American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-05-17
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Remember, That when Che Ohio Eagle
and Telegraph were united that the co1n- /
ty printing was raised from 37t and 50 4
cents per quire to one dollar per quire,
thus throwing into the bands Of is owners
nearly il 10, quite enough OF the peoples
money to purchase the esiablishment.--
"Gdzette."
When the editor Of the Gazette was
writing the above paragraph he knew very
well that he was stating what he knew to
be false. The Eagle never done printing
for 371 or 90 cents per quire therefore !
could not raise tito one dollar quire.-
The whole amount of printing of blanks
for the county since we have had charge Of
the Eagle, Just one year, amounts to the
awful sum Of two hundred and thirty -one
dollars and thirty.one cents and no more
We paid for the Ohio Eagle establishment
three thousand dollars. How some people
are given to lying Ohio Eagle.
The Eagle men are beginning to appre-
ciate their true condition and are writhing
in such great agony Of soul as to be induc-
ed to utter another falsehood in order to
screen themselves from public odium. -
When we say falsehood we mean exactly
what we say, and here is the evidence to
proveit Some three or four months be-
fore the Eagle and Telegraph were united,
Mr.. Graber, one ofthe firm, made the fol-
lowing bid for county printing:
To the Honorable Commissioners of Fair
field County.
In compliance with your request make
the following proposal for printing all the
blanks for the use of the county.
For Assessors blanksper quire Of paper 25
All other blanks 55
Respectfully submitted.
d. J. GRUBER,
Publisher Lancaster Telegraph,
December 7, 1858.
The Commissioners, however, refused to
give the printing to the Telegraph for the
reason thata bid ofone cent per quire had
been received from Mr. Ellis Mr.. Ellis
done the printing, and afterwards received
one dollar per quire, which amounted, for
the Assessors blanks, to one hundred and
forty dollars, and Mr.. Tuthill afterwards
made capital out of this matter by calling
lit a hundred and forty dollar swindle, he
wrote us communication against this ras-
eally transaction, in which occurs the fol-
lowing language;
"He (the Auditory told Mr.. Ellis to
make out his bill at rs cents a quire, THO
THAT WAS MORE THAN TWICE THE AMOUNT
THE TELEGRAPH AGREED TO PRINT THEM FOR,
Here, reader, is the evidence, IN Mr..
TuTHILL's OWN WORDS, that he KNEW that
the Telegraph had agreed to do the coun-
ty printing at 25 cents per qulre BEFORE
T the two papers were united, and he also
KNEW that Mr.. Gruber had said che could
make money at that price" Now, sir
taking YOUR OWN statements and acknowl
edgments as testimony, we ask you wheth
crit was not DOWN RIGHT STEALING for you
y s-
to raise the price Of printing Assessors
blanks from TWENTY FIVE CENTS PER QUIRl
to SEVENTY FIVE CENTS per quire
q AND THAT TOO, IN THE FACE OF AN ACKNowL
EDeMENT ON THE PART OF ONE OF YOUR PART
NERs THAT MONEY COULD BE MADE AT 2,
q CENTS? Dare you now say, in the face o
t this testimony, sir, that you did not pa.
for your office with money that properl,
belonged to the tax payers of the county
: If YOU knew that 25 and 55 cents wass-t
!, Telegraph's price for doing this work BE
I FORE you united the papers, why did 20
Il raise It TO sEvENTY-FIvE CENTS and ON
9 DOLLAR? You KNOW that the paper
: were united purposly to sw1EDLE THE couN
e TY TREASURY. and the people KNOW 1T Toe
J. They want no better evidence than the fac
! that the Telegraph's price was DOUBLE
y just as soon as the papers changed hands
Remember, That the letter asking us I
pun III bluS W pllnt tlle AASSeoooI .. Ulhl b
o was not handed us until it was too late fc
o US TO do so.-- Gdzette.
IS We can prove that Mr.. Slaughter ha
l. his letter banded him some time before til
4 Eagle received the one addressed to i
and al l.asttwo hours before the time fc
II opening the bids If it was too late to pl
q in bidwhy did you propose to enter I'M
le a written contract with the Eagle not to pl
at in a bid.-Eagle.
,e We haveinow got these gentlemen e.
Of actly where we want them. Mr.. Tuthi
re here declares that we received our lett
10 asking us to put in bids BEFORE HE REJECT
ID ED THEIRS. If.thisi SO, we ask you, 81
re how come you to getin POSSESSION OF +
" CONTENTS BEFoRE1T WAS OPENED BY Us?-
: Why DID YOU BRING THAT LETTER TO I'll
bt GAZETTE OFFICE? What pre-sentime
RS took possession of your mind that that lett
W must be Immediately handed its address