Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-05-26

Editor CRIT:
Your correspondent LAYING
had au intimation of the difficulty
among thu Court House rats
t * OCCASION to call upon some
OF the Itercsted parties for the
purpose Of interviewing them
in reference to TO the affair. We
ii called at tn. Auditors office,
and after the usual salution,
which was rather formal on the
part of our host, we remarked,
that there appeared to be a con-
siderable of a difficulty among
some of thecounty officers and
asked if there was any obi ection
to - pening his explanation of
it. With one of those smiles
for which he is noted, he replied
that 81 would much rather say
nothing about it." We inform
cd him that we thought the facts
should be made known, if any
thing rotten in Denmark let it
have air. After some hesitancy
and a promise that we would not
make polictical catital of what
he might tell US he consented to
tell us all about it. The facts are
he remarked that Capt. l., has
not been with US in all our polit-
zeal management tor some time,
when he suspects that there is
any trickery in what we do he
rebels. So at the instance of my
venerable friend Capt Alferd II,
aud others we concluded to chas-
tise him for not always being
with as. And as we had been
crowned with a glorious amount
IT official hority it was
thought best for US to use this to
effect our purpose. So we began
to look around for a pretext.-
And having a weakness ourself
FIR a small income when taxes
are to be paid (see my return OF
1863 we thought of something
in this direction first,aud for
~tunately as we thought in look
ing through some papers we
found an old statistical report
made oy Capt. l., which we
changed to suit US and upon this
we based a charge that he bad
made a false income return. We
had this charge all we'll arrang-
ed and written out over the
name OF Jno r, who is a good fel
low ard alwa 5 with us when he
has, or is getting an Office
This charge was sent to the.
District Assessor who was not.
aware of the intent of it and in
formed Capt L, of the perp"ri
Of it, with the names of the
parties who sent it to him. This
intelligence very much II
ragged Capt. L, and he demanded
IN Immediate investigation by US
IF bis income-as there was no
way of declining to do this we
con sented with the Lope of eith-
er finding something no exactly
rs he stated or if it was all right
then run our chaAces of forging
a report Of this.ihvestiga ion over
our official siSAIare and this &C
complishcd our+design. Retair
This we were fo116d, for theREapf.
had had so much correspondence
with the District Assessor that
our investigation which in fact
entirely releaved tha Capt of.
any such charges had hardly
be en- made before he held in his
possession a letter from the Dis
trict Assessor entirely releasing
him from the charge made by US
We are indeed sorry of this fail
ure, and once clear of this at
tempt to accomplish our purpose,
we hopesnever to engage in an
+other without a sure thing the
old maxim "Where there is a
will, there is away" is reversed
we have the will but can't see the
way. Here your correspondent
bid our smiling official goodday
and repaired to the Recorders of
fee, the result of this interview
next week. d. Q.
HOW WE ARE TAXED.
As an illustration of how we