Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1875-12-17
RICH. RARE ANn RAOY.

klCH, RARE AND RACY.
To fully realize and appreciate the scene
to which we are about to call attention, II
is necessary to state that some time ago
the County Commissioners let the publiea-
tion OF their official proceedings to the low
est bidder. The Sentinel was a successful
bidder Since then c. w. EvERs has be-
came a proprietor Of that paper. The
Commissioners were in session last week.
We are told by several persons, that on
Thursday of that week, when the Auditors
Office was full with parties dong business
with the Commissioners, Mr.. EvERs found
his way through the crowd to the front of
the Board, and then, without any regard
to his interruption of the business they
were transacting, he proclaimed in an angry
tone Of voice aud manner. that he
had come to notify them that tie
Sentinel would no longer publish their pro-
ceedings at the rate Of compensation it
had boen receiving. The President of the
Board answered, they were paying accord
ing to contract, and 80 long as they did so,
there was no good reason to complain. Mr..
EvERs replied that he didn't care d--n for
the contract; that they were swinding his
paper; that they didn't pay half as much az
they ought to and that he would never pub.
lish their proceedings again, at the contract
price, unless forced todo SO by mandamus
The President assured him that il he did
not do so until ordered by writ of man.
damus, lie would never do so.
Thereupon EvERs became livid with
rage and hisscd out, you have run this
Board for long time past, but you shall
10 so no longer. II the people OF the
county should let the offices as you do III,
printing, to the lowest bidder, they woult
get id sight better officers, at one-thirt
the price, than some we have now. The
President responded that he was not aware
that he had run the Board, but SO long a:
he was a member of it he proposed taking
part IN its deliberations; and further
that so long he was member Mr.. EvERS
would not run it. EvERs then charged
they were saving at the spigot but
letting run at the bLng. He also
stated that If the Commissioners did
not pay the Sentinel fiir price for it,
s1rvices, there would be Democratic pa
per starte d in the county and then wha
would become Of them; meaning thereb,
that the salvation OF the Republican party
in the county depended upon his grace and
intellect. Much more to the same efTtc
was said, VIII ich is unnecessary to repeat.
This conduct OF Mr.. EvERs suggests few
thoughts. lie is putting on the airs Of AZ
old-time negro driver and assumes to crack
the whip and apply the lash to the back,
OF county officers who refuse to do his bid
ding. The County officers must fee
0attered by his estimate OF the m. We hop,
and trust they will survive it. If the lii,
OF the Republican party depends upon ont
with a head the size OF that upon rattan
cane, in stinct only with the low cunnin,
OF the M onkcy, then is it in bad condition
indeed.
The simple solution Of Slippery CHA,
LrY's conduct is this: lie has got back
into the Seatinet and with the aid of that
he thinks he has power sufficient to control
and run the county. He is so putfed up
with the idea of his very great importance
that lie is becoming silly
Wbv abnuItI In 4 A., -, L
would not occasion so much comment cI
be regarded 50 great loss as would the
death of MORGAN DRowN's short-horned
bull. He over rates himself altogether.
We do not propose to eulugizc or defend
the Commissioners. They are men of fair
ability; are believed to be ngidly honest
and TO be doing the best they know to pro-
mote and protect the public interests. They
are particularly watclful OF the Treasury
and that's whats the matter" with EvERs.
We understand his friends told him he
had made a mistake in attacking the Com.
missers, and the next day he went fawning
about them and with his hypocritical, ca
daverus grin, said he hoped they would
not be offended at what he had said the
day before. They treated him with the
contempt his conduct merited. As CHAR.
LEY failed in dririag the Commissioners
we now expect to see the Sentinel elslobbering
all over them with the most fulsome adu-
Iation for the purpose of recovering Iii;
former position. lie lacks manhood.