The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-09-15
TAXPAYERS, READ A.!

On the 1st inst. the County Com
missioners met in regular session
and among other duties settled with
the Treasurer, examining orders and
vouchers and ascertaining if all was
right.
or course, our Commissioners
found everything o. K. in the Treas
ury- No safer business man can be
found in the county than JOHN
STEEL. He has managed his own
affairs and settled and managed 9th
sr peoples estates and affairs for
years honestly and satisfactorily.-
JOHN STEEL therefore is Just the
man to take proper care Of the Peo-
pies Treasury.
To show how matters stand in the
Stark County Treasury we give the
following statement furnished us by
Treasurer STEEL.
Our taxes are frightfuIl Let the
figures that don't lie, show:
COUNTY TREASURER STATEMENT.
Money received into the Stark
County Treasury during the
year ending Sept l, 1869, $500, ,7s6, 50
Money paid out during the
same year, S4s1, sos, ,45
Leaving balance Sept. /, of S 81, ,277, "A
Money borrowed by the Coun-
ty Commissioners and paid
into the Treasury since Sept
1st. s 90. 800. 90
Money paid ont since Septem>
Der 1 1859. s 41,776,s9
Showing balance in the Treas
ury of Stark County on Sept.
10th 1869 of OO,OOo,55
FIFTY-FIVE CENTS in the Stark
County Treasury! Over half a mill
ion of money received and paid out
in one year! Taxpayers, read and
reflect. This does not lie at Demos
cratic doors. Stark County affairs
have been in radical hands for MANY
years. There has not been such a
state Of things in the Treasurers Of
fee since the county was organized I
Is not this a beggarly condition of
things?
Treasurer JOHN STEEI. IS In no
way responsible for this. He is re-
sponsible for the safe keeping and
disbursing of the funds, and that is
all. One fact we wish noted partic-
ularly, and we challenge investiga-
ton, and that is-The ts0o Duplicates
collected during the past year were
more closely collected up than they
have been for many years And we
undertake to say fewer errors and
blunders have been committed than
usual.
After what we have stated our
readers will perceive the infamy and
malignity or the following extract
from last weeks Rep and Rep.
Its (the DenIocrat'S) pet, Just now,
is JOHN STEEL, the present County
Treasurer. AS to what kind of an
officer Steel makes, we have nothing
to say. There has not been such q
state of things in that Office since the
| county was organized. s'We don't
know that Mr.. Steel is to blame. He
probable does the best he knows
how. But the taxpayers feel that
they do not want to be trified with
any longer, and they are not all con-
fined to one party."-Ihe Rep aud
Rep Of last 10eek.
Now, we agree with cur neighbors
'there has not been such a state of
things since the county was organ.
ized!"
But whose estate of things" is it?
Certainly not ours. "We don't know
that Mr.. Steel is to blameI" Well
now you do kzol0 that JOHN STEEL
Is not to blame. And you well
know where the "blame" Is. The
lie, direct and by innuendo, suits
your falling Negro Suffrage cause.
BILL BARBER & Co., buying for
the Inhrm1ry an old barn for
fifteen hundred dollars merely to
accommodate political friend, and
then the county expending fifteen
hundred or so, more, for moving it
and fixing up-may show where
some of the funds are gone.
We advise our officials not to
burst the Treasury quite. Do let the
fifty five cents remain. Should they
burst it entirely we shall have to
gather some Of that Grape they used
to favor our door knobs with and
hang it on that twenty-four hundred
dollar safe in the Treasurer's office.