Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Keener township gravel roads were petitioned for and ordered built as two separate roads, tnown as the Demotte road of 12 miles and the Otis road of 4 miles. Bonds were issued and sold for $22.000, for the Demotte road and $9,500 for the Otis road. The law expressly says; “The county treasurer shall sell bonds at not less than their face value, and the proceeds SHALL BE KEPT AS A SEPARATE AND SPECIFIC fund to pay for the construction of the ROAD OR ROADS FOR WHICH THEY WERE ISSUED.” That is plain enough, isn’t it? The treasurer shall keep the fund of each road as “a separate and distinct fund” for the construction of the particular road or roads for which the bonds were issued. The Otis road issue was $9,500, and the commissioners nor treasurer had no right to pay out that fund for any other purpose except for that particular road. The law further says: “And shall be paid by him (the treasurer) to the contractor upon warrant of the auditor as directed by the Board of commissioners. The commissioners shall order the same to be paid in such amounts and at such times as they may agree, BUT NO PAYMENT shall be MADE FOR MORE THAN EIGHTY (80) per CENT, of the engineer’s estimate of work done by the contractor, nor shall the whole AMOUNT OF THE CONTRACT BE PAID until the road shall have been received as completed by the Board of Commissioners." We believe that since the lawsuits have been commenced and the matter has been aired so much that even the most pronounced ring defender will, when cornered, admit that there has been “a little looseness” in this Keener tp., gravel road matter and that the money is practically all gone. That it was paid out illegally is plain to any one of ordinary intelligence.

On Nov., 5,1877, Wm. McKinley, then a member of the house of representatives from Ohio, together with 66 other republicans voted for the following bill: An Act to authorize the free coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore its legaltender character. Be it enatted.etc., That there shall be coined, at the several mints of the United States, silver dollars of the weight of four hundred and twelve and a half grains Troy of standard silver, a» provided in the act of January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, on which shall be the device and superscriptions provided by said act; which coins, together with all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United States of like weight and fineness, shall be a legal tender, at their nominal value, for all debts and dues, public and private, except where otherwise provided by contract; and any owner of silver bullion may deposit the same at any United States coining-mint, or assay-office, to be coined into such dollars, for his benefit, upon the same terms and conditions us gold bullion is deposited for coinage under existing laws. Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. On the 2d of Nov., 1877, a bill was pending to retire greenbacks. McKinley voted against cancellation and in favor of reissue. This is the same McKinley who is now prating about the dangers of inflation. Upon every occasion, where given a chance to vote for the opposite side of the question of which he now occupies, he has voted directly opposite to his present position. Moreover, he has coined over $47, (XX),000 of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, during his administration, at the same time having Mark Hanna, and the lower house both of his political complection. If McKinley is opposed to 16 to 1, why don’t he have Mark repeal it?

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