Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-07
Lake Erie, Evansville and South
.Testarn Railway

The person who penned the column
and a half of o in the last Eaton
REGISTER, on the above. enterprise,
and charged MS with ALWAYS being
opposed to it," wILLFULLY wrote a
lie, aud the editor KNOWINGLY pub
lished it, and we now ask Isaac Nor
ris and his nan Friday to prove their
declaration by the FACTS, or stand
branded before this community as a
brace of deliberate, wilful and mali
cious falsifiers. For ISAAC S. NOR
RIs, there is an excuse-he lacks COM
mon sense and brains-but for the
other person, who loaned himself to
the b~rninless fraud of the REGISTER,
there is no palliation whatever, be-
cause no one knows better than he
does, that individually we have always
favored this enterprise, and that the
columns of the DEMOCRAT was, and is
yet, free for anything the least favora-
bic to it; and that he himself has used
them time and again, in the interest
of the Road, and in urging upon
citizens along the line the importance
and necessity of subscribing the re-
duired amount of stock, and thus Sc
cure it. Why then did he pawn him
self to Isaac Morris, TO sit down and
deliberately pen this falsehood against
us and the DEMocRAT? 1t is true, Tor
the last three or our months, we have
not burdened our columns with arti-
Giles in regard to this Road, and for
two reasons, to-wit: First, in common
with a minority of our citizens, our
aiti: has become impaired as to the
building of the Road. and secondly,
we were satisfied that "a majority of
fhe readers of tho DEMOCRAT preferred
something else. They grew tired of
having il built upon PAPER, and read
ing of work about TO be done that
never was done. The citizens of the
county have done their duty, but stand
ready TO do moro whenever they are
convinced of its success. The little
squib of the DEMocRAT. which seem
cd to touch the bucolic and sensitive
friend o. Likely so imprcssively, we are
confident will not stop the building
OF the Road, neither will anything we
might write push the work to COM
i,lefion. We arc no autoinaton-our
opinions in this matter are not noul-
ded for us Dy otllers-no does "self
respect" as the tool OF the REGISTER
remarks, demand that VIC should re-
main "silcnt" upon so important a
structure, fcr fear me might come in
conflict with MISUNDERSTANDING in
tcrested. The use -four columns and
the work we have done in the inter-
est of the Road has been without a
price or the prospect of a "fee," and TO
secure it, or any other public enter
prise, we will do as much, in proper
iion to our ability, for nothing, as the
editor of tho REGISTER or the "soft
crab whom he has engaged to assist
him in his work of propagating and
publishing bare-faced falsehoods a
gninst the DENoeRAT, in regard to
public improvements.
1t is said that by touching a mans
pocket, you can effect his religion, his
politics, his decency and his homer;
and this reminds us of a t1ittle story"
connected with this Rail Road bust
ness, that we may some day give an
airing, and which viii account for the
3miik in the cocoa nut" and why a
four line squib stirred up so much
bitterness and Misrepresentation III
the bosom of key and his man FRI
day.