Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-04-27
Indignation Meeting Which Did Not
Injllgnate

lnuiEnnllOIf WPctIHS hilCl Diu Nu'
Indlgnatel
II having been clearly demonstrated
that the editorials and pretended news
items published in recent issues of the
Wood County Sentinel touching the
administration of public affairs in the
village of Bowling Green, Ohio, have
been spread. broad cast over the land to
tie inestimable damage of said village
and the material interests OF its citizens,
we the undersigned citizens of said viii
lage hereby call public meeting to be
held at the Court House on the evening
of April 2tst, 1888, to devise such meas
ures as may be deemed proper and ex-
pedient to correct the false and damag-
ing impressions thus made, to have the
facts truthfully stated for the informa-
ton of interested parties and to sub
serve the true interests of said village
and its citizens
The above appeared in the Daily News
of Bowling Green on Saturday evening
last, double loaded, large display head
lines, and quite an array of names at
tached to the call. The meeting was
postponed until Tuesday evening of this
week and the following is the report of
the meeting as publishsd in the Daily
News the day following, with very
small head line !:
''LAST NIGHTS MEETING.
"Tho meeting to discuss matters of
public interests to the town met at the
Town Hall last night and organized by
,lecting j. o. Troup, Esq. Chairman,
and NJ. p. Brewer, editor of the Sen
iinel," Secretary. The information
elected was satisfying in the highest
degree, and the discussion showed that
Bowling Green is not gong to lose its
reputation for not doing its business
in business way. A committee was
appointed to collect further information
and to report to AN adjourned meeting
held in the court house next Tuesday
night"
What brilliant idea it is to have q
home in ''Crystal City," and advocate
'protection"-or in other words where
SO many live in glass houses" that they
cannot throw even one stone. Who
ever heard before of the party to be
"indignat,d d" appointed secretary of the
meeting which was to 'indignate! 1t
must have been terrible punishment
to Brewer to have the FOOLS cap drawn
down over his head and made to sit
there and record in short and tremb-
ling hand, the scathing rebukes that
were to fall like snow flakes about him !!
1t is terrible situation - The Ga
zette accused the News of accepting pay
for publishing an article from an inter
ested taxpayer just prior to the cleo
ton which took exceptions to the "bus-
iness methods" of doing business, from
which the JOURNAL made extracts the
week prior to the last election, and
which it is thought had something to do
with changing the complexion of the
results in both Bowling Green and
Perrysburg. Stop for about n minute
and fifteen seconds and reflect over tie
situation: Five newspapers in u thriv-
ing little city like Bowling Green, all
supposed to be working for the welfare
of the people, and therefore for their
own, and Taxpayer to get few plain
facts before the people to correct exist
ing evils such as was complained of by the
Sentinel-must pay for ii
A few yearsag) when Mr.. Amos
Dewese, of Weston, sent n communi-
cation to Mr.. Evers, as editor of the
Sentinel, showing the business meth
ods by which the people Were being
robbed in constructing the Jackson
cutoff ditch, it wasreIused as il
would create row with the county
officials. II will give you So SO Sl'
TO publish it," says Mr., Dewese. "No,
it can't be published, says Mr.. Evers
Four or five years ago we anaized
about one-lalf Of one annual report o
the commissioners and taking only thu
larger items, showed over $1,000 had
been ordered paid by them without any
authority of law whatever. The Sen
nel'S only reply was that life was TO,
snort TO read such matters"
The still later experience of the peo-
pie who got tired of this species OF bust
ness methods and elected Democrat,
Sheriff and two commissioners, who il
less than n year sold out to the gang VIII,
have 5e II con lucting these III .thols ful
many years, issued $l35,000 worth ol
bonds to meet n loss of $4,000 in bridges
with the balance as yet unaccounted for
And the sheriff. as we are credibly in.
formed by Bowling Green parties, ,releas
cd $4,000 mortgage held by Reed &
Merry's bank, added another farm, in
vested liberally in Bowling Green rea
estate, enabled his deputy to start up il
business and politics in the west-all il
two years and after investing liberal
in securing the cection-and in all o.
which these public officials had the full
sanction of the Sentinel and its several
editors, and many leading Republicans
and woull-be officials who expected
the assistance of these same Democrat,
10 reach the goal OF their ambition.
In the face of all this would il MOI
seem that the Sentincl's objection tC
Democrats taking part in q mere loca
contest in corporation caucus is tn,
centennial joke Of the nineteenth cen.
tury-and leads lis to inquire, in oul
mind, are the mass Of The people ex-
pected to know anything of conscquenc,
outside of what they read in their par
tiSan paper? Why the fiourishing sue
cess Of the Coordination" for the past
twelve years has depended wholly on
the heads and tails of the two great
parties. "Ieads win, tails you lose.
The taxpayers of Bowling Green and
Wood county should demand a rest, and
in such manner as will enforce the de-
mand.
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