Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-02-10
The Printing Question.

The Printing Question.
Congress and our State Legislature eve
y winter spends more or less of its time
and talent in q squabble about their prin
ting, which squabble never amounts to any.
thing but talk-the abuses complained Of
still going on. In imitation of the distin.
guisbed () men in these bodies, the Edi.
tor of the Farmer and ourselves have been
for few weeks past, carrying on a news.
paper controversy about certain Public Ad.
vertising, which controversy, is not likely
to result in any good to either of US, except
so far as it afforded our neighbor an oppor-
tunity of gratifying his proverbially mean
propensity for indulgipg in low abuse of a
contemporary whom he dishkes, and of cal
ling US all sorts of hard names, which, how
ever does US no harm, and eased him of the
load be had been garnering for long while.
We do not say this in spirit of complain
ing, on the contrary, we hope our neighbor
will not suffer his wrath to flag, but that
be will give free vent to his choleric nature,
"pitch into" us regularly through his weak
ly bantling. It all that gives interest to
it, oil that induces any one to look into it,
all that saves it from dying out of the
knowledge of those even that swear by its
faith.
1t is true that this controversy did not
begin with our neighbor; no attack was
made upon him nor upon any one in par
ticular, we only asserted claim TO certain
official information which we, in our "green-
ness" supposed belonged as much to the
tax payers of one party as to those of the
other. We still think so, though he has
brought vituperation and threats of expo
sure of certain "dark and damning Deeds"
10 make us forbear. We are sorry that our
neighbor cannot argue the matter in dis
pute, dispassionately, without getting "huf-
fy," fol "he that shows his passion tells his
enemy where he may hit him." and "he
distrusts his own faith who often swears."
Let him husband his resources, cultivate a
better disposition, sand thereafter we may
carry on a newspaper controversy without
letting it disturb our relations as neighbors,
as men.
Our neighbor calls to his aid some half
dozen Editors of Locofoco papers in ad-
joining counties, why did he not write to
D1MMocK, of the Coshocton Democrat? to
help him out Of the dilema he got himself
into at the outset of this controversy
Except in one particular, and that is tho
Delinquent Land List the letters which be
publishes bear US out in the position we
first took, that it is customary to give Ad-
vertisiug conveying important information
to the tax payers of both parties, to one
paper of each political party. The justice
of this rule will commend itself to every hon
est mind at first thought. The Delinquent
Land List is made the exception because
the law fixes the price that shall be paid
for its publication at such a low figure as
hardly TO be renumerative for its publica-
tion in one paper, yet as long as there was
a German paper published in this county
full price was paid it for its publication
We made no objection to this believing it
but a simple act of justice to that class of
cur tax payers, and whatever may be the
views of our present county officers as to
the propriety of affording their political op-
ponents chance TO see how the affairs of
The county are transacted, what becomes of
tho public money, &c, we believe that but
4 very few years will roll around until there
will be different course pursued here and
elsewhere.