Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-10-03

let us and the world hear from him
at the "rroper time about county
printing. We don't know that the
public has particular choice of
time. The habitual and wilful liar
has made similar announcements
before but no explanation has yet
been made.
He is perfectly welcome to tell all
he knows, so far as our connection
with this question OF county printing
or any other OF public interest, is
concerned. But why has he not
given an explanation about the As
SCISSORS blanks long ago? He has
been repeatedly charged with swind-
ling the county for those blanks and
also OF having never printed a line
Of said job. Now, if those charges
are false, why Cont he expose the
same and justify; himself The mat
ter has been talked of for more than
year and half, yet not word of
denial or explanation has ever ap-
peared in his paper.
But how does it come that for the
year 1871 when he got the blanks
printed at Toledo, he charged the
county $3.50, and for the year 1872,
when the job was done at his own
office, he charged only about half as
much. ii his charge of S15O was
just last year, why don't he insist on
having the same this year, for same
work? The fact Is that public opin-
ion has forced him to come down
from his fave rite prices, although it
almost tears his soul out, But he
proposes to expose and denounce
orr former charges. Well, we new
er denied that the war prices charg-
ed when we first came here were cX-
erbitant. But we only charged
'scustomary prices which we were
infoYAaed would be allowed. And
we believe the Democratic Comm is
sioners never cut down single bill
for county printing presented by us.
If our bills were exhorbitant, it was
tue duty of said Democratic Commits
sioners to protest, tut they never
did anything of the kind. But in
compliance with honesty and consis-
tencywe uoluntarily presented reduc'
ed bills for such crumbs of printing
as was given US. This was all very
we'll till the renegade Brunner assum
ed control of the Democratic organ,
as we will show to the satisfaction
of all candid and honest tax payers
of this county. Three years ago, for
the first time, the "1abular State
ment of Stock in the State of Ohio"
was ordered printed in the Reps6.
Hcan. For that job we presented a
bill of .forty-t,co dollars. For the
same, the year previous, Zimmerman
charged and was allowed one hun
dred and tcenty dollars. But
for the same work the
following year, his bill was very
much reduced, still the Democratic
commissioners cut his bill down to
ours, Wig S42, and Auditor Maffett
and his deputy, r. A. McKelly,
boasted in our presence because this
was done and we understood them
to compliment US upon the reasona-
bieness of our bill. The Democrat
ieCommissicncrs served Mr.. thinner
man in similar manner with some
other bill, which it is not necessary
to particularize here.
Well, at the December session of
1870. we presented a bill of $50 for
the "Notice to Taxpayers
for which the Customary price"
paid for some previous years, was
$3.50. This reduced bill of $50,
which we presented, offended the
"Couft House ring" snd the follow
ing year the Treasurer refused to
have US print said notice. We how
ever printed it with the consent of
McClain and Nor
RAJ, and presented bill fer thesame of
S45 dollars, which at the last session
WAS unanimously allowed. Our
charge of S42 for ''Notice of Live
Stock &C." also gave offence to said
"Court House ring" and last year
the Auditor did not order it's publ
cation in our paper, but we publish
ed it with consent of Commlssi oners
Beam and McClain and we charged
for same S25 which at the last ses-
sion was also unanimously allowed.
Last year, because of similar dis
pleasure on the part Of the ring, the
notice of the "rimes of Holding
Courts" which has been customary
to publish in both papers, was also
withdrawn from our paper, which
we published with cons ent of Com
missioners McClain and Moral, for
which we charged SIS and was also
unanimously allowed by the Com
missioners at the last session.
The above three last bills, were
considered at the last December Ses
sion of the Commissioners, also with
the bill, of L. A. Brunner for similar