Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

?. ? P SIS Beware of the men who aie always trying to defend the scoundrels who are fattening on public plunder. A close inspection will generally reveal the fact that they are sharing in the booty.—Hebron Newr. kbk i i i Open up the books! The wolf scalp bounty must go. Taxpayers of all political faiths should be interested in working for an investigation of county affairs. And now the printers throughout the country have received notice of an advance of 15 or 20 per cent, in the price of all printers’ material. David Flynn, ex-clerk of Tippecanoe and a most highly esteemed ma n, was found short SII,OOO by the book expert. Mr. Flynn claims that the county owes him.—Fowler Leader. The Barnacle is tickling all over because of Marshall’s latest libel suit against The Democrat. If the Barnacle “editor” is wise he will prepare himself for the ordeal of turning his column rules bottom up a little later on. The records show that one of the republican papers here —the Apologist—from April, 1898, to April, 1899, was allowed $586.58 through the commissioners’ court alone. Taxpayers, do you wonder at the editor of that sheet becoming so insanely mad at The Democrat for exposing these things?

The Democrat has said that the last allowance made for publishing the delinquent tax list showed an overcharge; that the allowance for publishing the treasurer’s notice to taxpayers (as near as we can gather from the records) showed an overcharge. These statements we are ready to defend the to supreme court if necessary.

What will be the next move on the part of the “County Officers Association?” The supreme court again declared the fee and salary law constitutional last Friday, and the next move of this organization of servants of the people formed to defeat laws enacted for the betr terraent and economy in the transaction of public business will be watched with interest.

An examination by experts into the Tippecanoe county clerk's office during the incumency of David H. Flynn, show a shortage of about SIO,OOO. A suit at law will probably follow for the recovery of the amount by the county commissioners. The publicity given the alleged shortage is liable to cause some other county officers to shiver in their boots.—Oxford Tribune.

; We care not what any of the republican newspapers of Rensselaer may say nor what any county officer may say, the allowance for jjpublishing the delinquent tax list . and the notice to taxpayers shows jptji overcharge. County officcre fare not infallible, remember. They have time and again said the fee and salary law was unconstitutional, yet the highest court in Indiana has repeatedly held it good. /■ * \ Taxpayers of Jasper county, arouse yourselves Hnd demand that an investigation of county affairs be made. Thousands of dol- , lars of the people’s money can |sp&h©ut doubt be collected back by the county. The Supreme Court has just re-affimed its decision on the fee and salary law, and all special allowances and fees Allowed county officers are absolutely llegal. They are confined Atrictly to the salaries fixed by law pfid “shall receive no other comDensation whatever ”