The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-06-12

Grounds, purchase of lumber, nails, &c,
and carpenters work in making seats,
speakers stands, &c, buggy and dray
hire, S75 to SlOO for bands, powder, wages
of men for firing cannon, large colored
posters, 500 for flags, 800 for fireworks,
&c, &c, &c.
For like sum of money 1 could have
placed in the hands of voters 5000 copies
of the STANDARD, containing your tariff
speech. 1t would have cost $l5 to have
it set up. 5000 extra copies of the paper
would hava cost $3.50. The postage on
them, at , cents each, would have cost
800 more. 1t would have taken me, or
any other man, from ten days to two
weeks, to fold, wrap, direct, stamp and
mail them L then thought that this
would do you more good under the then
existing circumstances, than half dozen
big meetings. OF course L may have been
all wrong in this The Democrats said
that you had not sense enough to get up
such a speech, but that some clerk in
Washington had prepared it for you. l
did not know or care. 1t was good thing,
and calculated to do you much good
in this region, where all, of both parties,
are so strongly in favor a tariff, especially
on iron 1t was called your speech, and
you claimed it as yours.
Here you come again:
| ssForeWarned, forearmed.' / have watched
you, and all desired at your hands was to be
let alone. 1 do not deny that you had perfect
done so in an honorable way, L should have
thought none the less of you. But 1 deny your
me to the extent of $500 Under the pIetext that
that working for me would be an up hill busi-
ness"
l say again that you are mistaken when
you say that 1 opposed your nomination.
1t aoas an uphill business to work for
you. 1 had heard that E. P. Evans Esq,
a prominent Republican lawyer of West
Union, father of N w. Evans Esq, Of
Portsmouth, was working against you,
and you know l asked you about this in
your room at the Biggs House in Ports
mouth on the evening before your nom
ination in 1870. There was witness
present. You said it was true, but Mr..
Evans was mad at you, something about
collection you had placed in his hands
as your attorney. Perhaps you was not
in fault, but you admitted that he would
not support you. l have already shown
by extracts from the Portsmouth Tribune
and West Union Defender, what was the
feeling against you in Scioto and Adams
counties.
told you in my other article of the
extent and nature of the opposition to
you in Jackson county, which you dare
not deny.
Let us hear you further
"You committed bIunder when you tried
that 6lGck-nldtlt1ag business, which never would
have been made public, and for which might
have forgiven you, but for your unmanly peF-
> sonal attacks.
l never made any personal attacks on
you. I have abundantly shown during
the past four weeks, that what 1 said
about your plundering of the treasury
was mild as milk when compared with
what other papers are saying about you
: and other men who have been guilty of
this great national disgrace.
And here you wind up:
s'See how long 1 bore them in silence! and
now like all other evil doeTs, you squirming,
and trying to get out of it, or at least to anchor
ar fP or m or Of fhsn Bf
You have caused Inc some trouble, and yourself
| dictive spirit With all my good nature (and
1 am glad to have it,, there is point beyond
driven, and especially by a man whom he
knows has been trying to injure him for years
} his denials to the contrary Notwithstanding.
And if you will allow me, am not quite aoiHtng
+ ''JoHN T. WILSON"
t Never mind feeling sorry for me.
After the Jews betrayed Christ, they
went around bowling. They were so
sorry. He told them not to weep for
him, but for themselves.
1t is rather amusing to see the papers
in your interest squirming and lodging.
Not paper in your old or new district
that published your first letter to me, ex-
cept the Ironton Register, had the manli-
ness and love Of fair play, to publish my
reply. Why? The Portsmouth Tribune
? has been oficious and meddlesome from
/ the beginning. 1t advised you to lie
: yourself out of what you told me on the
, cars, and you have come up and done so
because l had no proof. The Tribune and
: other papers say that Smith denies get
ting money from you. Smith does no
such thing. One paper will say it got no
money from you for editorial a0ork An
other will say that it got no money from
you except a0hatt paid for. But how much
: did each get from you for extra and cam
! paign papers? When / objected to re-
i ceiving your money as it might be charged
that was getting money for the politi-
; cal tone of my paper, you expressly said
that it was for other purposes, and par
/ ticularly named extra campaign papers,
! and in this connection remarked that
there was nothing wrong in it, and that
all the other papers had taken your
money in this way.
The dodge about editorial work is ex-
; actly like the dodge of Mr.. Colfax last
: summer, but the troublesome little mem
orandum book of Oakes Ames brought
the thing to light. Inever said that any
papers had accepted your offers of money
for extra papers. L said that you said
they had. Now they pitch into me, as
) if I had made some accusation against
them, and commence the Calfax dodge
If they want to deny any further 1 NAV
' make some of their ears tingle before
: they get through with it. I cQ;a prave. bu
r the books of j. q j. SyeVin o Sons, that the
check go" sent me 'aos not the only cheek yo,s