The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-05-18
TO NIX ENagsNEsS,

OyEIC:: CT TIE SPIRIT OF DEMoCRACy,i
MooDsF.ED, OHIo, Nav 10, 1869.
II is customary for candidates, after
announcing their names, to canvass the
county for The purpose Of ascerlaiaing
their prospects for nomination, their
own strength and the strength of their
opponents, and to urge their claims.
The unusua! press OK job work and
the labor necessary to insure tic appeac,
anee Of the "Spirit" each week will pre-
vent me from visiting MY friends iii the
different townships during the campaign.
NJ political views are well known to
the Democracy of Monroe Comfy, and
my merits and dement's may be learned
in any ncighborhooA.
TIC statement circaiatiaq, that I fc-
rorei tie passage gf 5M through the
Legislature authorizing The Commission
:rs to Iery an additional $4,000 to tin
iSh M1 Court House is false in ereyy
particular TIE bW nersr passed Mr.
HEADLEr, ia a letter written during
April, asked my opinion. I replied that
the Court House had cost enough al
ready and advised him to work to pre-
vent the passage of the bill. lie did SO
and for so doing deserves credit
Against the gentlemen opposing me for
the Office Of Representative l have no
manufactured ''electioneering tales" to
tell. l leave that to such as may have
a taste for it.
We are before the people, Let the
people decide at the ballot box who
shall represent them.
The following is the correspondence
referred to above:
CoLUMBUs, Ono, April 16, 1869.
II. r. WEST, ESQ SIR: What is
your opinion about the passage of law
to allow the Commissioners of our coun
ty to levy a tax of fifteen thousand dol
Lars to finish and furnish court house ;
also to fence the same? This bill passed
the Senate aist is now in my drawer, and
never has been, nor never will he read
the third time fl say So. Yours truly,
f. HEADLEY.
OFFICE OF THE SPIRIT OF DEMoCRACY,l
WooDsrIELD, c. April l9,1S69.
HoN. ELIEL HEADLEY-Dedr Sir: In
relation 10 the fifteen thousand additional
for court house purpose, let it die! The
law passed at the last session authorized
the Commissioners to levy $4,000, and
in addition TO that they can levy SIC. 900,
making total of $4,000, whjch is as
much as ore court house ought to cost -
The people are already taxed beyond
their ability to pay. Keep that bill in
your drawer, is my opinion. Respect
fully, H. r. WEST,
LEE TOWNSHIP
In relation to the passage of the bill
creating Lee township, I learn from a
gentleman living in Jackson township,
that certain candidate for Representa-
tive had referred the people to H. R
WEST to learn the icorkangs previous to
the passage of the bill.
That candidate, 7 care not ,rho he is,
,cj!fully and knoriHgly told ,chdt he kner
TO be false. I kne,c nothing Of such Dill
until I noticed the action, in the Senate,
Qf Mr GOLDEN, Senator, from the AHens
District, wto ofercd it, And did not
kRow anything more definite concerning
it until the biz ,ras furnished By our
member for publication.
Such falsehoods will not benefit any
candidate, but will react to his great 9is-
comfturc at the polls on Saturday, the
9Th day of June.
COUNTY PRINTING!
The story about having received
eighteen or nineteen hundred dollars for
one years printing is the emanation of
an idle and silly brain. Here is an ex-
tract f.om the Commissioners Report
from September, 1867 to September,
1868:
II. r. West publishing Commissioners
Report, semi-annual statements of
Treasury, adverti,ing notices. con-
tracts, Treas. and other blanks, &c, S9SS 2j
Previous years the printing and ad-
vertising amounted to not quite seven
hundred dollars a year. The burning of
the Court House made the increase for
1858. An examination OF the &uEi-
tors books will prove this.
HENRY T. WEST.