, through the columns of the
Telegraph. paper which they feared--a
paper which was fast gaining in the af-
fections Of the people, to their disadvan-
tage-which had placed the county print
in; at fair price and was endangering
this croft Of politicoi gamblers. this den OF
Red Lodge CiqaerS. The printing can
now no longer be done at % cents per
quire as proposed by Gruber before the
union. butts pu; up to the oil prices, the
gray horse had then assumed another col
or, and the county was 10 be compelled 10
pay the price Of the purchase of the Eagle
and Telegraph in the way of big prices for
printing. Now, am down oil Auch ras.
eality, and all those who are concerned in
such low, mean, dishonorable and con-
tempii6le business. Such men are dema-
gogues of the worst character, and should
be Stunned, despised and defeated Ifthe
people do not do it, they are not true 10
themselves, and fall far short Of that which
their duty requires.
The Telegraph was to be bought up,
they feared that it would be the nucleus
around which would concentrate the NOR
al power, virtue, and patriotism of the
people of the County; and that press be-
come the lever by which the rotten carcass.
es OF these Red Lodge Cliquers would be
elevated to the public gaze from the little
great aspirant whose brain originated anc
whose money bought-and descending
,, down through the entire cliqueto the small
est gar gar, or 6cjaJbers that drank thei
whisky and did their dirty work.
= !, Such set Of desperate political gam
l bers as is concentrated together in thi
: county, and has been for years, can n
: where else be found--the like of them /
: not to be heard of under the shining sun
;; they are an anomiIy in moral science
u Witness their preten;ions of friendship t
u Jeffries, TO Lilly, to the County Commis
= sioners. and Kagay, and yet, stabbin
: them in the back and in the dark, ,denounc
l. ing Bill JelIrics and Frank Lilly as incom
% petent and dishonest officers, whaling th
l. Commissioners for not removing them fror
: office, and then turn right round after The
y had accomplished their purposes and p'
~ tilion these same Commissioners to pa
'e the money which they charged Lilly an
'e Jeffres had stolen out of the County trea
'e ury, and about which they had denounce
% the COMMISSIONERS Are such men hoI
= est men? Are such men any thing ell
II than demagogues? And yet in the face
.. all these things, these men have tho hard
rs hood to 90 about the streets with as bold
o' front, hold their heads as high up,and ha'
y the impudence and presumption to thru
III themselves upon every man they meet.
{, &c though they were tallest specimens Of toy
a. erng moral manhood that threw their pr
10 tectng shadows over the community,
III Shall not the united voice Of the commu
N ity be heard in one long, deep tone Of d
III nunciation of such men, and their vile III
=, scrupulous conduct? We shall see.
K A CITIZEN.