Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1902 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Apologist man has made numerous publicationrabout The Democrat editor having presented padded and false claims for printing done for Jasper county. Now, every intelligent man in the county regardless of political affiliations, Knows that had we ever made out and presented a false claim to Jasper county we would have been landed in jail before the ink had a chance to get dry on the paper. It is a penitentiary offense to present a false claim, and the best evidence in the world that Marshall’s allegations are as false as his own guilty self is in the fact that no prosecution has ever been made against us for having presented any such claims whatever.

Marshall says that he paid that $16.00 back early in January, 1901, as soon as the “error” was “discovered.” Well, we first asked for the certified copies of the claims the latter part of December, 1900, and it is not strange that the “error’’ was “discovered” mighty quick thereafter. But, in regard to this money having been “paid back,’’ we wish to say that the only instance we ever remember of where any money was paid back that had been illegally drawn from the treasury of Jaspercounty was that of J. E. Alter, about three years ago, and then Mr. Alter made application to the commissioners to pay the money back into the treasury, and the same was accepted and made a matter of record on Commissioners, Record No. 11. It is a well known fact that money cannot legally be dumped any where about the court house after once having been paid out—there must be some record of the matter and the amount be paid back in due form, as did Mr. Alter. If Marshall really paid that sl6 back into the county treasury we have never discovered any record to that effect.