Plymouth Weekly Democrat, Volume 14, Number 1, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 September 1868 — Page 2

Plymouth Democrat.

THURSDAY. SEP. 8, 1W.8. XEW VOLUME. With this number we commence O.e publication of the fourtecuth volume of The Democrat.

On the eve of the nicst important elec- hearts of the wicked copperheads. The members of that party are so ignorant or tion ever held in this country, an elec- u,uaj "truly loil" dodge was tried, by ad- so reckless as to state that the radieal partion which will determine whether a re-! vertising, in big letters on mammoth post-1 ty is not in favor of negro suffrage. By a publican form of government can be main- j erS as the speakers. General Carl Schurz, I systematic course of lying and deception

taincd by an intelligent people or not, for j the success of radicalism will now prove j the destructbn of civil liberty, wo ask our friends to aid us in becoming useful, by incieasiu our circulation, promising them that we will use our best ability to

promoto tho interests ot the people by ad-; publicans of Marshall county. The day rocating the principles of the democratic j came at last. Early iu the forenoon the party, on the success of which the welfare; marshals were seen mounted on their war of the nation depends. horses; the Silver Band paraded the Our subscription price is two dollars per ! streets, discoursing their sweetest notes j year, less than five oeuts per week, and and all eyes were gazing in the the direcevcry democrat in Marshall county can tion from which the hosts of Grant aod afford to take his home organ, if he desires Colfax were expected to put in their apto, yet there are a thousand democratic ! pearance. But u what a fall was there, voters in the county who do not taktheirjiny countrymen!" The grand procession county rapers. Now is a good time for a 1 told, contained forty-seven wagons, inall such to subscribe, and we would wel-J eluding band wagons, sixty-two horsemen, come gladly tho names of several hundred I including marshals, three hundred and more on our books. one voters, and the borrowed cannon! The most of the crowd was from Bourbon AYOfDXG TUE ISSUES, and of all the soldiers that went into the The radical stumper?, from highest to army from Marshall county, there were lowest, from O. P.Morton to John L. es5 than 100 in the ranks of the "FigbtWcstervelt, seem to have agreed with one! jng jJoys lQ Blue," and some who wore accord that it is not sife for them to dis- j tne uniform had to our certain knowledge cuss the issues before the people ; and they ; never Deen goldiers. are therefore busily engnged in hunting! But our "loil" friends were doomed to up side issues and dodges whereby to ! another disappointment. Carl Schurz, as avoid an honest discussion of the real usuai? did not come. Billy Williams was questions of principle before the pcop!e. Uek(r) and they were oblig'ed to listen for The divisions of a radical speech of two two mortal hours to Jap. Packard, who hours' length, average about as follows: j enlertaiLed them in the old worn out style Forty minutes to the New York conven-! of fmr jwa agQ Ue takes to lying as tion and Seymour's remarks to a mob in ; naturalIy as Senator Yates takes to whisNew York several years ago; forty minut I ky QT Ben Butlcr to tpoong. but in get. to W ade Hampton and V B. Forrest ; j ting off gonie of those he re!ated in hls thirty minutes to - what we did during piccej he rMy pregumed upon lhc intelli. -the war"; five minutes to the congres-; , gence ofhig audieBC0. For example, he sional plan of reconstruction, and five j stateJ that the New y)rk soidier9 did not minutes to the present system of taxes and L qU jq 18G4 becauge Govcrnor Seymour C 1 iL. I a a "

