Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-17
[From the Springfield Transoript.l l.s-as-.
The Advertisersand John HI.
ThOu,0s

Ness, as We'll ds IN MS pOllLlcal IeiattOns.
In its issue of Friday last 1t asserts that Mr..
Thomas is cool, calculating man, and
looks only to his own interests, possessing
no generous impulse, and further attempts
to back up this statement by saying that
very exacting set of. rules were made for;
the government OF the 's Buckeye" works.
which, in modified form, are the laws
that govern that manufactory to this
day. The first rule, according to the
Aduertiser, requires promptness, and q
violation of this rule In being hehind time
five minutes lost one-fourCh of a days
work to the hand. That the rules further
disallowed talking, singing. whistling, or
leaving of work, and the Adrertiser further
says that but for the name of it the Ohio
Penitentiary would be as good a place for
working men as the Buckeye Works; and
that by q combination with other manufac-
turers Mr.. Thomas was enabled to compel
workmen to remain in his employ even
against their own inclinations, no, other
factory being allowed to employ them,
and that workingmen were compelled to
give thirty days notice before quit
ting the shop; that the rules allowed no one
to visit or converse with q workman em-
ployed there during business hours, and
that Mr.. Thomas had In one or two instan-
ces called the attention of persons violating
this rule to the fact and requested them to
leave the shops. That is all the Advertiser
iel1 auio W aUouI MI. 1nOlnas, business
relations, put n the article following, the
one we quote from, it undertakes to en-
Tighten ''its foreign Democratic friends, y
by asserting that Mr.. Thomas was one ,Sof
those sweet scehted individuals who enter
ed the s dark x and dimly- !i lighted halls of the
ME-. y :, !. I'm e. aa 9el,, III !.
con,d hays dictatad ~ ~ LILY " sp,r,I
ing - ,,aLa ~ =.
rs e., W SSIai Sapsai IVY " pllvaee
and verv anna rent malicnanf snirit mani
tested in that article would render il. harm
less. but Mr.. Thomas believing otherwise.
saw proper to publish card in Monday
evenings Repubiic denying in toto the truth
of the assertions in both articles. ~
Mr.. Thomas states that after the Aduer-
tiser had published these untruths, he called
on the editors, offering to prove to their
satisfaction that they had entirely misrep-
resented him, thus giving them the oppor-
tunity to make the dnaende honorable. With
out offering any reasons therefor they chose
to remain silent. . ~ -, 3.
In answering the Adpertiser,s charges
againsb him, Mr. Thomas saws ,--'''e'- ~ ,
1.-THE article on KNOWN Nothing' has not
a single true statement in it. NV position
with reference to every, statement made
therein was always, and is now. Just the
reverse of that claimed by the Advertiser.
/ never had, in any way, or at any time
any connection whatever with the Know
Nothings-never approved it; never spoke
for it, but was always opposed to it, as
every man well knows who has known my
sentiments, and there are many in this city
who do know them." - -. 80,
IN In regard to governing his workmen by
tyrannical rules, he says, without going
into detail, not single paragraph in that arti-
Gle is true-not even a material statement is
correct. 80, "a + 81 +. - s,,s5 sf5,7,-.,,,
80 About as flat a denial as words can make.
Mr.. Thomas continues: -, 1900 -,
) 7.sAilow me in this connection to saw fur
ther, that / have never laid claim to be the
especiaI CHAMPION. of the working men.
They can take care of Themselves. Rnt5
am the friend of the working man inst as I
am the friend of every other respectable
mn: and vet / do not remember anv con-
test of anv kind. at anv time. in which i
have NOT taken sides with that class, inst as
nronose to do in the nresent contest h.
tween the hondbolders on the one side and
the industrial class on the other side. =
ssI treat all working men with respect at
all times and in ali places: give them adj
v;oe whom Tcan and neyer Sace;ve them.
and then. whenever If is in mT nower' as /
find them worthy. I mineie with them con-
stantly. and they respect me. We are on
good terms, Our interests are mutual, and
together we are pertorminpa a work valuable
to this civ And If does seem to me If ia
not onlv nnoenerons and nnlsind for anv-
bodv to lend himself to creating strife and
III feeiing hatween the worL;no mon and
mvself. bnt also a wrong and a mischief of
which NO candid man Will 'annroven - -.
Rv this card the antbnr of the Al,,,ert;se,.
article was in nosition tn nrove his asser-
tions or acknowledge that he wilfullv lied.
He chose to do neither. The Aduertiser of
Tuesday morning only reasserted the
:.
to demand the proof, Considering the rel,
alive position of the two men-Mr. Thomas
an acknowledged Gentleman of ,yeracity
and honor. Mr.. Hook with a reputation vet
to establish in both these particulars--at
least after the denial of Mr.. Thomas-we
should most assuredly believe it to be time
for Mr.. Hook to prove his charges, or stand
liberate falsehood. That's plain truth. 4
If in the heat of partisan warfare. a Jour
nalists chooses also to wage a personal war
fare, he must be prepared to back his as
sertions with proof or bear the conseQuen-
ces, and he can not escape when, called to
account by exclaiming s.that no one dares
to call for the proof" So far as we are con-
cerned when we descend to personalities
we do not propose to publish any statement
that is not susceptible of proof, and then
wsl will stand by it to the end.ia oa- u aolsI
Not resting content with bringing busi-t
ness relations into this Congressional can
vass, the Advertiser must drag MraThomas'
wife before the public and attemptto make
political capital in that direction. Poor
woman! She must be sorry now that she
is the wife OF the next Congressman from
this distriet.W asfn ssiri'7 20 is5i3a 5dl p
The Republc (which fully understands
how to sneak around bold assertions), says
in its issue of Monday last that swe (the
Republic) have been solicited to attack
the regulations of the Buckeye Agricultu-
raj Works, and to give an airing to Mr..
Thomas' family matters.n thus cleyerIv
intimating that there is something wrong
with both, but that they fthe seditors) are
too hign-minded to publish the facts.
Without doubt, the editors of the Repub :,
Tic meant that Mrs. Thomas was at one time