The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

Attorney.
We publish below letter from Hon.
John T. Clark to the DEBORAH Register
1t tells its own story. In law, logic or
common sense, CLARK is hard to beat
We believe he will beat Hatch 1000 votes.
DEBORAH, Sept. 26, 1866.
Editors Of the Hinneshiek Register -
GENTS 81 notice an article in the Nc
Gregor Ne,rs, of Sept. Odd, charging me
with acting very foolishly in permitting
my personal hostility toward Mr.. Hatch to
induce me to play into the hands of the
enemies of my country, &c. Now the
above bears the impress of Mr.. Hatch too
plainly to allow me for moment to be
mistaken as to its author. think can
safely say that no man regrets more than
myself the necessity of becoming personal
in political contest, yet when a man puts
himself forward as candidate for Office, it
is but Justice to the friends of my country,
that the voters of the district should know
part of the public history of such candi-
date, and propose in as few words as
possible, to give a short sketch of Mr..
Hatch's history.
MIR. Hatch came to Waukon in the
! spring of 1854. In August 1855, he uni
ted with the Know-nothing order of Ala
makec, and in the convention obtained the
nomination for Recorder and Treasurer,
and was elected at the August election
About one year after his election, Mr..
Hatch started for Iowa City. At this
time the county had no safe for the keep
ing of the public funds, and Mr.. Hatch
had, up to this time kept the public funds
belonging to his Office in the safe of Messrs.
Petite & Hersey, a substantial firm, doing
business about sixty feet from the Office of
Mr.. Hatch. On the morning that Mr..
Hatch started, as aforesaid, he removed all
the funds under his control from the safe
of Messrs Petite & Jersey, they suppos-
ing at the time that Hatch took the same
with him. In about two weeks Mr.. Hatch
returned and went Immediately to his
room, which at the time was on the second
floor of a boarding house in Waukon, and
on the same floor was doctors Office
The entrance to the second story of said
house was by door from the street into a
hall at the foot of flight of stairs look
ing to the second story and soon returned
from his room, and said he had been rob-
bed and stated that he deposited in an old
trunk in his room. about fifteen or sixteen
hundred dollars; that while he had been
absent the money had been taken out
The money has never been recovered
There was, in the missing sum, about
three hundred dollars belonging to the
school fund. Mr.. Hatch was prosecuted
by the school fund commissioner for the
three hundred dollars, and after deter
mined and lengthy defense, judgment
was rendered against him for the amount
The balance of the money has been total
loss to the public. ,,.. ..a
STATE OF Iowa, b.
Winneshiek County.
l, John L. Clark, being first duly
sworn, depose and say that I know the
facts of the statement above set forth, and
that the same is true in every substantial
particular. john I. CLARK.
Subscribed and sworn to before me the
Goth day of September, 1866.
Z. Z. Cooley, Notary Public.
In conclusion would say that do not
charge Mr.. Hatch with robbing, or stealing
the money, but what wish to say is SIM
ply this, that no ordinarily prudent man
would have taken 1900 or 1900 dollars
from the safe where this money was kept,
and was perfectly safe, and deposit it in
an old trunk in, as you may say, public
boarding house, where any person could
enter at almost any hour of the day or
night, on pretense Of seeing the doctor or
some one of the boarders. In short, the
act was so grossly careless, and manifests
such want of care and diligence in the
discharge of his duty to the public while
entrusted with its management and the
custody of its money, that the most favora-
BILE construction that can be put upon the
whole case is that the money was lost
through his carelessness if so, the people
have the power to try Mr.. Hatch again.
/, for one, think Mr.. Hatch should not
have thrust himself upon the Republican
party with such a record hanging over him
or seek change of venue from the courts
of our county to the Republican party of
this district, hoping that the prestige of a
nomination from the Republican party,
and fifteen or sixteen hundred majority,
will be sufficient to wash out that record,
at the ex. ense of thesraightout reputation
of this party.
These are some of the reasons for allow
ing my name to appear before the public
for the Office of District Attorney, and not
the one ascribed to me by the article in the
Ne'cs. Truly yours,
| .JOUN II Crank