Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-01-10
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The Bogus" Board-Mr. Warmers
Reply.

wv Soiulun Illumination In the Grant
County Herald from Mr.. Allen. lat,,
OF the Bogus Board of Supervisors
may not feel quite extinguisbed !.
indeed one might think mo defunct.
and really done for, if the statements
were true for his sake il is a nitv
there were not. The case Is /
charged Mr.. Allen with holding an
illegal and unwarranted meeting of
the County Board, voting moneys to
the amount of six hundred or more
dollars from the County Treasury
without proper and lawful author
lty. Now note: this charge he does
not deny in his long, acrimonious ar
tlcle of two columns, but rather
chooses to dodge behind the white
washing of the present Board, Just as
ifthey had thepower to make a aroma
a right.
The laws of this State prescribe
gust how any special meeting shall be
called. This was not done; but Mr.
Allen being great economist of
time, undertook the duties of Clerk
of the Board as well as the Chair
man. Now, Mr.. Altizer, the Clerk
failed in doing his duty in this mat.
ter also. He ought not to have given
any oountonance to, or made any re-
cord of their doings, and he must
have known this, or ought to.
About that election of Chairman
last January, Mr.. Allen had better
keep quiet. He was elected Chair
man OF The Board by one vote, and
that MIR. Allen gave by voting for
himself OH Hoses is he not a
modest man And now he tries to
make others believe that | am his
enemy, when it is only contempt for
his excessive modesty. His conduct
IN this rascal transaction shows that
he was unworthy the place.
The assertion he makes that | re-
fused to attend any further meetings
of the Board implies falsehood.-
There was no other business meeting
of the County Board, except "a meet
ing of part of the Supervisors to lay
out road in Clifton, which did not
attend. The next and only other
meeting was your bogus" swindle,
Mr.. Allen.
The plea that the late Co. Board
endeav ored, or as | choose to nut il.
10hltemdSh your miserable, vlllainous
transactions, does not help you out of
the odious affair q particle The late
County Board are oensured for taking
the job off your hands, instead of in-
structing the District Attorney 20
prosecute Allen and elise for moneys
wrongfully obtained.
What do you people Of Grant coun-
ty think of the precedent set for flu
ture guidance in your affairs? First,
any three men calling themselves Su-
pervisors drop into the office of the
Clerk of the Board and proceed to
vote out and draw money from the
Treasurer at their pleasure, and the
lawful Clerk sanctions it. Then,
secondly, the proper Supervisors con-
clude to smouge and cover up, by
embarrassing resolutions, this dirty
affair, rather than make bad smell
and expose to just contempt and
scorn the men engaged in it. This is
the substance of the matter as you
have it TO deal with. | ask, will you
return such men TO official RESPONSE
bic places again? If you do, and get
g'oriously swindled, it is your own
fault. Pay for it, as you will have to
for this one, and grow wiser when
you are trodden on again and again.
a word in relation to the disallwed
bills of Sheriff elise: They were ex-
amincd by Gen Moore as commit
tee, be having been a former Sheriff
He reported certain items for disal-
lowance they were long and thor
oughly examined by the Go. Board
in session and some 1903 were disaI-
flowed. Mr.. elise appealed to Circuit
Court (Which be had a clear right to
do.) Mr.. J. Ii Evans, Of Platteville,
Emery of Potosi, and myself were
summoned and in attendance as wit
nesses. elise refused to come to
trial, and before the next term of
Court, Mr.. Allen helped elise to get
the money by an illegal cross-lot-
process. This is a full statement of
affairs. j. WARNER.