The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1871-09-07

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The Standard of This Week
Is compelled 10 eat its own
words. |. L. Monnahan and
B. Kahn publish cards refuting
the slanders upon Judge Ply,
ley, circulated by that paper
last week. Mr.. Mackley en-.
deavors to crawl out of it, and
in one place says that it was a
lie, and he knew that DR.. Mon.
ahon would expose it. Then
why did you endeavor to i'm
press your readers with its
truth by pretending 1t was en-
dorsed by truthful men, and by
offering US 81 per square for its
publication so endorsed? Bat
in another place Mr.. Maeklev
tries to make his readers be-.
lleve it was all true and it was
another man who said it. Bah!
we don't want to sickle about
persons. Send on your copy
endorsed by any man whom
you are willing TO endorse as
a truthful, honest, responsible
man, as you did Mr. Kahn or
DR.. Mcmahon, and We are still
in the market.
lie goes back On his propo
sition to send the Standard to
our citizens free of charge, on
the preIence that bogus names
we're being sent. Mr.. Mackley
knows that tLis Is a pretence,
for he submitted some of the
lists to John S. Hawk of our
town, and Mr.. Ii. assured him
that all the names were those
Of bona fae citizens of Vinton
county, and at the same time
told him a list of bOnaf fde ci,i,
zens was being made up in
McArthur-the one hundred
names which Mr.. Mackley es-
pecially refers to as bogus and
the very large majority OF
which names were signed hy
the persons in their own hands
D. NJ. will find the figures we
quoted last week on pages 194
and 1876 of the Second Edition
of the Annual Report of ii e
Secretary Of State. We never
pretended that they resresent
ed The entire costs Of the Court,
but only Of a particular class ol
cases--the "total amount of
costs in criminal ca es," as
taxed against both the people
and the defendants. There
are no compiled statistics Of
the entire costs Of Courtsin tie
several counties, and we, there
fore, last week, challengd Mr..
Harper's friends to select one
of their number, who in comp,
any with one of Judge Plyley's
friends should make a tour Of
the several counties of South.
ern Ohio, and report the facts
in plain figures, their joint re
port to be published all of the
newspapers of the subdivision.
We received no reply to that,
nor to our proposition for the
publication of certain letters.
Are Mr.. Harper's friends afraid
of the truth?
And now as to the candi
dacy of Mr.. Bundy last tall the
Standard well knows that we
said nothing to prejudice the
interests of Mr.. B., not one dis
respectful word, but quite the
contrary; nor did we say one
word about boiling in jackson
county, or even know that a
bolt was talked of there. The on
ly sign of dissatisfaction that we
saw was that Davis Mackley,in
pursuance of a previous threat,
came home from the conven
ton and went to publishing a
continued story in his paper,
instead Of devoting it to the
election of the Republican
ticket, and we have no doubt
he added thereby to the Re
publican majority in Jackson
county.
We are glad that after hav
ing entirely exhausted himself
d. NJ. is convinced that Abuse,
or misreprese ntative of candi.
dates is all wrong" We have
no doubt that the good people
of Jackson county helped
Davis Mackley in reaching
that conclusion. They would