M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-03-03
ALEX. PEARCE, EDITOR.
MCARTIIUR
lrhe RnccoOn Navigator.


Ily after the election, last fall, We took
occasion to expose and denounce the
contemplate tricks of some Of the
Opposition leaders in this county, there.
10y creating quite a futtering in Ger.
tain quarters. We did not know then,
nor for some time afterwards, that the
columns of the JoWndL were used at
! the pleasure Of the Black Republican
clique OF this plOce-that the Raccoon
Navigator and others OF his ilk wrote
good part of the editorials which
appeared in that paper. Its replies
to us were bitter and personal, and
David Jones, under his own sigma
ture, attempted to excuse and defend
the persons whose unfair and ungen.
itlemanly course in the campaign we
had commented upon, as we believed
it richly deserved. Jones' defence
was, that "the ostensible leaders, as
he called himself and crew, had not
told the stores as we represented,
that they had merely given the facts,
ard left the people to judge, and that
the people who heard the facts which
he and Others related, had misAppre-
hended them and started the false re-
ports themselves-truly Il beautiful
defence for a sane man to make
Blaming the people, whom Jones had
taken SO much pains to tell the truth,
with starting the falsehoods. In
conversations with Us 't,,r the contro-
versy began, Jones -cknowledged that
he did tel! The facts, accompanying
them with remarks and inueudoes that
naturally !ed to the false reports. At
the very time lie made this confession
lie wanted us 70 insert in our paper .
denial tina, he had told anything mere
than the facts, and insinuatius tha.
the false Story was !rntlTiH One
1t is needless to say that orr eouf.
dence in the vefaci,y Of Jones WAS
considerably shaken--.in fact, from
that time we have regarded him as a
corrupt old rascal, unworthy the COM
mou courttsies Of every day lie, and
a disgrace TO lis family and friends.
Another incident that confirmed Us
in this opinion Of Jones, WAS this: a
communication tom him was handed
in to be published, We wrote some
comments upon it and ordered it to be
put ia type, but when the time for
making up" our paper arrived, We
found that the article was aot in type,
and were therefore obliged to defer it.
a short card in reference to the sub
iect Of which Jones article treated
was inserted in that issue. The Dem
ocyat was circulated on Thursday
morning. At noon Jones came into
our Office aud asked why his article
had not been inserted, and we gave
him the reason in presence of the
workmen in our office. Jones went
Immediately to the Journal Office and
had paragraph inserted charging that
we had suppressed his commmica-
tion in order to "tOrestaU public
opinjOn !" Notwithstanding this
basenesS on his part, he afterwards
had the impudence to ask us to pub,
lish another Of his "whangdoodle" eff
fusions! Of course we refused.
Then he wrote an article for the
Journal over the signature of "X," "
charging us with sundry things in vio'
ation of the prophecies of life and
good order of society, which we had
never thought Of, much less commit
ted. We pronounced the author a
liar and scoundrel and challenged him
to reveal his name, but the cowardly
old imp, although lis reply gave us
to understand vino he was, never
would publicly announce himself as
the author.
Now, this whining, snoaking, dis.
honest old curmudgeon comes before
the public and rru.s Of lis "unsul.
lied reputation. talks about us try.
ing to saJNre it by naming him Rae
COO" Naotgator-a mere pretext to
vent his malignant spleen upon us in a
halt column OF invective and fish.
woman's talk.
The reader will see that we have