unances, ana m many cases wie nisi iwo subjects are ignored entirely. It is almost impossible to get a radical to attempt to justify the position of his party on the reconstruction question, by wnicn the states ot the south are given over solely to the control of negroes and - . carpet-baggers, and by which they claim that secession accomplished its purpose and destroyed the Union. Or, what is stilt more of interest to our people, their infamous financial doctriue by which they propose to contii ue their system of robbing the poor and giving to the rich. Sf one in nrty attempts to explain the. justice or propriety of giving from the na-, tional treasury about thirty millions of dollars yearly to the na -onal Laaking companies of the land; or of paying pennous, uuuni.es, vomier claims oi every j nature, and every other honest debt of the j government in greenbacks and the bond-j holder his usury and principal is gold; j nor the reason why negroes should vote in ; Virginia and no: in Indians, nor why the j constitution m iy be totally disregarded m i .1 p one case, and must be strictly observed in another, if it suits their interest ; nor the ,MSUU w,,. ,,auuu was i,ul ,u ""I pensc of wjlhons of dollars in going thro' ; w ä . s SB mm It t k maAaam . -s 4 . t - I with the farce of impeaching their own j president, nor the reason why with the.r , economical administration of affairs and immense revenues the national debt is 10-1 creasiag at the rate of about two million dollars per week. All these trifles are beneath tneir notice. and their attention is exclusively oc-1 cupied with such weighty matters as the private acta of N. B. Forrest, who lives so:ue place in Tennessee and Wade Haniptoii, who resided in South Carolina, what sotiebody said who lives in Texas and what somebody who i- now in (Georgia talks of (loin?. STOP TBI T LIE. Gen. Nathan Kimball, radieal c ndidatc forite treasurer, made the statement at LaPorte in a public speech last week that the ccunty taxes of Mrashall county were MMN and that the taxes of La Porte county were only about one half as much as those of Marshall county. The expers s fi r the usual purposes of Marshall county last year were something under twntj thim$nnd rlolars, and by Kimball's own statement the taxes of LaPorte county were about eighteen thousand dollars, and, in fact, were much more; therefore, instead of being seventeen thousand dollars difference in the taxes of the tw counties, even by radical authority, there u leas than tag thousand dollars difference An exaggeration of about fifteen thousand dollars i made as to the taxes of Marshall county. Now, what unblushing, wkolesale lying ! and by a public man ; and a man who anks the people of Indiana to place him in a position showing confidence in his integrity and veracity. If by uch falsifications he hopes to bolster up the waning fortunes of tee Jacobin party we ity his ignorance. If he made the statements believing them to be true, then his manner of reckoning is tot glaringly incorrect to justi y the people in intrusting to him ;he keeping of their' state accounts and t'uod. Is he dishonest or is he incompetent? Tarjiouxt hai one radieal by an ' iu-

GRAXD REPUBLIC AX FIZZLEFor the past three weeks nothing has heard throughout tue county but the din of preparation for the great rally of the campaign to take place here on the 29th

August. The faithful were appealed to in

the most earnest manner to turn out in i republican party has deuied that it favorsuch numbers as would strike terror to the j ed negro-suffrage, and even now some lew

ijjiiy Williams, and in more modest type, j General Jasper Packard. Committees were sent to the several townships to urge out the Fighting Boys in Blue, and such other steps taken as would make the 29th of August a memorable day for the re.td ih H . bv the renuni;can f - j - -1 legislature allowing them to vote. He has forg )tten, doubtless, that Col. North was arrested at Washington in the fall of 1S64 on a trumped up charge of forging soldiers' VQtes for the New York eiection. that he was confined in a dungeon for more than a year, and then released without a trial. We remember distinctly of a farmer in northern New York telling n that a vote was pent to his town at the elections of 1804, purporting to be the vote of his son who was in the army, and that at the time his son had been dead over eighteen m0nths. The soldiers of New York did vo(e in IS04, dead as well as livinz ones. as Jasper Packard well knew, when he made the statement. His audience was more noted Tor women and children than votenj He -slopped over" entirely when he addrcs,ed the adie3. He gaid he could Dot ciose w;thout paying them a tribute for their 1oJalty. He then rehearsed lines of poetrJ M olJ M the hig for nearly tnir ty he clo8ed beau. tiful thought, O ! woman thou art lovely!" The foregoing is a sample of his whole harangue, and if republicans are satisfied with it the democrats certainly n the h , .TKnPr PnnL-nrd m fi candiJate for the iacobin, God-and-moralitj party. Ir,8 ,0Dg hairj fraf,rant with fhc aroma ofbear,goil . hia gushing a r .1 . , , , ji juji j , - i mc uin-i appruvea Dioou-ana-thunder type ; and number of lies he is capable 0 rowdiog into a two hour speech, I makes him not onlv an available candidate. but the fit a3gociato for guch Btatesmen as John A. Logan, Ben. Butler, Wa.shburne, Donuelly & Co. He is the representative of a clagj of hypocrites who will be buried so low in October that a special resurrec tion 'Mill not raise them. WfflCB IS IT? Gen. Kimball, state treasurer, says the state debt of Indiana is about $3,000,000. T. B. McCarty, auditor of state, says it is over $7,000,000. Does somebody lie? If so, which one is it ? Both are M trooly loil" and even, that far, but as Kimball did misstate our county tax, in his speech at LaPorte, about fifteen thousand dollars nearly one half of his whole statement we guess he is the boy that tells the fib about the state debt. His mathematics or his morals seem to be in a bad state of repair, and it strikes us he is rather riekety for state treasurer in either event. Bv every possible dodge the radical orators of the day avoid the real isiuei before the people. Local matters. Seymour's speech to the New York rioters. Frank Blair's intemperance. Farrand's pecuniary circumstancts. A history of the southern delegates to the New York convention. The way Pendleton was cheated out of the nomination. Anything radier than to be placed on the rack and compelled to confess their financial faith and views on reconstruction ; the only issues before the people or that the people care one atom about. We have not heard yet duriüg the campaign whether Mr. Colfax proposes to ' furnish a " little temporary relief-not I for electioneering purposes" to his friend Schiller, formerly of Stark county. Twen - five dollars might be quite 11 relieving" to Schiller in these hard times, aud we 'advise him to at ence apply to the liberal Colfax, who uel to do the fair thing by

