American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-04-19


the false garb Of honesty. Butwe knew
them. Knowing that the editor Of the
Eaglo and Mr. Jeffries were deeply dyed
in county corruption. they naturally enough
supposed that all exposures in that quar-
ter would assist them in accomplishing
their desire to break down the Eagle and 1
finally force Ellis into sale In order 10
expedite tie matter as much as possible,
now that the Gazette had already probed
the sores in the county building. Tuthill
and Schleich furnished US with items Of
corruption against Jcfries and Ellis. and
we're SO active in their opposition to these
men and eager TO get possession Of the
Eagle chat they had large number Of tx
IRA GAzETTEs containing their charges a.
gainst these men struck OF FOR their spec
ial benefit By this means they succeed
ed in getting up strong feeling against
the Ohio Eagle and actually reduc-
Cd its patronage to tie Starving point
Now was good time TO act After sue
ceeding in getting the sdicr Of the Eagle
appointed Private Secretary 70 Governor
Medill, which was not very hard to DO,
notwithstanding these same men had
charged him with dishonesty one Of them
purchased the Telegrspb and came on!
with 'hifalutin" salutatory. though not
daring to do SO under his own signature,
stating thatthe Eagle was owned by mau
who lived ont Of the county and had no IN
tersts in this community, and appealed to
the Democracy to stand by the Telegraph.
The public printing was Immediately ta-
ken to the Telegraph, and Ellis finding
himself completely in the power Of his en-
emics was compelled tosuccumb tothese po-
litical gamblers, and actually sold the Of
fee to Governor Medill, who has placed
his time-serving slaves to preside over its
columns and DO his bidding.
Now that the long wished for object was
at last accomplished. the two papers were
united, and the bid for printing the AS
sessor's blanks at 35 cents per quire made
by the Telegraph, was instantly changed
to ONE DOLLAR PER QUIREl This,
reader. is brief history of the corrupt
manner in which and for which the Eagle
and Telegraph were united. and the way
these wire pullera made tie taxpayers pay
the fiddler for this grand political. thimble-
rig.gig.
But to follow the matter still farther.
and to slow up still more clearly the in
iquity Of these corrupt demagogues. it is
only necessary for US to state that sfier
having furnished us undoubted proof Of
Auditor Jef'ries' rsscality--snd after &C
complishing their project Of uniting the
papers-they have the hardihood andtemer-
ity to take this same Jeffries to their en-
brace, and notwithstanding they proved
him to have a character as black as Sc
tan, devoid Of all moral and political hon
esty, tiey had the baFefaeed sudacily in
the face Of tlieir own testimony TO honor
him with a place on their Sag Nicht ticket
at the Spring election. II these gentlemen
deny having furnished US with matter tc
prove Mr.. JefIres rascality. we can give
THEIR owE MANUSCRIPT AS PROOF!
Reader, what do all these facts prove
They prove the hypocrisy Of Towaon when
he stated that the patronage of his office
should be givento the person doing the
work of his Office at the lowest figure. for
we have shown that he violated the very
letter and spirit ofthis declaration in pur-
chasing upwards of ffty-seven dollars
worth of paper and blank books at a higher
figure than the same items could have
been furnished for. and that too gitSostl
making inquiry as to s06ere he could gel
hemcheapsst. They prove that Mr.. Tow
son was afraid to touch on the basis ol
our former article, namely, "that he had
declared before his election that county
officials had to his certain kuowled stolen
from the county treasury while repairing
the public buildings" They prove thai q
preconcerted plan had oeen entered into
between the Auditor and Post Master to
defeat US in bidding for the printing Of
Assessors blanks. They prove that in
the very face of their own acknowledge
ment of the rascality Of the former editor
of the Eagle that its present editors sane
toned his appointment as Private Secre,
tary to the Governor and Consul to for
eign port in order to advance their own
base personal interests. They prove thai
in the very face Of their own testimony o.
Jeffries corruption they ceased denouncing
him as soon as they found they could nc
longer use his rascality to further their
own corrupt political ends, took him te
their embrace and placed bis name on their
Sag Nicht ticket. They prove that the
Ohio Eagle was purchased by Governor
Medill and that its present editors are
placed there do his bidding and ad-
vance his political interests. They prove
that the money of the honest tax payers oI
tho nnnntu uras nsad in nnrnhaSinc the