Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-12-16
County Printing.-The last Gazette

County PrtutfnS.-Ine last OhNeils AT
tempts to meet the statements that in the ad-
Joining Republican counties the Sherifs and
Master Commissioners advertising was done
in the paper in which the Attorneys and litl-
gants directed it TO be printed, by dodge. We
charged that Judge Way had meanly taken
from us. and given to the Gazette advertising
that in other counties. and always in TINS
county until he changed the rule. had been
given to the paper indicated by the Attorneys
or parties to suit. The Gazette does not deny
this. but attempts to defend Judge Way by as
serting that from the time Of his election the
| CHRONICLE was personally abusive of him, and
for this reason he concluded not to give US the
patronage. The editor of the Gaze. e knows
that he assets what is untrue. No word of
censure or abuse of Judge Way ever appeared
in the CHRONICLE until more than year after
his election and not until he disgraced himself
and brought reproach upon his position Men
in ofiice are the servants OF the pubic and II
they render themselves unfit, by intemperance
or any other cause, to faithfully discharge the
duties of their position, the editor OF a public
journal is unfaiihful to his duty 10 that public
if he fails to censure or expose the delnquents-
If the gentleman who edits the county printing
for $, ,s9S year, thinks he can frighten as by
the threat contained in the following, he is very
much mistaken:
"a few more such slurs ON Democratic Off
cIals as his last article on the Court OF Common
Pleas and its officers will no doubt do the busi-
ness for him. Forbearancr may cease TO De
virtue with The DE mocratic officials
shortly after the Fall election two years ago
a movement was inaugurated among the cone
top leaders to cut OFF all patronage from this
paper, expecting by that means to starve out
its editor. Tney decided, however, that the
Auditors Office could not be controlled and
they abandoAed the purpose. We want TO say
distinctly TO the editor the Gazette and the
starye-out junto, that the success of the CHRoN-
IcIE is beyond their reach and control. 1t has
now a larger circulation than it ever had, or
than the Gazette now las, Notwithstanding the
faIsehood at the head of its local column to the
con ary and our cash receipts for the year 1868
have been six hundred dollars larger than
they were in 1858; and our circulation and aa-
ver,is:ng patronage are steadily increasing
We want tue people of Belmont county to ex-
anime the article in the last Gazette upon TINS
subject of advertising. We always supposed
that the advertising by the officers was done IN
order to let the people-the taxpayers OF the
county see and know what was gong on, but 1t
seems according to the declarations OF the or
gan" that all the money expended for this pur-
pose, amounting last year to over four thousand
dollars, was SO much money given or Withheld
to reward or punish the ed tors of certain pa
pers 1t is patronage in the hands OF county Of
fcers with which to reward friends or punish
enemies, and the Republicans of Belmont coun-
ty who pay more than half of all the money
collected and disbursed by these county Off
GERS, are to be deprived of all opportunity to
read or know anything about what is done with
it, because the editor of their paper exposes
drunken officials, or will not assert that the
present Court of Common Pleas is the great est,
and wisest, and smartest, and most honorable
Court ever seen here or elsewhere, when he and
everybody else knows it aint true. Shut off the
patronage gentlemen, if you think you can
make it pay, but We give you fair warning now,
that whether you shut it off or not, we intend
to denounce every drunken official who renders
h 'mself unfit for the discharge of his duties by
his intemperance, SO loudly and fearlessly that
we will get the public ear on this subject. Go
on with your reward and punish theory while
you have the opportunity, and bleed the dear
people as they have never been bled before, but
remember that the day of reckoning will come