Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-09-26
TO TIE TOTERS IND TIN
PI l-ER.S OF MARSHALL
co UNITY

IS the administration of the affairs of our
County IS matter which deeply concerns
us al, and as the voters alone can regulate
the County government, we submit TO your
consideration the following facts and fig
urcs We viii first speak Of our receipts
and expenditures. In the exhibit of 1866,
as given by the Auditor, we find the
Total Receipts flr that year to be ss7,is7,ia
Tosal Expenditures. 2i,9il, ~
Leaving balance in the Treasury of sls,ei5,7l
Without stopping TO examine the enor-
mity.of our expenses, as exhibited in this
report. we will pass to the consideration of
The Auditors last report:
Tie total receipts from May aist, 1884, to
june lst. 1867, are s32.O1Oe2
Total Expenditures, 2l,IO5s2
L.ssins a balance .his year of sIo,seiso
This leaves totI surplus for the last two
years of TtCsilfy- TtCo Thousand Nine
Hundred and Ten Dollars and E7eUca
Cents In order to deceive the people, he
deducts for fire proof offices, for the two
years, the sum Of Sl2,0H, Is, exhibiting the
same as having been expended for such
purposes, and not in the County Treasury.
If such money had been so expended, there
would still remain in the Treasury the sum
of SI0,S95, 90, but as the money has not
been expended for the purpose for which
it was levied, there should be in tue Treas
ury of Marshall County. the round sum of
TtreRfy-tsrO thousand nine hundred
and fen dollars and clcren cents "a
surplus created within the last two years
Where is the money?
VOTERS OF MARsHA1L COUNTY. the exor-
bitant taxes imposed upon you have gone
to enrich few Democratic Office suckers,
and even the surplus, after their extrava-
CANT demands have been allowed, cannot
be produced. Notwithstanding this large
surplus you have been burtlened to create,
your County Orders have been protested"
and you have paid interest on them for the
two years the snug sum of Fire Hundred
and Ninety Eight Dollars and Fifty
Eight Cents. The pay OF County officials
has been enormous. For the last year the
Auditor was paid Three Thousand
Three Hundred and Ninety Eight
Dollars and Ninety Fire Cents, being
nearly EleUca dollars for every working
day, or about one dollar and ten cents
for each working hour. Last year he drew
the sum of S2,lIO,s7, which amount was
considered extravagant, but this year he
draws the additional sum of sl,2ss, Os,
which additional sum was nearly as much
as was charged by Judge Fuller for any
one year Of his service as Auditor. Not
withstandins this, we find by reference to
ths Treasury receipt book, that within
twenty-five days from the allowance oil
his claim, the Auditor draws an order in
his own behalf fer tile pocket sum of over
One Thousand Dollars
The County Clerk, though paid by fees
occasioned by litigation, &c, and which
are high enough as every man will say who
has been required 10 pay costs, has been
allowed by the board for the last two years
the extra sum of Sirteen Hundred and
Fifty Dollars and Ninety-sic Cents
as shown by the Auditors reports--a sun
of itself larger than two-thirds of the hard
working taxpayers of the county make in
that time. But this might be tolerated
were there any law for such extra allow
ances. An examination OF the Auditor
reports will demonstrate that we have on
~ given an example Of this wholesale pub
lie plumber.
TAX PAYERS Of MARSHALL COUNTY, You
certainly do not approve, and willnot Ion
ger vote for men who thus burden you
with taxes, and then sqaander the money
Though these allowances have been made
without authority of law and therefore
totally unjustifable,) there should still be
in the Treasury the sum of S22,9l0 II, and
vet your County Orders are protested
We ask where is the money? In violation
of law your Treasurer made use o
SI2,0Ii Is cents for the purchase Of land:
Cor speculative PURPOSES, and Sir Thou