Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1886 — Reformer Patton. [ARTICLE]

Reformer Patton.

Dr. Patton knows that the record shows his act as it is, i e that he sold a certain lot or lots in Remington, in 1874 for SSOO. That in October, 1875, he purchased the same lot or lots and paid S9OO for them. Property at that time was increasing in value. That transaction makes fit plain that his judgment is defective, or that it was a dishonest transaction. It was a .transaction that defrauded the school children of theirrights. His card in the ZincZ, he does not mention the fact that David Nelson, deceased, a co-frustee resigned as such on account of that purchase in order to wash his hands of the dirty transaction. The valiant Doctor in his card says, “It Is true that 1 have occupied these lots since they were sold to the school board, but in extenuation of this crime I have to urge that I have paid to the trustees $75 for the use of them.” He understands the situation and confesses it was a crime and “vrejes" that in extenuation of it, he has (when did.he do it?) paid $75 for the use of them. May the Lord deliver us from such generosity!! Paid $75 for the use of S9OO from October 1875, to October 1886, eleyen years. It is less than one per cent, per annum! If he had paid one per cent, it would have amounted to $99 in eleven years. He ought to have have paidat least six per cent., which would have amounted to SSO per year, or $584 in z . eleven years. At eight per cent $792. No doubt there were plenty of men in Carpenter township who would have paid eight per cent, for it and th us-provided to some extent for the erection of “permanent school buildings,” in Remington. -■ —■ .Xo' wonder Remington lias no ■permanent school buiklings. Such want of judgment or corruption never would give them better buildings than they enjoy. The people of Remington, of Jasper county, aye of this Senatorial district cannot indorse such a man or any of the School Func Reformers. It justice to the children of Remington they out to raise up as one man and refuse to do so. This valiant Dcfetor, this generous, would be State Senator, ought to pay to the School trustees of Remington the difference between the value of these dptejjj 1875 and what he paid for them with six per cent, interest and then make the “Trustees of the School town of Remington a deec making the title good to the same.

VOTER.