Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-02
Explanatory.

communication from III. b. Smith, ESQ
and reply thereto by Mr.. A. E. McLaugh.
lin. We. regret, exceedingly the -circum-
stances that have made ii necessary in the
oPinionrof these gentlemen, to occupy our
columns with their respective communi-
cations. II is, however, but another IL
lustration of chow great matter. little
fire win kindle." The VIII ,le difficulty
occurred in very simple misapprehen-
sion. which we supposed at the time was
perfectly'an satisfactorily explained. -. ["
,r We will state the matter in brief by way
OF explanation, and think every person can
see the true souroe Of the difficulty. ss
Mr.. Smith applied to me, as he states
in his communication, for 1000 Republi-
can tickets. AS saw nothing improper
in the proposition, I told him would see
if they Go'ld be had, and gong to the of
fee inquired of. Mr.. Mclaughlin if he
could furnish them. He said the form
was distributed, and other work on the
press, and he did not see how he could
print, them before Saturday, and expressed
surprise that more tickets should be wanted.
lthen told him that Mr. Smith wanted
them. He said, III. B. Smith! What
does he want with them?'' I said, s'to
erase. Mr.. Russell's name and insert his
own" j then turned to leave the Of
fee, when Mr.. McLaughlin asked me
if it would be right to print such
tickets? replied that 1 saw nothing
wrong in it. He then said he believed he
would not print them. This, 1 think, is
the precise language that passed 1 i'm
mediately told Mr.. Smith that Mr.. Nc
Laughlin could not print the tickets before
Saturday, supposing that he would not
want them at that late day, and that the
matter would drop there.
~ The conversation in the Office was very
short, and as saw nothing in the propo-
sition of Mr.. Smith that / thought dis
honorable, did NOT take time to explain
the matter, and Mr.. Mclaughlin and the
employees in the office understood the
proposition to be, to print Republican
tickets toith Smiths name in instead of
R~sseUe. Here was the misapprehen-
HAOhS oAu Vic VI II.
One word as 10 the seeming charge in
MIR. Smiths communication, that Mr.. |
Mclaughlin is responsible for the spread of
the story of spurious tickets. This is not
the fact. Iii well known that the report
was general for week before the election,
that spurious tickets were in existence. but
no one could tell certainly whose names
were on them. Mr.. Smiths name was
freely connected with the subject, but iu
was not until the Saturday before the cleo
ton that any of the tickets fell into the
haqds of the Republicans. Those then
obtained had not his name on them, aud |
the dispute arose whether there were any
others which had his name on them. This
was the subject of conversation, as am
informed, in the Store of Messrs Moore
6 Osborn. on the Saturday night pre-
ceeding the election. Mr.. Mclaughlin was
present, and as he says, and L have no
doubt correctly, that then, for the irst and
only time he named the proposition 10 get
the tickets with Smith 8 name iinserted.--
Then and there arose the controver-
sy. had not spoken to Mr.. McLaugh-
lin on the subject from the time 1 first
named it to him, and he then understood
ne, as he naturally would under the cir
,umstahces, that Mr.. Smith wanted his
name printed in the tickets, and SO stated,
giving me as authority. All parties were
brought together and the
Whole thing explained as Isupposed salts
actorily. ~ '-,tee ot." m's. oT ,no2 -
If the sto,y of the spurious tickets got t
Ato general CIRCULATION, it was certainly s
lot Though the agency of Mr. MeLaugh- t
in, who only named the subject on the a
Saturday night before the election, and a
hen stated that he had refused to print a
hem But the truth is, there was for ]
everal days previous. quite an excitement
mong the Republicans on the subject of
puIious tickets, it being known that such I
'ere in circulation, but to what extent, and ;
'hose, names were on them, w as not known. +,
)f course the Republican Central Com b
IIttee, having detected one fraudulent
cket, felt it their duty to warn their h
lends to be on their guard lest others d
light be afioat. II happened with my T
lend Mr.. Smith as iE has often happened 8,
others-he suffered from being found in 81
i'd company. nr2 'Al s-a' 81 ~ -ra"2 HI
In conclusion, wish to say that l have b.
iown Mr.. Smith for many years, and do th
II belieye he would resort to what he he lI's