I XI VER SA L S UFFRA GE. A significant feature ot he radical demonstration here last Saturday was a transparency carried by the Bourbon delegation inscribed with the frank avowal of "Universal Suffrage for All." For years the

they have, up to a roccnt date, convinced the masses of their party that they were not committed in favor of this obnoxious doctrine, and by so doing have preserved their organization and even held their supremacy in the land. Since the recent elections in Ohio and Michigan, where the questiou of negro suffrage was by them made the main issue, and in which states Schayler Colfax and almost every radical of prominence in the whole country urged and plead with the people for negro-suffrage; it is useless to attempt to deny their position further, and hence we see the ehief delegation to their grand(!) demonstration carrying a banner inscribed " universal suffrage for all," We hope to no longer hear men who rote and act with the radical party say they are opposed to negro-suffrage. Such a statement certainly proves the maker of it to be very dishonest or very ignorant. True, it is not a plank in ths radical platform, expressed in bo many words, but there is scarcely a radical of prominence in the Uoitod States who has not either voted for negro-suffrage, or argued in its behalf, and the success of radicalism will bring, as a legitimate result negro-suffrage to the whole land. All who are in favor of it vote the radical ticket, all contraryminded vote the democratic ticket. The choice is easily made ; every man to his taste. JOHX L. WESTER YE LT AND THE LAST DRAFT. Perhaps some of the poor men of Marshall county, who were unable to leave their families with sufficient means to insure them from the encroachments of want and actual need of food, at the time the last draft was ordered ; when apparently almost every able-bodied man of our community was demanded by the government ; perhaps some of these men who gave the last dollar in their puny purses, and even borrowed money by mortgage on their little farms, to save the township in which they resided from tho stern call of "more men," are interested in knowing how much the rich, philanthropical, people-loving, tax-coooomizer, John L. Westervelt, who now smilingly asks their votes, gave to assist and relieve them in their hour of dire necessity ! We can inform them. When approached by the men who were giving their time and money to relieve their poorer neighbors, and asked to contribute to this truly charitablo purpose, he answered substantially: " Not one cent! Iam exempt from the draft, let those who are liable to be drafted pay, or if drafted, let them go, I cannot and will not help them ! n Truly, he did not love his fellow-man as sincerely then as he does now just before the election ! There arc widows and orphans in Marshall county who have sad cause to remember such men as the rich candidate, John L. Westervelt. ' A friend in need, is a friend iodeed," and we hope an hour of greater need will never come upon the poor of our commuiity or any other; and that distressed humanity the world over may ever find better friends than '19 this man. XO TAXES. The tax on incomes exceeding one thousand dollars scarcely pays for its collection ; at least so trifling a surplus is returned that it constitutes but a drop in ' the bucket of immense expenditures of tl e government. Yet Jacobin orators daily assure the poor people that they " pay no taxes ! " That taxes are only paid by rich men, whose incomes exceed one thousand dollars per annum. Therefore " nothing is going wrong and nobody is hurt." They will hardly succeed, howevK in making the poor man believe this pleasing statement, when he oomes to pay his grocery, hardware, dry goods, shotmaker's hatter's and every other species of bills that may be presented to him, and finds that three dollars now goes no farther than one dollar used to before the " national blessing " was inourred. Few men with families but that remember the day when three hundred dollars per year provided a better living than one thousand dollars per year does now ; and few but that reflect sadly on the fact that wages and salaries are not now proportionately higher, and that in these days when poor men pay " no taxes " it is daily growing harder and harder to "make both ends meet." Truly, a little " taxation " especially if it were administered justly to the rich and poor alike, would be a better thing! A PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAW. It is probabiy not known to very many of the voters of Indiana that in the legistuie of 1860-7 a most odious temperance j law, amounting in its provisions to a prohibitory liquor law, was passed in the sentte by a strict party vote, and in the house of representatives only lacked four votes of ; passage, thereby making it th law of the the sU te, if the governor did net Uiseent. Such was, at all events, the case ; and but for three or four timid republicans who feared for their reelection, we would to-

