The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1888-03-15
PICKAW AY.
Allen O'Myers Breaks a
Long and Painful
Silence,
And has Som etMfn= Serious
And Solemn 10 Say
To n Number Of rOwnrCa.
Sneaks AMI typOcrites

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Some Fac.S About shr COlHin.
bus Tally Sheet Cases
Tia. lave EI.-~n ed.
Special Dispatch TO the Erqnirer.
| COLUMBUS, ONO, March 2.-Fol
len weary. anxious weeks l have
bern chaincd and muzzled by law
yers. who insis,r.i on hni,ling an in.
quest on every line wrote hefore
it could appear in print. l:always
mars my free flowing and easy style
of wr ting to have Il lawyer at my
elbow 10 point out the places for
The punctuation points. have es
capped long enough from judicial
guardianship to AXE my pen in
hand t, say a wor,l about the tally
sheet farce now in progress at Co
lumbus. would have continued
The silence of the past two months
and not written Il line until the end
of the present trial but fur The i'm
pudent assumption Of virtue by Ger
Tain scnundreIs of the coward and
sneak order. There are some acts
TINT would prnvoke an ange! 10
/ wrath. and must make hell roar at
the part rhey are PLAYING in the
free. Certain coward y, drunken.
s.imev writers have hren embnId
ened TO write menda.,nus things
! because they thausht the dog Was
chained and cou'd not bite. But
they have played too clnse to the
anim.i. aud he w iecis like taking
them by the seat u! the breerheS
AMI disl ,..aiin. The whole center OF
their anatnmy.
One of those whining hvpocritic-
al writer's. in u column of gnsl and
sI,bher. meekly deplnres the tend
eucy 10 make po'iiirs out of tally
sheet casrs. and. like the renegade
that he is. lays all the blame mt the
door of The Drmoerati" party.
Lei us see who first dragged poll
Tics INTO the tai sheet cases and
huwled for Democratic VICTIM
Dave Pugh. the Judge on the Bench
in This ease is the creature of q. ID
Firrsionp, the Columbus Buggy
Company fanatic Pn"h was Cnair
mar of ihe Republican Central
Committee of Franklin t!ounty As
such. he VISITED The OHIO Peni'en
t,ary IN he dark and unhn,y hours
of night with that ,reature. Gurus
W HnIing, the present persecution.
aud like jackal proving around
the corpse OF justice. Pugh, the
present Judge. WAS present when
the cnnv,ct> were fea<ted and fixed
to perjure themselves and swear
away the reputation aud liberty OF
innocent Democrats. Was this pol
itIcsg On he perjrr d testimony
of incarcerated criminals seven in
nocent Democrats were bnnno over
and indicted by Hulns. aided by
his gang OF dirty consplrators. Was
this pulitics? The Same Prosecution.
with Pugh nn the bench. aband"ns
h,S pets in The Ohm PenitentIary.
and bucke,l by The money oi certain
malicious partisans in the City of
Columbus. Huling flies IN tue wings
of hate to the City OF Chicago. ac-
companied by Fires; me the med
dler and malignant; Butler the
coffee re.ller anA amateur detective,
and the suave and cunning George
K Nash, and he then and there
proceeds 10 pay the Price OF p'rjTry,
and enters into compact win an
English fugitive from Justice and a
prison bird to .prncnre other ev'-
dence to indict other parties for the
laily->hcet forgeries. Was this pol.
itrcsg Or can t, be that this is only
an innocent way that Hnling and
The Columbus buggy gang have of
dispor'ing themselves r!ayf"liy he-
fore high heaven aid descent peo-
pie?
Blu. this writer says: sit is now
a fact that they are on trial having
been brough, into Cour by due pro-
cess Of lawl" How beautiful! How
cunclusive! How convincing! The
defendants in this case should he
meek and lowly and dumb IN ths
hands of their prosecutors! 1hev
must not lift their hands implor-
ingiy to friends. They must not
ask the sympathy of their party in
the hour of trouble. They must not
assert their innncence before man.
and God. and fight I" preserve
their liberty. their regulations and
their hitherto unsullied names! No;
they must lie down in the mud OF
humiIistion aud be trampied On by
their embittered AMI mad iUi'tical
pursuers. ! CONFESS that one de
lendant is in Court by Cue process