Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1888-10-12
LOCAL VISIONS.
In which There Is hut Little
Politics and Much That
Would he a Credit TO
IItghwnymen,

;t was unfortunate for Democrat TO
engage in business in Wood county,
without he was built in shape to join
the combine, for plumber only.
We took the back track a short dis
tancc, in our mind, and soon saw the force
of his remark. We soon struck great
murder trail-the cost of which is un-
known to the people who pay the take
and another Democratic paper impor-
ted to print the Sheriff Sales. We saw
three lines added to tho form of tho ad-
vertisement to make an additional ex-
pense Of 90 cents to each person who
was 80 unfortunate to be placed in the
clutches of the Sheriff, on each one of
the numerous Sheriff Sales advertised
during this administration of the Sheriff
elected by the emocratic-Republican
Combine" We read in the Democrat
and copied in the JOURNAL the expert
ence OF victim of this Sheriff in Mont
gomery twp, who had everything taken
from him except few corn shocks and
when a deputy was sent back and took
these the victim attempted suicide. We
see all the Bowling Green papers give
fulsome and glowing accounts of the
detection and capture and the proceed
ings of the great Grover murder trial
wherein one tramp kills another, which
is of little consequence to any except
those who manipulated the whole affair
from beginning to end to rob the tax
payers. We saw in the Sentinel q labor
cd history of murder trials from the
first to the last, furnished by the Demo-
cratic Sherlffs' Republican Deputy,
from the records, showing in the first
that the first man hung in the county
was Porter for shooting man for rob
bing him of everything he had to sus-
tain life Qor which he ought to have
been allowed to live and pensioned for
the remainder of life)-and the cost of
this trial and conviction reached the
enormous sum of fourteen dollars and
some cents; but the cost of the last great
Grover trial has not yet been made pub
lie. The vision of leading Republican
orator who thinks he is built like Ma
tional law-maker and wants Democratic
, votes to aid him in getting there, who
apologies TO Republican Taxpayers by
stating that 1.-THE Democrats do not get
n man in office very often in this county
and when they do they wanted to see
him mako something. docs Demo-
) cratic taxpayer like to be robbed by an
official any more than Republican, is
up for consideration here.) A later Wis
ion appears in which the old-wheel
horses come to the front, get charge of
the machinery of the party and put this
fame Coordination" Sheriff to the front
In this campaign. (The remainder O
the ticket is good so far rs we know
especially Mr.. Q. A. Hampton, of this
, place, whom all know to be clever
) young man, and upon whom we desire
{ to cast no reflection in calling attention
, to well-known iniquities)
Further back we have visions OF
the Sentinel cowardly agging on n
crank to do something desperate to the
Dobsons or their office and by this and
other means bulldozed them into Joining
c the Combine" which means to say
z nothing that will throw light upon the
a real situation in local affairs, but mysti
$ fy and delude as much as possible. Ther
y follows visions of German paper" to
u reprint what is said in the Democrat and
rake out of the taxpayers $4OO or $500
; and they can make it just as much
more as they like under existing cir
cumstances-because the law provides
that certain legal advertising shall be
, , published in papers of two different pol
itics and in German paper where one
is published in the county-and one is
published in the county for that pur-
! pose. Thus the German as we'll as the
English reader of these papers is hood
; winked and deceived and robbed at the
same time.
Then comes visions of the county
taxes being raised to the full limit of
law, n bill asked of the legislature TO
increase it to $40, 900 more, and when
this is refused the commissioners tell us
they have foun law by which they
can supply the long felt want by issue
ing bonds on the county. The com.
mittee to examine the report of their
proceedings for that year inform the
people that $l35, 900 was raised from
bonds that year, and the money is un-
accounted for in their report-and as
yet unaccounted for. The people don't
need to accept this as a mere vision, but
they ought to have seen and felt this
substantial fact by this time.
Then comes visions which all can see
Of great canals dug through the county,
some of them costing 100000, with
nothing to put into them, the land suff
ering from drouth, while the plain horse
sensse is entirely ignored that as fast as
the land is cleared up and the sunshine
let in it will take care of the surplus
water, except in rare cases. Was peo-
pie ever more de.uded and swindled in
laws secured and operated for this one
special purposep We have visions of the
commissioners consulting common pleas
judges, so called, to see how far they
can go in the robbery and be sustained |
We have visions of the Sentinel telling
The people that the court expenses of the
county were increasing, but it could not
be helped and the people would be COM
PEELED to pay them! Why should they?
But why proceed. We could keep on
ennumerating similar transactions for
whole day. Is there another county IN
the State where the people can be so
completely gulled and robbed9
Warner Miller, the wood pulp million
aiie. complacently contemplating his fat