The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-09-14

That notice has been standing there
for years. J. L. Vance owns a paper,
has his name standing in two places as
publisher, every week, and yet we are
told that we knew he had nothing to do
with its publication. The only way we
could know this is by knowing that near
ly everything found in a Democratic pa
per is lie.
The Democratic papers continue to
roll, as q very sweet morsel under their
| tongues, what the Cincinnati Gazette
said about us. Let US examine this for a
moment
The Gazette was urging the nomina-
ton of Bristow. The old anti-slavery Re-
publicans objected, partly on the ground
that Bristow was not genuine anti
slavery man-that he was a Kentuckian,
and had advocated in the Senate of
Kentucky, payment for slaves that had
been liberated by the war. In order to
satisfy these anti-slavery men, the Ga
zette, on the 22d of May last. in its edi-
torial columns, gave the number of votes
cast for Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky
in 1S60-some 1900, and said that one of
these votes was cast by Benjamin III.
Bristow. About that time a sketch Of
the life of Bristow was published by the
Bristow Club of Cincinnati, in which it
was asserted that in the year 1860 Bris-
tow made speeches for Bell and Everett,
and voted for them. We called the at
tention Of the Gazette to this matter, but
it was too mean and cowardly to take
back that lie and has never done so to
this day, and retorted by the little arti-
Gle quoted by the Bulletin, and other
small rebel papers.
As the Bulletin indorses the Gazette,
we will give it dose from its favorite.
Thou hast appealed unto Caesar; unto
Caesar thou shalt 60" On the same day
that we received the Bulletin, indorsing
the truthfulness of the Gazette, the Ga
zette contained the article Of Col Boyn-
ton about Vance, which will be found on
the first page of the Standard, and also
the following editorial:
VANCE AS REFoRMER.
John L. Vance represents the Eleventh
Ohio District in the Congress of the Uni
ted States, is Democrat, and processes
to be a reformer. He is also candidate
for reelection, and is talking reform very
: vigorously in his District Being print
, er. he was made Chairman of the Com
, mittee on Public Printing. and conduct
: ed the investigation of the Government
Printing Office, of which Mr.. Clapp is Su.
perintencent, and in that capacity he
made record which is interesting
) Our Washington correspondent, Gen.
: Boynton, has taken up Mr. Vances case,
/ and, in a letter printed in this paper,
shows him, by documentary evidence, to
be sham reformer and fraud.
, Through the efforts of the Hon. John
A. Gurley, a Representative in Congress
at the time from the Second Ohio Dis
trict, a Government Printing Office was
{ established, and the old expensive and
, corrupt system under which printing
and binding were executed, was broken
up. This effected large saving. The
contract with Rives, however, for pub
> fishing the proceedings of Congress was
/. continued, and it was not until two years
! ago that il was broken up. The change
was a desirable one, and clearly in the
interests of economy. But Rives has not
been satisfied, and he has earnestly
, sought a renewal of his contract. 1t did
} not take him long to make the acquain-
tance of Vance, the reformer; and Vance
: having investigated Clapp without giving
: him an opportunity to be heard, and
, without permitting him to see the evi-
: dence against him until two days before
the Committee was ready to report he
( submitted his one-sided, and unfair, and
| !, f,,l 10
MED by bill contracting with Rives foT
a term of gears for printing and binding, thus
taking away from the Government Office
work which it was prepared to do, and
which it is doing, and giving it to private
. parties. But Vance's bill was too much
: for even the Democratic members Mr..
I Randall opposed it, and although Vance,
I the "reformer," turned himself into a
{ lobbyist, his bill was kicked out of sight.
In addition to this, Vance distinguish
ed himself by providing ways and means
for his relatives to visit Washington at
the expense of the Government. In one
case he caused 500 to be paid to cous.
in, from Gallipolis, as an expert printer,
: who is not a printer at all, and knows
3 nothing whatever about the business.
) Vance might as we'll have put his hand
into the United States Treasury and ia
|
its payment upon false pretenses, as he
: did. Several other points in the career
> of this great reformer' are also given by
our correspondent, which will enlighten
the people of the District, and secure for
him permission to retire to private life,
or to the shades of his printing Office.
And last Saturday the Gazette had the
following editorial
During the year that Vance has been
in Congress, he made it point to pro-
vide for his relations. The half has not
been told. But Vance is dead cock in
! the pit.
: Vance is advertised to speak in this
place on Thursday night of this week
Will he answer Boyntons charges7 Will
he explain why paper which he owns
| and publishes, recently defended the
Credit Mobilier outrage? Will he ex-
plain why he wrote and published, in
April 1875. when his name stood in the
Bulletin as editor, that defense Of the
great New York Democratic thief, Tweed,
that remarkable article which we re-
Gently published2 It will not do to say
he did not write it, His name stood in