Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-03-16
THE Gazesse calls upon the editor OF

$50 THE Gazes5e calls upon the editor OF
ss the CHRONICLE to pay his taxes. This,
'SS of course, is another malicious insin-
uation. We called. upon the treasurer
and found no taxes standing against
the editor of this paper nor against this
Office. Having come into the County
: after the assessment we could have no
= personal tax here and the tax upon the
n1oflice was paid by Col. Poorman about
three months ago. We dislike false
hoods of this character, and if the
Gazette intends to descend to dirty
journalism of this kind, the editor had
q better move out of his glass house. If
any one has not paid his taxes it is
-5father unkind in. Mr.. Irwin as well as
Z aeiinproper to publish the fact sooner
than theslaw requires it. No one has
,,.aright to use. 9 public office for parti-
> san purposes In our previous articles
we, by no means, charged Mfr: Irwin
with dishonesty 1t is true that we
asked him to pay some attention to the
sdhw giving him the right to transfer
funds. but did not even charge him with
acting contrary to custom. We have
always believed. him an honest officer
and shall continue to defend him as
such until we have reason to believe
otherwise. We ask, however, that he
i will not use, or allow his Office to be
used for such false and malignant
purpose again. We are charged with
saying privately that we intend to
make political capital out ofthe present
= Democratic control of affairs. We claim
this as a right since the public office
clique makes use of all other kinds of
capital. We would suggest that in
stead of borrowing money as they have
been doing and compelling our tax
= payers to pay a large interest, that our
= vigilant officers collect the balance due
from the bondsmen of Thomas john
son who once trusted the honesty of a
particular friend beyond a safe point
Payment will be barred before many
months on, thesenotes. WhynOtcollect
them?
q THE Gazette being scarce of anything
else to crow over, rejoices over the fact
thai the Commissioners allowed us six
ty-five dollars for publishing the "re-
,ceipts and Expenditures" The Dade-
pendent and Standard each receivedl
SEVENTY FIVE dollars for the saline
job. Last year the Gazette received not |
less than LIGHTWEIGHT dollafs for
the same little affair. We suppose he
has not yet presented his order for the
present work and we shall expect
great reduction in his bill since he has
committed himself by attacking us.
Mr.. HEAToN gives s21, ,647 3S as the
amount levied and $2O,6S9 68 as the
amount collected upon the Warnock
Pike, and says this is. the full cost
thereof. He has based his statement
upon estimated cost of road bed II
feet wide and inches deep. Why
didn't he tell the people whom henev-
rer deceives, how much the second layer
of stone cost? Why didn't he explain
why there stands upon the Auditors
books the very respectable sum of S.
9O3 or over-drawn funds? The reader
will see by his own statement that the
whole levy has been collected eXceptS1,-
OO7 20, and vet theAuditor's books show
an oyer-drawn sum of s., ,903 07. He
never deceives any body but is in about
the same fix as the hero of Mark
aTwain's romance,-if he don't lose his
head it will be owing to ashort neck.