Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-10-08
The Panic.

on the color line, and they rise at the
sound of the long roll every morning
at 8, after having stood guard by re-
liefs through the wakeful small hours.
The uneasy fellows are resorting TO all
sorts of tricks and deceptions to save
themselves from the inglogious defeat
and utter rout which they now begin
to admit is inevitable. Poor fellows,
we almost pity them. They lock up,
their offices and sally forth to their
slim meetings in the country every
afternoon with faces as long as a mile,
woe-begone as whangdoodle whose
iirst-born has just departed for the
land where the woodbine twineth.
They don't know who to trust any
more, in consequence of the wholesale
desertion society organized among
their members.
Their organ bristles with false state
ments of all sorts calculated to deceive
its readers and hold as many of them
us possible to the party until next
Tuesday. No falsehood is too vile or
contemplate for its columns. Just
upon the eve of the election, when 1t
is too late for any refutation to reach
most of its readers, it ISLANDERS every
Treasurer the people of the county
have ever elected, by saying that they
have all received far larger amounts"
for deputy hire during the first years
of their terms than that claimed and
collected by Maj. Boydston by law
suit for seventy days work in the
| Treasurer's office i'm the beginning of
this year. The falsehood Is base and
malicious as to at least two of the three
Treasurers who have held the office
within the past ten years, and in the
absence of proof for the assertion of a
professional falsifier, We may easily
aud fairly conclude that the third has
also been slandered.
Judge Brobst ma kes the charge, apd
backs it with figures from the record,
that injustice is done him also by the
same article In the Democrat, charg-
ing him with having received s., 246 80
as salary and clerk hire in the Audit
for's Office.
These false statements are made in
order to make showing of economy
In favor of the Anti-Monop. party and
/ its officials. A pretense is made that
money has been saved by eleeting Mr..
Faris as Treasurer 1t fixes his depu-
/ ty hire at $2l0 for this year; but it
should be borne in mind that this is
only for the first seventy days of the
| year, and that there is time enough
yet after election for further claims to
come in. He has a deputy employed
nearly all the time and he must be
paid. Let it also be remem bered that
Fari- and Boydston endeavored to col
lect from the county "a larger sum );
and that they made large bill Of
costs against the county by sueing for
additional pay after having promised
to do the work of the office for its pay.
The evidence cannot be refuted that
the election of a competent man as
| Treasurer would have saved large
share Of the amount paid already for
clerk hire and all the costs Of vexa-
tious and expensive lawsuit.
The amount saved in Auditors sal
airy cannot justly be credited to the
Ants. Mr.. Robinson's salary was re-
duced in spite Of vigorous protest by
him and other leaders of the party /;
and it will doubtless be raised
to the old standpoint If the
ants should succeed in electing Mr..
Neyencsch, and thus securing control
OF the Board Of Supervisors.
The claim of the opposition that
taxes have been reduced under their
administration is supremely absurd
and untrue. That the general levy
has been reduced for this year, is true,
but the antis have had nothing what
ever to do with that consummation.
The Board Of Supervisors reduced the
levy, and Mr.. Lucas, the anti mem
ber. probably gave passive consent to
that which his opposing vote could
not have prevented. Examples are
given from the tax books TO show
that numbers Of men will pay less
taxes upon this years valuation than
they did last year. For instance,
Benz. Rogers, Indiana township, Is
to have PAID ON last years
valuation $50. IA, and this year on an
increased valuation he will pay $3.50.
This is accounted for mainly by the
fact that Mr. Rogers paid heavy tax
last year for building school houses
and this year very fortunately escapes
that demand. The gentlemen men,
toned in Summit townsajp paid last
year special levy of Is mills on the
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