Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-02-19
OUR LITTLE TWEED /!
THOSE ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS
selah.

EDITOR ARGus-Dedr Sir In q recent
issue of your paper, you charge Major
Beardsley, our county Clerk, with having IN
his possession something over eleven hundred
dollars Of unexpsnded money appropriated |
BY the county to defray the expenses Of q
Soldiers' union, and call upon him TO
disgorge and place the money in the treasury
where il belongs.
The Union Of the next morning THE paid
"0rgsn" OF Jeems, and in which he has
financial as well Is political interest," came
out 10 flaming article, branding it as 81
"willfOl, deliberate, and ins1cusable false
hood" and said that "man possessed OF
less good nature than the Major. would sue
the wanson trsducer for libel"
10 this the Union quite overdid itself in
its zeal to keep its master out of position
that caused him much squirting and made
him feel as uneasy and restless as fab out
of water. The game is evidently wounded,
judging from the wsv it hutters. The Major,
seeing what an unpleasant position his
Organ" had placed him in, and knowing
that the facts could not be covered up.
FASTENED to the Sanetau of the ARGUS,
doubtless in his sang .froid and syeophanlic
way, and admitted that he had held tie
money from June until the termination OF
the yesr-lhus admitting the charges Of the
ARGUS TO be substantially true. All Jee ma,
you innocent little lamb, you deserve to be
voted a leather medal. Bot how is it with
your servant, the Union You will perhaps
exclAim -"Gone where the woodbine
twineth."
In that same Conversation in your sane
tum, you say the Major claimed that he was
privileged TO hold the money until Septem-
Der, when the Board Of Supervisors ordered
him to pay it into the treasury. Exactly;
he kept it. not BY any right, but because the
Supervisors had not ordered him to pay it
over 10 the treasury. With the same reason
ing, be would have been privileged to have
kept il for ell time, if he had not been per
en- sorily ordered to pay it over. Jeems that
want do Now another reason be assigns,
and il is as equally untenable as the other,
was that the county was owing him.
Does he, because he is County
Clerk, and the Grand Mogul of the Cour.
House Clique, constitute himself the pre-
ferred creditor Of the County, and thus re-
, fuse to pay over the money in his hands
drawn out Of the pockets of the people by
excessive Iaxation2 What better is bis
claim against the county, trumped up by
= exhor biIsnt tees, than the claims OF other
creditors? Everybody will say, none at
all. On the same grounds he might have
continued to have kept it IS long as he re-
manned County Clerk, for he will manage to
= have bills against the county at all times.
e There are people in this community who
believe he had not paid that money over to
Reid, at the time the ARGUS charged him
with having tin fact, think myself it is
I "little mixed If be did pay the money
I over on the first of January, why don't be
avail himself of the ARGUS offer to publis b
his stsment over his own signature, and lei
Q il be accompanied by the endorsement o.
c d. o. Ried as to time Jeems, can't you dc
= 1t? There are people in this county, and
q their names are legion, that think thi:
, county can actually be run without either
Jeems or his fsther-in-lAw. It's true, his
}, father.in,lsw and himself have been run,
ming the County Clerks Office for the las
: two decades, and if they both should die
we should have to send right of to Tweed
d and Connolly for competent person to 81
2 Jeems' place, for there is no person here
d competent to do it. Jeems, it is becoming
b 9 conceded fact all over the county, among
! your own political friends, that you are pc
litica'ly played, aud that you vii! soon be 4
d dead duck" |, is said, however, that you
name is on the slate for Congress il Thu
. district. Bah, Jeems, you are too small il
the cslibre. You will never reach the tar
u get you are aiming at Let me advise 70,
to hunt up some legitimate business, am
d engage in it, and by persevering you ma!
E, make man Of yourself But if you hav,
not money enough to run that Chicago
, Broom Factory, don't use the people
y money TO do it.
I ANrI-EXHoRRIrANT TAXATION.