Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — SCHAAF WON’T GIVE UP. [ARTICLE]

SCHAAF WON’T GIVE UP.

State Will Begin Suit Against Former Republican Officeholder. F. Richard Schaaf, Republican county chairman, accused with Henry Schrage, Whiting politician and financier with having illegally drawn several thousand dollars from the treasury of North Township during four years service as trustee, will force the state to collect the “sum charged to him only after a legal battle. In a statement made yesterday Schaaf said that he did not propose to turn the money over to the township, but would require the- state accounting board to carry the matter into the courts. Inasmuch as Governor Marshall has already authorized the board to take such steps where public officials were found to be owing the taxpayers. Schaaf’s wishes will undoubtedly be satisfied within the very near future. Requested to make a statement in regard to the report of the,examiner Sc'haaf said: “I don’t see why I should be blamed for drawing excess salary. The advisory board and the county commissioners fixed my salary at $1,200 per year. I will not turn over the money without a fight.” The Schaaf organ charges that J. C. Becker the present trustee is following precisely the same course as Schaaf did.. It is only necessary to state in this connection that the state examiners went over the records of Trustee Becker’s office and gave him a clean bill. In other words his conduct of the office was found to be i without blemish. —Gary Post.