Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-02-01
WRITE ME A LETTER FROM HOME.
The Calf Secured the Required
Amount of Rope.

BOWLING GREEN, o., Jan. 26, 1884.
ED. JOURNAL 1T is an old saying,
'give the calf pleaniy Of rope and it will
hang itself" This has just been verified
in the case of Evers OF the Sentinel. In this
weeks issue of tn at paper, Jan. "a, A. d.
1884, he says "When this issue of the
Sentinel is printed ard mailed my connec.
tions with the paper and it's management
ceases" We say not any too soon for the
benefit of tho taxpayers Of Wood county,
Mr.. Evers.
For the last ten years Evers has been the
manager of the Sentinel, and during all OF
that time there has not been published one
article in it Tor the benefit of the many
taxpayers Of the county, thai did not either
directly or indirectly tend towards filling
the greedy pockets of its edi'or-at least
this has been my observaton-until to day
Evers is considered one of the most wealthy
men Of the county, and this lie has mostly
amassed within the last ten years. How
has he made it is the question? BY mo
nopolizing the county printing AMI being
paid two prices for doing it. / GO not
pretend to say that lie charged and col
lecied any more for 1t than ihe law says lie
shall have. But 1t could have been done
for at least forty or fifty per cent. less and
then made more out of il than the farmers
of the county were making on their farms
1 49,, Al, Al. e n Tod
This is self evident fact examine 1t in
any shape il may be exhibited TO the pub
lie. Ii has been wonder to many how
Evers welded control and fed at the county
crib so many years, getting rich, while
about all who helped to keep the crib filled
kept getting poorer and poorer, until man,
of them were unable to make scanty
living and pay their Ia xes. / will tell yol
how this was done. how he controlled th'
minds, therefore the results of labor of tl'
many borney handed toilers Of the Blacl
Swamp.
First. What lie considered the Ing gun
j.. in each township lie controlled by makin
good promises to be fulfilled in the (uul
and by an occasional puff through hi
. paper of some very benevolent and chari,a
ble act ON their part, and hy notion
3 them in his paper occasionally, and 'hcs
big guns, OF course, controlled the principl
0 voters in their townships.
= Second. All who had manhood an
}, principle enough about them to not b
I hoodwinked and bulldozcd to suit III
e notions of the hoss, lie fell upon with n
f the Vengeance that he could control an
I. abused and threatened them through II
=, columns Of his sewer sheet organ, unt
d about all gave way and lie had elear al,
y undi,puied possession OF the field.
= THIS course he haa pursued year af,
,, year and the people who constituted Il
n brain and bu works Of our county we
Is powerless to act. The masses of the pee
e. Pile did not wake up 10 the condition
~ things until they could bear il no longe
In tne language Of Shakespeare: al
'e on McDnii and damned he he who fiji
70 cries hold enough"
re Evers kept laying on Ms long as the pc,
q pie would bear iy aud when they refus,
10 be his slaye any longer lie cursed the
> and died. To-day the "bess" (the nan
h. lie generally goes by) stands unsupporl'
lie by The side OF the relics OF by-gone day
nj He has made his run of life and the pc
pie have allowed him to do SO; lie call
" for more rope and they gave IL 10 him;
Ne made moose with his own hands NJ
Of pla led 1t about his neck, while HE pe0I
10 stood aud looked on and wondered If
OF wanted more lie threw it over the bea
I'd and while in his greed. grnsping to 8
l. his arms little deeper into the pockets
~ the taxpayers Of the county he stepped q
IL and to-day lie ia between the heavens Al
nr tho earth sad spectacle oil ruined mon
lie nent OF over.esimated ability, clad in I
In garb OF n man. yet true type and rep
~, sentative Of The New York Tweed wi
de after appropraiing TO himself millions
Is. dollars from the treasury OF New 70
I'll city he saught 10 cover II up but cor
lie not. The crime was too great, and tod
ne Tweed's ashes rests in n felona grave.
of Yes, Eyera' connection and n,anagemt
ire Of the Sentinel has ceased, but not until I
TO people Of Wood county had called HI
ID. and asked him 10 step out aud have
Ier management Of the Sentinel placed II
ur better hadds.
en- The Republican party should hold b
TO Evers responsible for their failure in
. a county The county but few years q
oe, had about 800 Republican .majohiy--
If day il 10 about equally divided betws
nd the several parties. II 10 no use TO I
he how thi, WAS brought about. Every ri
ou er Of the Sentinel tor the last i've or
years eau testify that II was through