Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-10-25

July 2lst, 1879, 5000 Napoleon river
bridge bonds, issued by Reiter, Yarnell,
Hornung, 2 Blaine republicans, / dem
ocrat. al
Total $4,000 Napoleon river bridge
bonds bearing 9 per cent. interest, issued
by 2 Blaine republican and democrat
ic commissioner ...
Commissioners journal, vol. 4, pg. 1873
special session March 5, 1880; resolution
was passed to issue Sl00, 900 court house
bonds bearing per cent. interest, by
Reiter, Yarnell, Horning, / democrat
and Blaine republicans.
Commissioners journal, vol. 4, pgs. .381
and 1852, Jan. Is, 1861; resolution to iss-
ue $35, 600 court house bonds at 5 per
cent. interest, by Reiter. Yarnell, Boob
er, Democrats, republican, president
of the board.
The Signal tells the Taxpayers that 1t
would be In their interest to elect re.
publican for county commissioner. We
notice that of the S175,00O debts con-
tracted during the last three years of
Mr.. Yarnelps term as republican CON-
missioner, the amount ef $4,000 was
borrowed at per cent. interest by Mes
srs. Reiter, HOrnung and Yarnell, two
Blaine republicans aud one democrat,
and that as soon as two democrats and
one republican (Messrs. Yarnell, Reiter
and Booher) are on the board, the coun-
ty can borrow $35, 900 at per cent. in
terest!
AT the expiration of the official term
of Mr.. Yarnell, the last republican
member of the board of commissioners,
the records show bonded Indebtedness
of SIZE, 900, and not one cent in the CO.
treasury, but an additional debt of
$l6,858 SO due the local banking firms
of E. s. Blair & Co. and Sheffield &
Norton.
The annual interest on the bonded
debt of the county at this time amount
ed to $40, 15O per annum. The total tax
levy for all county purposes made by
the county commissioners for the year
1881 was Ills mills.
Comparing the present state OF affairs
we find that at the settlement of the
county Treasurer with the Commission
ers at their regular session Sept, 1888,
Com. journal, vol. 8, pig. ITO, there was
in the county treasury the sum of $780,
831 Al of available funds, as against q
shortage of SIG, 1858 SO in 1881! The tax
levy for all county purposes made by
the county commissioners for the year
1888 is 8.7 mills, or is mills less than in
1881!
The bonded indebtedness of the coun.
ty is $l65, 900, with an annual interest
of So, $50, against debt of $l75, 900 with
an annual interest of $40, i 50 in 1881.
These figures are all taken from the
records in the county Auditors office,
from which it can also be shown that
thousands of dollars have been drawn
from the county fund in court and 9th.
er expenses over which the county con.
missioners had no control.
The tax payers of this comfy must
draw their own conclusion, and If they
want to make another experiment with
O republican commissioner they will
have to pay for it as they did before!
Ed. NoRTHwEsT:-In last weeks iss.
ue of the guerrilla sheet known as the
Peoples Advocate, appears the follow.
ing charges against me:
1st. That l, as assistant prosecutor fol
the last term of court, used my influ.
ence to suppress any indictment being
found against the saloon keepers who
sold beer on the fair grounds during the
last fair.
I'd. That I refused to give subpoenas
for witnesses for the purpose of indict.
| ing said saloon keepers.
Sd. That | said the grand jurors were
a set of id blockheads and would have
done anything said.
In reply let me say each and every
charge is a base lie, and the author q
liar and traducer. I did not in any
manner try to influence the grand jur.
ors in the finding ofany indictment moi
of suppressing any such findings.
I'd. The editor of that sheet handed
me a list of names which were subpoe.
naed at once by order of Prosecutor Ca.
hill, whose name alone appears on ev-
cry subpoena issued. / gave no sub.
poenas to any one, though indictments
were found for burglary, larceny and
bigamy, and the editor of that sheet ap-
peared and testified before the grand
jury in obedience to such a subpoena as
was issued in every case.
Sd. AS to the charge of calling the
grand jurors blockheads, &C., is entire.
ly too silly to be refuted. am too well
known by the gentlemen who compos-
ed that jury for them to believe such
silly twaddle. Among said jurors were
my nearest neighbors and best friends,
aud men with whom trade every day;
and further I will ask who ever heard
me use such language Ofany set of men.
Twill forgive the perjury of the grand
juror who made such statement (which
| believe never was made by any of said
jurors) If he will place over his own sig
nature In what manner ! tried to in
fiuence said grand jury to suppress said
indictment. JAMES P. RAGAN.
THE Signal, having in view the Sher-
ifs printing, which Malley is also try
ing to get for his father-in.law, says
"We must have a change in county gov
ernment" OF course the change he
seeks is from Democratic to Republican.
What change that would be! Treas
urer Waltimier has been ready to re-
ceive taxes since the first Monday in