Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-08-08
LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Cunnel Jonny-the Model Stand
ard Eea yer of Ketolm!

Mr.. EDITOR AND FELLOW CITIZENS
My attention having been called to
the lying, shallow, filthy article in the
Union, headed "Grantites on the wal
path p ''and signed Liberal Republican,
and it having been suggested to me by
some of my friends, that | should re
sent it, am constrained to say Il few
words in regard to it.
It is, OF course, plain, to every reader
of the article in question, that, at least
SO far rs it refers to my self, that chaste
and altogether lovely model stand
ard bearer of reform CT the 14th Ohio
District, is its author, directly or indi-
rectlY. 1t is claimed by his friends,
who eNult over this stroke of his genius
that in his shrewdness, he did not allow
it to be handed in for publication in his
own writing, or over his own sigma
ture, but, only, in the hand writing and
over the signature, OF an irresponsible,
contemplate go-between! a trick a.
shallow, as it was cowardly. Since it
is so we'll known in the community,
that the real author, is abundantly il
responsible. and contemplate to insure
him perfect idemnity for all slanders he
may choose to originate upon rcspecta-
BILE men, this was 4 useless vase of
strategy. 1t is freely charged, that long
dissipation has demsnted this biped,
and this trick certainly affords strong
evidence ia support of the charge.
Through this article, am invited to
engage in a filthy newspaper contro-
versy, with common lying black
guard, who has no self respect to loose
l say once for all that decline the in
vitation. 1t would be an occupation
for which | freely admit, that | have
neither the inclination and genius, or
education and experience, of my adver-
sary. have sense enough to know that
this biped, now hypocritically wearing
the garb of leader of reform, could
throw more and filthier dirt than |, and
could distance me i'll the first heat at
lying. 70 prove his capacity, to some
extent, in these qualifications
which lately seem to have given him
such precedence in his party, over hon
est men, it is only necessary to refer to
this last effusion of his brain, in the
Dem. Union.
Besides these natural and acquired
advantages possessed within himself, he
also, has the additional. and very rare
advantage, of the free use of that rene
gade-preacherturn whiftet of an
editor, who. not only never had enough
sense to appreciate, or even to under
stand that there are any proprieties or,
even decencies of kin to the position of
an editor, but who, also, so long since
finally parted company with his last
spark of manliness, and the little re
gard for truth that was originally as
signed him, that. for years past, he has
not had the slightest recollection of the
time and place of the parting. On the
other hand, am aware that, if | could
so far lose sight of my self-respect, and
the disadvantages of the situation Us
above sketched, as to contemplate ell
tering into the controversy, L would
have 1T least the one advantage, of not
being compelled to go back sixteen
years to the boy-hood of my adversary
and even then OF locating my venue, in
Cincinnati. hundred and fifty miles
from the jury, so the proof of the indlct-
ment could only be made by my unsup-
ported testimony. If wished simply to
write Il truthful biography OF my oppo-
nents (for in damning him. lying would
be waitewaslIl, and to fairly illustrate
the wogk with engraving | think l
could find enough genuine material i'll
the exhibitions of the past month of his
life. as spent right ut home, to make
such Il book rs wo..ld be speedily sup
pressed foE -le safety OF public nlorali-