Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 September 1874 — Page 6
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CHAWRIKI^TtTiK. S.\ri'RIAY, SBPT. W.
OUK SCHOOL FUNDS.
Another on Their MaimKt'iiieiiJ—The Way tlio Best Auditor the County K.vcr 11ml lie«'|»
Hook*—AH not l.ovely in Hie Derailratio Cniiip. To the F.ili'nrs Crmrfor-lxviVc Journal:
In reply to the "M:ui who and who professes to be a life long Democrat, I would say, that 1 cordially agree with him in the contents of your paper beins: srood reading for Republicuns and Democrats, and further that ih- article that called forth his answer is just the J:indo{ reading Jhniocral.-: slum Id ponder over. 1" this aire of corruption in ollice, can we as Democrats ever hope to retain political supreinacy, if the men we are called upon to sustain are far more guilty than those we are opposing. Mr. "Watson should you, and do yon. call it a test of Democracy for us to wink at violations of the civil law? As far back as I can remember, Democrats have been great sticklers for the rigid enforcement of all valid laws ami have always insisted that no Democrat should willfully and recklessly disregard the same.
But here we have von, a confessed violator of the school laws, ridiculing and making light of an exposure of your short comings, and insisting that you should be sustained because you are a member of the Democratic party. For one, 1 sincerely hope that our party will prove consistent. As to being ashamed of what I have done las a true Democrat glory in the attempt to purge the party from so ignorant, and virtually confessed, a,disregarder of the only true test of Democratic candidates, honesty and capability. Hut. allowing you to be "the best Auditor the county ever had," does it not occur to you that you cast an imputation upon your ability, when you employ a lawyer,with all his sophistry and ridicule, to explain what you call simple truths, lias it not occurred to you that "truth needs no defender?'' If your books are correct, why object to their inspection, not only by Clodfelter, but by any person It seems to me it ill becomes "the best Auditor the county ever had" to say to those whose duty it is to scrutinize his work, ''You're a hell of a man to look overbooks—It's as soft a thing as I want to have such a man as you to look over my books." Why do you think it so soft, Mr. Watson? We can but give one reason for your so thinking, which is this: Your books were so aptly kept you supposed it impossible for me to understand the mysticisms with •which tlicy so abound. Then as to vour simple error in addition. How
the manner and form in which they are kept. For the information of those who would like to see the style in which books are kept by "the best Auditor the county has ever had," we have taken the trouble to preserve a copy of their form. Here it is with some of the entries thereon—taken, however, from diflcrent pages.
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become "the best Auditor the county °f school law and asked why its prolias ever had," to make a column of visions were not complied with. It says: figures foot up ?i2S9.93 when correctly loans shall be made for it longer added it should have been SI,001.32 as term than years." Now, Mr. Watson, you now confess. And then you have we have as recent a copy of the school the arrogance to assume it was discover- aw as you, and the foot note at the cd by you. As well mighta foreigner just bottom of p.tire 30 does not help your landed'upon our shores attempt to detract from the fame of Columbus. Discovered by you Don't you remember that the attention of Mr. Reynolds was called to th« mistake'! His accurutc knowledge of the workings of your office failed to shed any light upon the question. Don't your memory recall the time, when a few days after, Mr Reynolds having failed to explain, and turned the same over to you, you came to the rear of my office and shouted in the door, that "you had made the correction." Mr. Watson, you never corrected that slight mistake in my presence. "Ask the Commissioners to make an' order." Does not "the best Auditor the county has ever had" understand enough of the law to know that the Commisioners have no authority in the premises. Your duties are defined by law. You loan the money, not the Commissioners. You collect the interest, not the Commissioners. You give bonds for a faithful performance of the duties of Auditor, and the already sadly perplexed Commissioners can't stand the additional weight of public indignation you would wish to shuffle upon them. Don't you remember it was the County Superintendent that brought the attention of the
Commissioners to this matter of delinquent interest And he does not remember that they, at that time, made any order but he does remember, that you exhibited an old style of blank, such as ha3 beeu sent out for years back, calling upon delinquents to settle. This it the order the Commissioners made at Mr. Watson's request. Mr. Watson you ought to be aSfShmed to rob some previous Auditor, by asking us to give you this credit. ThMj^Aii^W&ttjon, what was it that caused j^ffi^nrBend out those orders, "rousing up i^li^iqueuts," and "making such an ingathering of interest." We answer, nothing but the consciousness of the fact, that you, "the best Auditor the county has ever had," had been violating the plain provisions of the law. "The man who laughs" says he examined into the books of the Auditor and found Mr. Watson's statement correct. Certainly. That was what he was looking lor, correctness. Now we have no desire to detract from the laurels of "the man who laughs," but we will say it would make
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Now in this blank, when a sum of interest is I'AID, it is nolccl paid in the colum (so s:'vs "the best Auditor the county has ever had,") headed interest DUE. Consequently, when wc want to find the interest due, we are to look for blank places in his books. Now we would suggest to "the best Auditor the county ever had," that the headings of those columns be changed, or that he insert before them a column headed "when paid." To illustrate, from the manner in which the column* are headed, if a persou was this day, delinquent for 4 or 5 years, and should pay it all to-day how could the investigator know that it had not been does it! paid promptly We also cited Sec. 82
case.in the least. The law says vou shall collect the interest annually in advance. We ask you this plain question.' fliive you done so? With all courtesy wc can but know your answer, to harmonize with your books_ must be NO. The balance of the answer must be and was something like this. "Messrs. Commissioners, I know it is hard times for people to raise money, and as the securities we have are good, I don't think we had better press the people." Here's strict compliance with the law for you What would you think ot the Ju ige upon the bench who would suffer his decisions to be warped bv appeals to sympathy? But then you area candidate for re-election and possibly thought that to force people to comply with the terms upon which they borrowed money would endanger your chances of success. Don't this look like loaning and I'.sixti money for electioneering purposes? (N.
