Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — MORE ROTTENNESS. [ARTICLE]

MORE ROTTENNESS.

CemtyWanaets lataed far Laona and the EactKept Fran the As previously stated by us. no information about county affairs has ever been published by the ring organs here except what the ring wanted the public to know. The only information ever given the people about that $4,000 court house loan has been through The Democrat, and until we exposed the matter it is not likely that more than a half dozen people in the county knew such a loan had been made. To show the utter unreliability of the official statements given out by publication in the ring organs, and for which the county pays a great deal of money, we will trace up this $4,000 loan for a while. On June 29th 1896, (Record 10. page 253) we find that “the county

revenues having been exhausted by payments advanced therefrom on account of ditches and new court house, the Board finds that to preserve the county from loss, a temporary loan should be made.’’ Therefore an agent was appointed “to secure a $4,000 loan lor thirty days, and the Auditor ordered TO DRAW WARRANTS FOR THE SAXE, BEARING INTEREST AT 7 PERCENT. This temporary loan, bear in mind, was for only thirty days, and was made to tide over payments <m new court house account until the next bond issue was made and negotiated. No further reference is made to this loan that we discover until about one year afterwards when we find an entry of allowance made “interest on temporary court house loan, $320.” During the year that had passed the Auditor's annual report had been made, examined and approved by the commissioners ana published Thrift report purported to contain among other things all the outstanding county warrants issued and remaining unpaid on May 31st 1887. The warrant issued for this “temporary loan” of $4,000 hadnot been paid, but it WAS MOT inclvDED IN THE MET PUBLISHED NO* ANT MENTION WHATEEVR MAD* ON IT. “Of course the comrammonm and Auditor knew this loan hadnot been paid, but it areas* it was thought best not to publish the fact, tons showing guilt on their

riidtire made hy the atiiKtiia offAecowAtitmotf the affairs rfAe corarifiy, proved by the boead «f Ctemwstsskmezs, No imKKKXiMTifi time -or this MJOBO xmx, ivTHOTGH THE WAHROT TXIXEKR is still rKrAm. Arab* Are* officials are guihy off the true state of affairs fima Ae more ishmsi oftfe loan, so far as the recanfe atrewus(last month« meeting <aff Ae oraa-i mission®,. when wefind Ast was paid as "interest «■ ocnnjffly AdtMeAresT' Am aararew of Ae Auditor eficted the infoumattom that this was interest As smreei old temporary 30-Ay ioum made two yuan and two soA Itofara.

On being ashed if the team had ever been Mfr puM, the Anfitar replied that ithnd been, as he m, derstood, a loam time before. The i Treasurer also urieifiy stated to as] in answer to oar *that it i had been paadJ” * J Now comes aaoae coucealsneatt on the part «f the mmraararimmcK! and the auditor The fiaßtemtry of interest paid reads '“toterest vm temporary court house isum." The last entries in bath the ecanmissioners docket and reread as first made have bam craned fpreHuimably <m TMhriPs rerieri mad it; now reads “iatomrt cm tocmaty to-' debtedness,” the auditor stated to ma, it was the maar aid "temporary coast hamse bate” of $4,000. Now we would She to here the figure the interest am this hmm from Jaly 4,1885, to Sept. at 7 per cent, the cate at faderect given rathe caderto tone rise warrant We arake the areamat $606.68, bad the rereads ihnw that S6BB ha* been paid. How does it cease, if thus lama was paid off, even as late as Septesuber IhC tiara tise wamatt c&Bad fior? erawwty waxraskte of which ass reahiiehs was

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