Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-10-03
The question or Qua Gallon.


The Auditors office Is one Of the
most responsible within the gift Of the
people Of any county Its duties
are complicated and laborious. The
Auditor is In reality the peoples fiuan-
eial book.keeper, and II be is dishonest,
earelessf or ipcompetent, the affairs Of
the county suffer as they cannot by sim
liar discrepancies on the part Of any
other official. If the County Commits
aioners are ignorant Of their daties, and
are unable to put their business in
proper shape, good Auditor supplies
the deficiency, and makes good record,
however silly they may have been acted.
Upon thesAuditor, in fact the Commis-
sioinerT depend altogether for the sue
cessful management Of, the business OF
the county Should he be blunderer,
or rascal, within one year the finances
Of the county would become 80 hopeless
ly tangled that science nor experience
would never be able 10 nnravel and get
them arranged. We earnestly call the
attention Of the business menf of our
city and county 10 this important fact.
We fear many Of them have not given il
the consideration, Il deserves.
We have heard NO one call in ques.
ton Auditor Bischs qualification for the
position he now holds. He has been
tried severely. No other Auditor has
been compeIledto meet and shoulder 50
many responsibilities. An immense
work has been added to the ordinary du-
ties Of his Office, growing ont of the war,
the paying of bounties and the providing
for soldiers families. Yet ell this work
has he discharged with faithfulness and
correctness that entities him to the ap-
prevail Of the people Of the county. He
has been faithful public servant, and is
as little as his constituents can do to say
we'll DONE by rejoicing him. sssss|
For Mr.. Bisoh's opponent, personally,
We entertain kind feelings He is very
pleasant and, doubtless, is very clever
fellow. But we are surprised to see him
applying for a position he is 50 lily
qualified to gil as that Of Auditors His
friends ought TO know--aaust kaop-that
he is utterly Incompetent to discharge
the duties appertaining TO that office.
They ought to know it-mGst knosc it,
from, the fact that Mr.. Venneman has
attempted to fill several subordinate posi-
tons in different places in our city, ana
in nearly every instance made failure.
We learn that be has lost two or three
situations because Of incompetenoy.
Whether the inoompetency was the re
suit of oarelessness, ignorance or mex
perience, we care not. The people can
not afford to hage either careless,
ignorant or inexperienced County Au-
ditor. They cannot affore to experiment.
IN the matter. Experiments are usually
costly and not unfrequently dangerous.
No party has a right 10 jeopardize the
interests Of their own partisans, "a we'll
as those of their opponents, by nominal
Ing and supporting incompetent men. 4
Wehave hitherto refrained from speak.
ing Of this unpleasant fact because we
did not think the Democrats were serious
in running Mr.. yenneman- We have
been under the impression oil the time
that be was merely pushed forward as @
kind Of "feeler " Of public. sentiment,
and at the proper time would be with
drawn in favor Of some one who was
known 20 be competent TO discharge the
duties. Of Auditor. With this view of
the Mattsr, we thought we would avoid
an unpleasant duty, and the interest of
the people would not in the slightest de-
gresihe endangered thereby.
IL our statements relative to Mr.. Ven.
neman's qualifications are called in
question, we refer alidisbelievers to the
Freight Depot in this city, and they will
be faFtAsf enlightened II not satisfied
we can then rotnr them to-ohe or two
other inssapeff aa which Nh venneman
has egregiously failsdto correctly dis
GAar1aidnAiea tAppsrtAininsA to thaI aira-
plest commercial and Gnancial business.
Thi& hstiniE nf qua l6caEioREia I'M;
usually important shis year, Tor the fol-