B. No demand is made for your reward of §1,000.)
As to your man "Friday's" flings about attending to our own business, we would say that is just what wc are doing. Our business is to look over the books of "the best Auditor tlnj county has ever had," and when we see such assumptions of .ability to manage the school fund, our official oath obliges us to take exceptions to its workings. Mr. Watson, don't try to attract attention from the point we are discussing. What is my bill to you I am not on trial, but when I am you may rest assured I shall not shrink from a full and free investigation. My postage is not very large, but large or small, it is for thepicsent the official business of a county officer and must be paid from that"fund as yours. My miscellaneous office work does not like yours consist of efforts to secure my re-elec-tion. I attend to my business its faithfully as I know how, and can not it is true be seen upon the streets and about the saloons as frequently as you. But then I will give you the benefit of this presumption, that your calls at saloons are to "rouse up delinquents," as an examination of your borrowers shows a number of them are engaged in that business. How they succeeded in convincing you, that a proper use for the school fund is the assistance it should give to whisky venders, we can not answer, but
we can say that honest and hard working farmers, who pay far more tax than your delinquents, have had the impudence to suggest that a portion of the funds you have to loan should be given to men of their class. Some of them say you tell them you have no funds to loan and the next day they hear of a party favorite or some whisky seller obtaining
laws. A KliVOKM DKMOCKAT.
THE CRAWFORDSVILLE SATURDAY EVENING JOURNAL.
all he wants of this sacred fund. Finally, Mr. Watson, you stand convicted of a violation of the laws, aud no appeal to your ignorance or to parly despotism shall avail you. Your days are numbered. No more shall our intelligence be'insulted by
Johnson stands squarelv on the Demo-
The National banks received interest on their bonds, and then made all they could out of tlieir currency, and nobody but such unprincipled men as bankers could advocate such doctrine. Lie said the Republicans, with Senator Morton at their head, advocated the same doctrine in 1SGS, and if it was sound doctrine then, it was now.
He spoke next of the Civil Rights bill as being an attempt on the part of the general government to take control of the public schools, in order to force the blacks into the school with the whites, which he utterly abhorred, for in his opinion it would work injury to both races.
He next directed his remarks to the workings of the temperance law in the State and county as being a farce for electioneering purposes, and asserted with great emphasis that intemperance is a curse that can not be regulated by law, and it is worse in this county to-day than ever. He exhorted his hearers not to go to a man and say we will have a Baxter law, but use moral suasion to him to be a good citizen. He said he was there to say that the present law is a failure he was in favor ot a stringent license law he said he was opposed to a law holding the liquor seller responsible for selling to a boy who could stand by the counter and drink like a man, and when damages was to be paid he was a boy. A man that would iret drunk and violate the law should be held equally responsible.
He declared the County School Superintendency in a great many of the counties to be a nuisance. It may work well enough in this county, but is a nuisance in others.
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He concluded his speech by denouncing the tariff vehemently, declaring that not one dollar that is raised by the tariff went into the Treasury, but it went into the pocket of the manufacturers.
Letter List.
List of letters remaining in the postoffice at Crawfordsville for the week endending Sept. 12,1874. If not called for in thirty days they will be sent to the Dead Letter office. Persons calling for these letters will please say, "advertised BecchMrsMollie BoysolSamuel Beech James ClarkElijrth CasbsbyJames CoonLevi Cora
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I'unninghamSallie Delaney Henry Dorsey Frank EvernJohn Graves'l'B HuntWilliam HallMissFannie HiershSimon HawkinsMrsSenia StimemetzeJohn Shoecraft Amanda
T. H. B. MCCAIN, P. M.
Tho statistical editor of the Times, Grand Island, Neb., says: 90,000,000,000,000,000.000,000,000,000,000,000 grasshoppers, at least, passed over here yesterday. There might have been a few more or less, as we did not count very closely.
•V Boston court has decided that if a oinan lends money to her husband she can not get it back. The decision will not be new to many wives.
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Advice Modestly Put.
lFrom llie Kewcustle Tnnes—Granger.) The readers of the Indianapolis Sun are kept thoroughly posted on financial matters. Now it is none of our business but it strikes us that if the "Sun shines for all," as it proclaims, it should have an occasional editorial on some other of the many questions in which the people of the. State are much interested just
The ISusli to Kansas anil Colorado. The indications are that the rush to Kansas and Colorado will bo greater than ever in 1S74. The shortest way to reach the far West is through St. Louis, the
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Hon. James G. Johnson, the Democratic candidate for Representative in the State Legislature, made a speech at Beckville last Friday evening, defining his position on the various matters at issue in the present campaign. A pretty full report of the speech is sent us by our Line, the correspondent in \Valnut township. Mr. Colorado, Nebraska, California aud the
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dares his opposition to the Baxter law, the County Superintendency law and the Civil llights bill.
ITe commenced by saying that he stood before his hearers to advocate the principles of the Democratic party of this county. lie first called attention to the platform on the currency question, which declares for the repeal of the National I Banking law, and the substitution of greenbacks for banking currency, and the payment of five-twenty bonds in greenbacks. He said this doctrine should be carried out in order to save the interest.
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A Finality.
We confidently believe that if the question of the continuance of the Gift Concerts of the Public Library of Kentucky were submitted to a vote of the whole people of the country, they would with great unanimity vote for that continuance. This can not be, however, and now the last of these concerts is just at hand.. Who, that can at all afford it, will neglect to purchase a ticket, which may win for ihem a magnificent fortune, and can not injure their financial position to any degree Judging from the rush for tickets, few are able to resist the tempting scheme, which is published elsewhere. 3S-1
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