The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-12-28

ignora1ce Of the i1biectupon Which
be is ieeten> ing 20 enlghtp tn
people and ainPl merits thu con
IfHs hid takankhe trouble 70 in
quire at the Office Of the Auditor, he
would find that the May and No
velnber 1listribusona of the Com
mon School Fund and the assess
.ment fox tition for as7S il sl7,>|
27243, and the May. and November.
distributions for same year of the
Special Fund is &51sO3s, making
a grand total Of 81, 452.sl for the
year. Do you call that $50, 900. Il
In reference to the charge of pur-
chasing . piano at alcost of five or
SIX hundred dollars, would answer
that it is falsehood No. 2, as by
reference to order No. 434, filed in
the AUDITORS Office, it will be seen
the price paid is $3.50 That We
have not got a secondhand piano,at
cost Of five or csix hundred dol
lars il because The majority Of the
Board refused 70 putchass one; at
the time, under the control of the
discordant member; and in order
that he might thereby secure q bad
debt the purchase of which was
pressed upon the Board by him,and
the circumstances of which ham
packer on Main Street can probably
give, II necessary,
As to the authority of the Board
to purchase q piano at all, we would
refer the gentleman to Section 10 Of
the School Law, and the construc-
ton pnt thereon by the Superin-
tendent Of Public instruction, para
graph No. 8, under the caption Of
Educational Appliances"
In answer to the assertion thst
1--WE are two Democratic would say,
that we were not elected as Demo
J Gratis, nor by DEMOCRATS, but as
School Trustees by Democrats and
Republicans without any solicitation
on our part, and against our wishes.
As to denying the only Repubi-
can access to the books, will an
swer the assertion by asking the
question, whether a member of any
Board or organization can place his
signature to it's record without hav-
ing access to the bookss I will take
the record as authority for the state
ment, that every act of the Board
from the time the Republican re-
ferred to came into it, up to the
time that he withdrew-is signed
by him. :.
That he did have access to, and
examined the books, in q very i'm
pertinent manner; that after the ex-
animation there were marks and
figures on them that were not there
before. And if the gentleman wish,
en- to know the. sentiments of the
other members of the Board in
! reference to this, and other mat
ters, he can find them fully expressed
on pages lat and 148 of the Trus-
tees record F M
The question is also raised in an
article that appears in another pa
per published in this t4ty. That
there is want Of harmony in the
School Board. But by using the
past-tense verb, was, he.oould have
stated fact and then again, he
could use the same verb and his
statement would be incorrect.
Now I will just tell what II know
about the matter. Up to the time
of the election of the School Trus-
tees in April, 1871, the most per-
feet harmony prevailed There was
not q ripple upon. the placid waters
to impede the smooth sailing OF
the Board mean the Board Of
I three members-but change came
! over the inharmonious member.
thus: In the organization of the
Board at that time, the discordant
member failed-upon his own mo-
ton and for the want Of . second
| to become Treasurer, and here be.
! gan the trouble. He smelled in
terest that he thought the Treas
urer WAS making out of the Schoo
Funds, but of course he would b.
too magnanimous to make a CEN
himself if he was Treasurer, and
would just receive the funds and
| pay them out upon the order Of tn
I Board! For the pleasure of safe
~ keeping, and handling the funds
wonld execr1ta n hond for goo ono