The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-10-23
NOT OUR MARES NEST.

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NOT OUR MARES NEST.
Tho Democrat walked up last week-or
some of the defaulters, with smarting backs,
walked it up-with an effort to laugh off
our extracts from the Public School Exam
iner's Report, published July Gath, 1875, in
which is given a tabular statement of school
tax in the hands of Collectors running back
to 1868. The astute apologist of The Dem
ocrat, who is ga man of infinite jest says
of the mares nest-"has put his hand in
and taken out the eggs, and here they are:
Embezzlement of public school funds, be-
cause not paid over promptly by Collectors,
| although paid in large part, as our poet
well knew and admitted" We said that
nearly $4,000 of that fund was in the
hands of Collectors at the date of the re-
port. We gave tie figures as set down in
the report for each year, in that "mare's
nest article which it required The Demo
crat about three weeks to see; and we now
give below the preliminary part of the re-
port in the language of Mr.. Squier, the Elk
aminer and Secretary to the School Board:
"It may be important to make the state
ment here. that of the amounts due on the
former levies, a considerable amount set
down as due has since that time been paid,
and that the liabilities herein stated have
been reduced about $4,000; so that the
liabilities at this present time are some
thing over $13, 000.'
Here, then, is the mares nest which The
| Democrat is trying to pooh-pooh. "Some-
thing over $4,000" The table that we
gave from the report made the deficit a
good deal over $4,000. A few months pre-
vous this deficit or default, call it what
you please, was about 1923 900, if we remem-
Der rightly, published in the minutes Of the
about it or any thing like movement made
toward paying over this money held by
county tax Collectors, till the School Board
examined the books in the County Commits
sioners' office, and brought to light the
sums due by Collectors. Finding that the
matter was likely to be dragged before the
public and the names of the delinquents
exposed, desperate effort was made and
"about $40, 900" of this withheld tax paid
over, the Secretary says. But still cover
$4,000" remains in the hands of Demo
cratic Collectors, running back to 1868.
Embezzlement of Public School funds
because not paid over promptly by Collec-
tors" How long, pray, shall public Off
Ger hold and apply the taxes to his own
use, before he can be termed an embezzler,
will The Democrat tell us? He virtually
steals every cent paid in interest by the
tax payers on that money while it is re-
tanned in his hands. Holding the public
money six or seven years is of no conse-
quence, virtually says this apologist Of rings
and public plunderers, "because not paid
over promptly, although paid in large part, -
and much larger part not paid. Why was
it not all paid? why any part withheld
Now you perceive that the School Board
our finding, and it contains the usual quota
of rotten Democratic eggs.
"True for you, Mr. Poet" says The DEM
ocrat, retreating from this nest of rotten
"for you dare not charge either misman-
agement Or irregularity in office" But we
do "charge" aud prors the charge, which
is the better way-not on the present Board
of County Commissioners, for they caused
the delinquent Collectors to pay up what
has been paid of the withheld tax, when
they became aware of the state of the case.
! But the good qualities of the present
Board, which The Democrat loses no oppor-
tunity to whitewash all their predecessors
with, did not suit the Ring managers.
| They wouldn't allow one of their names to
| be presented for denomination in the con-
vention. We are challenged by The Demo-
crat to make the charge of mismanage-
ment or irregularity in Office" and the
"charge would be refuted promptly" We
do make it here. Try your ingenuity at
refutation.
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