The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-09-29

which he takes just one item, pays
more for their other items Of print.
ing than we do. Jefferson county
is the only county we know of
that does not pay for publishing
Court Proclamation. He cites only
Venango county as paying less, and
then mentions the simple item of
the Election Proclamation, which is
50 less than amount paid by us; but
being entirely destitute of fair play he
omits to state amount paid for other
printing in that county as it would
compare very unfavorably with amount
paid by Forest county, Does not this
prove conclusively that this man will.
fully lied when be made the statement
concerning the printing in other Coun.
ties? and, also, have we not now
proved satisfactorily that our assertion
in firsS instance was true.
He also Gays, $50 far as the Com.
missioners are concerned they may
not need the Democrats service" No
Sir, Mr.. Kepler, your services are not
needed by the present board of County
Commissioners. The Democratic par.
ty of Forest county in convention as
sembled last May, through the gentle.
men composing their county commit
tee, passed resolutions approving of
the course of the Democratic VindicatOr
and accepting of that paper as their
county organ, at same time denounc.
ing you and your paper, and also en-.
dorsed the action of the county off.
cials in giving the printing to it. So
that party have given you notice that
they, too, haze no further use for yOu.
And further, when the citizens of
Forest county individually arrive at
the fact that you have cost this county
more than any other man in it, they,
too, will have no further use for you.
Aud it may be necessary, provided we
have cause, to show tie number of
criminal suits that you have been con.
nected with in this county costing the
county in the last few years more
money than could possibly be saved,
provided you did all the county print.
ing for years to come for nothing.
"Tdgpayers' Statement" published
by you to convey the impression that
it was written by outsiders, was writ.
ten by you Cor rather by your oider)
in your own house for the purpose of
Nhitewashing you and then peddled
around by you and your two represen.
tatives, begging for signers. We do
not know whom you have induced TO
sign it, but we do know of some gen.
uemen that positively refused to be
1uped by you into attaching their
names 10 such paper. Every one
knows how easy it is to get signers to
any paper, but when a party with a
craven spirit begs for people to sign it
is hard to refuse. If you go into that
kind of business, we will suhstantiate
what we asserted as to the good citi-
zers in every township urging on US
the necessity of not giving you the
printing, but to give it to those aOhO
published respectable papers. We will
do this by publishing such a list of
citizens names from each township as
will cause you to open your eyes in
wonder.
Once more: You stated that all our
assertions we're false; how about the
statement that you were so anxious to
crush the Commonwealth And that
you tried to get the price paid to two
papers that had been formerly paid the
three papers? The Commissioners paid
three papers fer nine months Of 1885,
or up to Sept. Court, as the three par.
ties were represented on the board,
but when the Commonwealth changed
bands then they decided Gas formerly
stated) to publish in only two papers.
We wish it distinctly understood
that this article is not written for the
purpose of keeping up a fight with
Mr.. Kepler, but we want the taxpay.
ers to know the simple facts, and we
believe that any one knowing us will
not for a moment imagine that when
the newspaper discussion commenced
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