The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-02-27
Reformation and Retrenchment.

few days back contained an elabor-
ate, and well written article, Oh
the present Infamous and unprin-
cipled way in which the tax pay
ing public arcplundcred and robbed
by men in office, in all our counties,
by expanding the peoples money
without their ever offering to let
the various jobs, whether county
or city advertising, or any other
kind Of printing, to the lowest
bidder, who could and would exc
cute such work well, and at from
thirty to t~hirty.five per cent lower
than it is now done. We are of
the class of men, who call every
thing by its own appropriate name.
We never call a wheelbarrow-a
railway carriage, or a spade-a
plough, or efse-a COW, or a
man in oAicc-a disinterested and
independent gentleman. No, never.
And consequently, we "use great
plainness Of speech" in our present
structures, and very body pro
claim, that we defend the weak,
and expose the tyranny Of wrong
doors, in authority and office.
1t may suit the purpose of those
in office, in any county in Ohio, or
in any other State in the Union, to
collect the taxes, and eXpend them
just as they please, and employ
their own political friends, to do
whatever work there may be to be
done, in connection with q Court
House, or any other county work
which may happen to be Il the
grasp of "he PorerS that be-" Blu
we have net travelled five thousand
miles, and lived a political life OF
Ifhirty-eight years, without having
learnt that two and two always
make four-never five; and there.
fore, we are fully ready and ever
prepared, to prove to the satisfac.
ton of any honest man, or men.
that county printing ought to be
offered to public competition, il
the county in which the work i!
to be done. Any other basis, o.
principle, by which to be guided
is not to be found in the scienc,
of Jurisprudence. If there be al
Editor, scribbler, wise man, or
fool, prepared to dispute the lcga
andlogicalsoundness ofourassume'
position, in this sententious eX
position Of our vindication of right
/, against the unjust and unmanl,
conduct Of men in Office, in Eaton
who use the taxes paid by Demo
Gratis, to crush q stranger, and t
= support a printing establishment
, no doubt-we write it sincerely
respectable and well conducted, lie
him come forth into the light o
legal ethics, or moral truth, AM
try to vindicate the unwarrantabl(
unjust, immoral, andunmanly con
duet of the men, who dare to eE
pend our taxes, and the taxes pal
bv our Democratic friends, in tn
way they please, provided always
e that that way is such as to exa
f their own party, and to keep dow
and crush the Editor Of the Demo
cratic party and his friends !!
Gentlemen, take warning, ola;
arus is not dead, but sleepeth.
Can you understand your own lar
, guage? Listen to us, We ca
reason-we can write-wc car |
of use to you all, but we cannC
! afford to be trifed with ; that 20
will soon find out. We deman
that the printing Of Preble count,
f SO far as it may be county worl
and done at the expense of bot
. political parties, shall be let to tn
. lowest respectable tender, giving
bona ,fde guarantee that the wor
p shall be we'll and correctly don
If this fair, just, legal, and man.
) proposition, should be ignored |
=. you, and our money should still
y wrenched from US, and our Dem
cratic friends, to be expended ju
t as our lordly otiicc-holders mi
# think proper, the beam may kic
h the devil may ovcrdo his work, al
T. the inhabitants of Preble count
= may vet awake. and quench the