Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-25
LYING By DOUBLE ENTRY.

Mr.. Kno1's newspaper INDUCES in further
criticism of Auditor Davis, and as in the case
of the Republican grand jury, and also the
report goes into raptures over the county
treasurer. 1t is unnecessary to follow them
through their tedious columns of swash, but
we note one or two points as samples:
On the personal tax duplicates of 1878 there
are only the names of twelve persons who have
not paid their taxes, and the delinquent taxes
of this class only amount to $1,000. Twelve
delinquents in 1878 against over $50 in 1877,
over 700 in 1876, ever 600 in 1875, and over 800
in 1874. The result of this method is that
substantially all the hundreds of persons who
under the accommodating regime of the broad
and cheerful spirit shirked their personal taxes
year and year, now pay them promptly.
This is intended as puff for Rice and
knock down for Davis. But look at the
facts.
Every year there is good deal of drift
wood gets upon the personal property rolls.
The treasurer, previous to Mr.. Rice's admin
istration, made his returns to the Auditor of
the uncollected tax, and the County Commits
sioners examined the list, marking those
that they deemed uncollectable worthless,
and the remainder were put into judgment
by the Auditor. The 1877 delinquents Mr..
Rice never returned at all, and hence the
$50 delinquents are chargeable entirely to
his Office. The p. p. speaks of Mr.. Rice
coming into Office in 1873 for the very pur-
pose of misleading and confusing the dates.
The 1877 personal tax was collect
able in 1873, and hence came under
Mr.. Rice's administration, and he
employed a collector, without authority of
of law, to attempt to collect the 1877 tax.
The county was subjected to an extra ex-
pense of $3.50 for the collection, which was
clearly illegal, and still $50 names were left
which were never returned to the auditor by
the treasurer.
This double barreled liar and assistant
Public Examiner, proceeds to say that in the
personal tax of 1878, Mr.. Rice reduced the
delinquents to twelve. To make this twelve
the assistant liar and Public Examiner, notes
simply twelve names on the roll against
which no mark appears. There are, as q
matter of fact, besides the twelve, 1853 names
marked "W," worthless, and ga marked 81"
indicating that judgments have
been taken. In order to show
that Mr.. Rice has worked such
wonderful revolution the p. p. ignores
these Alt names from which taxes still re-
main uncollected for 1878, and falsely states
that only the twelve remain, against which
no mark appears, probably because they were
SELF evidently worthless. For the attempted
collection of the tax of 1878 Mr.. Rice again
employed man at an illegal expense of
$3.50.
The $50 names Of 1877 are clearly Mr..
Rice's, and the famous IL of 1873 should
have ALI added to their number. The pre-
vious years cited, the records show the names
to be marked "W" and a." but in those
years the = p. counts them all, while in the
1878 list all names 80 marked are placed to
Mr.. Rice's credit, as though the
tax had been collected, and the number de-
linquent is placed at IL.
These samples are sufficient to show the
spirit of the entire article. The Assistant
Public Examiner is proving to be such an
able bodied liar and 80 UNANIMOUSLY mean
that he ought to be made chief of the Sneak
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