The Red Cloud chief., 1882-02-23
MO WAS RIGHT.

4 'ultt " eNsslC'- N u IAE- .lDI.fs III
Lincoln. n reputed expert, and cum
mcnCcd an examination Of the county
records. II perhaps may be consid-
cred out Of place to say anything
about the matter at this time, and We
would not were 1t not FOX the fact that
the editor Of this paper has been per
~s!stcntiy mlSrcpresented, viliied and
he'd about by the same party and his
allies whose official actions are now
being investigated. 1t has been re-
peatedly asserted that the CHEZ
raised the cry Of fraud in county man
agencnt for political purposes and
through personal spite. Recent de-
vclopements show that these reports
were false and that the CHIEF has for
the last three years been on the right
trail. We propose. in this article, to
show to Our readers that such is the
case, and then drop the subject, per
haps until the investigation Is com
plcted.
The report Of the Exec. Clerk "a
published this week in the commission
crs proceedings shows that the sur
! plus funds were turned into the treas
ury by the clerk. This is not a fact.
After Mr.. Tulleys had retired from
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airy, the county commissioners SO Ear
investigated his accounts as 70 make
the discovery that he had not turned
over to the treasurer certain moneys
that belonged to the county, and they
made to Mr.. Tulleys a request that he
appear and pay the money over,
which he did, the l4th day Of the pres
ent month, amounting in all, for
the years 1880 and 1881, to the sum OF
}S52.I9. 1t is not our wish to contin-
ue a fight on Mr.. Tulleys, and nothing
could be farther from our intentions
at the present time, but it is due to
o~urself, after being lied about by Mr..
Tulley and some of his hackers, show
ing that We have been right all these
years and that him and some of his
supporters, though most of the latter
innOcently, have been wrong The
law requires that the county clerk
shall turn into the treasury Of the
county, AT the end Of every three
months, a! money in excess 0: lis
salary received by him in fees &c.
This the late county clerk failed to do
during the LAST two years, as recent
developemonts show, but carried the
money away with him, and the Gues
ton naturally ARISES, how ha- it been
for the last eight years? Mr.. Jones
also turned in between two and three
hundred dollars at Il recent meeting
of the county board.
Did we wish, which We certainly do
not, TO make fight on Mr.. Tullcvs. and
were We actuatcd by the same vindic-
tive and hell-born malignity that has
characterized the actions of certain OF
that clique towards us, we might 60
on and make comparisons that posi-
bly, might be odious. We might ask
the question publicly which has been
asked 10y different parties more than
fifty times recently, viz: What is the
difference between the crimes of Jos.
Gaessler and j. A. Tulleys. The one
carried money away from the bank
that did not belong to him; the other
carried money away from the court
house that, as has been proven, did not
belong to him. Did they no. both
know that the money did not
belong to them. The one is under
arrest and undergoing a criminal pros
ccutiOn, the other is free as the air we
breathe. The one has friends who
palliate and smoothe over his actions.
The other being without friends, is
made to suffer the consequences Of his
wrong doing. Such is justice in Web
ster county.
the men who have merciles-lv
bounded us for the last three wears
because We dared 10 champion the
cause Of the people and question the
right of those persons to manipulate
county matters to their own advan-
tage, have come to grief. They have
tried every way that seemed safe, land
some that were no so safe,( to shut
the mouth of the CHIEF. They have
striven hard to break up our business,
they have warked against us, they
have lied about, viliied and traduced
us. they have threatened us with per
sonal violence ani IN ONO ca a;t,;;.
ally threatened our life, and for what
Because We would not sit down am
quietly see the mass of the peopl,
pauperized for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT o
the few. But thanks 10 our friend.
who have so nobly stood by us in the
trying months and years of the pas,
our business has steadily increased il
spite of the maledictions Of u enc
mics. and We have been the humbl,
means of assisting the people of Web
ster county to throw of the incumhu.
that has weighed them down 70.
years. Verify, the right will, in tn,
end. prevail.
Vacclnated In the Tongue.