Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1874 — "Woe is me Alhama!" [ARTICLE]

"Woe is me Alhama!"

The Union is preparing an extra grist of statements from “official records” this week. That terrible mournful case of persecution of the “sick man” is to be again heralded abroad with all the embellishments of minds fertile in shameless electioneering resources. The special efforts of the anxious seem now to be directed to the Auditor's Office. The question has been asked why the Recorder is left without his proportional rations of calumny lately, and the answer is that the Recorder's office pays very little in the way of printer’s fees. Much has been said about the “CourtHouse wail” but the only “wail*' so far heard has been the wail about the loss of “bread and butter,” that the Union would sustain unless the candidates that “the people" preferred to the originators of the “people's movement,” should be successful in the coming election. That story of the “ring” was never verified until this week when it was seen in the Auditor’s vault and the names of the parties composing it noted down for the especial benefit of the independent organ. The laws of the State make it the duty of the several counties of the State, to provide jails for the incarceration of prisoners and criminals. Those counties which have no jail are responsible for expenses incured in the safe keeping of gueh persons, in consequence of not hav. ing a jail. Sheriff Daugherty might have hired as many men as he deemed necessary to “guard” Pat. Barton and the county could not have helped paying the bilL But the Sheriff, to save expenses to the county, set his little boy to watch Pat. when he was not with him himself, running the risk by so-doing, of becoming personally responsible for the indebtedness for which Pat. was held in custody. Had Pat. taken to bis heels, the boy could have informed his father so he could have pursued. If the editor’s of the Union can be used as a county jail for less than $1.73 per day they can doubtless find employment at that business and save themselves from having to account for such conscienceless fibs as their present business leads them to publish.