The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-08-23
His Only Argument.

For some three or four weeks in particular, our
friend up street, has been taking the short method
of answering the various things that have appear
cd in the Democrat, from time 80 time, that he did
not like and could not answer to suit himself nor
his masters When we give his and their own
language and figures. he saws ne .. lie,'' or the
conclusions We come to are 4" lies - but he does
not show wherein we have lied" from the fact
that he cannot lie knows he cannot, and that is
why he taxes the short method of answering these
articles When he pretcnds to answer any thing it
il something of very little Importance, and he on
" does it to direct the minds of his readers from
matters of much greater Importance, which he,
FULLER, OGIESEEE & CO., do not desire to have
discuss, Ell at any gre alter length.
There are some " stubborn facts y that stare
him in the face and he can think of no better way
to get along with them than to say that we " -
when We state these facts. He knows the annual
exhibit of Auditor uILER was a miserably boched
up. unsatisfactory and incorrect repor. of the fl
apees of the county, and that if the first two were
corset, that Mr. FULLER failed to account for the
snoneys have before spoken of, which in the last
exhibit b. reports, amounts to 81 .07265. If they
gere right. then the Auditor has authorized the
editor of the Republican to mutilate and change
tho exhibit. IA the hope OF deceving the people
and making them ,llink that everything had been
reported correctly. If there exhibits are incor-
rect, they certainly are then Mr.. FULLER is not
she eoNPErEyr 4" ETHICAL the editor wishes to
make the people Of the oeGuty believe he Is, and
after making such blunders, or, after having at
&cnpted 30 swindle the county ont of over 81 000,
IL comes with poor grace from ssim to be croak-
ing about the ineon,paene5 OF " dishonesty -
of others If he was an honest man, every time
ne wrote the word incompetent that triunc ex-
hisTt OF ls wo,id rise up before him, and I've would
there begin subtract, as IN his first exhibit and,
If he still contends that his first exhibits were right,
then the Sl-072.65 stands before him a witness
tisst conricts him of trying to deceive the tax
pagers Of the county. II he third exhibit was
correct then both the others were wrong, and tho
county Commissioners are alike guilty with the
Auditor for having signed false or untrue state
ment of the moneys of the county, for they "er :
anlined and approred'' the exhibits, and if they
were correct. then these " honest and compc-
tent =" official. have shown themselves to be eth
incompetent Rot a. honsst "a they have
professed to be. Right here, say, that so far
some of them are concerned, we impute it to their
ignorance, rs we believe them, or at least one of
them, to be an honest man but they have been
blowing about their /" competency az though it
ras impossible for them to make a mistake, and
haze accused other men. of just as good character
~ ;heis own, of dishonesty and embezzlemsnt,'
20 such an extent that they should be ashamed to
ask expect the sympathy of the people, for, how
can they expect the lenity and fairness that they
will not grant 20 others, who they have every rea-
son to believe % honest az they pretend TO De-
The editor OF the Republicas knows that the
competent and "obiging Treasurer has
gone contrary 10 law, and received unlawful mon
ey for the payment of taxes, and he knows that
the people are beginning to see the partiaity OF
this Official snd the old gentleman is afraid they
will administer the rebukc he so richly deserves
for his partial and unlawful course as an officer.
AL these things. and more, our neighbor kno'c'
60 be true aDd he knors also, that he cannot make
them nppe7r in any other light than "a I" stubborn
facts,u and he and his advisers or owners have
scttled on the policy of saying these facts arr
"lies," as they all understand, that the more the.
ATTEMPT to eypiain, the worse they make it. The.
have explained and exhibited their exhibits unit