Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-11-29
The Journal ON the County Au-
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The folloSing,ffam iIs coipmns this merhiae
seems to be rs complete an qnsHde rs "
ua,uro OF the case admis OF, or reqaifes Tn
81, fact that it has been driven, in this instance
ont Of puge, shame, to abaso itself onght Y
be a warning 10 it for all timo to come, "h6l
: il makes personal attack upon q fellow cfti
zen, TO be very "gure itr facts
STATEMENT OF FAcrs--NR JONATHAN HARSH
d Ls yAs AND raE COUNTY AypressWr q. I
In January last, seyeralarlicles in the jour
nal reflected severity upon Mr. Jonathan
HarshguGn, ppaufi the County Commissioners
| They Were based upon what was deemed rpli
ablA HlormaAiou which accused Mr.. li'gsii
man vt bad faith in the appointment ol a sad
cessor to B. NJ, Ayers, Coihty kudfof thep
lately deceased A few days ago we were sur.
prsed 10 learn that our information was er-
roueous, and that we therefore had been Fttst-
ing, .lOr nqarly year, under an ImptltatiOn Oi
inIhste6 rs a. lelhl@' tilizem Oi ttnffse we
saw no other alternative but to make propef
amends and we pUoeeedct0.d0 SO by a.stale-
ment OF facts, which were partially developed
in.the recent annual report OF the Board OF
Comfy Commissioners
Upon the decease Of Mr.. Ayers, the ap.
poititmeat dfh surcsssnr tn hin Was ptoinptiY
canynssed 1t was assumed that Messrs
HarshnIal and lams, constituting Il MINORITY
OF the Board would appoint a Dem0crat Mr
HhYtrnln, however, exprastdd bfpreferegc4
10 Mr. j W Dietrich and notified him that
lie would support him Mr. Appletbte, the
UGion member .0f the Boafd, was fully adj
vised of this, aud fully understood that the
Uuun party would be altogether satisfied
with the appointment Of Mr. Dietrich He
also understood that the Union party expscl-
ed him TO vote Tor any Uuinu man whom eilh-
er OF his colleagues shoald prefer The views
Of leading men OF the Union party on this
subject were 20 apparent aud so thoroughly
understood, that MIR Applegate did not aIipenr
TO have any alternative but TO execute them
The Commissioners met December 25lh,
1868 TO appoint un Auditor Mr. lams nom
mated George = Royer Mr. Harsbman nom
balsd J. " Dietrich, and Mr., Appegate
named third candidate. We do not uudert
stand that the Boatd hhlloted but after pro-
lracted eopsaitald1, in which esdb Commis-
sionen adhered intlexbly to his own nominee
excepting Mr.. Appegale, who finally pre-
scented a Fourth iltaa e-the Board kIled 10
agree upon all appointment and adjourned 70
December 30ih, MIR IlarsLmanssAys that at
any time during that meeting, Mr.. Applegale
cOnld have secured the,a appointment OF Nr
Dietrich , .,..r ...,.s
Meantime, Mr. 1ams warned his party that
unless some new aud acceptable name should
be presented 10 Mr. Harshman, the office
would he lost to the Democracy. A petition
in favor of Mr. lowe was circulated. When
ppti6ed OF this Mr.. Harsh shmas objected ( Mr
Iams is authority for this) because Mr. Lowe
was his ann inlaw This objection, however,
was waived, aud at the meeting on the 30lh
OF December, Mr., Harshman, considering
himself absulved from further support of Mr.
Dietrich, united with Mr. Iams, and when the
ballots we're counted, there were two votes
for Lowe aud one Ter Dicirich-Mr, Applegate
voting for the latter These are represented
to ua to be the substantial facts Ihay exon
crate Mr, r,LOWe from any accusatonOt impro'
priety in the premises, and Mt Harshmau
from charges Of bad faith and indehcacy.
While we thus attempt to make amende
for that which now appears to have been an
injustice snmmtted by us, We ara constrained
to reget that these facts were not made known
to us ongago We do not understand why this
was not done In conclusion we desire to add
lhat our columns are open to Mr.. Apologize
if he desires to submit any explanation to the
public. Aud to make the record IA complete
as possible we append n copy ut the proceed
ings OF the Commissioners relative TO the ap7
pointment Of Auditor, VIZ
Transcript of Proceedings Of tue Board
OfCOuMty Com m IaslOnsrs
AbDiroR's OFFlce, MoNTGoMEpY CouNrY |
,... O., DAYTON, Dee rs, 1863
I The Board OF County Commissioners met
to take into consideration the appoiatment of
a person to I'LL the vacancy made in the
County Auditors Office by the death 0f b M
Ayers Present, all the Commissioners
1t was ordered that George p. Boyer con.
tinue to discharge the duties Of the Oaice In
the name of b NJ Ayers, on the responsible
ty of the Commissioners, and to the reet Of
the late Auditors bond
The Board being unable to agree on an
appointment of Auditor, adjourned until
Wednesday,, the 3Oh inst q - =
g / Auestl Nt- GEO. 2 BuYER
JSO. HARsHMAN.
ALFRED lAMs, Commissioned
JAMES APPLEGATE, t. a.s.I.
SECOND MEETING.
Id IN ttiF.ff .-t4 ~ tsg
The Board Of Commissioners met purAhant
to adiournmeHi; all the Commissioners pres
ent Henderson Elliott appointed Clerk pro
TEN, 80 t.4luH-luuN s.dt tu-i."E 10
The business first in order before the Board
was the appointment of an Auditor in the
place of B NJ Ayers, deceased Whereupon
by order Of the Board, Thomas O Lowe was
appointed to flt;ssid vacancy aud serve as
Auditor, 1nht TIE next annual State and
County election for said county, aud until
his successor shall be duly elected and quail
fed .,.I...,I
D. JEo HARsBMANy r .al Commissioners.
JAMES APPLEGATE.