The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1860-09-06

have no recollection in regard to T. X. HouoH.
roS's interest If he paid it he has a receipt and
that will settle the matter.
The Auditor pleads guilty to letting out two
county orders without receipts for them he pleads
guilty to charging WM. JOHNSON $3.50 too much
interest he pleads guilty to issuing $50 county
order instead Of one for $l0 He wants to know
what authority the Commissioners had to loan a
Township Assessor $50. when the fact that they
loaned him $500 under precisely similar circum-
stances, occasions him no anxiety whatever-oh,
no As the Judge considers himself the head and
front of the Commissioners Court. possessed of the
veto power in relation to county expenses, and
proposes not to permit any more allowances to be
male contrary to law, would suggest to him the
propriety Of putting stop to Mr.. BAKER's allow
ances for keeping the poor /; and any future allow
ances for fling road receipts as quite a number Of
the payers are Of the opinion that they not
authorized by law.
Would it not be good idea, Judge, to go back
behind the settlement wi tn the Commissioners, re-
verse their orders, and have these amounts refun-
|" e-proof Offices"
| The Judge says in of his articles, Il quote
from memory if will take the trouble to come
to his Office he will show me where failed to re-
port large amount-some several thousand dol
lars. l forget how many. Ipresume he refers to
the Treasurer's fees for collecting the revenue, or
he possibly may refer to the Township, School,
and Road funds, u I never put these items in the
annual exhibit. My reasons for not placing them
-. A. - Al
urer to retain out of the moneys he collects on the
Duplicate 3 per cent on the first $1,000, per cent
for the second, and SO on down to per cent. after
the delinquent list, illegal assessments, moneys re-
funded by the Commissioners, and his fees for col
lecting, are deducted ou. of the total with
winch he was charged. The balance is the net
amount which he has to pay over and is all that
comes into the treasury. The Treasurer's fees are
not an item Of county expense. within the mean
ing of the law from the fact that they were never
in the Treasury, were there any orders is
sued for them consequently they should not be
exhibited as county expenses, for such is not true.
The funds collected on the Duplicate for the diff.
erent townships are, after making the deductions
specified above, paid to the proper township
officers, and they make full exhibit of the re-.
ceipts and expenditures of their different town
ships annually, which is all the exhibit the law re-
qures of township funds. If these are not the
funds to which the Auditor refers, will have to
wait for further light on the subject. 1t is true it
would have required but little time to have put
these items in the annual exhibit, but the law did
not contemplate more than ore exhibition of the
same funds I left them out
[ presume it would be very consoling to the
Judge, and afford Kim infinite qualification, if he
could ge even small portion of the people to be-
lieve that had appropriated four or five thousand
dollars of the peoples money to my own use. In
his first and second articles he made the charge,
and has repeated in every subsequent article that
was defaulter to The amount of four or five thou
sand dollars at least the county had lost that much
by my mismanagemen. or dishonesty. do not
know that he made tie charge in positive terms,
but he took the cowards method ard made il By
inuendo and int nation J respectfully request
the reader who takes sufficient interest in the
troversy between the Judge and myself to read it.,
to examine the charges he has made against me,
and the answers have given, and see if he has
sustained one of them. He has charged me with
being defaulter to large amount yet the books
and all other evidence which has been produced,
prove the charge to be false. He charged me, by
inuendo, with failing to give proper credit the
books for money received for interest, and Of re-
tanning the money in my posse ssion /; when all e1
animation of the receipt book dscloses the fact
that in every case, except two, the proper credit
was given, and when these exceptions were dis
covered, the money which in my hands, ($7 10Y
was paid over Immediately. And so on with the
whole catalogue of charges. But how is it with
the charges which have made against him ? Has
he disprOved them, even attempted to. except
in one or two cases where he merely denied them,
without any refereuce to evidence Has he dis.
proved the charge that he charged HucH BRowS-
LEE $40 too much tax 7 Has he disproved the
charge that he charged WIN. JOHNSON $4. 80 too
much interest : Has he disproved the charge that
he let out two county orders without having the
holders receipt for them Has he dsproved the
charge that he issued county order for $50 when
it should have been but $40 Are these matters
of no significance to the people of the county J
And although most of them small, yet do they
not indicate unerrngly that still greater bunders
and peculations may occur in future, and probably
have already occurred, under his administration :?
The finale to the Judges article is just what
might have been expected from an angry school
boy, or the Judge. himself. If the Judge is so
very ignorant of quotations suitable to my case,
az to be compelled to use those which have become
obnoxious by an application to his own person,
would suggest that he call in the assistance Of some
of his friends" who will probably be able to as
sist him in making pint
The Judge calls me his "pious FRIEND" which
is certainl, very severe, as suppose (although he
did not say so,) that 1t intended to be roncal
II it said in " cold earnest" my love of truth
is my only apology for not complimenting him in
similar manner. The Judge makes great preten-
tions to piety, and even goes far to don the
clerical habilimens, and teach the erring the way
Of truth and righteousness, when he daily violates
the plainest commands and admontions of the
Book of books. His hypocrisy has become a by.
word--a subject Of remark by all who know him.