The Columbus journal., 1885-10-07

JOURNAL.
Township Organization.
Ny friend Truman spilled . little
water. in. his. effort. to prove that he
did not pay one-hslf more tax In "a
under organization than he did the
year previous, by trying to compare
it to some other years. II he got of
with light tax in "a, then it looks ss
if be had tampered with the assessor,
for he is the fret man that has made
the assertion. I should like to hear
from others In Monroe on this point,
but believe We can run. . good ma
chine with less oil, although We have
. rough township. But to undertake
to run . snide machine on Z gills of
oil, "outside limit" it ''csn't be did"
And this beautiful amendment or
improvement, illustrates, we'll how it
pans out tosundertske to remodel one
of these bogus machines, while in use.
The thing wantsto be thrown into
the fence corner and q new machine
built that will do. the. work.
My friend thinks;.my machine il
lustration not very good, but puts the
question to me ss q business man
whether I would buy q new and ex-
pensive machine, without An under
standing withs.the manufacturer or
his agent, that if it did not accom-
plish what it professed to do, it
might be returned. l answer no, and
We propose to return it. It was said
by those who read the contract that
there was q provision for it's return
and 90 understood, but it seems there
was not, 90 the manufacturer added
that proviso to it last winter when
they made that beautiful Z mill i'm
provement along with some others
just as good, that would like to
notice, but I do not want to crowd
the argument. II the illustration is
not good, don't use it. We bought
the machine to work in any condition
of ground, sticks and dir: in and
under the wheels should make no
difference with it's work.
In reference to the cast-of bridge
that Monroe got when 1 was COM
missioner will say that l have raised
. large family and was poor as "all
large families are," and had q pair of
pants too email or had hole in the
unmentionable and was fair material
otherwise; l had the wife to remodel
them to fit some of the smaller ones
if too short, splice them, whether
colors corresponded or not; they
were whole, warm aud good. So the
bridge.
The resolution Of the Sherman
board that was 90 quietly snubbed by
the supervisors spoken of, related to
the pay Of assessors. A protest
against the payment of assessors by
the town, as there was no law re-
quiring the town to pay it, but . plain
law requiring the county to pay it,
and as they finally had to do this last
year. The law was never changed,
and the money paid to assessors the
previous year should be refun ded to
the respective towns. That was the
substance of the resolution, and it
was expected the supervisors would
back it and protect their constituents,
but they did not, and no one in the
county showed any disposition to
claim their rights, not even my friend.
Finally, my friend says that one of
the most remarkable features Of this
crusade against town orgsnizs ton is
the number of ex-comMissioners en-.
gagged in the movement, and says
perhaps he may be able to shed
little light in the future, but in the
meantime advises the supervisors to
scan closely the signatures or char
acter of the petition, &c. Now, l
wish to inform my friend that the
supervisors haze nothing to do with
it, and that he has several times
thrown out insinuations about the
honesty of ex-commissioners; if he
desires to attack the official record or
honor of ex-commissioners, l will say
for my individual self that am able,
ready and ,cilling to defend my own.
There arc numerous reasons why
the ex-commissiouers should be ar
rsyed against town organization
under OR laws; among these is the
fact that they can see the outrageous
defects and enormous expense our
county is put to. Some eight or nine
years ago we had unpaid warrants to
the amount of $1,000, or 000O, now
it is about $4,000, and the indica.
tions are good to increase it much
more, and can assure my friend that
tho men who are put into power to
run the finances of the county have
no picnic If they do their duty.
l remember that during the late
war, on some occasions, the rebels
would make q charge on our lines
with furious aud unearthly Yells at