The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-05-15

drel; that all you wanted was Office and |
money, and that you cared nothing for |
me, only as you could use me for your |
own selfish purposes; that when you had |
no further use for me you would cast me |
which was right. The Democrats knew
more than 1 thought they did, and 1
knew very much less than 1 thought /
did.
1t seems that all the fine things said
about you during those nine years, were
annoying to you. Now you speak of
them as compelling you to submit to full
some puffs But you must remember
that there was some mutuality in this.
/ can say to you as Sal said to Jonathan
Il am as much ashamed of it as you are
Let me tell you this story Jonathan
| took Sal home from singing school, and
when he left her at her fathers door
step, he said "Sal, don't tell anybody
that l beaued you home tonight
Never fear that" said Sal; Il am as
much ashamed of it as you are, Jona-
/ than" l tell you, some of your speeches
were pretty heavy load for me. Once
L got out posters for meeting at the
Court House. I put them up myself
where 1 thought they would do the most
good. made personal effort and got
the women and the Democrats out. And
oh such a speech as you madel You got
your figures all mixed, and then
to relieve yourself you tried to be witty,
and you cut as sorry figure as the ass
in the fable, that tried to play the poo
die in his masters parlor The Demo
Gratis were winking and iibing all over
the house, and they were poking fun at
me for a week, and mimicking you as
you as you tried to talk about the
taa-riff Weak-minded as /. may have
been, [ always had sense enough not to
claim that you had any ability. l always
went it on your honesty, until the salary
grab knocked that prop from under me,
| never thought that making speeches
did you much good with the people.
Sending squash seeds and little bags of
peas under your frank was worth moro
than all your speeches.
You have held office so long, and made
so much money at it, that you are utterly
unable to conceive how any one can be
actuated by any other motive than a sell
fish one. Money and office are all that
you think can induce any man to action.
Suppose 1 would stop right here. Which
would stand before the public the more
disgraced? Your charge is substantially
this: that ! wrote to you that there was
| II 0f Il in, hot
l had the means Of doing you a service !;
that if you would pay me for the extra
work, 1 would do the best I could for
you; that l would as soon rest; that if
you did not think the services worth the
money, it would be all right. You do
not pretend that | said, or intimated, or
even limited, that 1 would bolt your
nomination, or oppose your election, or
even fail to support you, if you refused
me the money of which you speak And
yet you call it an attempt to black mail
you.
Ny charge about your letter is this
that you admitted to me that you stood
on the army records as DESERTER
: from the flag Of yoaer country, aOhich yost had
taken an oath to defend. But would con-
; slider that 1 was great scoundrel if I
; would stop here, and not explain that
you also wrote to me that you had asked
of Gen. Denver a court martial the next
January, to get this ugly matter smoothed
: up, and that said court martial was or
ganized, and found that you had an ex.
cuse for your absence, and that you had
not been guilty of actual or constructive
desertion.
Your theory is that because you would
not give me five hundred dollars, trouble
commenced right then, although you say
in another place that l had commenced
misrepresenting you before that time Il
that had any truth in it, why did not
manifest my malice when it would dc
you the most harm-in that same cam
paign, when / must have been smarting
under my disappointment in not getting
the money, according to your theory
The files of the STANDARD, and my per
: sonal efforts in your behalf, and my
treatment of those who bolted your nomi
nation, completely refute your charge OF
; trouble.
Finding perhaps that this charge could
: be so easily met, you claim that it was
t something which occurred afterwards in
, the Postoffice matter. You seem to wish
to throw out the idea that asked you to
have my son-in-law appointed Postmaster
at Jackson True, you do not say so.
, Now did l ever ask you to have my SON
in-law, or my son, or myself, or any
friend, or any person appointed to Office
But then I thanked God that there was a
hereafter. True. But that contained
no threat towards you. 1 had written
certain things to you which you appeared
, to doubt. l told you that time would
prove that / was correct, and in that
connection 1 used those words That
thereafter" arrived some time ago. and l
sent you proof of it in a printed slip
posted on one of my letterheads, without
word of comment, we'll knowing that
you would understand it, You seem to
ignore the fact that there was another
applicant for the position of Postmaster
here besides my son-in-law and the pres
ent incumbent, and that he was an hon
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