The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-28
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Frank Klaber, who was to have been
tried last Tuesday for selling beer con-
trary to the ordinance, was discharged
by Mayor Gribben on that day. The
grounds upon which he was dis
charged was that lac had been sufficient
ly tried-three juries having failed to
agree in the case.
We have been of the opinion from the
first that the Mayor has not aimed at
any stage in the history of this case, TO
further the ends Of Justice Previous
TO, and even after his election, he pub
licly announced, on divers occasions.
that he would enforce the ordinances.
and the votes that elected him were OBJ
tained through this announcement. We
are constrained to believe that the Nc
COnnelsville ordinance has remained a
dead letter because of the conniving of
the Mayor with beer-jerkers, and their
counsel, 10 defeat its execution. The
dismissal of this case was but a part of
n systematic effort on the part of the
Mayor 10 screen those who daily violate
this ordinance. The vacillating course
pursued in the Deitz case, and the arbi-
trary and peremptory dismissal of the
Opp case, were but links in the same
chain of systematic endeavor to trample
the ordinances of the village under foot,
and allow those who are defying the law
10 go unwhipt of justice
We regret for his own sake, as well
as for the sake of morality, and the
good government of our village, that
Mayor Gribben has chosen to take
this course. His fair promises, and a
desire TO see him regain the man
hood which he had lost by long course
of intemperance, led us to hope for bet
ter things at his hands No man was
ever placed in a more favorable position
TO retrieve himself He had the conf
dence, to large extent, of the sober
and better class of our citizens. He had
the sympathy of all well-meaning men
and women in his manly effort to con-
quer fierce appetite, and to place his
feet on the solid ground, above tempt
alton. This sympathy assumed prac-
tical form in his election, by voters of
both parties, to the Office which he has
since disgraced. This sympathy and con-
hdence he has forfeited. BY his habits
and associations he has deliberately
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cast his lot with those who put strong
drink TO his lips, and WHO have dragged
him again into the slough of intemper-
ance
We now call upon VIM Gribhen to
lay down the trust that he recei, ed at
the hands of the citizens of this town.
and which lie has so shamefully abused.
We call upon him TO resign the office
which The received upon the false promise
that he would enforce the ordinances
and upon the false supposition that
lie would bring a sober Judgment and
brain unclouded with the fumes of
alcohol to the performance Of the duties
OF the Office. BY his laundering incom-
potency, or his wilful pandering to the
worst element of society, in the Dietz
case. our town narrowly escaped scene
OF riot and bloodshed, the end of which
1t Is impossible to conjecture. The vital |
interests which, asa chief executive Off
Ger of the village, he holds in his hands.
should be entrusted TO one who can gov
ern himself-one whose moral percep-
uons and mental force are not blunted
by strong drink.