most as odious in its provisions as the

famous Maine law ' 7 1 Mvta , ' Ihose who desire a prohibitory law j should vote for both John L. Westervelt and Amasa Johnson. They are of the right stamp to stand up to the rack and !

vote for the most radical temperance law !Jt of the national debt. He has adopted ; that ,he rcccipts exceeded the expendithat can be conceived. The fear of the 1 110 course which we supposed he would, tllrpJ ai .r7 qo Tn BoMi:nf,

future will hardly restrain another radical legislature in Indiana from carrying out their puritanicaKproscrip'tivc doctrines to the utmost. XI r T I T 1 Ti 'V i a- i r-k n ri tj vr y- i - 1 At the close of tho Jacobin demonstra- j tion ou the streets here last Saturday ev-1 J ening we witnessed and listened to more profanity, vulgarity and indecency than ever before disgraced our streets, to our knowledge. Several wagon-loads of delegates who went south on the Michigan road made the night hideous with their fer.ri'ul blasphemy and drunken shouts. The four-horse wagons iu particular, each containing from eight to ten fellows with torches, could be heard almost a mile, and scarcely one word emanated from the dirty scoundrels but eursesand vulgarity, which should eternally disgrace any human being. We understand the load which most distinguished itself for its demoniacal howls, belonged in Argos ; if so, it is a pity that pleasant village is not situated on some river in which the scamps can be washed occasionally. These men belong to, and are tolerated by the all morality, decency, God and morality party, and just now with brother Westervelt are M hale fellows well met." RADICAL Af OTTOES . The procession at the radical rally last Saturday was well supplied with mottoes of ail grades, a few of which are appended for the reader's delectation: " The democrat platform it has a grayback candidate and a green baek look." Some of the ' loil" are becoming quite luminous, but where is the point ? -Jeff. Davis Nkedaddled in 1864. Seemour is skedaddling in 1868." They meant to the White Htm, and they will "see" it. "Honesty is the bes;. policy. Be virtuous and you will be happy." The latter part of the above is supposed to have originated with Gov. Morton about the time he was dubbed "Moxa." or at the " Swedish remedy" was applied to him. The joke which the radical juveniles attempted to play off some days ago, by stealing the ropes and flag from their pole east of Brown Bros.' drug store, and laying the blame on democrats, was exceedingly M stale, flat sad unprofitable." Try again, boys, and get off something that will have more of an odor of "freshness." A NEW work on mathematics is being compiled, by which twice two makes four, and twice four makes two, to suit the occassion. The work is for the use of radical candidates exclusively, and Gen. Kimball and J. L, Westervelt each have advance proof sheets. Westervelt and Johnson insist that the taxes of Marshall eounty are too high. Do they dare allege that one dollar that has been collected has been misapplied or stolen by any democratic county officer of Marshall county, and if so, who is the officer? Come, gentlemen, the books of the county arc all open to your inspection and any information you may desire is at your command. Never make a charge by insinuation, for that is cowardly, and it is dishonest to raako one without foundation ; you should not do that, tor you are both christians, you know. For the Democrat. REDUCTIOX OF TUE PUBLIC DEBT. Mf.rh. Editor: I am not a little surprised at your attempt to prove the incorrectness of the statement that the principal of the national debt has been reduced. To show that it has not been reduced, biU on the contrary increased, vou go back to the date of March 31st, 1865." Why did you not go back to a still earlier period of the war? Your ditferen c would thereby have been much increased, and it would have been just as fair. The war, as every one knows, was not over at that lato. Lee did not surrendetil April tnh, '60, and the last rebel iorce not till late in the month of May following. After all this the armies were to be disbanded, paid off and transported to their homes. The expenses of the few months at the closing ui) of the war greatly increased the debt. The debt in question was that sum which remained to be paid after the war was closed and the armies disbanded. It was this sum that was declared to be reduced, and not r.ny portion-of the debt that one might choose to select at a date previous to the close of the war. That this is the proper starting point to estimate the increase or decrease of the debt, and that it has been greatly reduced, I present the following statement from the messuge of President Johnson of Dec. 3tl, 1866: ''During the fiscal year ending the 30th June, 1864, the last year of the war, the public debt was increased $i4 1,902,53 1, and on the .list of October, I860, it amounted to $i.740,854,7.r0. On the 31st day of October, 186, it had been reduced to $2,551,310,006, the (leminution, during a period of fourteen months, commencing Sept. 1st, 1865, and ending October 31st, lHtUt, baring been $200,379,-5-15." An this statement is trom the highest otHoia! authority in the government, 1 presume it will not be called in question. Now let us take the debt at the point to which it had been reduced Oct. 31st, 1886, and find by subtracting the amount of the debt as given in yout article for July tltl, 1868, and see whether it has increased or decreased in amount since that time. It was Oct. M. '6 $2,551 810,006 July 31,'Ö8 2,523,534,480 I 27,775.526 Thus we sec that there has Weil a' reduction during the one year and nine months since Oct. 3lRt, 1R6Ä, of twenty-seven millions, seven hundred and seventy five thousand, five hundred and twenty six dollars Now, by adding this amount to that given by President Johnson as the reduction of the debt (luring the fourteen months coininenc-

