The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-09-28

J..
Esq, Clerk of the Board OF County Com
miSsioncrs.
ISiSned j. r. FAINT.
did not caro- 10 bring The names Of tho
gentlemen before the public, but they
havo done il themselves, and ! leave it
for the public io Judge whether had suf
| iicicnt evidence to Justify me in believing
tina, Mr.. Brcazcac had put the paper in
circulation, but | did not montiun his
name, nor would any person ignorant nf
the facts suspected hc had done such
thing.
1t has been srcn, however, that Mr..
FAINT had the paper which was drawn OF
from the Auditors books by Mr. l'r"a.
Zcalc for ''his own iutprmatiun.' ] pre-
sumc il will not hr dcuic! that Mr.. FAINT
had this paper in lis possession on the pro
viOus Saturday. Mr. Fan; in his c"riiii
cate says: "hut positively deny that ]
said waS satisfied t!ia, | had been mis-
led, nor WAS satisfied that the Poor
House EXPENSES for that year WAS only
slG3l9i, rc. lfths denial WAS r"spon-
5iIr tD any charge ma Dy me, and my
charge was erroneous would correct 1t,
bat used this language in my former
card "Thr party holding the paper *
pressed himself AZ satisfied that Ia" mat
ter had been misr"prcscnt"d Ia him, tha,
he would return the paper and "hrrci, ~
far Il" Was IN TAI, power, III" Niat"inrut.'
! can show hy the certificates which
hold, of outside parties, that did not
miSrrpr"Scnt Mr.. fant nnd What ~aiI
WAS substantially correct, and vas their
understanding "i the matter at III" time.
do not care to bring the names of any
moro parties into this controversy, and
will not, us Nj. Fant iins not denied what
! said, but denied something which did
not say. ana consequently there Is no
question OF missta;clmcnt III issue. Mr..
iirrtz"ni" drew up Mr. rant ccItli"at",
/ think
a. 4 4. NJ a
| ton Of fHisrcprrScn,iiG any one in this
mnitcr, ana have 10 i'icR he SUI p"ctcd
any part Of til" responsibility was being
put on him. Mr.. l'rrazrair, vino an
nour""s himself ~ thc custodian Of the
| records Of the County Commissioners Of
| flee, and lIc is an efficient on" so far "A
am able to judge, from the records of
which he assumed to give us u correct
| statement in last weeks .IDuTnGi, with cx-
! planntiOns 50 satisfactory, showing the
actual expenditures of tho Board for the
| Poor House for the fiscal year, 1879.
When called upon hy Mr.. Fant to know
If ii were true that the old Board run the
Poor House pn 81 ,G5l9i, replied in the
! negative, and invited Alr. FAINT 10 the
Auditors office To show him tho figures
| Not content with n NOR" showing of the
! figures, ~ Mr. FAINT tells us drew oil u
| statement from the books for his own in
| formation, but nj the same time tried to
| explain that there were some claims not
properly Poor House claims, included i'll
| il.
Now, might ask some questions, for
/ instance why should Mr. l,rruZnalc have
gone To III" Auditors hn"ks .n ;;n. .!:c
exact amount of the expenditures. when
! he WAS tho custodian q! the records OF the
County Commissioners office, where cr-
cry account passed on by the Board
should br on file? What sort of iniorma-
tion did he want from this statement, diff
furcnt from the record in his own otlicop 2
| Was il merely to scc rs II matter of "in-
formation" that tho Auditor had imprOp-
crly included some vouchers in the
| Trcasurcr'S settlement not property bo-
longing to the Poor House account
From Mr.. FantS certificate he seems to
have known at sight some uf them were
improper. Then what more Information
did he want? When ho knew he had in
rludcd i'cms To the amount OF $2.7i6 ~,
on tho statement which Mr.. Fant had
and had been showing to some of his
friends, why did he not explain which
accounts were proper and which not
proper, so that til" paper would show on
its iacu its incorrcrtncSs?
| Instead of going to the Auditors Office,
why did he not get up an accurate state
ment, with explanations. lilio the one
furnished us in the journal of last week
showing the amount to be S2,34;,3i, i'll
stead Of 22,736.9I? lnnSmuch aa Mr..
l}rcazcalc has got MI tho information no
is likely to need on the subject ut 40
much trouble, | will not ask him To 20 to
tho expense of answering the above tlueS-
tioIls, and no can uSt consider himself as
not called upon To answer them.
| Mr.. BrcnZcalo complains that should
havc drawn Il contrast between tho pres
ent and r,,st Beard. | am willing to np-
pear before the bar Of public opinion ON
this too. found tho contrast drawn al
ready, by Mr.. I,rcuzculc. He had invited
an inspection of tho records. fHi honr ,
If moved solely by disintcrcstcti motives,
why did he not take up his pen i'll do
fcnsc nf every candidate, aS;tint whom
some inri of chnrgea have !aaiG :ia,ir. :is
uiiino. He confines his prowcSs rs II
pen driver to rciutng the charges against
.he present Board, and invites an inspec-
ton of the records. For what purpose :?
To soc tho 'unprece'lently small expcnd-
tures for tho past ten months" How
wns it to be asccrlained to bn "unprcco-
iently small?" Manifcstly by conipar-
ing 1t with tho expenditures of former
Boards for ten mouths. made no state
ment showing what tho present Board did
in the way ofcxpenditures, drew no con
tras! outside of what had been drawn nj
ready, and MIR. Brcnzeale has given us IN
abstract OF what tho former BOARD cN
pended for tho Poor House in tho fiscal
year 1870, as taken from the records i'll the
office. Very good, will stand by them,
ns know they AFRO correct, and SAY moth
ing about what was expended tho next
year. "l5e suro you arc right, then go
ahead" is his motto. lie states the pub
lished report and thon adds: "Clnims
mt included in annual report, June Sth
| iSS0-Puid Moss Il Brown by check,
bearing date Same day, for one huntlI cd
bushels corn, S15; Juno, 10th and 18th,
1855, paid Moss L Brown. for live nun
dred and forty pounds of bacon, $40 10,
ono sack of flour, $l.O0, making. S4l.lO.
Check bcaring date. June Sth, 1885,
Now, Mr.. Editor. Mr.. Brcazcale has
beon in tho clerkship long enough To
! know that every check issued by tho
Board goes TO the County Treasurer for
payment, and when he settles with tho
Auditor, he files these checks "a his
! Vouchers. have eXnminnl every
voucher issue1 by me that year, one by
one, md am prepared to say that no such
checks have ever bcen presented for pay
mcDt at the County TreaSurer's office.
Let us SEQ about the other items which he
says ought to have been included In fiscal
Watson & Son, S99.65. Tho fiscal year
1870, by law closed, October 3lst, 1850
when tho Board catered upon the fiscal
year, 1850.
Tho original vouchers, for these claims
state they were contracted for fiscal yeul
1880. Mr.. Brcnzoale in his annual report
November 25th, 1891, reports both o
these claims as having been audited and
allowed by the Board Of County Com
missioners for the fiscal year 1850, and
Certitics TO this correctness OF the report
Mr.. Ligon WAS clerk at the timo the ac.
counts were audited AMI approved. and
| Mr.. I.reaZeale also certitios to Mr.. Ligor
THAT he tMr. b. had examined the