Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1859-02-16

Stark and Jumper-their Advisers.
We bold that public officer is presumed to
have common sense. There is an implied IN
Demanding that in his official capacity be
will DO what's rightand esshew v hat Is wrong.
There Is also presumption that men Ia a.
dueiary capacity are honest-a very violent
one in many cases must confess-aDd that
they will lose sight Of all individual feeling.
and act for the public good. Yet while such
are fair prescriptions. We are sorry to say. that
in point Of fact, they are too often not the case
that when such officer County Treasurer
retires from ofiee. and another takes his place.
there should be fair and honest settlement
with the outgoing and incoming official. Men
Of an ounce Of brains know this. aud honest
business men expect nothing else. Yet the
County Commissioners. acting in their official
capacity. and being governed by few reek-
less and Unsound advisers. place Ar Cunning
ham the outgoing County Treasurer in posi-
tion where settlement is absolutely neces-
cary, and then complain that the business OF
the county Is stopped. until that settlement IL
affected. They. from the vilest Of partisan
motives, force the necessity on the Auditor Of
making oct = new duplicate for this county.
and then. they and their maddened defenders,
declare that this legal necessity is not bind
ing on that Auditor. just Is though Albert
LANCE. with clearer Undertaking a. 20 his
official duties. than those two distinguished
County Commissioners. and all their legal ad
visers combined, does not know what Is RICH.
aud proper for him to Go under such eircum-
stances.
They say that " F. Cunningham who has
been charged by the Auditor with the full
amount Of the tax duplicate-over $4,000
should simply return that duplicate back TO
the Auditors Office with the amount. in total,
Of W hat he has collected. and then the Audi
tor could credit him With hi. amount. hand
over the duplicate to his successor aud every
thing would go on properly and rapidly. Mr..
Cunningham Is too Old. too honorable. and
too ludicious an officer, TO insult the County
Auditor with any such setfiesn>nf, aud the
County Auditor is too wide aV axe as to his
duty to receive such a statement. for toe settle
menf contemplated by the law. Mr.. Cunning.
ham. as every judicious man would do, before
he leh this city 10 enter on his official duties
Al Indianapolis. charged Mr. SCOTT. his acting
deputy, not to surrender the books until set
Element. honest. fair. and conclusive. was made
between him and the proper authorities
This same request has been renewed in wri-
ting b. Mr.. G. since his arrival at Iudanspo
lis. II is the request of man who knows
has far many years, in this county. always
discharged hem honorably. /, Mr. c. right
I. Albert L nge right, l. III. Scott right
or are the two County Commissioners aud
their lily Informed adviser right, Let the
people answer.
We reiterate again. that Jump and Stark
County Commissioners. aud by their most
reckless and unjudieious action have forced
Nr. Cunningham. at fh.s fine. into this long
aud perplexng settlement. That this settle
ment, had the Commissioners acted for the
public good. could have been avoided until
next September. after the taxes for this year
had been paid, and when the officers had am
pie leisure TO adjust the books. That as the
law makes il the duty OF the Treasures to re
turn all unpaid taxes az delinquent, on The
third Monday ia March. it will require almost
eli the time from now til then. 10 complete
this settlement. and finish the required neW
duplicate. That this will force upon the de
linquent let the great mass Of the taxable
property. aud when this is done tax payers
will not pay their dues until the next season
That while this acton thus discoucerts the
business OF the county. and may produce al
most bankruptcy. it. at the same time. is a
drain on the Treasury. Of hundreds Of dollars
There il no misstatement Of facts about this
There is no coloring given to this matter. Il
il the plain unvarnished truth, and the weight
Of AL this esponsibility-of all this unpar-
alleled expenditure Of the peoples money. to
CRAFTY a partisan feeling against Mr.. Gun
n ngham. rests with crushing weight on Simp-
son Stalk. Jacob Jumper and their advisers
Can they sustain themselves under such cir.
cunstauces1
But this act Of partisan meanness is not The
only one committed by those Commissioners
The Treasury Of the county has been robbed
in more instances than one. On the 9th dag
OF April last. the Commissioners met for the
purpose Of opening the biis Of the different
I physicians for medical attendance on the poor
Of the county. for one year from that date
The object OF advertising for bids. certainly
was. that the eoanty should be as economic a.
in her expenses as possible. When the bids
were opened and read. they were found to be
a. follows:
For the frsf district. James Bell Offered e
give medical attendance 70 the poor for $500
T. W. Campbell Tor $500. c. Stephenson
for S295 and N 5 Wsesh for $500. In the
sseosd district. " .. Coliings bad SO aud "