Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-09
A GUILTY OFFICIAL.
The Charges Against Commissioner Krch
Fully PrOven.-Prostituting His Office
for Private Gain and Selling Rotten
Butter to the HosDital,

Fully Notwithstanding His Office
for Private Gain and Selling Rotten
Butter to the Hospital.
No rogue ere felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law.
County Commissioner Krch has rushed
into print with statement" His estate
ment" is merely an open confession of his
guilt as charged by the GLOBE. He ad-
mits having violated mis- oath of Office "but
didn't sknow it was wrong" There
are apparently several other things
he don't know. AS what might
be called ''side ISSUE"
he alleges that the GLOBE is inspired to
criticise him because he saved the county
a great deal of money by taking the county
printing away. The great "reformsr'
vaunts himself too much. At the election
last fall the county board was made to
stand five Republicans to two Democrats.
The Republican majority mot Mr.. Krch)
saw fit to favor an organ of their party,
just as the GLOBE expected they would, and
it has no grievance with any of them for
their action. AS to the amount saved to
the county the records will demonstrate.
The official proceedings of the county
board of March 9Th contains the following
report:
ST. PAUL, March 5, 1883.
To THE HONORABLE BOARD OF COUNTY CON-
NuSSIoNERS.-Y Your committee On printing rec
Ommend that the official publications of this
county be let to the st. Paul Dispatch, provided
1t will do the same at rate no higher than nor
paid by the county.
Signed F. A, KRCH,
W. l.. AArEs,
Com. on Printing.
Following the report comes this reso-
luton.
ReSoIUed, That the st. Paul Daily Dispach
be, and the same is hereby designated as the
official paper of the county of Ramsey during
the ensuing year and until its successor is
elected and qualified for the publication of all
official proceedings, of fiscal statements, aud
official advertisements required by law or by
| this board, provided that the publishers of said
paper shall within thirty days from this date
enter into a contract, secured by bonds, with
the Board of County Commissioners to publish
all such advertisements, statements and pro-
ceedings at q rate not exceeding that moU paid
for such services.
This resolution was adopted by the vote
of Commissioners Ames, Krch, Pottgeiser,
Schurmeir, and Wiley. The columns of
the GLOBE bear witness that the GLOBE has
not had, and has not now any grievance on
this point The gentlemen who voted for
the resolution are not assailed by the
GLOBE, and so far as this paper is in
foremd all of them have honorably dis
charged their official duties save this man
Krch. The GLOBE exposes him because
1t is public duty to expose man who is
violating his oath of Office and using his
official position to put money in his pocket.
His claim that he has saved money to the
county is sufficiently answered by his own
report and the resolution quoted above,
which fixes the price paid the Dispatch at
the same figure as that paid the GLOBE and
makes the new contract absolutely condi-
tionaL upon its being accepted at GLOBE
rates.
INTERVIEW WITH CAPT. HECK.
The statement" of the great reformer
er contains this item:
Mr.. Wagner and myself were on the commit
tee of our board to audit their accounts last
year. Capt. Heck complained to us that Mr..
Grace, Mr.. Freeman, the secretary and the su-
perintendent of the poor farm run things to suit
| themselves and browbeat and insulted him when
| ever he interfered. We discovered and pointed
out much looseness and discrepancies in their
accounts. The checks did not tally with the bill:
| the accounts did not foot up right and five out
| of eleven reports did not have Mr.. Grace's sig
| nature.
A representative of the GLOBE called at
Capt. Heck's place of business on Seventh
street yesterday to interview him. Upon
calling his attention to the above he said sit
is absolutely false that accused Grace and
Freeman of brewbeating and insulting me.
They never did anything insulting to me
and our relations are now and always have
been very friendly"
To intelligently understand the situa
ton it should be borne in mind that the
board of control is composed of three
persons, viz: Heck, Grace and Freeman,
''Has Mr.. Krch any ground for saying
that there is any quarrel in your board?"
'ENone at all. When Mr.. Krch wanted
the keeper of the poor farm removed 1
told him that the majority ruled and that
the majority favored no change. That is
all he had to hang his charge on of disa-
greement among u.s.
did not Mr.. Krch threaten you?"
Certainly he did. At the meeting of
the county board in January they removed
Freeman and appointed Boyd on the board
of control. A few days after I was up at
the hospital and on the way back I stopped
at Krch's store. He said, now we have got
Boyd in we want to change the keeper of
the poor farm ; we want another clerk of
the board of control in place of Mr.. Welsh
and we want a new county physician.
He even went so far as to mention Dan
lei Getty, I. P. Wright and James O'Brien
as candidates for the clerkship, but 1 had
not before heard of any proposed change
l especially demurred to the proposed
change of county physician. You have
got to do it. said Mr.. Krch. The talk con-
tinued for some time and Krch told me
my head would come off too if I did not 90
in for this programme of removals.
''Who did he propose to make the physi-
cian?"
He did not tell me, bnt heard from
others that it was DR.. Quinn, nephew of
one of the commissioners, 1 believe, that
he had in view"
How about Krch selling goods to the
0ount?"
He had infested on having orders for
groceries and we had given them to him.
When Boyd came in Mr.. Grace gave notice
that he should protest against any more