Mohave County miner., 1884-05-11
Krider Replies to Hardy's Accu-
 satiO1S.
MINERAL PARK, May 9th, 1884.


 EDITOR MoHAvE COUNTY MNER-Sir:-If the chairman of the Board of Supervisors. W. H. Hardy, has not so far disguste1 you with his long and stupid correspondence that you will no longer allow your columns to be filled up in this manner, I, as one of the assailed parties, would request a little of your valuable spacs to show up a few facts concerning myself and Hardy the Great. I had expected that the old man would leave me out of his political quarrels, but. alas, he has broken out again Ill new place. MT. Hardy was one of the first to ask me to run for the office of Treasurer at the last election, and in a private way in- sisted more than any one else that l should be 8 candidate for the office, notwithstand- ing that he was then a good Republican and was equally as good a Democrat. The reason was, I suppose. that he wanted to gratify personal spite against Dr. Bur d1ck the Republican candidate.
 As chairman of the Board of Supervisors, it IS part of his duty to see that all county officials perform their duties, and where they do not to enter a complaint and by legal proceedings through the proper courts to compel them to do so, Has he attemrt- ed to do anything Of the l{lndP Ao' Most emphaticaIly not On the contrary he has done his utmost through vile islanders in serted in the public press over his signature, to injurs ne in every way possible, and solely because he cannot use me, as a coun- tv official to further his own financial schemes. If he has any charges to make against me lot h1m come out like man and make them before the proper authorities. But no, that is not his style, he is too big a coward, and as he is too old to be whipped, must take the only recourse open to nae and present my case to the public through your columns and possibly subject the ''in- nocent editor to a libel suit.
 He savs, "Supposing do deal in county warrants TAere is no suppOsition about it, he d Jes do 1t and makes a'business of 1t. He says again, ''The only county official who is prohibited from dealing in county warrants is the Treasurer, notwithstanding this fact. the deputy Treasurer was allowed
  sinee." My deputy, and the only one 1 h 4ye ever had. is in San L1is ObIspo, Cal, and has beea there for several months past. When a sinking fund was bid for, the dep uty Treasurer had in a large lot Of warrants at par" The truth is, the deputy never had any warrants and did not even put in a bid. And the Treasurer contrary to the ooinion of the District Attorney rejected a lot of warrants that would have taken tho fund at 95 cents" This is deliber tte lie and need only refer to the District At torney's opinion to refute it, and to state that on the back of it are these words:
 ''The chairman of the Board advises to disregard the opinion of the District At torney.''
 Signed ''WM. H. HARDY.'
 In other words Hardy advised me to dis regard the opinion of the legal adviser of the county and prostitute my own office be- cause it suited him to do so. And that Is the kind of man who now (ilieeaiiy} holds the office of chairman of the Board of Su- psrvisors of Mohaye county. This opinion cost the county nothing and if it had it would have been money well expended. Again he sayss Had rhis bid been accepted the county would have saved nearly S10O." But he does not say how much MT. Hardy lost by the throwing out of the bids, though that nrObably is what troubles him much more than the interests of the county he aas sworn to protect. How is it the chair man and one other Supervisor voted $500 of the county money for an opinion on the railroad tax cases and after proceeding ac- cording to that opinion and getting the railroad company pinned down so that there vas no escape for them but to pay up i'll a few days at the most, to entirely ignore 1t
 md on to work and make an ignominious ,ompronise wi;tth the railroad company and turning the whole business into farce. Was that $500 raid for legal advice lo5sss ! Now, say to you, Mr. Hardy, that your statement in the Mo4AvE COUNTY MINER of May 4th in regard to the Trea 5Urer and postmaster is a deliberate and malicious falsehood from beginning to end. 1 do not hold the offices of Treasurer and postmas- ter or either against the provisions of any law in the land. Your accusation is made without any grounds, with low, dastardly