The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-09-20
wilmer on the war Path

Winners greed for office has kept
him a standing candidate for any
thing that is available, and his capa-
city is equal to filling all the offices
in the county to Judge from the fact
that he is now filling the office of JUS
tice of the peace, and township clerk,
and is candidate for Probate Judge.
Besides he is editor in chief Of the
Courier. We stated the fact of his
capacity, and the fact of his now
serving his fifth term as justice, and
he ungraciously goes for us after the
following manner:
can objectionable sin is it in the
eyes Of the Fremont Journal that
Wilmer has already been elected five
times as Justice of the Peace. This
could not happen to Aunt Balsley or
his impertinent blond assistant.
They could at most be elected once,
but certainly no more afterwards. :"
Oh! thou ungrateful nephew, to
taunt us so with our infrmity. What
would you have? Hast thou not es-
poused the cause of the one term
principle candidate, who did not hes
itate to call the ''horse thief" "black
leg" &c?. And hast not thy CONVEX
sion to Greeley cured thee of thy
desire for a life estate in office.
FiUe terms, and yet candidate for
more. Out upon thee. Thou art
greedy. But not content with
squelching US in that manner, he tries
it again, thus:
"If the readers of the, Fremont
Journal some fine day should read
in their paper that Wilmer had
caused the great confiagration at
Chicago, then we would pray, pray
them not to believe it."
Now that is pathetic truly. And
in his earnestness he beseeches them
not to believe US, evidently thinking
they would believe us sooner than
him. But if we should tell them that
Wilmer caused confagration in
the streets of Fremont, on the 18th
of April, 1851, by his incendiary ap-
peals in behalf of the rebels, and that
the edition of the Courier con-
tanning those appeals fed the flames,
in the presence of an indignant peo-
ple-peOple of his own race, who
spurned the counsels he then gave
them, and who even now remember
the baseness of his appeals; would he
say to our reader "Pray, Pray, do not
believe it?'' Yet such did Wilmer.
He then leaves us and goes for our
candidate for Probate Judge. After
asserting that the temperance men
had nominated John L. Greene, as
their candidate, he charges his ac-
ceptance of the nomination, and ar
CUES that Mr.. Greene would be in
honor bound to carry out their prin-
ciples. If temperance principles in
ajudge unfit him for the performance
of his duties in administering the
laws, then we have indeed fallen on
evil times. But apply Winners ar
gument. IfMr. Greene, because the
temperance men will vote for him, is
in honor bound to adhere to their
principles, then Mr.. Wilmer, because
anti;temperance men vote for him,
will be in honor bound to sustain
and adhere to their principles. Does
Mr.. Wilmer desire it to be under
stood that he will protect the liquor
interest, despite the law and the tes-
monyP Or does he pretend to say
he will not administer the law
against his liquor supporters? We
would like an answer to these ques-
tons. The laws upon the statute
book must be regarded in cases of
under them, or else the
Judge who hears the case must be-
come criminally inefficient and pros
titute his grave duties under foot,