The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-10-05
LIE
II ALLIED !

"LET IT BE KNowN-That George W.
Hill the candidate for reelection for Pros
cutting Atty, refused to do his duty as an
officer in regard to the Soldiers voting law,
and done all in his power to disfranchize
the brave men in the field fighting to up.
hold the stars and stripes. Will you vote
for a man who ~disregards the votes of the
soldiers ?-Ashland Times.
The author of the foregoing is a DELHI
crate falsi6er and the truth is not in him.
The fact was, a Republican Governor had
duly commissioned the Democratic Coun-
ty officers, and they had presented their
bonds for the approval of the Prosecuting
attorney as to form aud penal obligation;
and the game having been approved by
that officer, and the County Commission
ers, were duly fled in the proper place ;
and they respectively entered upon the
duties Of their various offices. A contest
originated, and actions were commenced in
the Court of Common Pleas as to who
were entitled to the Offices. During The
pending of these suits, an other Republi-
can Governor issued another set of bonds
to the contestants, which were likewise
presented for the approval of the Prosecu-
ting Attorney, who declined to do SO, sta
ting that the question of deciding the con-
test was now in the Courts, and until it
was decided there, he felt that it would be
improper for him to examine the bonds
but if, on the decision of the the case, it
resulted in favor of the contestants, he
would with pleasure examine their bonds
and approve them, if properly drawn
This is all there was of it. So there was
no attack upon the soldiers or any body
else, Bounty JEFF to the contrary notwith-
standing. But the lie is still more aggri-
waited, because it originated with bounty
JEFF, who stands accused of robbing Mont
gomery township and the soldiers, Of
some five or six tn ousand dollars of
money raised expressly to compensate vol
unteers for entering the army! He isea
pretty thing to talk about sympathy for
the soldier, whom he has defrauded out
of his just dues 2 He loves them as the
tiger loves the kid, merely for their blood!
And who is A. L. Curtis, that he is to
be eulogized by9bou unity JEFF? He is a
long, lean, lank, %cadaverous Yankee, who
came into this county from the Western
Reserve = few years ago as poor as Lazar-
us, who was taken in by the Democratic
party and fed some six years as Probate
Judge, and who returned the favor by be-
traying those who had fed and raised him
into consequence, before his second term
was half out, going over body md breech-
es to the abolition party, and cursing the
''dam' old Democratic party" as he then
styled it. He has done everything he can
since that time to break down the party
that out of mistaken sympathy, took him
in and fed him ] He is the man of;honor,
the pink of spotless purity, the man of un-
blemished integrity He has found a fit
man in bounty JEFF, to eulogize and puff
him into Republican confidence. Birds
of afeather always flock together, and JEFF
and Cnrtis are a handsome pair. Every
Democrat Of Ashland county can but
scorn the traitor and wretch Who once
sold them, after their generous conf
dence. So let them remember him at the
polls on Tuesday next, and give him such
a rebuks as will hereafter teach all rene
gades the estimation such treachery is
to have ; and the fate that such unprinci-
pied creatures are to meet, from the hands
of an outraged peopls.
So r