The interior journal., 1874-10-30


month and half. Here again these
offensive articles understated the facts
Of the allowance. BY provision Of
the Constitution Of the State the
county Judge cannot enter upon the
discharge of his duties until the first
Monday in September after his elcc-
ton. Mr.. Lyile did not enter, an!
could not have entered upon the dis
charge Of such duties if he had wished
to, until that day. That day in his
case was the 7th day Of September.
Mr.. Lytlc had therefore served only
one month and one week. Mr.. Lytle
knew this fact, and yet Mr.. Lytle Drc.
TATED TO THE CLERK the order as
published above, by which he was not
only allowed at the rate of 5000 per
year, but was paid far weeks service
which he had never rendered, and
which be must have known he never
rendered. In other words he pocketed
and accepted" salary which he had
pledged himself not to take, and he
pocketed and accepted just sl2 so
of public money to which he had no
claim whatever. furthermore state
on the authority of the records Of the
court, signed by Mr. Lytle as Judge,
that thi, order Of allowance to him
was made on the IAN day Of October,
while the rate of allowance was calcu.
lated up to, and inclusive of the 18th
Of Oct. day in ad ,ance of the service,
thus illustrating an unwonted eager
ness to secure every cent, and frac.
tional part thereof, he could possibly
obtain out of the county revenue.
/ furthermore choose to state, not
deeming it irrelivent in this connec.
ton, that it has not been the custom
heretofore for county Judges, on re.
ceiving their first allowanc: at the
Court of Claims first held after their
installment in Office, TO charge for or
receive compensation until after the
1st day Of October, for the plain rea-
son that the fiscal year commences on
that day, and no county Judge hereto
fore has ever received compensation at
the first Court of Claims over which
he presided for more than one month.
But Mr.. Lytle's conduct in this mat
ter causes mixing up Of two differ
ent fiscal years, and thus tends to pro-
duce disorder in, if it does not derange,
the financial affairs of the county. In
charity, as well as in justice, however,
| am disposed to ascribe this conduct to
his ignorance rather than corruption.
These, then, were the publications
which Mr.. Lytle desired me to admit
over my signature, to be "willful and
malicious lies" The only reparation
which / can make him. in obedience to
his threat, is to republish them and
prove them. do not choose to make
any comments upon them. 1t occurs
to me that none are needed.
In conclusion | desire to say that !
seek no trouble with Mr.. Lytle, and
hope that soberer reflection may induce
him to abandon a quarrel of his own
seeking, and in which am clearly in
the right and he clearly in the wrong.
Being a Judge he surely knows enough
of law to be aware that the courts are
open to him for redress Of any wrong
l may have done him. Being Judge
he should also be gentlemen, and dis
dnin To Use the weapons or language
of a black guard. On former occa-
sion, which he cannot have forgotten,
VIII he deemed himself insulted by
some electionesring squib in my pa
per, promptly retracted in my next
and made an explanation which bord-
cred upon selfabasement. ! did so to
avoid difficulty aud allay ill-feeling.
But conceive that ! owe something
to myself as man, and in an humble
way something also to my profession
as a journalist. 1t is my right, nay, it
is frequently my duty, to publish and
comment upon the pubic acts Of pub
lie officers. | desire now to distinctly
inform Mr.. Lytle, and others whom it
may concern, that no threats Of vio-
lence shall drive me to shirk the one
or abandon the other. And if ever,
for thus exercising clear right or dis
charging a plain duty, my person is
assailcd, / trust t. be inspired with
spirit and strength sufficient to defend
myself. +. j. CAMPBELL.