The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-07-15
FROM MARSHALL COUNTY,

MARSHALL Co., w. Va, July 10, 1867.
Editor of the Register
You and the readers of your very en-
cellent paper will, | hope, pardon me
for again forcing myself before the pub
lie as correspondent of the REGISTER
from this part of West Virginia. | am
clearly of the opinion, sir, that there is
nowhere to be found in these "disunited
States" people so completely deluded
and who follow so blindly and willing
IL to their own undoing the commands
and behests of designing politicians, as
a large portion of the honest work
ing men of this county. They seem to
have forgotten that they are free men,
for they hare their necks to the yoke
without o murmur, and thereby invite
heavier burthens to be place. upon
them year after year. 1t is because /
wish to unloose the grip of these politi-
clans and the office-holders upon the
pockets of fhoncst men, that occasionally
attempt to write an article for your
paper. | took occasion not long since
to administer, through the columns OF
the REGISTER, a dose to certain rev.
erend officer of this county for some of
his misdoings as public functionary,
| which, if all accounts are true, has laid
him upon the shelf. In the same COM
munication made mention of the fact,
that a number of the tax payers here
were of the opinion that the money
paid by them for school purposes for the
last three OF four years, had not been
properly applied in the building of
school houses, and in putting into Oper-
alton the public schools in the county,
and for thus presuming to make an en-
quiry rs to the whereabouts of the
money, that had been taken
from the peoples pockets by the
tax gatherer for school purposes,
which did in becoming manner, l
was publicly abused through the press,
and called all the hard names that a
forty-second rate lawyer, expressly en-
ployed for the purpose, could invent.
But, notwithstanding, l know that l
an treading on dangerous ground. l
shall again broach the subject of the
school fund. have been very credibly
informed that a gentleman, lately an
officer in this county, who has had for
five OF six years. the handling of the
public funds of the county, has now in
his hands some fifteen thousand dollars
of the school money. that ought to have
been paid over by him on the first day
of December, 1866, and that within the
last few weeks, persons who had been
teaching in the public schools had
made application TO the treasurer for
their pay, and were told by that officer
that there were no funds in his hands to
pay them. Will our worthy county
school superintendent please inform the
public whether the statements made
above are true or not J am deter
mined, as far as am concerned, to look
| into these matters for the future, and to
expose any and all persons who do not
apply TO legitimate purposes the money
taken from the pockets of the people III
the shape of taxes. Mr.. Lorain, our
county school superintendent, is gen.
tleman that the citizens here have con-
! fidence in, and am sure that he will,
! in public manner, expose the man OF
men who have been using the public
funds of the county for the advance
ment of their own interests.
If our public officers have thus been
using the peoples money, and those to
whom the county is indebted are com
PEELED to 60 unpaid for services proper.
~ rendered, the public should be. ap.
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