The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-07-29
"wIitten, A. D., 1870, by j. N. G., a
standing candidate, for forty years,
for any Office In the gift of the
mani Every word
of il a LIE!"

Conservative from the malicious attacks
being made on it by j. a.. G., and also
to save the Democracy from being
duped into giving material aid to the
Radical County Ticket, we will notice
some of the falsehoods in these circu-
lars.
The assertion relative to our refut
sing 10 publish a Democratic Call, we
answered satisfactorily two weeks
ago, and We will not bother our read
ers any more about it.
The circulars say that "the Conser-
vGtire has pulled down the Democrat
ic flag and hoisted that of the Prohi-
bitionists." How a man can have the
cheek to write and publish such false.
hoods in a community where the Con-
servative c~irculates, is a little mysteri-
Gus. To do so, he must certainly
think the people would believe him if
he told them that the moon is:compo-.
sed of great quantities of green cheese
manufactured by the farmers of the
Western Reserve. Every reader ofthe
Conservative knows that the Democrat
ic State Ticket, which is the universal
ly acknowledged flag" of the party,
has not been pulled down, but that it
floats to the breeze, endorsed and sus-
tanned, in every issue of the paper;
and it is equally well known that we
have not hoisted the flag Of the Prohi-
bitionists. Our hosting of the Prohi-
bition County Ticket is not considered
by the Prohibitionists themselves as
an evidence that the Conservative en-
dorses their State Ticket or Platform;
but that we are in favor of the election
of County officers who are not pledged
by political alliances with violaters of
our existing laws to the non,enforce-
ment of said laws.
But theacirculars say nthe Demo-
cratic State Platform no longer ap-
pears in the Conservative, but is cast out
as a worthless weed its place will
be found the Prohibition Ticket"
The propensity for a drowning man to
clutch at a straw was never more ap-
plicable as an illustration than liz j.
VI. G. sattempt to make capital out of
our ceasing to keep the Democratic
State Platform standing in our paper.
We pdblished the Platform for seveo
raj ~weeks-long enough for every man,
woma and child in the county 70
become acquainted withSits provisions.
Intending, as we do, to publish q live
paper, giving our readers as much new
matter as possible every week, we
thought our patrons would rather
see the column occupied by the Plat
form occupied by something they had
not committed to memory. We get a
good many Democratic papers from
all parts Of Ohio, and there is but one
of them that keeps the Platform
standing. We recommend to j. N.
6. hat he proceed to immortalize
himself by reading ali these papers
out of the Democratic party. He will
find amongst these papers the Cfnaa-
natl Daily Enquirer and the Daily Ohio
Statesman. But j. NJ. G. asserts in his
circulars that the Prohibition ticket
be found in the place in the Con-
that was occupied BY the Dem
cratic State Platform. We need only
cite anyone to our paper to refute
his assertion. The Platform, as all
BUR readers web know, was Published
On the first column of the second
page Ofour paper, while the ProhibisI