Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-02-11

4 VINO has read both papers during the past few
weeks, who Is not thoroughly ashamed of the
rem ,reak aLly dod1es and palpable subterfuges
the Gazette has resorted TO in order TO eyais the
damaging charges of THE CHRONICLE n
wecharged that under Democratic beard Of
= Commissioners in 1858 our local taxes were
i nearly 500 600 more than they had been under
Republican board in Is i, and the Gazette plead
ed the baby act . and said the county offices
had nearly ali been in the hands of the Repub-
llicaa party until recently, trying to create the
impression that the Treasurer, Sheriff, Clerk OF
the Court and Recorder were the officers that
levied and expended these taxes and. therefore.
the Republican party was responsible for the
1 increase, when he knew these officers had moth
n. all to do with the matter.
1t couldn't deny that the taxes had been in
Icreased as we charged, nor that the increase
| took place under a board Of Commissioners
elected by the Democratic party, and II was too
weak to fairly shit portion Of the response
bility by showing that a part OF this Increased
tax was levied by authorities over which the
Commissioners had no control; and out OF re-
spect for the Commissioners and Auditor, who
were thus so poorly defended. we published q
statement showing what portion OF these in
creased taxes had been levied by local authori-
Ties. The editor of the Gazette, learning that
Intended 10 MAKE SucH SucHfcfN, iduh schSC
| to keep his mouth shut or his pen still. but in
true "Gulfiver" style. In his paper OF that week
said: r- ...i- III .-g-.-
/ The editor is not a fool, and he knew well
while making the charge on the Commissioners
and Auditor, of increased taxation, they had
nothing In the world TO do with IL. We can't
think the editor will let this wholesale
SANDER of his go without making the d8,eRde
sonerae,e We shall wait another % ,h week and nd i
show that this attack on the Commissioners
and Auditor is malicious, without the shadow
of truth.
The meanness as well as the weakness OF
the editor is manifested in the first sencence,
where he declares that the Commissioners and
auditor hare nothing the tCorLd 10 do with the
increased taxation, and that we knew they
hadn't when we declared otherwise. The editor
of the Gazette knows-it is not a mistake-that
every dollar of tax placed on the tax-dupiicate
is placed there by the Auditor, although he
cannot control the amount and zt that the
Commissioners have full and e1clusire control
of the taxes levied for building bridges, main
tanning the poor, improving and building public
buildings, defraying county expenses, paying
county officers and county road tax, and the
sole right to determine how much shall be lev
led for each of these purposes. We say the
editor kaors that is SO, and yet he declared they
have nothing to do with it. The "Bombastus.
Eur1O6O OF the l&SL sentence ID very luOiSfOus.
II the editor only played silly we would
take no exceptions, for the playing would have
the merit of being natural: but he SO mixes the
knave and simpleton as to make it questionable
which predominates until the foolishness is
eliminated, and then his utterances contain
nothing but falsehood. The declaration that
the Commissioners had nothing 10 do with the
increased taxes is untrue that we know it, is
untrue, for we know just the reverse; that our
charge that the taxes had increased 100000
under the administration of a board of Conn
missioners is a wholesale slander, is untrue;
and that the Gazette man had any intention Of
giving figures TO show our attack was malicious,
is untrue; showing four deliberate untruths in
less than dozen lines. e. .i'~
The Gazette, not content with the utterance of
these palpable falsehoods. and its own utter in
ability to defend against our truthful and there
fore damaging charges Of increased taxes under
the democratic administration ofl loupty affairs,
seeks, in its last ISSUE by garbling our state
ment of two weeks ago, to cretae the impression
that we have recanted, and utters the following:
As we expected, the editor of THE CHRONICLE
backs down handsomely from the charge he
made against the Auditor and commissioners,
of heaping up Sl000oG additional taxes on the
people. He endeavors to excuse himself by
saying that we are making our wholesale
snarss snd s tbSuaht he Would try IT, The only df
ference between us, -neighhors is. that onr
charges are true and need dnoexplanation. Your
charges are false and hence you have 10 reirace.
This statement, like the one we have just dis
sected contains almost as many lies as hines.
and another evidence, If more were needed. Of
the complete inability of the editor to meet our
charges. In tie first place we never charged the
Auditor and Commissioners with heaping up
sl0O 600 additional taxes on the people" and of
course have not " backSx down." No man who
is tof choice an unfair scoundrel, win pot
false declarations in the mouth OF another for
the purpose of getting an opportunity to accuse
him OF faleehood.
What we charged, and what we repeat and
challenge any man TO contradict is, that under
a Democratic board of Commissioners the local
taxes of 1863 are sl00,0OO higher than the local
taxes of 1851 undera Republican board. This we
do not retract and we dare the Gazette TO deny
1t. The baby twaddle about the charges of the
Gazette being true is only adding impudence to
infaIny, and is a weak attempt to glory in its
own shame. 1t charged that the delinquent list
was the result of Republican extravaganza, and
we prove that 1t was a result of neglect of
Democratic officials to discharge properly their
duties and TO increased taxes levied by them.-
1t charged that the commissioners had nothing
in the world to do with levying these increased
taxes, aud We prove that they are the only per-
SONS who have anything to do with q very large
part OF them. And SO with every assertion made
by il since the commencement of this contro-
versy we have no trouble in showing Them to
be utterly untrue. but the trouble is, it is out of
one lie into another so quick that IL makes it q
little difficult for 10 keep the run of them. II
the editor OF the Gazette hal the least desire
either to represent US fairly or allow his readers
to understand the facts of this controversy, he
4 lii.
out a paragraph here and there and putting
them together as 70 destroy its meaning, and
then meanly misrepresent our statement. but
would publish our article and leave his readers
to Judge for themselves.
We will give him S. if he will publish our
article of last week in his paper, and an equal
amount tfhe win publish this. 81 I ffIEl
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