The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-10-23

highest bidder, and it has been pur-
chased body and soul this year in the
interest of the third-term candidate for
Governor, but it's influence is not worth
as much as one of the white pieces of
paper it spoils in being printed.
Here Mr. Campbell read an editorial
from the Evening Post of yesterday,
charging that it had been proved three
times over by Mr.. Campbelrs own sigma
ture that he was financially interested
in the ballot-box bill.
In reference to this Mr.. Campbell said:
SIT is lie, and the paper that publishes
1t denounce as an infamous sheet, and
in any way that the English language
can deny | refute the outrageous SLAM
der. l never directly or Indirectly, re-
motely or near at hand, far or near, had
any interest in that box or any other
box, and any language that can make
my denial l would like to make use of,
and in this connection will read you
the following dispatch / sent this after
noon on reading this Post editorial:
GERMANTOWN, O., Oct. s, 1889.
''HoN. ISAAC M. JORDAN, Cincinnati,
O.: Please demand from the Cincinnati
Post, as my attorney, a full and com
plete retraction of the ballot-box and
brewery editorial in yesterdays paper.
l have just read it. I consider it clearly
libelous and brand it as a lie. desire
you also to read the Cincinnati Times
Star of Saturday last, and if any of its
false but carefully worded articles are
libelous in law | desire the. same action
taken. Bring action promptly if retrac-
ton is not forthcoming, and retain
Judge Harmon's firm, also
'JAs. E. CAMPBELL"
Now we have them where we want
them. They must now either retract
or prove their statements made against
me.
This afternoon L received from Nor
ton L. Hawkins, a reputable writer en-
ployed on the Evening Post, the follow
ing dispatch:
COLONEL HAWKINS DISPATCH.
C.SCINNATI, Oct. 8, 1889.
Hon. JAMES z. CAMPBELL, German
town. Ohio: There is much public i'm
portunity and friendly solicitude re-
garding the delay of your promised refu-
tation of published charges connecting
your name with an alleged questionable
ballot-box trust while you we're a MEM
Der of Congress. The Post contained
yesterday an article based on CONVEX
st'Gion held with you last Sunday with
one of your warmest political and per-
sonal friends, in which it was stated
that your complete vindteation was con-
tanned in certain document, unofficial
or otherwise, and you had sent for it,
and that when this arrived you would
be amply prepared to confound your en-
emies. The great interest taken in this
matter by the public warrants me earn
estly and respectfully requesting you to
wire at once such facts and stamp for
publication in this connection as will
not only prove boon to your legion of
friends here, but a boomerang to those
who have sought to blacken your fair
fame. Use the wire freely at our ex-
pense. MORTON L. HAKw1Ns,
Evening Post.
at once answered as follows:
COLONEL M. L. HAWKINS, Daily
Post, Cincinnati, Ohio: Replying to
must say that 1 publicly branded Hal
stead's card as a lie upon readingit
have been waiting for statement SIM
liar to his to be made editorially in the
Commercial Gazette. So far it has not
been done, except by imputation. The
editorial in yesterdays Post, which I
have just read, is the first case in which
responsible party has squarely faith
cred this wicked and ibelous story, and
l have wired my attorney to demand
retraction or sue for damages, as the
only true way to test the falsity of the
charge. JAMES E. CAMPBELL"
THE COLD FACTS.
Now, as to the facts about the introduc-
ton of the bill. The attorney for the
ballot-box company handed me the bill,
asking me to present it, because the
stockholders were all Republicans, and
they wanted it to come from the Demo-
cratic side so there would be no politics
in it. 1t was introduced by request, as
hundreds of bills are. I told him if he
would so word it that the Attorney-Gen-
eral would be allowed to fix the price on
the box l would do so. The bill was
drawn up in that shape and the best
features of the Hoar election bill intro
duced in the Senate added to it. Th9bin
was so worded that the Attorney General
of the United States could fix the price,
but could not make it over $25. He
could go as much below that as he want
ed to, but could not go above it. The
power of setting the price should the
bill have become law, would have been
vested in Attorney General Miller-and
there was safe-guard-a limit, so that
bv no possibility could he have set it too
high and the natural presumption is that
any Attorney General would set the
price as low as he could, but as the bill
was never heard of again, and never
pushed, he had no chance to set aprice
at all. So much for that.
The Commercial Gazette has been
making a lot of insinuations, casting a
lot of dirty filings and printing some
fanciful stuff about a certain alleged
contract, which it is pleased to call
Contract No. One Thousand" If such
contract exists, and do not pelieve it
ioes exist. I never heard of It until
read of it in the Commercial Gazette,
and l say to you here and the people of
Ohio that l deny absolutely, any knowl-
edge of the existence Of such a contract,
and charge that ii has been manufac-
tured for the occasion If such a con-
tract existed knew nething of it, and
it is probably fictitious, because Mr.
John r. Mclean, whose name is used in
the contract, says it was used without
his authority or permission, and that he
never heard of it in any shape, manner
or form until it appeared in the Com
mercial Gazette. So much for contract
No. 1000.
THERE IS ANOTHER MAN
Running for Governor of Ohio, however.
who seems to have very deep interest
in that box, and who wrote to the Gov
ernor of Michigan asking him to adopt
it. Governor Foraker and George Topp
seemed to be soliciting together for the
box in Michigan, and your own Senator
Rathbone, a good Republican,, now chief
United States Post-office Inspector, in
troduced bill in the Ohio Senate pro-
viding for the adoption of the box i'll
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