Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — COMMUNICATED. [ARTICLE]

COMMUNICATED.

Since “Honest Abe” has seen fit, for reasons best known to himself, to disclose the amount of profit in the gravel road contract in Marion tp., in 1893, he would do his constituents a greater favor by giving out information,—if not inconsistent with public interests—on the following matters, viz: 1. How much profit will there be in the Keener tp. gravel road contract,—S. M. McGinnis (& Co) contractors? 2. What became of the bond filed on behalf of the above contractor? Why has no bond ever been substituted for the one that mysteriously disappeared? Is there any likelihood of the contract being executed before the bonds are all paid? 3. If not inconsistent with public interests, please state what was the net cost of the court house clock and bell? 4. How much profit was there in the furniture 5. Could the gentleman who had the various contracts for “extras” on the court house make’living wages at the prices received for their work? 6. How much money had been paid those “architects” from Ft. Wayne before the discovery was made that contracts on a percentage basis are void? Please give dates and circumstances leading to this discovery. 7. How are the air pumps working at the power house? Has the walking-beam attachment proved a success? An appendix containing such other information, of a public nature, and not called for in these interrogatories, will be thankfully received by your constituents. 8. Why did you hold court nine days last December—the statutory limit—at a cost of §12.50 per day to the people, when all the business could have been easily transacted in half that time? 9. '•» Since J. E. Alter has received a certificate of good character, from G. E. Marshall, and the Farmers’ Institute, will you do him the justice to reinstate the bills filed by him, and dismissed by you, and allow balance on bills cut by you, amounting to hundreds of dollars? Your present attitude casts a cloud on his veracity, as all of these instances can not consistently be attributed to mistakes. Z