Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1874 — A CANARD EXPOSED. [ARTICLE]

A CANARD EXPOSED.

Rewsselaer, lad., Oct 12th, 1874. We, the undersigned, having carefully examined the records and bilk of the Auditor's Office of Jasper County, showing the chargee by, and allowances to FRANK W. BABCOCK for services as Auditor, do find from said records and bills that the total allowances to said Babcock for such services for the year ending May 31, 1874, were $2,156.18 of which there was allowed for the work of refunding theß. R. tax....... 600.00 Leaving the total amount for all such services except —« the R, R. work ; $1,656.18 This examination was made and the above couolusion reached after reading a circular issued from the Union office this day, headed “The Truth,” in which MR. BABCOCK is charged with having re oeived $2,837.95 for the last fiscal year. The orders named in the statement of the Union referred to dated in June 1873, including Numbers 4S to 7©,-

amounting to t7ss.M except $49,- $$ were fur services of the previous year. Some of the amounts we found to be for mutters in no way connected with hi» dudes as Auditor; and SB9O more entirely fictitious. The shove statement shows that MB BABCOCK has received LESS, instead of MORE than Mr. Yeoman and exposes the last statement of die If* os as only another of their political tricks. N. W. REEVE. Wm. W. BUSSELL. T. E. WILLEY. JAS. A. BURNHAM. I hereby certify that the above statement is true as appears from the records of my office. FRANK W. BABCOCK, Auditor of Jasper County The circular above referred to, over the signatures of H. E. James k, J. Healey, proprietors of the Rensselaer Union, issued just upon the eve of decdon, is another specimen of the honesty and fair ness of those gentlemen. Their columns have been loaded with falsehood and dander all summer, and not content with this they resort to this disgraceful sad shameless dodge. Never since the] got mad at Packard about the Post-Office and fought him a whole campaign and succeeded in influencing only TWO Votes, (those being James’ and Healey’s) have they published any thing more basely false than the representations in that circular over their signatures. Seven hundred dollars and fifty-eix cents for ten days work! s79.9€Ms per day! Is there a 10-year-old boy in Jasper so green as to be deceived by bo glaring a tain-representation ? Do Parkiaon, Benjamin and McCullough refuse the $5, allowed them by law, take only $4 themsdves, and then allow the Auditor $70.96 ? None but those whom the gods had first made mad would make so rash a statement over their own signatures. Let the Moment voter# of Jasper examine the records after the electiom and SEE WHO HAS LIED!

The above circular from the Union office was sent out on last Monday afternoon and spread over the county, when it wis thought too late to meet a reply ; and is but another specimen of the meane used to carry this election. It is fir more creditable to Mr. Babcock to be defeated in taking an honorable course and preserving bis manhood, then to have reeorted to such means as were used to elect his opponent. Those who take especial pains to cheat and delude a person are no friends to that person, nor is any »ne a friend to the people who will deceive them; and any one who voted against Mr. Babcock in consequence of the representation of the Union ought to sift the charges of that paper and the circular from its editors, and see who has been fraudulent and deceptive. If the reader will notice that circular, it says that Mr. Babcock replies that he only drew as follow.- 2 then gives the tabulated statement as published in the Rxpubligak. Now Mr. Babcock did not say that he only drew so much, but he did say that he only received for his services in the fiscal year commencing, June Ist, 1873, the sums set forth in that statement. After the March term of Commissioners’ court, he drew no money from the county till the June term. For his work after the March adjournment of that Court, on through March, April, and May, he puts in a bill at the June term—which bill includes services in the first ten days of Jane, —all amounting to $700.56. This was for convenience made into smaller orders, and appears in that circular numbered from 42 to 70, inclusive. Now deduct $42.65, which was for services in June, and we have $657.91 drawn in June, for services rendered prior to June. The editors of the Union knew as well as any one, that toe Auditor draws in Mavrh, for services rendered from totjfeeember to the March he draws at the June term for services from the Maroh to the Jnne term. Notice farther, Transcripts of Affidavits $l5O. There ta no such thing knoWti. in the laws of the State, nor in any of the offices. The records of the Auditor’s office will show that Baboock has received far less, for the amount of work done in any year of his term, aad also in ihe wkoie term, than his predecessor received.

From lowa comes no uncertain sound.— The State that initiated opposition to mna opolies has done more to put down such things and to carry out the principles laid down in the National Address and Platform *f the Patrons of Husbandry, than all the rest of the States ut together. Bow have they done this f The aaswsry is ‘patent to every thinking man. They ga • their att action to their legitimate business instead of pitching themselves against their best friends the Republican party. True, the political hacks and sore-heads that had attached themselves to the “Grangers” organised a Grange “party,” but did not succeed in pushing themselves to the front and capturing the whole thing as they did here. And what was the result ? An overwhelming majorifor the Republican party—the party of human rights—the party of progress—the

party of tbc grandest and most glorious reeordthat was ever written by a party.— Had the Grangers of Jasper county asked any {hedges, ter toe support «f Abeir promulgated principles, of the Republican candidates, not one of them would have hesitated one moment to give too pledge. The legitimate and just objects of the Farmers’ movement eonld be obtained no b sooner to rough too Republican party than in any other conceivable way.— Hus, toe Grangers of lows welt knew; so they Ist hacks sad sore-beads amuse themselves with their hobby, and when the election earns off, they showed their firith by their works. The Patrons in Jasper, may lean a lesson from tote, if they will; They may lot the east-off Jmeks capture their movement and ran H in their own interests, work upon the prejudices of too Ignorant, buy off the d ■proved with “Buck Ross” gin, crests in some minds distrust of true and honent men by falsehood and misrepresentation, and win some partial viotories; but such victory they will tad much worse than defeat in a good cause, and in the employment of bone t means. The honest intelligent masses, will rise in their might and bury in oblivion too party tbat owoa its success to corruption sad deceit. The Republicans of Jasper have nothing to fear from too present partial defeat. Political corruption never produces official parity. Th i hollow cry of “reform,” that me ns only torn out your good men and give me your offices, will always produce its Ekeys. Wo predict for the Republicans in the next election, a victory that will forever settle the business of those sham “reformers.”