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

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that hitherto have been mysterious. 1t explains
clearly why Maellley of the Jackson STANDARD
Is so down Oh the Hon. W.
The above charge, about years of
abuse and -your statement about mis-
representations in 1870, are utterly false,
as every reader Of the STANDARD well
knows.
Now Mr. Wilson, let us talk to each
other like decent men, and not like
couple of quarreling children. You now
pretend to feel contempt for me and my
paper, and claim that l am mean, mer-
cenary and vindictive. Now did you not
always express the warmest friendship
for me, both personally and in our cor
respondence Did you not tell me in
that same campaign of 1870 that you re-
garded the STANDARD as the ablest and
most influential paper in the district?
Did you not consult me about placing
money where it would do the most good?
Not to be more specific, do you not re-
member the purchase of that drum, for
instance? Did not save you from being
further "blackmailed" in that case? Did
you not come into my office in August,
| 1868, as a friend, and hand me roll of
money, no insignificant sum? You did
not tell me where to place it, but knew
you intended it for my own private use.
Did not hand it over to the Central
| Committee at the first opportunity? Did
you not scold me the next time you saw
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not tell you that 1 did not want money
/ in that way, as my motives might be
misunderstood Did you not tell me
| that it could be kept secret, and that
there was nothing wrong in it, and that
all the other Republican papers az the district
had taken money from yop IN This aoay? Do
you deny telling me this on the cars be-
tween Jackson and Portland, on the Sd
day of September, 1868?
Do you deny that when l wrote You
that letter it looked like there was great
danger of your defeat Did not the
Portsmouth Tribune take the same view
of the danger that did? Did not the
leading Republicans Of Portsmouth, on
the day of the convention when you was
nominated, and the day before and the
| day after openly declare and some Of
them with an oath, that they would de
feat you if it were possible? Was not
the feeling in jackson county most bitter
against you? Was it not charged that
you had betrayed DR.. A. B. Monahan the
preceding year, when he was candidate
for State Senator; that you told him not
to come into your county, (Adams), that
you would keep that all right, and in
stead of doing so, you had spent your
vacation in Gallia and Lawrence, setting
up the convention to nominate you the
next year, while the Democratic majority
in your county ran up from 207 in 1868,
when you ran for Congress, to COZ in
1869, against Monahan? Was not the
feeling so intense in Jackson that it was
currently reported that word had been
sent to you that if you came to Jackson
during the campaign, you would be
mobbed?
Under this state of affairs wrote you
and told you all about the difficulties oil
the situation, being careful to mark my
letter very prominently, Confidential. "
You compare me to the savages. I am
like them in some respects. suppose
Captain Jack and Shack Nasty Jim, low
lousy saVages as they are would suffer
any amount of torture before they would
betray the confidence reposed in them by
friend. 1t might be asked why 1 dc
not authorize you to publish that letter
The principal reason is given by yourself
that it would involve the names and con
duct at that time of others, whose names
we have no right now to bring into thi
controversy. And to be understood, i
would involve the publication of many
others, of both mine and yours
and other transactions between
US, running through period of sever
: years. One would think, from what yol
say, that when you refused to buy me
that I at once dissolved the political firm
of Wilson and Mackley, and became you
enemy. You entirely forgot to mention
the letter I wrote Immediately after
wards, in which 1 told you distinctly tina
l wanted none of your money for myself
and to convince you of that fact, referred
you to my action in refusing your money
3 two years before, and in which letter
promised to make the best fight for yot
that was in me, which promise I faith
fully kept.
The truth of the whole matter is this
1 always held up the Republican party az
honest. 1 had particular confidence il
your honesty. I regarded this salary
business as a great outrage, and 1 fell
indignant that you had compromised oul
party, and all of us who had for so many
years been your supporters, by also going
into this outrageous business. AS to any
private grievance against you, 1 never
had cause for anything of the kind. Per
sonally, politically, and in all our bust
ness transactions, you always treated me
right.
With Diminished Respect
/ am Yours,
D. MAcKLEY.