Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-08-01
AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT


AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
GE 1t is not our intention or wish to
do injustice to any man. If we have
done so, and are convinced of it, we are
are always ready to make the amende hon
orable. Last week we gave some asser-
tons of Mr.. G. l. CUMMINs, sustaining
one of our charges against Judge Ros-
zELL. We stated that Mr.. CUMMINs had
told us, some two months ago, that Judge
RoszELL wished, while Mr.. CUMMINs was
Recorder and Treasurer, to have the
county monies kept in the Judges Office.
We certainly understood Mr.. CUMMINs to
say this, and made special note of it at
the time. Two other gentleman to whom
the story has been told, likewise so un-
derstood it. But we have no desire to
avail ourselves of this, As an excuse. Mr.
CUMMINs. (whose veracity we think un
questionable, says that we misappre
hended him, or if not. that he told an
untruth-that the Judge had never ask
ed him to keep the county monies in the
judges office. Mr. CUMMINs will do us
the justice to say, that upon this repre-
sentation, We desired that be would pub
licly contradict what we had stated and
although the Judge has not seen fit TO
meet the evidence we gave last week
against him, or in any way to reply TO
it, and although we could, therefore,
consistently withhold this acknowledge
ment, we have no desire to do So We
therefore state the charge we made against
the Judge of having desired of Mr.. Cum
MINIS control over the county funds, is not
strictly sustained.
Mr.. CUMMINs says that what he has
stated before, what is well known to many
persons in Independence, and what he
probably told us, was this: That Jud ge
RoszELL was in the habit of retaining
the county money which he received in
the sale of the county property, and in
course of other county business, for
weeks and months, when he should have
paid it Immediately into the treasury.
1t was upon this point that the difficulty
or difference between them occurred, Mr.
CuMMINs being unwilling that the Judge
should retain the money when he Mr..
CUMMIss) alone had TO give security for
it, and was alone responsible for it. Thus
it will be seen that although the complex
ion of the charge is slightly changed, it
does not help the Judges case parti
Gle.
Mr.. CUMMINs also states that he him
self is cognizant of the fact that Judge
RoszELL has done business as Judge in
cases where he was interested as an in
dividual, and states that he was applied
to while Justice of the Peace, to com
mence legal proceedings against him for
SO doing. He also states that the Judge
once came to his office while he was alb
sent, and made an exchange of money,
involving him into difficulties in refer
ence to a bad SO bill. which eventually
the county had to lose.
Now, then, citizens of Buchanan coun-
ty you have the record Of this paragon
Judge. We have exposed him fearlessly,
and simply because we deemed it our
duty and your interest to do SO. If we
have used strong language it was because
we believed it deserved. We made our
charges against him weeks ago, and made
them distinct and specific. He made a
general denial of them, and last week we
put In our evidence. Neither he or his
organ has dared this week to meet that
evidence, and have not even noticed il
evidence which every man who has
read it deems conclusive against him.
The Judge has evidently deemed that
he has a life lease on the Office, and has
cared but little how indifferently be per-
formed its functions. He has played the
petty tyrant over both the people and the
other officers of the county, as his pecu-
liar temperament has prompted him to
do. If you wish TO entail upon your
selves another such reign, why go and
vote for him. Blu. if you desire an hon