The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-09-23
A BID FOR OFFICE.


Our present county Treasurer. Daniel
Forker comes out in the last numbersof
the Independent with a great flourish OF
trumpets and says he and his deupty
have released the county from all claims
for compensation for the services OF said
deputy. Well, suppose they have, what
of it? Suppose a man agrees to 90 a Ger.
tain amount of work for $1.OO per day.
| He commences and finishes the job ae-
| cording to his agreement. Is it any par
| ticular credit to liim2 Is it something SO
| out Of the ordinary ways Of dong bust
ness that he must blow it around all over,
the county and cvcn haze an obscure one
horse newspaper help circulateit as far as
its limited circulation goes? How would it
sound to have him proclaiming all round
the streets "Hear ye Hear We I agreed
to do a certain amount of work for $l.GD
per day and l have now done the work.
Amt | therefore an honorable man 2
OF course he is. AS Antony in his grafton
over the dead body of Cesar says
They are all, all honorable men" f.
because, forsooth they have done what
they agreed to.
But there is another view to take of
this matter. The law regulates he's salary
of the county officers, and also provides
for a deputy for those need one, and any
man who knows anything knows that the
salaries are very low, as low as any per
son competent to fill the office can afford
to work for. In fact, any man who is
competent to perform the duties required
of our county officers can make more
money in almost any legitimate business,
to say nothing Of being relieved of the
great responsibility resting upon him as
qp, officer. And then in the face of this
know the salary is as small as l a AFFORD
to work for; l know the statute provides
for a deputy; but l want the office, il
in fact, like the boy after the wood CHUCK
must have it, and for the sake of the dcal
people l will take the Office Cf | can ge
it, and will pay the deputy out of my OWL
pocket. There is a good deal of money
tie be handled-many thousands every
year, and while it is going through m.
hands | can let enough stick to make VI
all right, and the said dear people vii
never know the difference, I'VE think it j
pretty thin. Isn't it a little peculiar, t.
state it mildly, that the Treasurer, thu
only one who handles the money, is the onl,
one of the officers of the great party o
reforners who is willing to pay his depu'
ty out of his W pocket -? why is this |
appears to US there is "a Niger in thu
fence" somewhere, and we believe it i
the duty of the people to find out wher'
he is.
There is yet another view to take on thi
subject AS we have previously stated il
this article the statute fixes the salary 0
the Treasurer and also provides for
deputy, and if they are honest there is NJ
chance for either one of them becomin!
bloatcd capitalists to any alarming extent
&. We have in this county about 1000 voters
The pay usually given to a deputy viii
amount to from eighteen to twenty cent
!, per voter. Is there any sensible vote
who is going to change his vote for tn
. petty sum of eighteen or twenty cents be
cause he thinks that amount will be savet
to the county in the salary Of a deputy
There are men who will sell their vote 70
a glass of beer which costs five cents, bu
the Republican party is not composed Of
such trash.
1t seems to u there is something wrong
The present Treasurer has been in offic'
, two years and be longs to the party wh'
advocate the one-term principle land he i
working night and day, and Sunday, TOO
leaving no stone u%nturned, moving HEAVIER
and earth, almost, and what for Why
for the interest and good of the dear PEG
pie whom he loves SO much But pleas,
notice he has served one term at an alb
solute loss if he has been honest, and nov
he wants to serve another term, and max
up what he has lost the first one. For h
says nothing about paying his deputy Thu
ensuing two years if elected-he only say.
he has done as he agreed to do, as hi
pledged his honor he would do, the pas
two years. We opine that "the dear PEG
pie" of Tama County will on the 18th o.
next month retire Mr.. Forker to the soil
tude of his farm where he came from.