The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-03-29


Mr.. Hardin pretends to be lawyer, and re-
fers 10 this very law, book and page. He
therefore, stupid as he is, knew of this pro-
vision, and yet he villifies me without mea sure
for not squandering some $4,000 in utter dis
regard of it. Such is his honesty.
AS to the embankment below the mouth
of Pigeon, the trustee that would have
caused it to have been made in the fall of
the year to be swept off by the first high
water, ought, to say the least have been
made to lose the cost of it himself Mr..
James Wills, the Supervisor, had too much
good sense TO ask any such thing. He new
er did ask it. and the statement that he told
me TO my face that he had repeatedly ap-
piled to me for funds for that purpose is,
like all the rest, false, This is the first prop
er time since | have been Trustee, for the
doing of that work, and now Mr.. Wills is
engaged at it.
My assailant charges me with violation
of duty in engaging more teachers than
there was money to pay. We will see how
this turns out. / had to continue the sys-
TEN / found in force when | came into Of
flee, finding an Indebtedness to teachers for
the previous year of S435, which / paid,
leaving in my hands only S443 .2z TO sup
port schools for the current year. This
ter onlv, and leave small balance to each
District; and hence they had the choice
either to be thrown out of employment for
the second quarter, or to do as they had done
the previous year, wait till the current rev.
enue was received in May for their pay
They chose the latter of the two evils, and
in my anxiety to do my duty in keeping
up the schools, actually promised them that
they should have their money, next May,
some S33o-thus, according to this sense
less tault-6nder, entailing consuming debt
for Others, who never received an equivalent
therefor, in after years either to iiquidate or
repudiate." Henry Simmons, withal the
best Of the teachers (as they will certify,
taught that second quarter with the perfect
understanding that be was not to have, and
could not have, his salary till May He died
during the quarter, and gave his Admin
istrator an acknowl ledgment of the amount
which would be due him from the common
school fund in May. Mr.. Simmons estate is
solvent, and | have never heard that his
widow was under any necessity of discount
ing that claim to procure the necessaries of
life. If she had been, and had let me know
it, | could have found her dozens of persons
who would have been glad to let her
have. barrels of flour and anything else for it
without cent of discount. Now, out of
this simple, well understood, business affair,
Mr. Hardin concocts his heart-rending story
of the poor widow and orphan children who
are starving for bread, because have been
villain enough to keep up school when there
was no money to pay teachers. F
feel, Mr.. Editor, that | have already
trespassed too much upon your columns
and yet | have only given specimens of the
miscellaneous mass of lies this vile slanderer
has heaped upon me in hope of craULtng, by
that means, into the Office hold. To point
out and refute them all would require
your whole paper. And yet he is
not done. In several of his articles al
ready published he INDUCES in portentous
threats of something more wonderful still
that is to follow. have delayed this com
munication day or two to give him time
to finish his dirty work, but he doubtless
withhOlds some infamous slander till tits too
late to refute it before the election. The lie
he proposes 10 annihilate me with has refer
ence, he says, to "the transient pauper fund
of Pigeon Township" What villaiuy he may
be able to invent upon that subject can't
imagine Since have been Trustee, there
neUer has been Such a fund. By an under
standing with the Board cf County Com
missioners, Ihave paid ont of my own pocket
with my own money, the expense of send
ing off transient paupers, sending sick pau
pers to the poor house, affording temporary
relief to destitute sick families that could
not DC sent to the poor house, &c, &C., and
at every session of that Board | have pre-
sented my bill fer the money thus expended,
giving names and dates of parties relieved,
and after the strictest scrutiny, that Board
has passed those bills, and have been paid
Al I
pended in cash, which is in the aggregate
$345 Mr.. Hardin win have to put his ca
pacity for lying to the stretch to torture
anything out of this to my prejudice.
Ny antagonist for the Office of Township
Trustee concludes his last instalmeut of vile
| falsehoods and miserable perversions of tho
ruth by giving the people rub for the false
clamOr--'' the great hue and cry"-they
made last year for "retrenchmeRt and reform.
| He evidently did not like that movement,
and thinks The people were sadly misdirect-
ed and deceived" Well, let US see what
| I" retrenchment and reform" have amounted
| to.
/ The salaries and s., &c, of the Board ol
/ Trustees of Pigeon township, with their Off
ces (iHcluding library room) for the year
| 1859, as their records show,
amounted to........................S2 81, 476.OO
/ have performed all the services Tor
which this amount was paid
ana furnished library room,
and the Board of Commissioners
have allowed me therefore just. 10000
So here is retrenchment to the
time of.......... ............ s., O76Oe
To this is to be added $4,000,
have already recovered from the
former Trustees, and say 81 900
which viii yet be recovered, q. 8
making.................................. 100000
-. ,re'..z $5,076.O .OC
$50, 1000 of "retreRchment and reform
in one year in Pigeon township finance:
alone Now | am afraid Mr.. Hardin will Sc
the people against that thing, and induce
them to restore the old regime. If the.
desire it, he affords them the opportunity
Next Monday they will have chance t.
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