Year: 1872

The Wood County Sentinel, a Re-
publican paper published at Bowling
Green, in Wood county, attacks Hon.
Charles Foster in last weeks issue in
a very uncalled for and ungentlemanly
manner, and we might add in a very
cowardly and untruthful manner. For
a public journal, friendly to the tri-
umph of Republican principles, and
the success OF Republican candidates
to engage in such lying, dirty work to
aid the Greeley Democracy in defeat
ing such a man as Charles Foster,
shows that they have poor pilot at
the helm over in Bowling Green. The
Sentinel says that Jerry Nestlerode is
doing all he can to thwart the vote
in Portage and Bloom townships on
the question of railroads and is work
ing strennously, day and night, in this
effort by misrepresentation and every
influence he can bring to bear. The
reason he assigns for this is that the
road will injure my town." as he
calls it, but this is not the motive that
actuates him. The true reason is ap-
parent. He is a resident of Fostoris
and acts the man "Friday" for Char
ley Foster, and becomes Fosters
mouth piece for Misrepresentation to
the voters of these townships, etc.


Now the editor of the Sentinel very
well knows that Jerry Nestlerode is
permanently. in business in his town,
that he is the owner of real estate
there, and what he may have said or
done in the railroad matter is solely
to his own interest, he knowing well
that a railroad crossing a few miles
west of him would be death to the in
terests of Jerry, City and no other
motive induced him to act in the mat
ter but this. 1t Is true that Mr.. Fos-
ter is man of extensive influence, but
that he owns the entire community in
which he lives is not true, nor would
he stoop so low as to use his influence
in that way had he the power to con-
men at his will. Mr.. Foster has not
sought to control the vote of Portage
or Bloom township, nor single vote
in either, and we defy the Sentinel to
STOW to the contrary. Knowing this
to be false, we fear the Sentinel has al
lowed its columns to be prostituted
for another and baser purpose, that of
an attempt to aid in the defeat of Mr..
Fosters election to Congress. We
are sorry to be compelled to use the
mild terms towards our cotemporary
that we have, but when engaged in a
bitter political contest in which the
interests of the Republican party are
at stake, a contest, as to whether the
Tenth District shall by represented
by an upright, honest and competent
representative, or be a dishonest rem
egade trickster who has no interest at
stake but his own. and that of fleeing
the people, we think it very unbecom-
ing an editor OF another district to
use or allow his paper to be used
against the the interests of the party
he represents. Mr.. Foster, on NJ oc-
casion, has sought to interfere with
the local or public interests Of Wood
county; but on the contrary has used
his entire influenced in the location of
". C. q L. NJ. the B. p. & G. and
the A. & L. E. railroads through that
county, and now to be unjustly aDd
falsely charged with using his infiu-
ence to defeat the elections in Portage
and Bloom townships, just on the eve
OF an important election, is treachery
not TO be overlooked or passed by
without ebuke,