American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-05-03
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EY He alludes to the one cent per quire
bid of Ellis, and the subsequent paymentof of
full price by Auditor Jeffries, tries to make
us responsible for these things, although
he says they happened before we had any
thing to do with the papersi and then con
graduates himself highly on his efforts TO
bring these guilty parties to punishment
Eagle
Exactly so, and how far he will succeed
in making you responsible for these things
the following statement will most undoubt-
edly show: Ii will be remembered that
after having made a contract with F. M
ELLIS to print the Assessors blanks at
one cent per qaire, ONE DOLLAR was
afterwards actuallySpaid by Mr. JEFFRIEs.
AT that time Tuthill and Schleicb, were
arranging their plans to get possession of
the Eugle, and when the fact that ELLIS had
received one hundred and forty dollars for
printing that he had contracted to do for
one dollar and forty cents came into their
possession, they Immediately grasped it
like hungry cormorants and used itagainst
ELLIS and JEFFRtEs, hoping thereby to
prejudice the public mind against ELLIS,
curtail his business and force him into a
sale By making good use of the capital
thus furnished against ELLIS and JEFrRrEs
they succeeded in accomplishing their OBJ
ject, and were snugly ensconced in the
editorial chair of the Eagle establishment.
Now that they could no longer use this
fraud to forward their oCn corrupt
political ends, they actually signed a Poper
asking tie Commissioners pay Je6riestor
Mis same printing. that they lad Jetorc pro
nounced traudulent in order to accomplish
the Downfall Of Ellis, and Mat too otler
Ellis Aad Jcen paid for MiS same work ont
hundred and forty doliorsi This paper
asking the Commissioners TO pay JEFTRIEs
the above amount, and endorsed by Tuth-
i'll, Schleich & Gruber, was also presented
US to receive our signature; but we refus-
ed to place our name to any such infamous
document, and the Commissioners refused
TO pay it on the grounds that the editor of
the Gazette would expose them.
And now, Messrs Tuthill d. Schleich
if it was such a 0ery great sin for JETFRIEs
TO pay ELLIS one hundred and forty dol
lars for this printing before you became
editors of the Eagle, we would most re-
spectfully ask by what system of ethics do
you justify your advocacy of the payment
ofthis bill after you become editors? II
You were really honest in your secret oppo-
sition to the payment of this bill why do
you now petition the Commissioners to pay
j.? If it was fraudulent then why is it
not fraudulent now? Or did you only de-
nounce the 'tranSaction" fraudulent one
in order to get up feeling against ELLIS
TO effect purchase of the EGgle? You
must confess your past and present course
in this matter would naturally lead honest
men to believe that such was your sole
and selfish motives. Does not your pres
ent course most emphatically prove that
you were led TO secretly denounce this
claim and these men for no other purpose
than tocontrol the Ohio Eogle. What JUS
tIfcation can you offer for denoanciny dis
bill at one time as a fraudulent one and at
another time advocating lis payment?
Shame, shame on such contemptibly
low minded hypocrisy and dishonesty
We scorn the men who would resort TO
such foul and dishonest means to accom-
plish still more foul and dishonest po-
li'ical end. The iufamy they placed on
JEFFRIEs, properly and justly should be
stamped on their own brows.
Eg-After acknowledging that he used
deception to secure his election, Auditor
Towson makes use of the following Ian
guagc:
81 have only TO say that met duplicily
WIN uupllClty y-iOT WDlcn SIN am sorry.
do not offer this as a justification, decep-
tion in any case is wrong and cannot be
defended under any circumstances, Though
have those who speak from the sacred
desk, and those who partake of the shed
blood and broken body of our saviour, in
the house of God, as my gnides--and if |
may be forgiven, will Sin no more in
this respect"
Truly, truly, we pity thee; but It is our
painful duty TO prosecute our charges "a
gainst you to their final end. We mos
earnestly trust, however, that in your
next communication you will not make
use of such sacrilegious and uncalled for
expressions as are embodied in the above
quotation. They are altogether out of
place, and will only have tendency to
sink youn the estimation Of honest men.
You have endeavorod by misrepresen-
tation and quibbling, to aooid direct an
swer to the charges we have preferred a
gainst you. We stated in the outset that
you had informed us before your nomiaa-
tion by the American Party, that public