The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-09-30
AUDITOR BIsGEsS REPLY TO TIRE
COURIER.
n /. IRron athe Courier. 4thl

mornings Courier, headed A Huge
Swindle." Without accusing you of
willingly disappearing facts, yet
you make unwarranted and untrue
assertions, probably only tossubserve
your object in view, namely: The i'm
pending election. am not disposed
to write lengthy articles or to engage
in a newspaper. controversy, but you
will allow me to say that it is wrong
on the part of any body, who ZnOao-
ing that any public officer has been
4 unfaithfll, to wait until the eve of an
. election, and then prefer wholesale
charges for the purpose of making
political capital, and to subserve
/. collaborating pur poses. Such prac-
tice is injurious only to those using
!. the same; for it must strike EVERY
Honest mind that SUCH accusations
made at such, time, and for such pur-
pose, are pregnant with impure mo-
tives. LIf3gd" aa5 cfrH ssGs
AS you are personally and politi--
cally connected with gentlemen who
have been for years fully conversant
I.withHthe actions of the r Board of
County Commissioners, and who have
been for years members OF said Board,
and under whose regime the heaviest
expenditures were Incurred, it would
have been in place to have given vent
to their inqulsitive consclentiousness
and sounded the alarm as soon as
frauds were perpetrated; for only by
gentlemenwere those. claims issued
Matters of this kind ought to be
calmly and earnestly looked into
ROo IL n GO xrv<,.o
session at the time the Democratic
Convention was held in German town
ship, when the plan of campaign was
p agreed upon. Why then did you not
demand of them an account Of their
actions, and institute d thorough
investigation of the accounts
and books of all public officers?
| am free to say that it would have
been cheerfully granted, nay, at once
insisted upon. | wish not TO be I'M
derstood as defending the present
Board or any of its members Of the
wrongs imputed to them; for under
b former boards were the allowances
that you complain of ordered and in
Cured. The heaviest expenses out
side. Of my Office proper We're ordered
by Democratic Boards, aud the work,
intended to revise and correct the
work OF men belonging toothe same
party. The allowances made during
the time of which you speak, include
services performed as far back as 1864.
Your statement that received or
earned $4,000 in one year and nine
months, is simply untrue. The time
from which Mr.. j. w. Walker took !
my allowances, reaches back to june,
1866, for auditing, and special allow
ances further back. ssvrf
Now let us see for moment how
unjustly the figures in your expose
are computed and what venom must |
have actuated the making of such |
statements:
Every body knows that, unlike other |
county officers, the Auditor receives
all perquisites and fees with trifing |
exceptions) by Commissioners allow !
ances; then from June 1865, to date,
the County Commissioners allowed |
me for services as Auditor $14 ,2S2 70,
being little over $4,000 year. aoH adj |
you desired to be impartial you should I
have added that / get these fees 10 /
County Orders, and that | pay in, cash
four deputies whom | employ to help
me-do the work-ergo,- the immense
balanced 5S ( r SEuEs 49,.
In your statement or recapitulstion
of the services as County Librarian, =
you say December, 1865, when it +
should be December, 1864.
But to the two heavy allowances
that seen to have created 4 such
storm of indignation:
In 1863, John Wayman was elected
appraiser of this county. In January, :
1864, he took unto himself the follow
ing deputies, and you will concede
that be. had In view. the welfare of his
constitute ats, and the <ea pacity of hist.
employees only, when he made the
selection:
Sam. Grazing, Thos Bower, Sam.
Mcdonald, B. f. Williamson, M. o.
Newman, S. NJ Gibson, Chas. Dirlam,
Joel Sherwood, Rich, Raleigh, ohm
A. Reitz, w. H. Klusman, John
Hewson, jonathan Newman, August
Reitz, and j. d. Saunders. In June
said Wayman returned his appraise-
ment with near 5000 lots and pieces
of property listed to unknown owners.
In 1865 the County Commissioners
learned that a number of lots and
parcels of land were altogether omit
ted from the returns and the dupif-
cate made therefrom, and in Justice
to themselves and the tax payers,
resolved to have his appraisement re-
vised and omissions looked upaf
Wishing to make the cork pay for a.
self, and unwilling to incur expenses
without favora bic result, Mr.. Nurre
proposed me to do said work and re-
ceive therefor pay In. proportion TO
the result obtained, and an agreement
was entered into, allowing me for