Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — COMMUNICATED. [ARTICLE]

COMMUNICATED.

Last Friday, after the acquital of John E. Alter, there appeared, a malicious and baseless attack on the writer in the villainous sheet edited and owned by a Hcnnnftpel who has on all occasions aided and defended every steal made from public funds, in this county, provided only the thief was a republican, and provided farther that this acoandxells chances to (dander the public would be lessened by the thief’s conviction. Despised and ridiculed by tbe leaders, distrusted and discredited by the rank and file of his patty, his supply of public plunder—his meat —is running out and there is nothing left bnt to do the bidding of the papSoekers who have waxed fat at public expense. The election last! autumn was an eye-opener, and ; even a champ of Marshall's calibre was not long in discovering that the situation is .becoming desperate and these “mistakes*' must be explained at all hazards, or the jig is up, and public printSupon which he has grown , would be taken from him. This man Marshall is a cariosity in more senses than one. Endowed by nature with those qualities of mind exemplified in the I person of that noble animal commonly called the Jackass, and i possessing the gaul of a whole herd of government males, combined with the ghoulish propensities of the hyena, the voracity and exclusiveness of the hog, with wsmtriiect compared with which any common idiot might justly pone asa philospher, it wm be seen that a combination of this hind is not often met with in the human species. Does he ran amuck a member of his party? All that ia | necessary is for the offended mem- ] ber to administer a good drabing,; his jackass propensities at once! come into play, a great light ia: seen, and in the next issue of his “paper” he acknowledges himself a liar, with the same complacency j he would assume if a fee was tendered for an outrageously “padded” legal advertisement Ia a public improvement to be made? This quinsied monstrosity pats his swinish propensities at work. How much is there “in it?” Will it cost him a cent? Upon these two questions pivot his “conclusion,” if the mental processes of each an abortion can be designated by that word. If there is nothing “in it” or if it affects him however reSnotely, he is “agin” it tooth and nail. Is there a reform on for consideration? His hyena propensities are atonoe harnessed for duty. Is public (dander made easier of accomplishment? If so, be is for it” with both feet Bnt if the chances of plundering the public will be made more difficult if the amounts of his “warrants” will be lessened, or their number curtailed, he is “agin” it and the jackass side of his composite disposition takes precedence and he bmp lustily. The tax law of 1889 toe Australian ballot law, the school Book law, and every other reform that has been proposed, to better the administration of public business, has been opposed by this defender of thieves. How baseless and malicious the assertions made in the article referred to, are easily shown: 1. under oath toeessiotiods— was no part of his DUT{ito>hd did not belong to his office,? that they belong to the auditor* office, and tost he had j no right' to charge the county atj all. He knew this at the tune he made this cb<uva» 1 Marshall knew he was p>nfiShilL W * ’ the county at public wvproae. even! to lead peucikT And hu knew! i. k •»

which in this instance had been puid.for no doubt, mure times over by the oounty. In this eouneenoß, I will ask G. K. Marshall if it was cm account of “furnishing instruments” that John E. Altar added ISO per cent, to the salary of his office employes and then swore these raised vouchers were justly owed by Jasper county? This was done in scores 3. John E. Altar knew at that tune, and G. E. Marshall knew when he wrote that malicious lie, that whatever wee charged for eervicea for pasting those notices meet he charged against the land to which the ALLOTMENT WBS chargeable and collected as taxes are collected and not against the OOUNTT. Alter admitted this fact under oath. He had been surveyor six years and knew it when he made toe charge. 4. As this "work” had no connection with the surveyor’s office, all this rot about deputies getting $2.00 while SI.OO goes to the boss for the use of the team and instruments is worse than silly. No deputy was employed, and no one knew that met better than [John E. Alter. It was simply the easily discovered lie of one scoundrel to bolster np the discovered He of the other. The Verdict of a thousand juries will not change the verdict of pnbHc opinion in this instance. “In the meantime. after tbe bills woe allowed bat before Mr. Alter took op the warrants. Mr. lessen called at the auditor’s office and called ter and was shown the bill in his name and for ftis work as filed bjr Mr. Alter.”—Apologfat. What was the auditor doing after his attention had been called to the feet that he had drawn a warrant in the name of a person to whom it did not belong, and which had not been “took up,” | and was still in his possession and | control by delivering it to John E. Alter? And what has John E. Alter been doing that he could not find time to turn this “mistaken” warrant, or at least the money it represents, into the county treasury? He admitted under oath that he has known this money did not belong to him for the last three months.

JOHN H. JESSEN.