Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-09-30
From the CoshoctoR Age.
Attempt TO Brlbe = German Re.
publican EditOr..BurIis and
His Clan Fooled.

Attempt TO Brlbe . German Re.
| publican EditOr..Burms and
His Clan FOiled.
The following two affiIavits-one from
Mr.. Frederick Scbneid, Republican, the
other from Mr.: Conlad Mayer, good
Democrat, aud both of them respectable,
honest, reliable men-expose Gen. Burns
base attempt to buy German press and
German votes. Ought such man TO be,
can be be, reelected to Congressa
Germans, Burns organ stigmatizes you
rs "Dir:y Scamps," "Dirty Hessians," and
offers to bribs you out of your votes! Will
you pocket the insult and return him to
Congress- No never! should be your re-
spouse. But read the following affidavits: !:
The STATE OF ONO, CosHocros Co., ss {:
Personally appeared before me, John C..
Tidbal, justice of the peace in and for
Coshocton county, Frederick Schneid, who
being sworn says, that he is personally ac-
quainted with Phillip Cioissant, the ditor
of The Leuchtthurn, a German paper pub
lished in New Philadelphia, Ohio, that said
editor cannot speak the English language; !;
that on or about the evening of the 28th of
July, A. d. 1858, he met with said editor
at the house of Frederick Mayer, in the
town of Coshocton, and while there in the
presence of John Mirise and Others, L in
troduced him as the editor of n German
paper, published in New Philadelphia, to
John Mirise, and said Mirise inquired of me
whether the paper was Republican or De-
moeratice / told him it was Republican.
He (Mirise,) then wanted TO know wheth
er he could not be procured to come here
and publish Democratic German paper,
and requested me to act as interpreter and
inquire of him whether he would take five
hundred dollars and cha ge and publish
Democratic paperl l th n made the in
quiry of him, to which he replied that be
would not for two thousand dollars, or any
other sum: that he was Republican and
could not be induced to desert bis friends;
and in that conversation he did not say that
he was Democrat and would rather pub
lish Democratic paper than n Republican
paper, or complain that Helmick or any
other person had alien on his press, and
that be was compelled to publish that pa
per; nor did he complain of being poor, or
in any way solicit and otherwise than to
procure subscribers for his paper, and did
say that he would not on any account pub
lish Democratic paper.
FREDERICK SCHNElD.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
Sd day of September, 1858.
]. C. TIDBALL,J. P.
Conrad Mayer, being sworn, says that he
was present on the occasion referred to in
the foregoing affidavit of Frederick Schneid
and that he fully concurs in all that is there
stated as being correct, and further says,
that John Mirise in company with Gen. J.
Burns, came back the next day, and desir-
ed him to act as interpreter and inquire of
said Editor how much it would cost to buy
his press, aud how many subscribers ii
would take to support tho paper; which
inquiry made, and to which he replied
that it would take $500 to purchase the
press, and that there must be at least 600
subscribers to keep it tup; they Gen. Burns
and Mirise, replied to him that they could
raise 1000 subscribers and thought they
could raise the money, and that they would
write to him in few days. Mr.. Croissant
then said to me he was only trying them,
they could not fool him and that he would
not sell out, or publish a Democratic paper;
they then left with the promise to write
to him, and this is the substance Of all the
conversation they had between them In my
hearing, or interpreted by me.
CONRAD MAYER.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
Sd day of Sept. 1858.
j. c.. TIDBALL, j. P.
When the German Republican editor ex-
posed the scamps who attempted to brlbo
him, they swors worse that the Army in
Flanders. Even Dimmock's good humor
was disturbed, and in his wrath, he declar-
ed that our German editor was nothing but
"Dirty Hessiah." Such epithets may
tickle the fancy of the soft handed leaders
of the Locofoco party-but will sound
harshIy upon the ears of our German citi-
zens.