Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-27
THINGS THE GRAND juicy FILLED
TO REPORT.

THINGS THE GRAND juicy FILLED
TO REPORT.
Mr., Driscoll employs the columns of his
Minneapolis newspaper to defend the grand
jury for their recent partisan report. His
defense consists chiefly in emitting to men
ton the matter which the partisan grand
jury omitted. The GLOBE explained Mr..
Driscoll's personal grievance with Auditor
Davis on Sunday. Besides this, he is seek
ing capital for his party, and hencs he
sought the Craftsmanship of the committee to
examine the county offices.
Mr.. DriscolPs Office holding amanuensis
devotes over column yesterday to abuse of
Auditor Davis because he delayed the pay
ment of his taxes That is the sole topic
treated upon. The grand jury committee
seems to have been interested in Mr.. Davis
taxes as matter of personal and political
spite. Admitting that Mr. Davis ought to
have paid his taxes Everybody ought toy his
offense consists in allowing penalty to &C
crue against him, and both tax and penalty
he has adjusted as hundreds of others have
done who have found it inconvenient to pay
when taxes became Cue. IT il ofton
the case that delinquent taxes
prove advantageous to the non-taxpayer, as
for instance, few years ago when ex-Gov.
Ramsey allowed his taxes to become delin
quent for number of years and then COM
promised by paying fifty cents on tho dollar,
without penalty, and thereby made several
thousand dollars. He was not censured by
a grand jury or by our Minneapolis cotem-
porary, while Mr.. Davis, who has neither
asked or received any leniency, is made the
target for abuse.
This is the more notable from the fact that
81. M. Rice, county treasurer, was the outside
member of the grand jury who furnished Mr..
Driscoll on the inside with ammunition. The
GLOBE has already shown that Mr.. Rice al
lowed his property to be sold for taxes in
1876, and then had the sale set aside on q
technicality. Besides this Mr.. Rice has not
paid his taxes for three years past. We do
not state this as a crime on the part of Mr..
Rice, or as defense for Mr.. Davis, or any
other one who allows his taxes to run
but simply to show the omissions of the
outside and inside members of the grand
jury, and prove their personal maignancy
and partisan policy. Mr.. Davis is certainly
in more enviable position than his accuser,
Mr.. Rice, in that he has paid his taxes, with
the penalty, while Mr.. Rice still withholds
even the face of the tax. Why should the
grand jury have so much interest in one Off
cial's taxes and utterly ignore another?
Neither the grand jury or the Minneapolis
newspaper which defends their report has a
word to say about the Republican county
clerk asking for time to produce the money
deposited with him. The grand jury did
not report what it kneU, that the certified
check produced represented $4,000 more
than the clerk had on deposit and that the
next day he had $4,000 less to his
credit on the bank books than
was called for by his own books. 1t IS be-
cause Mr.. Kiefer is a Republican that the
jury and its newspaper apologist ignore these
facts.
If there is to be music in the air let as
have the benefit of full band.