The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-04-15
Facts and Figures.

III VuI ulNlSiu VI istN Nteht' No cA-
hibited to the tax payers Of Seneca
county, what 1t costs to erjoy the
luxury of a Democratic DoaFd Of
County Commissioners, aud what a
splendid way the Commissioners have
Of paying themselves for their con-
veyabces.
1t will secu from the exhibit, that
tie bridge fun is already overdrawn
to the amount of SLIPS 7s. Now
will the Commissioners pleaae advise
Us from what fund this money is paid
or from what fund it is drawn With
our bridge fund overdrawn to the
smouutabove stated, tho Commission.
era have attempted to add tho expense
ofbuilding a new bridge across the
Sandusky River below TT. Seneca
Add the expense Of the new bridge
10 the amount already ovcrdrawu aud
you will have tho startling figures
for next year, that il W ill., have been
overdrawn to the amount Of S25, 00c.
Yet that bridge must be built, aud
that expense incurred to crafty one
member Of the Board. Does Seneca
county pay auy interest on this bridge
fund overdrawn ? Is it possible that
the Commissioners have Lad TO bor-
row money for bridge purposes and
yet propose to increase the debt rath-
er than diminish it2 The exhibit
shows that slIS,5O has been paid
out for interest by tho Commission.
srs, and this is just tho beginning of
the evil.
But hare, while tho facts arc all
fresh in our men Dry, We beg to make
a digresSion. IL was stated some
t,mp ago in the TRIBuNE, that
eoutraot had been entered into by
th, Commissioners with Isaiah Eb.
srsole, sou Of Que of tho Commission
ers, to index the records of Senec
county, at an agreed price Of 81 800,
aud expenses, &c.,-pleuty Of per-
quisites; that this arose out of mu-
tual desire to do something for re,
firing member Of the Board, and per
haps to induce him to JOIN hands with
Watson in making the contract for
the bridge down tho liver. But Pc
ter retired from the Board, aud the
County Commissioners, through the
public ventilation made Of tho trans.
sctiou In your paper were mdRcsd TO
reconsider their party step as 20 the
the Ebersolo testimonial, aud the rec
firing Commissioners being then only
= private citizen, they reconsiderod
tho said contract but Isaiah had
to be pucided. He had his heart
set on taste at the public crib, aud
he Whined about it. The venerable
parent joined in tho lamentation.-
lie had bocu faithful to his master
the Democratic party-had served /,
long aud we'll. The Board got to-
gether, they consulted, they wept bit
Ter tears over the dosolsiioa OF Isaiah
aud his venerable father aud they,
out of ths abundance Of thsir heart,
gave Isaiah Que hundred dollars
out Of tho County Treasury to
SOothe him, aud he soothed. II is
remarkable what a paciking effect
one hundred dollars will have on a
man, especially whom he has done
nothing for IL.
Our records are not iudexed, bat
the Treasury Of Seneca County loses
Que hundred dollars by tho operation,
aud the contractor pockets that
amount without ever doing auythiug
for it or sustaining any loss-but
then it is all iu the family.
Where is tho justice, CT equity, or
sspse, 10 paying this mAu one huu-
drsd dollars for doing nothing what
ever? Let the Commissioners 40.
sWsr the tax payers.
But this article 10 already long
n uts auon. UNION.
sTbis sr,iels vas laid over one week for
Esai VI rDoln.