The Lincoln County herald., 1872-08-07


Imaginary ones may exist in tho heated
BRAN Of few Office seekers, who, by
wild and general charges, known by them
to be unfounded in truth, seek to excite
and thus deceive the ",lcdr people to
help them to an Office ut the coming
election.
AS to the second charge useless
expenditure of the peoples money. In
what does il consist2 Knox fails to tell
us. 10 point Of fact it does not exist at
ALL lie makes no effort to point 1t out
As to the charge of official corruption
In what does that consist? lie puts it in
no tangible form. lie makes no direct
charges. It is like the others, mere
hydra Of the Imagination, by him con
ceived, but not sufficiently grown to be
born. No fact can be brought to bear
upon which to build charge.
The fourth charge is but an embodiment
of the former, utterly without 'ounds.
ton, save as to tho results of tho land
sales /; and how much truth there may be
in the charge, that he, morcl By spirit
of enle, ness toioards the tup pagers, at
enormous sacrifices to himself, purchased
large lands in the county, TO prevent the
tax payers FROM great sacrifices aud from
u,terruin, will leave those who are famil
lar with the transaction to say. If there
has been one dollar Illegal tax levied by
the Court why does he not point it out =?
Why does ho not specify what it is ?
lie was for a long time an officer Of the
county; why not show the error, as a
friend Of the people? why not advise the
Court, as q friend, Of their error, and if
they persist in their error, make it
known? AS IA small tax payer, why not
protest against tho payment? In fine,
why let all these acts Of corruption,
which existed three years ago, and have
ever since been prac;iced in the county,
sleep so long and only resurrcct them on
the eve of another election?
AS to the fifth charge, can only an
swer that do not feel myself responsible
for the feeling of the people of the
county towards Mr.. Knox Whether
their feeling Is ,ouh or wihom founda-
ton, they are the judges. lie stands by
their verdict, not mine.
como now to the sixth, seventh and
eighth charges, which | will treat to.
ge,her, as they all grow out Of that
momentous mares nest charged Us the
county school fund steal' to the tune OF
several thousand dollars. he has looked
over all the records in the vain hope OF
finding some special charge that he could
put down on paper; some mis- appropria
tion of the peoples money. But, alas
he looks in vain for sin Of commi iss,on
Yet, at last, in the new Constitution, he
thinks he finds one Of omission in that
provision which says, mo clerk shall
realize moro than 50 500 year from his
Office after paying hire of all deputies
and assistants, which provision of the
constitution was put into effect March
2lst, 1868, and will be found by refer
encs to Wagner's Statutes Of Missouri
page OBI. Upon this act he seems te
predicate some tangible charges, and
suppose, from the fact that he spcci6e
imaginary sums of money, and deduct,
imaginary sums, and if his figures as i'm
agned are correct, Of course his conclu
sions are also. But the whole error arise
in the error Of the imaginary sums. |
is little amusing at this point. WheI
Mr.. Knox approaches this subject, h
becomes very jubilant over the nest he ha
found, aud boldly states, that "if l hav
, ever mado the affidavit, as ho, KnoS
claims is required by law, (but which
deny and will show, the pigeon holes c
e my Office alone can tell and if | hav
made a statement that my fees did nc
) amount to more than $4,000, after deduc,
t ing deputy hire commencing from tn
year January, 1865, to January, 1871
he is prepared to show that statomsr
false and have me prosecuted for perjur,
$ and if have never made that statemeu
| have teen discharging tho duties {
clerk in violation Of law. &C."
d Now let US look at these charges car,
fully, for am going to make some stat'
: ments that may look like Knox is M
i telling the truth, or does not know VIII,
he is talking about. Isay that neitht
10 of the propositions he afirms is tru
y They, being put in tangible FORM. ca
see what thew ara and I saw thau ore