The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-12-31
TIKI EDITOR OF THE ASHLAND
TIMES AND HIS EDITORIAL CA
REER-.PRINTING QUESTION.

Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long,
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon,
Thena all for women, painting, rhyming, drink.
ing,
Besides ten thousand freaks, tina died in think.
ing"
A queer specimen'of fallen humanity
is our good neighbor of the Times. He
was evidently cut out for a man-as an
evidence of that we point triumphantly
to that "ferce mustache but he has
been badly spoiled in the raising. He
made his appearance among us about a
year ago, and by some shook or crook :"
had succeeded in manufacturing for him.
self quite a reputation in advance.
"His promises were, as he then was, mighty
But his performance, as he is now, nothing"
His Fantastic tricks before high
Heaven" during his brief editorial ca
reer, have been both numerous and
amusing. At times he has been "wise
above what is written" and has affect
ed to give in advance, in round numbers,
the exact result of an important election
in each Township of this County, the po-
litical complexion of which he knew
nothing about. Certain empty Republi-
can pocket-books and the official figures,
will testify as to the correctness of his
calculations. He also elected a good
old Republican friend of ours Justice of
the Peace a week in advance of the cleo
ton, not long since, and our worthy
friend was only convinced that Bro.
LOCKE hadn't elected him, when the votes
were counted out and he found himself
in a minority of thirty-6ve ! In all his
movements our neighbor strongly re-
minds US of roaring RALPH STAcKPoLE
in Chick of the Woods" who was eter-
nally believing when his mouth ought
to have been shut, and in trying to get
his friends out of n serape invariably
brought them into a worse. In his ed
~itorial career thus far he has succeeded
in but two things, viz :-making him.
self supremely ridiculous as a political
editor, and effectually annihilating the
remnant of a Black Republican party
that was in existence in this County at
the time of his advent among US. To
say that an editor who. is mainly charge
able with having brought his party from
the ascendancy down to a hopeless minor
ity of two hundred and over, isn't worth
anything to any body, would perhaps be
saying too much. But Notwithstanding
all his great services in the cause, we
fancy we could name a bakers dozen of
Republican leaders hereabouts, who
would gladly join in recommending him
to the favorable consideration of the
President of the Republic of Liberia,
the Emperor of Hayti, or any of the 9TH
er Black Republican " powers that be-
if thereby they could rid themselves oil
him. But Bro. LOCKE won't go-he
swears he won't, and so there's "no use
% talkin'." Democracy must, therefore,
continue to flourish and Black Republi-
eanism to languish, so long as the light
of his honest c~ountenance continues to
illuminate "these ERE digginsl"
Our purpose, however, in writing this
article, was not so much to discuss the
merits and dement's of our amiablt
neighbor, as to briefly reply to a short
article of his in his last paper on the
Printing Question. In u last issue
we took occasion to compare the conduct
of Mr.. JENNINGS, our Fusion Clerk, il
not publishing the notice of the times
of holding Court in both papers, because
it was a matter of general interest, with
that of .ur Democratic Board of Com
missioners last summer. Our object il
noticing the action of Mr.. JENNINGS was
not to complain of his course, but simp'
ly to notify our neighbors and all COL
cerned that we should insist On all Dem
~ocratic County officers pursuing a SINH
lar course in the future ; and this, we
opine, will account for the nervousness
exhibited by our neighbor. On this
matter of Public Printing Bro. LOCKE
is exceedingly sensitive, and no sooner
have we probed the sore spot than with
an awful contortion of the face, he ex
claims
"No more of that Hal, and thou lowest me 7
In his article of last week, the editor
of the Times exhibits his usual short
sightedness. He defends the course o
Mr.. JENNINGS on the ground of retrench
ment, because by publishing the notice
in one paper the County is saved thu
trihing sum of eight or ten dollars ye
he had not a word to say about retrench
ment when the Commissioners ordered
the exhibits of the Receipts and Expen
ditures of the County and Infirmar!
published in both papers, by which h.
realized the snug little sum of seventa
dollars! How was it that we heart
nothing about retrenchmaent from you
then, neighbor? Says the Times, far
Their:
"But this printing question is on
which the Union should not have stirred
for 1t reeks with corruption which tn
loco foco leaders of this county mus
shoulder. For the present we refer t.
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