ing Sept. 1,1006, and ending Of. SI, 1868, ?lty, with a margin for contingen cics. The mc bljiftU üuU tle e&a't amount of the rciiuc . . "

$37,775,526-$234,125,091, we find that the I

war mre thn two hundred and thirty- j four millions of dollars. I pwucipui 01 ine aeui nas Deen reuueeu since tho wr m thn atJ 1 J. E. CHAPIN. K ... "T,a a!K,iner Pemrogging "ticje I from lleverend J. E. Chapio, ou the ub-1 and which we denounced last week as be- j ing an unfair line of argumentation; that is, taking the debt at the highest point it has reached, and comparing it with some other j lower point. We shad therefore not no-iii-r mm 1 UiUica IU UCISII. lie Hilf.- I IV.' I. inny the correctness of our figures, bv which ananrc Am iui 1 it appears that the national debt has been increased over one hundred and fifty-six millions in three years and four months. Mr. Chapin's special pleading in behalf of

" 4 m. M. J A the necessity of an increase of the debt , jUQe 1 1 .1808, which we undertake to UQder the impression that the county eomimmediateiy after the close of the war, by I say s correct. missioners are by law required to adrerti e n ik. It a mm . m. . W I

reason of paying off the soldiers, is merely a side show of the reverend gentleman's, and has nothing to do with the subject under discussion, as eur article, to which he was replying, said nothing about the

justness or unjustness of the tncrease of charge of their duties ag guch flsses80rs . course) are deprived of an equal chance the debt; it was the amount of tho debt j it ah?0 gves the commissioners the privi-1 with lr- Fesent superintendent, and the incieise of which we spoke. lege of allow;ng them from $1 50 to S2 50 !The failh,"ul are I,ot in th i babit of SöinX Mr. Chapin says it was the sum remain- j per day The ,a3t fcw yearg the board a 1 to their enemies for sympathy, ing to be paid after the armies were dis- j ioweJ 2 50 per day for all the time the This - Man about town " sayrt that Boyd banded and sent home which he declared j as9eiSurs swcar tnoy iave bcen enjm-cd in owns a farm uearTyt.er; ris that criruto be the debt, the principal of which had the necsary discharge of their duties. ioal ) ,1,at l'e bought hay of the former been reduced. We beg leave to inform They Wßre furwerly alfowed 1 50 p da i owner of the farm : (well ? ) that he fed him that he declared no such thing, ei- UDti aQ bous ease was carried up to lU 10 ,lis hor?es ni,e at wrk o2 the farm; ther in his discourse or iu his artiele last j court sinco then the comtnissiODers have ! CWi h that he paid for the week. According to his explanation in alIowed L 50 per day. The case to which ,la-v h county orders? Seriously, if our last issue, all he said on the subject of! refer was ono that our townsman. IV ! Bod ,!tkes h'8 T3J d. the county for

