Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1882-09-15
The CONGRESSIONAL BATTLE |
Look Ont FOR False Charges In All the
DemocratlciPapers This Week
Against Col. Brisha m .
They are six Years Old and Dead Is
sues IN Fulton County.

WAusEoN, o., September IL, 1882.
EDITOR JouRNAL:-The Wnuseon E.-
position, Of this week, contained one OF the
most villninous. nncalled for, trumped nr-
charge and unjusifable assault on nn old
aud respected citizen Of this place,-nn un-
Gle of Col ]. II. Brigham,-lhat any news
paper in this section has been guilty OF with.
IN our knowledge for years. Some
ihonghil.ss person, who is now not remem-
b.red, gave it ms his opinion, that Hill hnd
in,bibed too freely Just before making his
p,rech here on the 5lh inst, and old nm
Gle Brigham had previously remarked that
lie saw Hill enter certnin drug store.
The hot.headed editor of the EIposior,
encouraged by his unscrupulous co-work-
ers, who are
''BoLTrNo" nEfUBLIcANs
coupled the two remarks and charged Mr..
Brigham with saying that Hill was drunk,
Mr.. Brigham il one Of our Oldest business
men and known 10 be reliable, and he dc
nies the charge in emphatic terms. The
fnct is that the article was 10 be the first
and sort Of leader for general system of
"
Col. Brigham. These things seem TO be
coming nj very laie day and Indicate
plainly that they regard their
CAUSE AS ALMOST HOPELESS,
and as last resort something desperate
must be done. All the indications are that
Systematic array OF charges against Col
Brigham will lie published IN the Demo-
cratic pnrers Of this District next week or
the week following, which were made in
1875 and thoroughly considered by the vo.
ters Of this county NJ that time, who elected
him to the office of Sheriff i'm spite OF the
divisions in the party. Al that time there
were several candidates foi nomination
who entered into the contest with deter
nination which engendered no much BIT
Ter feeling that two Of them left the party
and their friends, TO large number, la
bored for the defeat Of the successful can
didate.
PERSONAL AFFAIRS
also entered into the. campaign and all
that ingenuity could frame was said and
all that ability could do was done to fasien
upon Col Brigham charges which were put
Into circulation by
MS POLITICAL ENEMIES.
Here where lie WAS known and all the cir
mmstances were familiar to the people
Tie voters elected him TO the Office which
lie filled with
HONESTY AND ABILITY,
and sufficient answer TO everything
whicl, may be re haslied can be found in
the fact that one year ago when he was u
candidate for State Senator, he received tii.
ty-four more votes in this county than did
the regular Republican ticket.
There Ia no probability that any one
will be deluded by any statement which
will he made, for il is known all over thir
District that Colonel Brigham has, in u
gentienanIy manner, confined his cam
paiga TO
CANDID DIscUssIoS
Of the political questions at issue, while
his opponents have depended upon rlander'
ous siatemenis and personal abnse for sue
cess.
This was begun at the Defiance C,nven-
tiop, and Of course viii Le unscrupulously
kept up throughout the campaign.
Let the reader iurtber understand that
sl,e prime movers Of the publication Of the
old charges Of 1876, were Colonel Brig
hams supporters lier, and pronounced
sl,sD Lrrs from beginning 10 end.
VETERAN.