Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-10-01

we remember correctly they failed to
get such a law through to bridge ovcr the
chasm. Not to have their plans thus
thwarted they simply set the law at de-
flanco, and Tyler b Meehan were employ.
cd at about an average expense of $4,000
a year, we believe the Commissioners re-
port will show. The operations OF tho
senior member Of this firm and tho Com
mon Pleas Judge, as legal advisers, etc.
of the several Democratic boards OF
Township trustees, in Pcrrysburg town.
ship, are vividly remembered by the
taxpayers of the same. We have heard
the boast since that they never lost a
case in the six or seven years thus en-
ploycd. This was the most damna BILE
piece of ingratitude ever rperpetrated up
on people. When the taxpayer could
no longer stand the burdens heaped up
on him and sought legal redress, he was
compelled to bear the burden of his own
counsel and the usual court expenses and
was confronted with this kind of lop-
sided justice and the money taken out
of his own and his his neighbors pocket
to crush him. And these attorneys
never lost case ! "'Tis' strange, It's
passing strange +"
We have no defense to make for Com
missioner Junkins and Dunipace, furth-
er than to say that all the evidence goes
to show that they greatly overestimated
their abilities in seeking the office of
Commissioner and more greatly under.
estimated the unprecedented tangling
alliances and snares set for them on
every hand, and by men who receiv-
ed the suffrage of the people and under
the solemn promises of the oath of Office
to faithfully ard impartially discharge
the duties of their respective offices,
With one more years experience, with
another annual Commissioners report ~
made up Tor blind and deception only,
what is there that has caused the Sentinei
editors TO 80 completely reform their minds
in regard TO Commissioner Dunipace ?
Has these astute editors just caught on 10
the easy trick by which the Com missioners
can issue S135 900 worth Of bonds in 1884,
10 replace $4,000 worth OF bridges washed
away in the spring of 's4, md make no
showing Of the money thus obtained
Does this entitle Mr., Dunipace, in the es-
timsiion of the Sentinel, to become full
fledgei Wood county Republican, and
feasied on "veal of medium fatness 2"
Does the Sentinel edi tors take its readers to
be all idiots, and il 20 how far wrong are
they If they fail to see through their "con-
cattnated inierences2"
The Commissioners Report, published
Feb. IL, 1856, aside from issuing $4,000
worth OF ditch bonds, says;
"Owing to the destruction Of our bridges by
high waters IL became necessary to make a
loan for county bridge PqrPSsss ThsTeerS by
Statutes of Ohio we have Issued twenty thous-
and dollars worth of County Bridge Bonds in
payable semiannually' The first viii be due
March l. 1890, and the last will be due Septem
ber /, 1891 said bonds all TO bear six per cent.
interest, payable semi-nnnually.
Will any one point out to us or 10 any
body else, where there were any bridges
washed away since the two bridges at Penn.
berville and the two spans of the bridge
between Perrysburg and South Toledo two
years ago last February. These were repla-
ced at the lime, if the contracts as let were
complied with, for about $4,000, Ac-
cording to the report Of the Committee ap-
pointed TO examine the Commissioners
report as published one year ago last
February, the Commissioners issued $780,
900 worth OF bonds, for which the Com
missioners failed 10 show in their report
what deposition had been made Of tho
money received for these bonds.
If Commissioner Dunipace was guilty of
all that the Sentinel charges him with
prior to one year ago, as per second item
copied above, what has he done since to
entitle him to partake so freely of Re-
publican veal, 'of medium fatness p"
There is much more to be said upon
this or these subjects that will be of no
little value to every taxpayer of Wood
county, but time and space forbids
more this week.