Nevada County picayune., 1886-09-01
LODGING THE ISSUE !
The Greenbackers Un- willing to Meet Their
 Own Issues Fairly.

EDITOR PICAYUNE:- The editor of the Dispatch comes to the front agail in his last issue, in another of his artful lodges. As usual, he lodges the issue and tries to de, ceiVt and mslead the people. He selects one year cf the time the C
 B'S. had control of the county at. fairs, (thc one showing the least expenditures, 1 snppose), and makes comparison of that with one year of Democratic admiuistra- ton, ana by garbling the record tries to make it appear that the Democrats used more money than the Greenbackers, 1 presume the people will readily detect this deception. 1 have tried to draw d comparison, taking the whole four years of Greenback ad- m,nistration and the two years of Democratic administration. l did not contnc myself to any particu- lar year We now see how the Dispatch proposes [" answer. The editor is greatly in fear that some thing will be said in this weeks ! ptCAYrNE detrimental to the ! GrcenbackerS and wants his read CTS not to believe it. If the Dis patch editor teally desires that the people shall know the truth, why has he not gone to the record and published exactly what Is there l disclosed! That is tue last thing he wants done. Time has been given him and he has failed to do so, not withstanding the fact that he and Mr Pittman opened the fight When they are rendered an issue, or rather when they find that the records are against them, they sneak out of the tlglt and ask the people not to believe what may be published about them, although the records may sustain every word published If what we have published is not sustained by the record, why not show 1t? It would
 certainly be more manly than to simply ask the people not to be- lieve it.
 As the editor of the Dispatch has seen fit 10 make comparison by selecting one year, l suppose l may do the same, although l have not heretofore intended to do so. Then l will take the last year of the G. B. administration covering the January, April, July and Octo' 1 Der terms of the county court ln 1884. (The editor of the Dispatch has already given the year showing the largest expenses by the Demo crats.) During the four terms of the county court above mentioned, there was allowed against the coun ty the sum of $32, ,475.lG. Of this enormous sum $l3,153.15 was for ! building the court house, leaving i &1S,72I.4l for other purposes. The record shows that the job of build l ing the court house was let at a little over @12,0OO, and yet we find that S13, 3,753.75 was allowed for the work. The people will naturally want to know why this was done
 I cannot tell them. l refer them 10 the Greenbackers. It is proper to state also, that of the above sum of allowances, Sl, 1S4 was for bridg- es, leaving the sum of &l6,9414l 1 allowed as current expenses of the county, apart from the court house and the bridges. And of this last sum there was allowed to the clerk, on sundry accounts, the sum of ! S3.SGS.59. Now, as Mir. Pittman seems to have been the attorney general y and perhaps manipulated matters generally, and as he is said to have had a half interest in what ever was allowed to the clerk, 1t may be that he can explain what 1 particular services were rendered ! by the clerk in that time, the fees for which the county had to pay, and that would' amount to that sum. It may be correct and prop ! CT. l do not say that il is not, but it is a large sum, anda as inquiry and investigation seems to be the order of the day, Mir. Pittman, inasmuch as he opened the matter, ought to rise and explain.
 In this, as in former commuuica- tions, l have beer guided in what l have said by what the records disclose, Not at all times pretend ing to give the exact figures, but approximating. have tried to meet the issue in a fair way. The GreenbackerS, after having invited the discussion, have lodged the iS- sue, and instead of coming out