The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-06-22
County Matters.

that the Free Trader
.indplpcs in long TRADE Of abuse against sheriff
Huribut in which the ohly points demonstrated are
Ina, The writer Is influenced by malignant feelings
towards the sheriff, aud Is utterly ana HHutiyis
norant Of county affairs"
To this very able digcs, OF our exposition ". can
only reply that, if sheriff Hubut is so utterly lost to
virtue and honor that to speak the truth about him
is abusing him, then greatly have We abused
him and NJ to our 'utier and ,ciltW ignorance oil
county affairs" we can only acknowledge the conn.,
as we had to depend entirely upon tie county records
and the reports Of the various officers and commit
tees made to the board Of supery sors during 'her
regent session here oil Of which We PUBLISHED rsrO-
ati,n hut imperfect as this iniomaon Is, compar-
cd to that which so copously Ills the noodle oil the
writer Of the article in the Consiutona!st' II Is
more satfnctory To our readers and we are, real-
10. n ite surprised to find that it has proved the
same to him. as he freely admits alive said about
sheriff Hurlbuts course and oismisses him, very IN
kindly at the beginning Of ms article, IN the follow
ing manner:
ave do not undertake the defence OF Mr.. Hurlbnt
AGAINST thrse urOss and reckless charges-he needs
no defence HIS character as man oi integrity
Is too firmly fixed 10 be shaken &c., &c. But As
these charges are made the bass OF an attack upon
the ,rhig paTig, our position, as the conductor o!
wing Journal requIcs us 10 notice them
After sheriff fIurlbut, regardless, oithc laws which
he was sworn to obey had taken The responsibility
Of deprving us Of Sl00 towhch We were as legally
Untitled as he is TO anyir he receives for the express
purpose OF propplng up the Constituencies, which,
from its irregular appearance gave signs OF weak
back. was to be expected that this conductor Of
a wing journal, would endeayor to cloak him over,
even if he could not defend him asans, our gross
and reckless charges" and it is right down cruel
thus, without even apology, to thrust him ASIDE
to trust alone to "his character for integrity" to
defend him Blu, this is not the hssi time thatpa-
per has dropped Nj. lIurIbut.
But that we have made these charges the basis
Of an attack upon the wing party" is discovery
which we venture TO assert thnt no one but this very
able whig journalist could have made. We recol-
lect however, ofnnkng them the basis Of an attack
upon all County Treasury Pundcrers; md if the
Conslitutionalist considers them the Wing Party,
we do not envy its position as a "whgjoumal'--a
defender of wing principles. But, il we recoIlect
rightly Mr. H. ran as q Eo-prrty cdudidate-and as
that was the watch word OF the Taylorites during
the last " sidentia campaign, and as We made nj
fusion 20 those democrats who voted for Mr., ltuh-
but on thIt account, perhaps piquan coienpora-
rvwishes 10 he considered the conductor Of journal
belonging to this party which is no party. For
certainly We have made no attacks upon what We
consider the old wing patty; Tor we believe they are
as anxious to have the affairs Of our county admin
islered rightly as the democratic party is.
In this matter we have nothingt 10 with party,
our whole Object is to expose dishonest men, and
II mntters but lilc 10 which political party they
attach themselves. Our county has suffered too
much already from the recklessness and dishonesty
OF lis officials, and it is nighttime the people should
be aroused upon this subject. There is now bon
ded debt OF hufu thousand doiidrs hanging over
our heads, the payment Of the principal and inter
est of which will weigh heavily upon the prosper
ity ol our county vet for years come. Our peo'
pie are ridden down under heavy taxes, and stran-
gers shun us and yet, when We dared TO expose
the profigacy Of those who are still endcavoHng TO
sink US deeper and deeper into debt, We are abused
by such this rice editor Of the Constitution
alisi and Mr., Iiolbrook, of the Peru Telegraph.
Let our farmers but realize the fact that they have
been paying their hard earnings to the tax.cocctor
10 speculate with and grow rich on, and the abuse
thatwe may receive from those papers will return
with double force upon their own heads.
The Consutionalist says that we "insinuatcd
that 81 10 wns all that had been paid into the coun-
ty treasury 10y the collector for 1919" We never
said any such thing Blu, we did say that. for the
lnsi six months sheriff hurlbut had not paid sin
gle cent into the treasury. And the 81 10 was
received from some other source. And this asscr.
ton is true md Sproven by the Treasurcrs report.
ToIustiy this derection Of duty on the part OF the
collector, that paper quotes the order OF the County
court appointing Mr.Cmhman the agent ofthe coun-
ty TO pay the principal and interest Of the funded
debt, and says tina, $1,000 dollars were promptly paid
over to the agent during the months OF April and
May. 1.-THE writer Of that article will read over the
order referred to again he will find thai, does not
relieve the collector from the requirements Of the
law, which are that he shall pay into the treasury,
at the end OF every month, all moneys collected
by him; for that order expressly instructs the
agent to draw his orders on the treasury aud not
on the collector; for the county court has no power
to alter the statutes of the STATE. But supposngt
collector Hurlbu, has RICH, to keep back the pub
tic money until the agent called for IT, how will he
passage Of hs order by the county court at It's last
March teml Mr.. Wagner assumed the Office OF
treasurer las, December and yOtup to the LIST inst
he Ind no, received q single cent from collector
Hurbui
But supposing Mr. II could sustain his couIte in
reference u this special INK, wha, excuse has h. for
Withholding the CAsH paid in 10 him on the mx Tor
the ordnery expsnsss d the county, |, Is here that
the shoe pinches and we parpossy passed over thu.
psr, with mere remark in oUi io,ner sr,ce. to cal
him out IN his own language for here hes the great.
&c, fault he has committed in this whole business
His defender IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS hurri.dy snoo.
,hes this matter over by cunning and infamous
hls,hood. Re nys
While county orders are a, diseoun, Of fifteen
OF twenty per cent Of cour-e they wall be paid IN by
'ek payers 80 far they IRE applicable ana ior those
the collector accounted To III. county cour, q, the
lac, term. ashe Is requiredb by law 10 do"
Now, We appeal to the f,rmers u this county 10
say whether they have oil paid their taxes in county
orders"so far as applicable" We know. every in.
telhgen' man in the county knows-,ha, there are
hundreds upon hundreds Of the ordinary revenue of
this county paid in TO the collector in cash. md
thu, not one tanner in twenty pays cen, in county
orders. Whit becomes II this cash Pnv ,,,,n,on.