Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1904 — PAYING CAMPAIGN DEBTS. [ARTICLE]

PAYING CAMPAIGN DEBTS.

Here is a little item that we want every tax-payer in the county to thoroughly digest: The annual notice of the county treasurer is made and published in January of each year, and is identically the same at all times. It gives the rate of taxation in the different townships and corporations of the county, tells when the installments must be paid, etc. It is the same each year except a change in the figures where the rates are different. In 1901 this notice was published by the Rensselaer Republican and Mr. Marshall was paid S3B fo* it. There was some little question about the measurement that year and Mr. McEwan of the “Barnacle” was called in before the commissioners, and according to his measurement the notice amounted to but $lB The next year the notice was published by Mr. Clark and he was paid $39, he having charged $1 for some slips printed from the type. This year the new republican treasurer gave the notice to McEwan, who worked for and supported him in his race for the office, and McEwan charged and was paid $64.00 for the notice. It will be noted that the republican treasurer paid an election debt in giving the notice to McEwan, and that the people “paid the freight.” How do you like it? The fact that McEwan practically swore in ’9l, when before the commissioners that the notice measured up to but $lB and in 1904, when he published it, swore it measured up to $64.00, is easily explained when one is accustomed to that worthy’s peculiar make-up. In any event the people paid $26.00, more for this notice than it did in 1901, and the figures were the same, except the rates. This statement can be proven by Abe’s own record, from which we expect to prove that Abe has repeatedly violated the county council law.