The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-07-12
The Competency Administration.

The Republican has abused every Democratic
officer in the county, from 1858 To the present
time and claimed for the Republican officers elect
ed honsty and competency, and especially their
Auditor During the time Mr.. Mcdonald was
Auditor, they used to make a great fuss about the
condensed and unsatisfactory reports he published
annually, and now they are satisfied with a Re-
port not more than half long as those they used
to grumble at as being too short, and, that is so
condensed that no person can, by reading it over,
form correct idea of the financial affairs of the
county. And they now try to cover up blunders
made by their competent official that, had they
the power, they would damn Democrat for-call
him an embezzler' and defaulter' Mattingly
has become magnanimous, and Ia es all the blum
ders committed by Fuller upon himself, when any
one who knows anything about Fuler's bungling,
blunderhead manner of doing business is satisfied
that his Exhibit as it appeared first in the Repub-
lican, according to copy, and it would be diff
cult for Mattingly TO make any one believe, after
having two weeks to set it up in, that the proof
was not read by copy. If it was not read by copy,
then he is entirely Indifferent as to whether the
people shall know anything about the state of their
fnances-disregards the intent of the law in
having the annual Exhibit published and, if the
proof was read by copy, then we hope for the old
gentleman's sake he will never say anything more
about anybody else drinking something stronger
than Lager. Notwithstanding his hard face, this
must be rather humiliating, after having croaked
as much as he has about Inaccuracies and blunders
to admit, for the good of the Republican party,
that he had committed the greatest batch of blum
ders that have over appeared in print in this com
munity.
A few weeks ago we referred to the Report as
being what we have above stated it was in point Of
calculation, and this week we ask few questions
for MIR. Fuller to answer, or, about some things
that we wish al explanation of. In his last Re-
port, for he has gotten out two-the second being
corrected in many places, but still erroneous,) he
says:
Total receipts from ALL SOURCES $l1 1893 So
In another place he says, County tax, IL .399 So
From the Report everybody must understand
that the ii 1893 50 was collected from the dupli
cate, and this being the case, we ask what has be-
come of the county's part of the 81 600 paid by
treasurer smneuge'S securities, which we
derstand was about 500 also the jury fees, ST.
50 being charged for each jury trial and collected
for the benefit of the county and, what became
OF the docket fees in the Common Pleas Court
which is taxed for the benefit of the county, also
If these items, which will amount to about 81 ,000
have been accounted for, where were they Jumped
in and will not Mr.. Fuller get out another Elk
"a Al
where have they gone to
But there is one thing more that he ought to er-
plain. and it would certainly justify him in getting
ont another Exhibit He says
Grand total collected, 1914 Sc
In order TO get this. he goes on and shows how
much was School, State, County, Sinking Fund,
Road TOY, nship and Special School Tax, bat he
still lacks 1886 Is Of the amount. In order TO
make it balance he adds Treasurer's fees for col
lecting all Of the above taxes 1885, Is, and that
maks up the Grand Total Now want to
know il the county collected that amount as part
of its revenue, or, was it paid out We should
have thought but for the Auditors Exhibit that
that was item of county erpenses to be credited
instead of receipts to be charged. For own
satisfaction as well as that of many others, we ask
an explanation, or that Fuller should get out an
other Exhibit OH the competency" Oh. the
irQtrenchment' and REFORM