Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-03
Tia Court House Cost ss5,27o So

~ With handsome fence inciosing ~,
our Court House would make a pretty
respectable show, and would be quito an
ornament TO the public square and
Brookville. How long il would remain
90, is . different question. 1t WIS
scarcely capped with its towering cupo-
Ia, ere the work ofrcpair had commenc-
ed, and its Wondering brick had emit
lied Il to the appelation Of having the
"small pox."
This structure was cont. acted to Ed
win May, with what was supposed to
be fun and ample specifications OF every
requisite item. from spittoou TO a town
clock, 70 be built and furnished COM
plete for $4,000. We ask, in all can
dor. was not that enough to pay for a
Court House? We claim TO be a demo-
cratic and economical people, discarding
all unnecessary show and display, and
to this end we elect plain, unassun.i '.g
men as County Commissioners.
Is Il not surprising, then, that such
men shoot so far of the mark assigned
thems II uninfuenced by other. than
their own judgment and impulses, that
Court House would not have swellcd
your taxes to the enormous sums now
sxactsd. They have been but automa-
tons-the Efoden men, moved by wires
drawn by the will o. your self-eonsti-
tuted Democratic County Clique. Is II
an uncommon thing for prudent man,
10 contract for honse to be built fro m
the foundation, aud the key furnished
him, complete for a certain sum7 Is il
common when 40 built and furnished,
to demand and receive as extras, ono
fourth Of the contract price in addition
therefor If such is the practice Of bust
ness men, we have failed 10 learn II.
This, however. has been the modus opc-
randi Of your County Commissioner
your rooden men.-in tho construction
Of your Court House, Asylum and Jail.
The contract price of the Court House
was s2e ,000-the actual amount paid
at least cas-, go s7--making margin
Of extras Of z ,270 81. We think that
double the amount Of the estras paid out
by your ,rooden msa, would have built .
respectable, com,nodious and durable
Court House. Thsy thought and acted
otherwise, and We hsve the bills TO
foot To the cost of your Court House,
add that Of your County Asylum, ST.
2lo II, and your Jail s7,4ss 81, and
you have the grand total Of the three,
esq., %.
Tho public learn these facts and are
astonished, but not half so much so as
= 1000 alter the next meet
ing ofthe Legislature, they are called
on to pay two or three years Of accumu-
lated State taxes.
These exhorbitant expenditures-the
heavy taxes to meet them--the growing
extravaganza Of the respective mem
bcrs Of the Court House Clique-the
arrogance and dictatorial manner Of its
now acknowledged head, and the evil
dent dissatisfaction of an abused and
confding poople-determined the Com
missioners TO throw off the power and
dictation of the Clique, and initiate an
investigation into certain alleged errors
or false extras in accounts Of the pres
emit Auditor. The ink had scarcely dried
on the paper recording the order, ere
tho fat went forth from the Clique,
hurled with the thunders Of a
Demosthenes, or into their roodsn
ears, Of "by the Eternal this investiga.
ton must be stopped until after the 0c-
tober election, and the Investigation
was stopped. What is there, gentle
men, on the accounts of the Auditor
and Treasurer that you fear to have in
vessigated? There must be something
that you dare not submit to the1ight Of
DAY. and to this investigation we open
ly challenge you.
To the voters of the County, irres-