The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-10-31
TO III, C. PIATT.

eIR:-lhe li.tlcne>s shown b. you i
the commencement. OF Your article
Characteristic aud needs 10 notice
Your ailusion to = former mean act (
you, partner, is 8 little singular. bu, q
yo1 are both t4-red with the sam
sick, it might have been expected.
loa refer TO the uatter of partial pay
Een;. again. / hare stated the facts j.
tia: case, viz tina, yen took the money
or the orders and 90: credit for them rs
20 much money, and did bot, ia J our ac-
count With the county, charge yourself
with them that in your settlement with
Judge Smith you had no account Of wha.
you had received in this way, and that at
the time Of your settlement you had $500
to $1,000, which you did not pay over or
account for. This You virtually admit
You also speak of a bill for your servi
ces as clerk in the Treasurer's Office
which was "not allowed by the County
Judge We have never had any CONVEX
sation, on such topics, with Judge Cow.
an, but gave his reasons as we heard them
last winter, from very good authority
You don't deny them.
You say you never paid the county any
interest. and don't lowe her any interest
whatever.' Perhaps not. Tat you
have had, since you went out Of Office,
large sums belonging to the county, YOU
DO not deny, You keep the county money
without paying any interest, while others
must hold county warrants, because there
is no money in the treasury to pay them.
Perhaps tina, is what you call "dving a
good thing for the county,
You say that while l acted as Prose.
cutting Attorney, "nearly every indict,
ment he drafted was pushed Forum.
asely the records are better authority
than your word, and they show on'y enc
Indictment "quashed' during my term
of office
You say that the Treasurer is 50 "com
pletely checked that can excuse Ct q
man. "would not dare to steal doIar'
OF the funds. Quite likely; but he was
not so "eompletely checked" bat tina. a
smart man like yourself could 90 GU. OF
office with $500 to $1,000" in hi.
pocket, and have his Cracks so wei
covered that even Judge Smith could no
see them, aud did not know that 80,
had the money.
You say:
Next Simeon talks of Ioaning rail
road funds, at from 20 to 20 per cent -
This l most c&phatically and posi,ivel,
deny. | never loaned a dollar Of rail
road funds at any rate Of lntercs, what
ever; and if had, what business is j, t,
you?'
state COMPATIBILITY aud positively
that Hon j. G. Belts and John II
Bire'y, both say that you leaned ,her
money which you said belonged to tn
railroad fund, and Mr. Bir,ey paid 20
~ per cent. for the use Of the money
Put that in your pipe and smoke it -
These men are well known, and the;
word will not be disputed We thin
that is sufficient on this point.
You ask what business it is to the
you did loan out the railroad funds ?
is part Of my business to let the pcop1
know the doings Of their officers.
that is offensive to you, it cannot b
heIpsd. You are responsible for YOU
nets, and | will expose them as | thin,
best. ....
Your attempt to get into respectable
company, by bringing in Judge Smith
name 10 connection with the refusal I,
pay the railroad coupons is very shallow
for everybody knows, that the sui. wal
commenced long before Judge Smith
came into office.
You do not deny that you eollecte d
money for costs Of advertising the delin.
guent taxes of 1873, but say tl.a, you