The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-02-13

consideration this fact, that Sandusky county,
the past year, reduced its expenses $l7,976.S9,
while the county of Erie increased its ordin-
ary expenses So, 2,l6Sl7, and its extraordin-
ary expenses s25, ,442.Os, while its receipts in
1873 were s2s9,767.S3 against s24j,744ll in
1872 81, ,O23 % more than in 1872. To aid
it in this discipline we submit for its consola-
tion and encouragement a scriptural text re-
plete with justice as well os judgment-"F
cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and
thea shalt thou see clearly to cast out tho mote
out of thy brothers eye"
In the above We have given the editor Of
the Register sufficient food for employment
for some time, and the taxpayers of Erie
county subject Tor investigation, from
which they may all learn that there are au-
gsan stables at home to clean, which will re-
quire as much work and watching as neigh
boring counties. We might leave the subject
here, but we have few things personal to the
Register and ourself to say, and may as well
say them now OF course We don't expect
the Echo to discover that by any possibility
there might be anything wrong in Erie coun-
ty, although the figures show an increase in
its expenses totally unwarranted.
The otiicial reports of the officers of Sandusky
county are public property and proper subjects of
criticism We have the same right to discuss
them as the papers published at Fremont, nor will
the whines of those papers deter us from doing
what we consider duty.-Register.
Agreed, and the official reports of the Of
GERS of Eris county "are public property"
which "we have the same right to discuss" as
the Register, and in doing so do not defend
the Democracy of this county. If your county
expenditures will not bear successful COM
parisOn with those Of Sandusky, we are not to
blame. but he who provoked the controversy.
When yon have explained the reason for the
increase of S52, ,l6S.I7 in the ordinary expens-
es of Erie county for one year, it will be
quite time enough for you to discuss the
short comings Of neighbSrs.
The Fremont Journal seems to think the best de-
fence il can make of the officials of Sandusky
county is to abuse the editor of the Register and
the editor of the Clyde Tldependeat So it goes for
the editor of the Independent to the tune of half
column OF filth.-Register.
Strange what an idea those fellows have of
"flth." They can intimate dishonesty, endea-
vor to undermine a cotemporary's character
by inuendoes ungenerous and unmanly, but
when figures are aTrayed before them which
they can neither answer or explain, it is
"filth," and doubtless the Register will so re-
gard and stigmatize the complete exposure
which we make above. Faugh The business
of such fellows is "Glth" not facts, and they
resOrt.to it OnTevsry occasion when facts are
too much for them.
awe admit the right of a Republican journal to
defend even a Democrat Official, but. confess it is
new experience to find a Republican journsl stoop-
ing to petty forgery in its zeal to defend the Dem
ocratic officials of Sandusky nty.'-Rsgister.
The above comes with excellent grace from
q paper whose editor had fraudulent tickets
printed in its Office, last fall, with the name of
Republican candidate. for Senator left cut, and
the name of the Democrat candidate for that
Office inserted, all for the purpose OF defeating
the Republican Icandidate, andEwho justified
himself on the plea of "business," for this ex-
hibition of treachery. We have not defended
the Democracy of this or any other county,
but if the comparison with Erie county's fig
ures furnishes justification for them, Erie
county and especially the Register must bear
the responsibility for forcing the disclosure
Nor do we say that mary Of the expenses Of
our county should not be cut down. They can
and ought. T. But takensaltogether and COM
pared altogether with those of Erie, and not
few isolated charges selected for certain pur-
poses, they bear a most favorable. comparison
with those of. Erie and. do not show and IN
warranted increase in ordinary expenses of
S52, ,l6S17.in one year, as do the records of
Erie.
''TheJouhdl begs us to keep ont of of Sandusky
county. jeff Davis asked no more when he beg
ged to be let alone. Boss Tweed was no more in
dignant when he complained that the presses of
other cities and States iuerfered with his manage
msnt."-Register
The Register mistakes. We only desired
to have its editor investigate its own county
affairs little closer, and see they were in
proper condition before he ventured over into
this Or any other bailiwick. We had no de-
sire to exclude him. In fact we would rather
he would come than not. Whenever he does
come he makes an ass of himself, and VIC have
no objection to his doing that rs often as he
feels like it, Come over,