The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-12-19
RAJ CASE Observation-Disclosures
DONE UP in A RAG.

For nearly a year past, a set of cor
respondents have kept up q steady pop
gun Gre at the Union, through the COL
1mns of the Ashland Times. picking up
careless remarks of our predecessor and
~endeavoring to make Capital of them.
The editors of the respective papers
scarcely ever came in conflict Do politi-
cal questions, as the editor of the Times
invariably left all delicate questions to
the care of his correspondents. By this
system of tactics the Times, as a party
organ, took no position except on the
Slavery question This was certainly a
novel mode of political warfare, and one
which we would hardly have expected
our neighbor, the editor of the Times,
to engage in, as he generally expresses
his sentiments openly and without fear.
We did look upon this movement
IS a political one, but supposed it was
done by these correspondents to injure
our predecessor, as they were known to
bear him no good will In this opinion
we were mistaken. No sooner did we
come in possession of the Union than
the same game was attempted with us,
A correspondent signing himself :" Pat
rick /" attempted to draw US out on q
delicate subject, and one on which we
designed speaking our mind freely when
the proper time arrived. In order TIC
cover up his real design, he addressed
us in a very friendly tone, bedaubing
us with sickeuing praise, and thereby
hoping to ensnare US. If the inquiries
had come from the editor of the Times
they would have been proper enough,
and We had a reply ready. But coming
as they did from a vain and conceited
old man, who has figured on all sides of
politics, and who is known to be utterly
devoid of political principle, and that,
too, when % neighbor, the editer of
the Times, was fully as competent to at
tend to the matter as the old gentleman,
who has about reached the period of Sec
ond childhood, it was the height of
impertinence, and well merited the re-
buke which we gave him.
Smarting under our brief reply, Pat
again intrudes himself on our notice
this week through the columns of the
Times, aud in ono short week, forgetting
all his former love for us,abuses us right
roundly. We have no disposition to
handy epithess with him, as he has
served an apprenticeship of forty years
at blackguardism, and besides, is well
qualified naturally for the business.
By the tone of his article, we infer he
offers his age as IN opology for his i'm
pudent inte~rmeddling with our affairs.
We certainly respect old age, but old
age to command respect must respect
itself. He denies hat he is receiving
a salary of $500 as Director of our
Rail Road, but says that he receives a
per diem allowance for his services.
We only know that he testified under
oath last summer that he had received
81, 500 from the Rail Road, and that
the company was still owing him. Will
you not be good enough, " Pat " to tell
ia how much that per diem is? We
want to make a calculation as to how
much you have received for your servi-
ces.
He charges US with having attacked
the Rail Road. with a view of retarding
its progress. He ought to take out a
patent for the discovery. To our mind
there isn't much left of it to attack-it
has all been eaten up by TIE Directors
IF we are to believe the stories told by
" Pat and his hangers-on, the treasury
is about as barren of funds as his head
is of brains. We deny any intention to
injure the Road. On the contrary, we
shall do all that we can to forward it.
But we wish Pat " to understand that
he must quit meddling with u affairs.
or,we shall take occasion to inquire into
his conduct as Director. The people
want light and they shall have it, or
there1l be a fuss-one of the two. If
our article on him can be construed as
IN attack on the Rsil Road, why SO be
It.. We knew he had eaten. up n large
amount o, the peO,rle's money, but We
had 10 idea he had consumed the whole
Road. However. it may b. So as ne Is
fat and growing more corru-
lenter " every day. Ia the midst III Ms
he orders US to stop his pape-'.
Where we are to look for our pay for
the numbers he has got, he don't say.
suppose to the Rail Road. 1t has
been footing all his bills for the last
months, including a large bill
for novels and " yaller kivered ~litera
ture generally. He don't seem to un-
derstand the meaning of the term wet
nurse )" as applied to him. This is very
strange, as to our certain knowledge he
is the only public old granny u town
has had for the last ten years. He has
been a faithful one, too, never having
been found absent from his Office when
wanted, unless engaged in snperintend.
ing funerals.
We offer an apology to our readers
the space we have occupied in null