M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-09-16
The JOuEnal---IIs Tricks and
Lies.

beyond cavil, that the increase OF
expenses last year over the
year previous, was caused by the Re,
publican Legislature, which passed
certain laws requiring an extra and
amount of printing; and we
proved that ttho expenses in this coun.
ty were not more than the average of
counties in this region. Having COM
pletely rebutted all its facts and argu'
ments founded thereon, the Journal,
atertwe weeks silence, and finding
nothing of truth to help it out Of a bad
scrape, turns to downright lying and
Misrepresentation.
1t will be remembered that the pub
Usher of the Journal proposed to
print the Assessors blanks for so cts.
per quire. He did not get the job
1t was given to MS and we charged
precisely so cts. per quire. lie has
no right to complain on that score ;
vet he wants to know if we did not
dc, Just what he himself would have
done, had he got the chance, that is,
~
charge more than I. z. Stanley's bid!
The journal then proceeds to talk
of the Constitution Amendments,
which the Republican Legislature Or
dered to be published at an expense to
the people of the State of from twen'
ty to sixtythOusand dollars. 1t says;
THE Democrat published this, and
charged for it, according to its own
| figures the enormous sum Of ONE
| HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FI
DOLLARSp
This assertion was intended to ere.
ate u tremendous sensation! but eve.
ry printer in the State who sees it,
will only laugh at the poor fool who
attempts to make political capital Of
it. They will know what desperate
condition he is in fo1 campaign mate.
rial, and few words Of explanation
will make every honest man in the
county dcspise him Tor his contempt
iole efforts to practice upon the credu'
lity Of the people. Thatwe charged
$135 for the proposed amendments to
the Constitution, is true; but that this
price was enormous, is viIely false,
as the editor of the Journal well
knows. 10 prove this, we have only
to show what other publishers have
charged. We give below the price
charged in several counties:
Scioto county, $4,000
Jackson 1915
Hooking 162.0O
Fayette $4,000
Fairfield " 10000
Now, why did not the Journal give
its readers these facts, which were
necessary ,to enable them to form q
just concluSion2 Why did itSvRpreSS
everything in aqywise calculated to
do us justice, and publish that only
which could do MS harm9 We leave
IN intelligent community to judge 'ot
the morality of tlis transaction o.
the Journal.
Again, the Journal says that We
agreed with the Auditor to take tol
the job the same that Atheus county
paid. This is lie No. q We nevel
made any such agreement, and the
Auditor never proposed that W.
should.
Again, the Journal says that Ath
ems county paid the publishers there
$50 each; but it does not explain how
that contract, if contract it could bC
called, was made. One of the pub
fishers has told us that lie was "takel
in" and we have no doubt that thu
other was "done for" in the SAINT
manner, both being absent.
Again, the Journal says the print
ing expenses in Athens county for thu
past year were $451 80, while in thit
county they were S72S.9S. Well
we have explained that differences
heretofore; but we now ask why it il
that the same expenses in Jackso.
county amounted to $959.43-twt
hundred and thirty dollars more thar
the amount paid here! Jackson is {
smaller county than Athens, and &C
cording to the Journals mode OF rea
soning, the printing expenses shoulC
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