Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12


Congress of the United States, during
the last session Of the came.
WHEREAS, The Auditor after re-
ceiving the said sum placed the same
as per request of Hon. M. M. Wal
den, ito the credit of the temporary
School Fund of said county, there
fore,
Resolued, BY the Board of Super
visors of Marion county, Iowa, That.
the auditor be authorized to issue a
warrant in the name of M. M. Wal
den, on the temporary School Fund
of said county, cash the same, and
send by check or otherwise, to the
order of NJ. M. Walden, with the
request that he forward receipt for
the same, and that entries on the
books of the offices effected he made
to correspond with this order or res
olutiOn.
The above preamble and resolu-
ton were adopted by the Board Of
Supervisors of Marion county last
Saturday, Messrs. Blain, (Chairman)
and McCully, both Democrats, vo-
ting in favor, and Mr.. Sherwood,
Republican, against the measure.
The people of the county have
already been given full opportunity
for acquiring full understanding of
this matter of back pay up to the
time Of this action of the Board, and
it is perhaps unnecessary to even re-
peat briefly that the money legally
belonged to Mr.. Walden. BY him
it was legally donated to the Tempo.
rary School Fund of this county; the
Auditor applied it in a legal manner
to the fund to which it was donated,
and receipted to Mr.. Walden for It..
Legally and logically that money be-
longed then to the School Fund, and
the School Fund belonged to thepeo-
pie of the county. Legally the mo-
ney was collected from the people,
and legally it has been returned to
them. If Congress stole it from the
United States treasury, as our DEM
ocratic county officials pretend, then
our county Congress has stolen it
from the county treasury.
The charge made against Mr..
Walden is that to serve his political
ends he made this donation Of the
peoples money to the people. But
now what more or less have .odr
county officials done than to donate
the peoples money to al individual
and that for the double political de-
sign of injuring Mr.. Walden and
manufacturing for themselves and
their party q reputation for extreme
honesty?
We cannot avoid the belief that all
this quibbliDg and squirlning upon
the part Of these men is merely con.
temptible political trickery of the
most hypocritical kind; and that one
of its objects is to smother the just
complaints of their constituents that
their trusts have been betrayed and
their money squandered by these
same men. They want some Of their
acts covered up; the people are 10th
to forget some Of the waste these men
have to answer for, and some coun-
ter cry must be raised about some
wrong away from home, to drown
the deep Inuttering they hear about
their own misdoings. In the mat.
ter of dollars and cents, the people
are more deeply concerned in the do
ings of their County Board of Super
visors, than in the doings of Congress.
We are more vitality interested in
the matter of salaries at home than
those abroad. The "rent" we pay to
our County Treasurer for the use Of
our farms, our houses, our imple--
ments of industry, and even our
heads, is levied by this same Board
of Supervisors. They have it in their
power to say, as they did last winter,
lndl ~ OuI SCA NNAtS 4Ads 1--we SAAAsAAD
81 ,SOOa year won't buy his bread and
butter, or won't pay him for his SER
vices to the county, we will raise the
price of performing the duties Of Au-
ditor to $1,000 per year and the peo.
pie must pay it.
Writing to Mr.. Walden, he said he
was acting officially! Wonder what
proportion of the $1,000 Of his salary
went to pay for his official labor In
preparing that dish for the comfort
of the Democratic portion Of his con-
stituency?
The matter Of 5000 salary raise
has now been outdone by free gift
to one of those "rich Congressman"
from the School Fund. Is there any
law upon our statute books giving to
the Board Of Supervisors the right to
give away this fund?
The Democrat, in announcing the