Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-03-24
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GENOA. March 20, 1871.
11eSaS Editors In the Delaware
Herald of March 10Th, 1871, in an ed
itorial letter written at Columbus, Ohio,
where the Editor-in-Chief, as he is called,
IS spending a part of his time noninalIy
acting Tor at least drawing s. per day
during the session of the Legislature)
as Ist Assistant Clerk of the Senate of
Ohio, the following information IS con-
veyed to the numerous readers of the
Hsyakd-
WENT HOME WITHOUT IT.
Two days previous to the final ad-
iournment Of the State Board of Equal
ization, the Senate passed a bill increas-
ing their pay from s. to S. per dlesu.
The EquaIizers were jubilant over the
prospect of getting about SI5o more for
their winters work than they had reck-
oned upon but 10 the House of Rep
resentatiTes defeated the bill and the
poor gentlemen went home without their
extra
Now, l feel gratfled to see an attempt
on the part of the editor of that paper
to publish something in his paper as
news, even If 1t is said in 2eZzSs0z of men
who with diligent industry and S0Ber, ex-
emplary demeanor served the State in
the Board of Equalization. It may be
possible that the Equalizers were iubi-
lant' over the prospect of getting pay
sufficient to pay their board at the
aristocFatic hotel at which the editor of
the Herald boarded, hut I did not see
nor learn that any of them became SO
jubilant over the prospect as to get
drunk or disgrace themselves or their
constituents. and l think that although
f'the b00T gentlemen went home without
their extra, that they paid their board
bills before they left, and made but few
other bills IN the city that, in short
they lived prudently, behaved respecta-
bly,, worked industriously and discharged
their duties honestly and honorably, and
went home thinking that the Legislature
might do little service to the State by
appointing the committee referred to in
the following article, which is a part of
the same letter from which l have
quoted
WHERE THE PEOPLES MONEY GOES.
"Some two or three weeks since a Joint
committee was appointed by the Legis-
lature to inquire into the expediency of
equalizing the pay of State officers. It
was asserted that many individuals were
drawing pay from the State without per-
forming much, if any, duty therefor,
while others. working like bees. were
poorly paid.
This is certainly move in the right
direction. There are men who have
merely nominal duties who are drawing
salary and clerk hires, aggregating far
more than the Governors S salary"
I think it did appear quite plain to
the members of the Board that many
individuals were drawing pay from the
State without performing much if any
duty therefor, while others worked like
bees were poorly paid. Some of the
poor gentlemen thought, as the author
of that Columbus letter, that ''there are
men who have merely nominal duties
whs are drawing salaries and clerk hires
aggregating far more than the poor gen
tlemen' who went home without their
extra got for more arduous labor per-
formed with more diligence.
I am. as / said before, pleased TO see.
that, although the Editor of the He1 aid
during the whole of last Fall and Win
ter failed to say one word in his paper
as to who was elected as a Member of
the Board or Equalization in his district,
Vi W4AeSN el4A4G Va J4e@NS Liz >~oGA4tJ 41OeAA "
would set to hear grievances and equal
ize property in the county, or that there
was State Board in session in Colum-
bus where they might send in their Peti-
tons for a redress of grievances if their
property was appraised too high, the
editor is determined to say something,
now, even if it is said by way of innu-
endo and in derision of the "poor
oaTtleF71ev who yuaf7f homo 14yifbc15t their
extra.
That's frst-rate; if you cannot say
anything in a mans praise throw out
your insinuations and gibes they do no
hurt but rather shoW that the Editor IS
not always in a state of stupor and that
he is anxious to try to furnish something
of a Local nature if he had time or could
find any thing of that kind for his read
ers. Yours truly,
A. ]. SMITH,
One Of the Edualizers.