the public debt was as follows : j 'The cost of the foreign missionary j work is often complained of the waste of monev iiius used Rot thi Rum f tiiirtv. two 1821 cents trom each one ot the present larger aggregate amount than the whole expenditure of the American Board (with which we are in connection) during the fif ty-six years of its existence. The debt Incurred by the government during the four years of the recent conflict, would support the operations of the Board at about the present scale ($500,000 annually) for six thousand iuMjitvii vi v tin vi k w i v .j n vum u i j I he interest on the debt, at six per cent, for a single tear, would supnort the vears

operations of the Hoard, at the same rate, viccs WCre worth more than that amount; for THUKK II(M)RKI) AXI SIXTY Vk VHS. Or the , , 11 1 t J interest of the debt at six per cent, for a sin-, therefore he appealed, and J udge Mangle year, put at interest at the same rate, i field, if wo mistake not, decided that Pe-

wuum yiciu mu unnuui income oi i5iu,öuu,(nru nd yet the people of the I'nited States have not only rain the interest upon the debt as it accrued, but u ayb actually reduced the PRINCIPAL." There is no declaration in the above about the debt at the time of disbanding the armies, or at any other particular time We regret to see Mr. Chapin falsify his own record in order to make a point. If it were true that we misrepresented him, he ought not to find fault with us, as he has plainly misrepresented himself, by saying that he had declared a certain thing which he did not declare. If it was unfair for us to compare the debt of July 31, 1808, with the debt of March 31, 18GÖ, how is it that he prides himself ou his fairness by taking a date for a starting point only five months later than the date we took ? Simply because it better served his purpose of nisreprescntaiou. If he desired to make a full and fair account of the debt, why did he not compare the debt as it now stands with the debt ono year aj:o? Why did he not compare the statements of each of the past three months, with the corresponding length of time immediately preceding, wheu there were do unusual receipts or expenditures, instead of going back to a date when the debt was at its highest point, and claiming the reduction which immediately followad by the sale of confiscated and stolen property, as legitimate. It has been stated by good radical authority that the sales of captured property, since the close of tho war, realized over two hundred millions of dollars to the government a sum nearly or quite equal to Mr. Chapin's boasted reduction of the public debt. As a sample of the reliability of ,Mr. Chapin's figures, we refer to his statement of the reduction of the debt from September 1, 1865 to October 31, 1868. We would like to know by what system of calculation he determines what the debt will bo two months hence. With that pcouliar and native modesty which radical clergymen are wont to exhibit wheu occasion offers, Mr. Chapin proceeds to first lecture us, and advise in our column, as to what eur conduct isand should be. As we shall not intrude into his pulpit to advise him, we omit that part of his article, as it is not gcrmain to his defense. Having given Mr. Chapin the use of our columns to patch up his national debt statements, we hope he will now be able to resume his religious duties. While our readers have been favored with both sides of one of the great political questions of the day, his hearers have heard but one side. ! L-l HIGH TAXES. NLMHER ONE. It is not our object in particular to discuss the subject whether we of Marshall county pay more taxes according to what we are worth, than other counties, but to show that our taxes arc strictly proper, and that the aggrcgute cannot be materially reduced, except in a very few eases, without depreciating county orders. The law requires the commissioners, at th.dr June (not December) term in each year, to levy such per cent on the whole niunt of taxable property, both real and per nal, in the county, and on each poll, as Will defray the ordinary expenses of the eottn

was 50 ceuts on the $100 valuation, and'

r.n a. . r . w cents on each poll, from which was reuv cen" OD ecn P"i lrom w,licn was re' alized, including jury fees show liceuses etc., the sum of 823.841 66. The exDeoses of the countv for the ptu,intr ay 31 were 583 showin" treasurer it was ascertained that sifter handing over to the auditor all the county orders and quietuses for erroneous and aouble assessments, that he hud in his ! hands 11,008 38 in currency to redeem i

