The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-08-09
Reply to Judge Fuller.

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plete answer 20 all his aspersons, shall endeayor
to present this article in shape which viii thor
oughly remove all such mi.g wings on the part of
this fair, honorable, and sagacous protector of the
peoples rights.
In his last article, the Judge says, what lac has
probably said in substance fifty times before GAS
you utterly fail to make any response to the ques
tons asked you in regard to the illegal fees you
allowed the -Treasurersl suppose you wish to be
understood as pleading guilty to the charge" |
suppose don't wish to be understood as doing any
such thing would remark in reference to those
alleged Illegal fees, which yon falsely-knowing
the accusation to be malicious. and without foun-
dation, in fact-accuse me of allowing, thai the
Board Of Commissioners, who possess the exclu
sive right, and whose duty it is to make allowan
COS, instructed me to make out the County Exhibit
wit, hat allowance inserted If you, or others of
the party to which you be long, who have been cir
culating this statement knowing its falsity should
doubt the correctness of the above statement, |
refer you TO the exhibits published during my term
of office, where you viii find that they are all APP
proved by the Board and by reference to the
down, you will that it is signed by all of the
Commissioners. The inevitable conclusion is,
thatif this was an erroneous allowance the Com
missioners, and not the Auditor, are blameable
therefor. II would be as just to condemn the Sher-
i'll, Recorder, Clerk, or any other county officer,
| for making such an allowance, as 10 condemn the
Auditor, as any of them possess as much power to
prevent the allowance as the Auditor. There are
few fools brainless as not to know this and still
fewer so dishonest as to clothe the charge in the
garb Of candor and give it the prestige of official
weight and dignity, knowing it to be falsehood of
the darkest mein. The Judges conduct in rela-
ton TO this matter has forced the conclusion
that he proper ly belongs to the latter class.
While this subject, viii state. that the ques-
ton in relation to allowing the Treasurer 2is per
cent. for redeeming and paving over county orders,
was sprung some years ago in this county The
Commissioners requested me to write to the Audi
tors Of other counties 20 ascertain what their prac
tice was n relation to such allowances. The an
swers received showed that there was no unifor-
nifty among them. The Board, after Learnt ny ali
they could the subject, thought, that as the
2l6 per cent. The present State Treasurer who
was formerly Treasurer of Tippecsnoe county
says the Commissioners of that county always al
lowed the 2ls per cent. to him and the fact thai
the present S tate Auditor referred to this matter
in his circular last spring. is evidence that there
were different opinions in rela ton to the feea
Treasures should be allowed.
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not allowed the present Treasurer, as see by
the las. exhibit that he received 1905 more for col
leeting the taxes OF the pas. year than his prede
cessor did for the last year of his term hougl
he received the 81 per cent. l suppose that tn,
: Judge viii say that the increased expense of tn,
Treasurers office is attributable to the fact tina
: there were more funds collected than formerly
This may be true, as ,axes under Republican rule
5 are so much higher .llan whenthe Democrats wer
d in power, that if the people pay the same proper
ton of the whole amount charged the receipts vii
= be materially increased.
= After pleading guilty to the charge of issuin;
county orders to the amount ofS20 instead of 81 0
= to one of the township Assessors, last March, tn
y Judge says: "What right had your Democratic
C Board of Commissioners to loan $40 in county or
" ders, to this gentleman, be fore he had done any
3 thing for it % The township Assessors, if tn
t Auditor max out their books by the first of Jan
e uary, as the law requires, generally have goo
portion of their services completed by the first
e March, and as that is near the close of tax-payn
5 without cost. the Commissioners frequently max
t, them an allowance for portion of their service
4. n
ed you over $500 for making out the tax-dupli
Dr. Gates, although they were not yet finished.
re After asking a number of questions, most !
Is which have been answered before, or are irrelC
want to the points at issue, the Judge asks adj
e you not knoic that THOMPSON, OWN. d. was
he most indolent man, whose word could not be RI
~ lied on - The above question is put in such
il, manner as to warrant the assumption that FULLE
he designed it to be understood as declaration. TIL
declaration, insinuation, is base malicious,
p false. Such aspersions against the character
K innocent persons, only emanate from hea
It's void of every enrolling principle of justice to
p fellow man. The facts in the case prove a coul
as ter statement from FULLER's 10 be true. If Ful
to LER's scale of moral rectitude was elevated to
ok could be increased not less than enfOd his cla
de to responsibility would be greatly augmcnte
This dragging of innocent persons before The pu
lie lie, and then lying en- them, is ncontestble pro-
M OF disagreeab dilemma, total depravty-
The Judge further asks "Do YOU pretend
say now, that fac land, encountered rs it is, wou
' sell for enough 70 ay the principal and interest no
m due ?" | do, sir. And further say. that CT
IT. select f,ceKfy loans that you have made, which
TIC not as well secured as THoMPsoy's.
an In the next place, the Judge says: There
pa slight discrepancy between yourself and yo
ne step son, w. ID. THOMPSON, in regard to my /.
is cepting the mortgage. You said rejected it
as cause YOU were both Democrats" | said no SUI
IN thing This lie was manufactured by the Jude
ms hoping that if he could make it appear that 4
ny statements of THOMPSON and myself were antaG
40 nstic, there.mght possibly be aloop-hole made
him to crawl out at. | would advise the Judge
49,. make statements which cannot be so easily prov
>. untrue. To save the reader the trouble Of hun
~, ing up the paper containing my article will he
IN, quote what did say He (THoMPsoN) howey