The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-10-05
Home Correspondence
Dickey and the Turnpikes''
The Gazette, &c.
LYNCHBUBG, Oct. 2, 1876

LYNcHBURG, Oct. 2, 1876.
Another ten days will tell the fat'
of Dickey, and his brilliant RECORD
of "true inwardness." We have done
what we could to lay some of hi
pike transactions before the people
The beauty of the whole thing is
that the charges which we have
made are backed up by good, re1iab1,
Democratic evidence, which we ex
pect all candid, honest men to &C
cept.
If necessary we can prove by aft
davit, that Mr.. Dickey avoided fnt
specifications of the pike contract
refused to change the regime of af
fairs when his attention was called
to facts; countenanced fraud and
trickery; aided and abetted the con
tractor in his fraud in this village
urged upon the village authorities g
gravel street instead of a Macada.
mized one, as being the best; and fin.
ally, but not least, acted with gener
al "cussedness in all his pike work
here.
What with his pike jobbery,
drunkenness, bribery, the land agent
and the nincompoops of the Gazette,
a pretty good record has been made
against Dickey. We notice in the
last issue of the Gazette that 'Veri-
tas" finally struck home, and that
honest "Reformer" and large Drained
editor, () Marshall, has been con-
strained to kick. We may be an
''ass," as he says, but we possess at
least brains enough to write our
own articles, which is not the case
with the asinine gentleman of Dick
ey's valuable organ. Mr.. Springer
possessed brains, and did not have
to call in such men as the land agent
to do his writing and editing for
him. If the Democrats say truly of
him, there is as much noon in a cab
bage-seed for his brains, as for a hog
to wallow in the Atlantic Ocean.
"Reformers!" Yes they are Reform
ers of the Fallstafian order. Men
who give jobbers in pixies and rail
roads, drunkards, bribers, Tildens,
Tweeds, Dickeys and Sloans, their
support, have as much claim to the
title of Retornaers, as the voters of
Five Points, N. Y.
These Reformers also uphold
Dickey as an honest, sober, pa sriotic
man, and say that they have charges
against Col. Brown, who IS honest,
sober, patriotic, and a farmer, that
will set him in his true light before
the people. Any sensible man
knows that just such nincompoops
are only calculated to wind their
loathesome tracks to the tops of the
huge mouldering monument of Dem
ocratic impudence, and there
hang, kissing lies through their ven
omous throats, at the noble men of
both parties, who dare go back on
such men.
Noble "Reformers" these, who
hold back their vile slanders till the
last moment, so as to prevent their
refutation, and then hurl them with
the force of depraved and conscience
less tools, throughout the county!
Such characters are worse than rat
tle-snakes, as they always warn be-
fore they strike.
The reason that Mr.. Marshall is
so touchy, is that he knows every
charge brought against Messrs Til
den and Dickey are true. Whenever
4 man becomes so far gone as to re-
sort to the FOOLS manner of arguing,
viz: calling names, you may set it
1own that he is out of better ammuni-
ion. The honest, thinking men of
both parties will put the indelible
stamp of their condemnation upon
III such. The American people are
not fools, to be gulled by every soft
oated fellow, who shouts "Reform.
''Old Dodson" will teach such men
is Marshall and Sloane lesson, that
will be gall to their "hOnest" souls.
We are awake. Push on the col
lmnl Lift up the banner of Union
md civil liberty, high toward heaven,
lbove the foul clutches of such recre-
Incy. VERITAS.