county orders. As there is but a small lof'' 8n aout town," which was doultamount of delinquent tax bein paid in. it j 'ess intended to be 1 clincWr on the subis necessary to have currency on hand ' Ject of county expenses. The author has with whioh redeem county orders. : either wilfuMy or ignorantly stated what An exhibit of the receipts nd expendi- is knowu 1V a11 wl,o are acquainted with

tures waa published in Th DtMoni nf

assessors' BXPUftB. the leixing of the superintendency of the The first item in said exhibit, is the ex- COUDty as,u Such is not the case, the pense of assessors. The law requires the law s:,ys theJ ha11 aPPont. But " Man assessors to keep an account of the days ja00,,t town " is verv much exercised bein which thev are entire in the j;s. I cause others of the faithful ( democrats of

tef MUrb( appealcJ from the commis8i0ners to the circuit court, when he was 1. tmm. 1 trustee in German township. The law allowed the commissioners the same discretion in making allowances to trustees as to asssessors. TRI STKKS' EXr-EKSK. Mr, John L. Westervelt was a member of th e board at that time, by appointment; tho board allowed the trustees SI 50 per daY eacn- Dut Ieter thought that his ser tcr should have 2 50 per day. So, by the board trying to practice a little economy, the county was mulct into a bill of costs. Since then, they have allowed both the trustees and assessors $2 50 per day. The trustee gets his pay out of the township tuud. ATTORNEY KXI'BNSK. The allowances made to attorneys were made by the circuit and common pleas judges for defending criminals who were ! not able to employ couusel. AUDITOR S EXPENSE. The countv auditor is allowed, Wj law. ' - ! 50 cents for filing each paper ; the panic for a receipt or writing a quietus ; the same for issuing a coui ty order; for making tax I duplicates, delinquent lists, assessor's books commissioners' record, an 1 all other rer-U ords, ID cents lor each 100 words, counting three figures as one word ; for each certificate. 25 cents; with the county seal attached, 50 cents. The auditor's bills aro all itemized and sworu to before allowed by the board. coixtv asyu m unnn, oonnrn o v 1 1 m Ä . JL II w VTAlJOUrTWO ß I I 11 V V '"III I T MC J I 1 ue man ei mm u II uU tw Wire H.4U2 44, all told, lhis amount, considering the number that had to be fed and clothed, is veiy low. AEUiff nmni. The allowances for bailiffs, 8250, were made by the circuit aud common pleas judges. STATION KBY BXPEX8I. The albwance for blank books and statiouery is apparently high; but the law requires the commissioners to furnish the several county officers with the necessary k . . , , . , , , j, m blanks and blank books, regardless ot the ' fe cost. If the board were to cut down one of these stationers' bills, he, on appeal, could easily prove that he had only charg - ed the usual rates, therefore it would be folly to subject the county to a useless xpnse. COMMISSIOXEBs' KX PENSE. The law allows the commissioners each $3 per day, which amounts, during the year, to 8210 for all the time they spent, and for all curses received. clkkk's nrmi, The clerk of the court was allowed 1 747 20. About two-thirds of these allowances were made by the judges ; the balance by the commissioners. The law specifies how much ho shall receive for J filing papers, making record, etc. He files an itemized statement, to which he swears before his allowances are made by the commiusiooers. COMMON PLEAS Jt'OGE EXPENSE. The common pleas judge gets $'J0- VJ, which is Marshall couuty's pro rata share of his salary. caiMiNVL BXPBVei. The expense of criminals was very large 188071. The law fixes the rate of boarding and taking care of criminals; all: the sheriff has to do, is to itemize his bill and swear to it. It is then the duty of the board to make the allowance. I'lll XT I Nil EXPENSE. The law fixes the amount that the printer is eutitled to for publishing the delinquent list. The county pays the

printer, and the treasurer collects from t ,J : r ' 1 the last six or seven years. each tract of delinquent land which had j nm informed that it was a certain radbeen advertised, its pro rata share of the j ical official in thi town fho sent the above eost (dispatch 1 can hard'y believe it of him, 1SNANE trtlffl DUt n'V 8h0W' i0 WD,t depth of meanness a man will descend Every dollar of the insane expense was 1 undcr the influence of partisan prejudice

