Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-08-03

and his oath says that hc viii per.
form all the duties al his Office accord
i,g to he conditions Of he bond. One o.
the duties of his office, as required by
law, is, the paymc;,t OF money on
warrants drawn by the county audi
tor, and he says in his bond and oath
! that he will dc tins. without fear
favor, fraud or oppression" Neither
| the Citizen, nor Cart. Schactfer, car
escape the conclusion, that il he has
been influenced by fear, or by favor
in the payment OF money on county
warrants, he has forfeited his bond
and violated his oath of Office. and
has not been faithful county officer.
During the year 1870 and The ear
~ portion of 1871, there was much
complaint that holders Of warrants
could not draw their money on
them. Wctook some little trouble
to make inquiries INTO the matter,
and we learned that the complaints
generally came from those sections
of the county wherein the county
treasurer had received no assistance
Ill securing the nomination and par
ticularly from parties who had used
their influence against him while a
candidate for its nomination. On the
other hand, few complaints came
from those sections of the county
supporting him for the Office, and
none from the men by whose intiu-
encc he had succeeded. Nor were
there wanting indications that this
refusal 10 pay warrants was captious
and unnecessary. The writer of this
has held county warrants for several
months, time and again, when be had
reason TO believe that there were
county funds enough to pay,-ana
he could get no money. We know
of one county officer and many bust
ness men whose experience i'll this
respect has been similar to our own.
Now, here are some very ugly
facts, which we commend to the at
tention OF the present county treas
urer and lis henchman. the Citizen.
4 county official tried, last winter,
10 get some money on county war
rants, in vain. The same day that he
had been refused, he was in one OF
the store of the county, when man
Of that place came in, handing the
proprietor Of the store a handful Of
money, reporting that he had just
got some county warrants cashcd.
One of the business men of the
county, who had tried vainlv to get
money Oh county warrants, did not
believe the stereotyped reply, No
funds" and made an examination OF
the treasurer's books. BY these
books he ascertained, and so proved
to the treasurer, that the treasury
vaults contained $4,000 in county
funds. The treasurer, while he could
not but acknowledge that such was
the fact, yet refused to pay any Of it
out. Why he refused We may here
after learn.
We also know of gentlemen OF
this county who had SO often failed
in an attempt to get money on a
county warrant that he sold the
warrant in disgust. The person to
whom the warrant was sold took II
into the treasury within fifteen min
utes after the original owner had
been refused cash and drew the mon
ely on it.
We suggest to the Citizen, which
has constituted itself the Don Quix-
ote in this warfare, that the evidence
es of the present incumbent's fifth
fa7,aess as a county officer, are multi
plying rapidly. Witness the in
stances above. ard those following
On the last day Of the January
session of the Board Of Supervisors,
the Board transferred 1000 from
the Jail fund to the county fund. AT
that time, certain gentlemen held
some warrants on which he had fail
ed, after repeated attempts, to real
lze any cash. After the adjournment
of the Board, one of the members
told him about this transfer of funds
and assured him that he could now
get the money ON coll. Early on
Monday morning, the 10th of Janu-
airy, he presented his warrant to the
county treasurer and payment was
, refused with the usual plea that there
were no funds. During the day, the
member of the Board returned tt
town, and he was informed OF thu
failure to get cash as advised. Thu
member Of the Board then told tn,
gentlemen that in a short time Ii,
would be in the treasurcr's Office ant
advised another call for money dur
ing his presence in the Office. TIL
advice was taken, and the gentlemen
got his warrant cashed, though TIN
cash was given with ill-grace. TINT
treasurer knew on Saturday that til
| transfer 1T funds wac made and hi