Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1874 — Bug-a-boo ! [ARTICLE]

Bug-a-boo !

The independent organ professes to have discovered a grpat bug-a-boo in the case of Bakcoek versus Barkley. The facts of which are, that it was a donbtful point of law whether it was the Auditor’s duty to make out the road list for the townships or not. The cause was brought by agreement to test the merits of the case and for a judicial decision on the points of law involved, and was pusbed just far enough to decide those issues and then oismijsea. Judge Haaamoned decided that it was not the duty of the Auditor to make the road-list unless he was called upon to do so, and if called on to make them it was then his duty to do so and he would be entitled to his pay for making them, from the party ordering them made. When parties are so pushed for electioneering capital as to have to resort to “going back” on their own agreements and distorting and misrepresenting facts to them well known, it shows t'.ey have a desperate case* themselves being the judges.