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rph 11 ,c r J ne allowances lor inquest expense are 1 "c all made by law. J 1 BT KXMHSE. The expenses of jurors were (bid IS. Each juror is allowed 1 U5 per day and mileage, which lea 7 es but a small margin after paying board bill. " Mo. Tran City, Sep. 1, 1868. Ed. Democrat. The Rtpttb'vaa of August 20th contains a communication fr0,n S0IU0 Porn under Isssssi tk plume t'e matter to be false. He seems to le services in eounty orders, and choeses to pay them out for hay to feed Irs horses while at work on his farm, I can't see why any one should find fault. Another charge is that Boyd cut logs on the cunty farm last winter, hauled then to the sawmill, had them sawed iut lumber, and used the lumber on his farm. Now the facts are, there were no sawloga cut on the farm last winter. Boyd bought some lumber with his own means (cR!h, or county orders, perhaps ; and used it ou his farm, as he had a right to do. But the Rt publican's correspoiident further says that Boyd has taken 14 one or more " of the paupers and made them work on his farm. The only foundation for this charge consists in the fact that Boyd sent his own boys some 12 or 1." year of age to do home chores on the farm, and a boy about the same age who was an inmate of the asylum wanted to go along and was permitted to do so. But suppose all the paupers worked 00 Boyd's farm for his benefit, was there anything wrong about it ? Let us see : Boyd is bound to contract to maintain the paupers, work the poor farm nod keep it in repair. ;,ij . .1 -, c kHe is entitled to the assistance ot the inmates of the asylum so Ftf as they are able to labor, and it can make no difference to the public or the paupers ft hethcr they ! fk oQ ()(Ma fWm er on Hovas so j tl' are wcl tyUn C8re I VJ of and not overworked, and he fu'fills 1 h contract with the commissioners. The public lose nothing and the paupers are I none the wore Yet this Man about j towu," evideutly out of any reputable employment aud desirous of bladging to ; the same tune with Westervelt and Johnson, rolls up his loyal eyes, andopenI: 1. : 1 1 1 : : i. t ... , .. Uig 111a luyai nun iij ui.i iiiv.ai i.iui I . ' ( I exclaims, " W ho pejl tor the hay, ?awlo . i.u,7 yun v RmwA? vh siirrorts the paupers while at work on Boyd'l farm? Taxpavcrs of Marshall this is where some of your money gees. Will you longer be swindled in this manner? All the above statements, and much more, are true, aud we can prove them." It has been shown above that Bovd pvs for his hay and lumber, that no sawlogs were cut :is charged, that Boyd supports the paupers, that the county pays him for jit partly in orders and cash, aud partly by tho uc of the farm. This is all there isi of the matter, and when the correspondent 1 c . . . I of tae Xepumtttm Mjm the charges conuineJ irj his connnuuiCation are true, he j states a falsehood. No honest man need ! be mislead by his itisstatements. and no : intelligeut citizen will be thus M . J Alii 1 I. A I . A RADICAL LIE. Some lying scribbler sent to the Chicsgo Tribun? a dispatch iu which, among other things, he says : "Gen. Kimball spoke Saturday at Plymouth aud Alpha Packard tried to in cite a mob by telling some iguorant me.i that he should not be allowed to speak, and that it would be a good thing if a few stones were chucked at h'm, but they were en ,!,,o:v w. f ..l.n.l tli.it thev dnr mil mtt jmr a J.QW The author of the above is at unmitigated bar and scoundrel, but 1 suppose he thought his vile falsehoods away from home where the truth would not be known might tend in some degree to build up the failing iortunes of their party. I was in my ofhVc all the time (!en. Kimball was speaking, attending to my private business, except a few minutes I went to the post office to mail some letters, and ou my return spoke for a short time with Opt. Boyd and some other gcntlemen sitting in front of my office, and I only left my office to go home while Mr. Hccve was speaking. I have always encouraged, as those who mm m. know me well know, good order on tho part ot democrats at radical meeting, out they need no admonitions of that kind, they are not the party to break up poliiical meetings, stone procexsioua, aud insult and abuse women and children. This has irvrn tli.. nannllar ti.i.rt oi tllP rilllipftld fill

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