American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-18
NOyes' Little Grab.

Noyes, tho Republican Governor of
Ohio, and the candidate for reelection on
| the Republican ticket, has recently been
made defendant to a lawsuit in which he
| does not appear to the best advantage be
| fore the honest voters of that State. The
suit is brought by the County Solicitor of
Hamilton County, acting under instruc-
tons from the Board of County Commits
si"ncTs, who are the plaintiffs, and the
object of the suit j. To recover certain
| sums of money, amounting in all to $13,-
526, which, as the plaintiffs allegc, Cover
nor Noyes fraudulently procured from the
county treasury. The petition of the
| plaintiffs contains four counts, alleging
| that on four different occasions, between
November 1868, and February, 1870, Gov
| ernor Moves, while Probate Judge of
Hamilton County, falsely and fraudulent
ly represented to the County Auditor that
! the sums specified in the petition were
| due to him for services which he never
| performed, or for which; he was entitled
| 20 no pay. The representations were made
| under color of the office which Moves
held, and the Auditor accordingly issued
warrants for the sums demanded. The
| point on which the case will turn is not
whether Moves received the money-for
of that there is no Question-but whether
he was entitled to it. The County Com
missioners are presumably familiar with
| the laws regulating the enumeration of
county officers, and it is hardly to be sup
posed that they would bring charges of
this grave character against Il man of
Governor Noyes' official position without
first assuring themselves that the charges
are well founded. Noyes, as Probate
Judge, must also have known very well
what money he was entitled to receive
from the county treasury; and as the mis-
take which he has made in failing proper
ly to distinguish between mem and tuuna
cannot be excused on the ground of igno-
rance, it must logically be imputed to
fraud. Ii fraud it was, the only excuse
that Noyes can plead in, his own defence
is that in appropriating the public money
of the county TO his private advantage he
has merely followed the well-establshed
usages of the party to which he belongs.
And as grabs and steals of every sort are
not only universally practiced but
universally approved and defended by
the leaders of that party, he hes
little cause TO fear the tlisapprovai of his
political friends in Ohio. The fact tina.
Grant appears on the recOrt, as the chief
of salary -grabbers by reason Oft the support
and encouragement which he lent to the
salary steal even before il had passed either
House of Congress, makes it necessary far
prominent Republicans to deal indulgent-
ly with officials who betray the trusts
confided to them by the people. Moves
may therefore expect to escape with the
same doubtful condemnation from Ohio
Republicans which the New York Re
publicans the other day bestowed upon
their salary grabbing Congressman. But
it is unfortunate for Senator Morton that
the assurances which he recently gave to
the people of Ohio concerning the sound
ness of our finances and the probity of
of Republican officials should be so rude
ly dispelled-erst by the panic and now
by the dishonesty of the candidate in
whose behalf those assurances were given.
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