Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-02-07
Z II b HER AID.
WIN. mELLEKAN, p,,.
We W. HEILLIKAN,
olermons county democracy

triet, there has been an extensive defal-
cation in, or robbery of the county treas
ury, and that persons of high standing
in the party have, with good reasons,
| been suspected of criminality in the mat
ter, or at least, of having knowledge of
some things that honest men ought not to
know, connected with this affair, and that
heavens and earth are being moved by
leading and influential Democrats to
screen and hide their Democratic friends
from the light of truth as connected with
the robbery.
The Batavia Courier, the able Republi-
ca paper of Clermont county, contains
an amusing account of some of the efforts
that are being made to conceal from the
taxpayers of that county the horrid finan-
cial condition into which that county has
been landed under the rotten, corrupt,
and dishonest management of Democratic
leaders. The report is amusing, but there
are few of the hitherto leaders of the
Democracy who, seeing the impossibility
of concealing the rottenness of the party
leaders have, as last resort, thought it
wiser 10
Among the very few we notice from the
report above referred to, is brother Kerr,
the editor of the Register, the Democratic
organ in this town. Brother Kerr, it
seems, attended one of the late Democratic
business conclaves, and under the con-
VictiOn, probably, that IAN honest confes-
| sion was good for the SOUL concluded to
make San open breast of it, and is report
ed in the Courier to have made speech
in which he confesses:
"'Boys, said Senator Kerr, motioning
to George Myrick to lie down that he
might stand up on him, and mounting the
hastily Improvised elevation, continued,
Boys, you are all wrong, and the little
Senator stamped his foot by way of en-
phasis, while deprecatory grunt from
George Myriek assured him that he had
struck bottom. The Senator resumed
You may caucus these matters over in
secret gatherings and midnight convoca-
tions-you may wear your fingers to the
| bone in attempting to coyer-yOur knees
may become callous in frequent offerings
of unheeded petitions Tor deliverance-
you may plan and scheme, and tempor-
ize and falsify, and you may attempt to
debauch the masses by a tender of impure
gold with sullied hands. You may at
tempt these measures from now until the
day when the taxes of Clermont shall cease
to be burden, Gunmistakable evidences
of uneasiness on the part of Myrick] and
you will strive in vain. In the DAYS that
are gone there was virtue in these rem
edies. But now the unwholsome and dis
eased carcass of Clermont Democracy
has reached its climacteric. The change
is for the worse, and there is no vigor in
your patent, no strength in your ligature!
and no wisdom in your political doctors
It would be cruel in me- said the Senator
as he quickly stepped off of Myrick's cal
in answer to an admonitory howl, ti
would be cruel in me to deceive you. Tht
seanty cloak of concealment with which
you have so long covered up your mis-
deeds, has become threadbare and trans
parent, and when the facts evolved in tn
Dimmitt trial shall have been made pub
lie the fittest covering for democracy viii
be shroud-its fittest requiem the howl
of disappointed men whose bible AM
whose church from cradle to grave ha
been Democracy, both with and withou
sugar. But in these last hours of you
: inconceivable rottenness and mighty peri
you have my sympathy, and shall no
d withhold my advice. There is a feebl
ray of hope which may illumine you
pathway to salvation. You shall emf
CRATE! Outside the circuit of this oh
scure vale there are boundless and yer
dant pastures, and running streams c
limpid water. You shall become tiIIeI
of the soil, and be no longer tillers on tn
!, rotten hulk of Democracy. You sha
become drawers of water, and no longe
drawers on the county treasury. Yo
will build school-houses and churche
and ere another centennial shall be borI
you will have become Christians an
gentlemen. But cannot be with you
II Long ago l saw the ominous clouds
disaster forming above your heads, and
accordingly pitched my tent in Fayet
county, which though now Republica
in politics, has given tokens of eventual
tumbling to the leVeling influence
T. Democracy. Since my sojourn in Fayet
auditor, but we don't expect to tip Il
county entirely up until we can get in
treasurer )"
, Now Brother Kerr, we apprehend tt
truthful picture you have delineated
the character of the unregenerated Del
, ocracy of C1ermont county, instead
affording encouragement to the people
IN Fayette county to become Democratic al
nd to place the offices of the county in Del
IS. ocratic hands, they will unquestionab
regard as a timely warning against sucl
mortal calamity. They have, it is trr
through sloeal personalities, allowed
couple of our important county offices
be temporarily held by Democrats. Y
do not envy you the temporary crumbs
comfort you may enjoy in the imagina
possession of Democratic majorities
Fayette county. No! No! Brother Ke
K. if there were no other barriers in the W
of this county becoming a Democra
county, the picture you have drawn
~ the results of Democratic rule in Cl
~ mont, and the fact that honest men
obliged to shake the filth of Clerm,
County from their feet and migrate t,
=. county possessing purer political
: # mosphere, must forever forbid such
. ung0dly calamity from falling upon I
christian people of Fay ette County
Can't ARROrd 1t.
A few days since we saw young II
who Couldn't afford to take books out
the library" He was we'll dressed, &
we wondered if it really was possible t
he could not afford to pay fifty cent
year for the very rich blessing the 1ibr
nnrht to be to a Young man Yeste nd