Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-04-17

BARNET, but reports from variou:
parts of the County have reached oul
ears, and these from the variety o
form and substance in which they
appear, in different locations, causes
us to suspect that the whole arrange
ment was c%oncocted at a common cen
tire and Systematically distributed il
pursuance of a pre-concerted plan
From Orthodox neighborhoods we
hear that reports were circulated tc
the effect that Mr.. BARNET was an
Atheist-that he "did not believe in
God, man or the Devil"-that eff he
was elected there was nothing he
could be sworn OF qualified by," &c.
&c. Those who know him intimate
ly, know all the above to be false. To
temperance men it was told hat he
vas an old fogy drinker after the OIL
den style-that he kept his bottle on
a side-board, and the first thing when
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drink, and hence could not be trusted
on the License question. To men
who were in favor of a return to the
License system, as a can of regula-
ting the traffic in intoxicating liquors,
it was represented that he was a dyed
in-the-wool fanatical prohibitionist,
SC. We do not know what his views
are on the subjective know he is
personally a strictly temperance man,
but it is the duplicity and dishonesty
of telling anything that it was thought
would win, that we object to. In
some localities it vas reported that he
was a Rail Road man, and in others
that he was opposed to them. In
some places it was said he was a heavy
holder of Rail Road bonds, and was
in favor of making the people pay
them by taxation. A favorite story
was that he was in favor of taxing the
people of any Township through
which a Rail Road run, to pay for it,
whether they were in favor of it or
not That he had submitted his name
to the Republican Convention, had
been defeated, and then bolted. In
all the above reports that were circu-
lated just previous to the Election, in
places where, as. Cakes Ames said
about the Credit Mobilier money he
placed in Congress, cit would do the
most good" there were falsehoods, Ell
Their directly expressed Oh to be clear
ly implied. There were many other
reports that were intended to be de-
rogatory to Mr.. BARNET and those
who supported him, but the above
specimens show all that is necessary,
to wit: That falsehoods and defama-
ton was industriously and persistent
ly used to defeat Mr.. BARNET, and
through him all who refused to bow
the neck and submit to the yoke of
the RING.,
There are two reasons why we call.
ed attention to this subject. The first
is, that we might do an act of justice
to Mr.. BARNET, who, we regret to say,
was most seriously injured in the es-
timation of some of those who were
not acquainted with him, by these
false reports. Those who knew him
Intimately, knew them to be fabrica-
tons, and hence where he was best
known, in Eaton and Camden, he lit
orally swept all before him, and in
the name of all who do know him we
pronounce the whole web and tissue
of reports above referred to, misera-
BILE and despicable falsehoods. In the
second place we wish to say to our
friends throughout the County who
were fearful that, from the reports
alluded to, terrible calamities would
follow the election of MI. BARNET.
that they need have no fears, for he is
simply a just and sincere man, who
has through a long and useful life
walked uprightly before his Creator
and fellow-men, and there need be
no fears that now when he is old he
will depart from the paths of rectitudt
that he has followed all his life. And
we wish finally to say,that there was NJ
morality or honor in the means useC
to defeat Mr.. BARNET.
If any feels that he or they are hi
by the above remarks, let him or then
"squeal."
On The Increase. d.
That the circulation of e%DE5iocRA
is steadily On the increase, is true, an,
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