Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-01-15
TIE POLITICAL suaaLERs.
Where Aro We to Look for sturdy.
Manly Honestly

NtlncinRau Iust.D
Our schoolboys and schoolgirls are
taught nehility Of character by the exam
Piles Of tho worthies of old, who esteemed
the truti,, justice, honor aud patriotism
above all price. Regulus went back to
Carthage t. be put 10 death. He had
promised TO return. Einkelreid harve,t-
ed u dozen Austrian spoArs io his boaom
Ihnt 10y his death he nigh, make way
Tor the liberties OF his country. Live FOR.
ever these names aud tltoAe OF the other
heroes who have ennol,lcd human nature
ny their loyalty TO truth and patriotism
and honori
But where arc the truth lovers of our
own time md city? Twenty four men
last summer wore chosen ont from all the
G5,000 voters of Hamilton county ns the
wiacs,, noblcsi and worthicst to help make
tho laws of the great Stale OF Ohio. Sure
ly # there be honor, truth, and patriotism
in the county, il ought to he represented
in the men chosen for the General Assem-
bly,. In October the election took place.
Two or three men, who ought TO be eSpa-
tiated, hired several hundred others, who
deserve to be forever disfranchised, to vote
over and over again for one SET OF twelve
OF the aforementioned twenty four picked
men. The perpetuation of the Police
Board and the Board oil Public Works waR
supposed TO be dependent upon the cleo
ton OF those twelve men. Hence the po-
lice were used IA elec,ioneerers and bull
lozers and bribers. The people of the
county, however, 80 preferred the second
set OF twelve men, that iu spite OF thous.
ands of fraudulent votes Tor the first set,
when the polls closed the second set was
clearly, indubitably, incontestably elected.
Then the two or three chief traltors-who
still have the affrontery to appear in pub
lie and look their fellow citizens in the
tace-sent post haste, from their headquar-
ters in the Enquirer Office, messengers to
the places where the votes were being
counted and ordered the judges to increase
the vote for the first set of twelve men as
many hundreds or thousands as was COM
puled to be required to elect them. III
The messengers came too late, and the re-
suit had already been ascer.ained and re-
corded, as in Fourth ward, Precinct A, a
small cipher put on top OF the seven 80 rs
to make il look like nine. In this way
726 votes for the first set OF twelve men
became 926. The forgery is so plain as to
be recognizable several feet away The
little horizontal stroke OF the seven Ia
plainly to be seen under the cipher OF the
nine. Isaac Jordan, Seth Follett, Dan
Dalton, everybody acknowledges that the
igure was originally seven, and that it
was afterwards changed to 9. AT 10
o'clock that night, when the count in that
precinct was ended, a. Y. Reid, prohi-
btionist, an honest man, conscientious rs
to the truth of all his statements, took
from the Judges their talies The first set
Of IL men hnd IN that precinct 1928 votes
and the second sgt 1S1. He wrote these
totals down and left the polls. Then The
messengers arrived from the Enquirer Office
with the orders of the arch traitors, to In
crease the vote fer the Fret ret OF IL men.
The next morning the 726 had become 9@6
and the 1S1 had become As, difference OF
343 votes. This difference every one of
twelve men in whose favor 1t was made,
knows il was made by fraud and forgery.
Every citizen of Hamilton county knows
it. The whole United States knows It,.
That single forgery alone elects nine oi the
twelve men. OF the remaining three, two
Mt least were elected by this forgery, added
to other proven and undeniable frauds.
One alone Of the twelve, A. P. But,eried,
is possible elected, his plurality being
about 1888.
The County Clerk counted the plain
e., a. n IL Ia aI haan n
honest vote. The Supreme Conrt decided
purely clerical, and could not, therefore,
include the judicial function OF deciding
that certain return WAS forgery, even
though, as in this case, the forgery wns
plain on he face of the return. Accord
ingly certificates of election were issued to
the first set of twelve men.
Now what will these eleven unelected
but certified men do? They know that
they were not elected. The Supreme Court
knows they were not elected, and did not
decide that they were, but merely that
they should have certificates. These elven
men know that these certificates state n lie,
represent prostiluted police, hired bands
of repeaters, iugglery of votes whereby
the vote of the voter went Into the pocket
of the election Judge and another and OPP
posl,e vote from the other pocket Of the
Judge went into the ballot-box-false
counting and finally plain forgery. They
know that they are not entitled to seats in
the General Assembly. The Post ye.ter-
day asked them whether they intended to
take their seats in the Assembly. To q
man they replied Yes"
There is no proof that these mon procur
ed the bribery, false registration. repeating
fraud and forgery which their certificates
represent. That can all lie traced to The
political firm which has operated in The
Devils pay in both political parties il
this county and State since 1873. Bn
now these men, by accepting their ceriii
Gates and presenting them at the door Of tl'
Assembly, as il good and true, become
parties to all the lie and fraud and repeat
ing and forgery. Where are we to lool
for sturdy, manly, self-respecting honest,
and integrity and loyalty 10 truth, il no
in the men cliosen out Of 65,0C0 to hel
make the laws of the State? Oh, for on
wheiff OF sturdy, Characteristic, outspoke'
tru.hfnlness in this sitting atmosphere 0
casuislry and specions l"lsities.