Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-19
Tax.Payers' Meeting.

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Citizens and Taxpayers Mutual Pro-
tective Association of Barber county,
Kansas, held Saturday afternoon, Feb
ruary 18th, 1890. at Thompson's opera
house, Medicine Lodge, there was a
good attendance, and the officers were
all present.
President Simpson, after congratu-
latlng the taxpayers of this county on
their recent victory over fraud ard cor
ruption, criticised the conduct of the
imported counsel for the First National
bank in attempting to induce the hon.
orable court to have the leaders of the
late meeting of the Association arraign-
ed for contempt of court" in assuming
TO exercise an unwarranted censorship
over the speech and actions of our peo-
pie, and seeking to deprive the tax-pay-
ers of our county of all organic rights,
by Illegally forbiddlng them to seek re-
dress for wrongs committed against
their guaranteed privileges and immu-
mites as American freemen. He con-
tinued by eulogizing the Hon. G.. w.
Ellis, judge of our district court, the
county attorney, and his able associate,
A. j. Jones, Esq, by and through whom
the great victory in behalf of the peo-
pie was secured and finally ne exhort-
ed the Association to continue the good
fight until it had recovered back not
only all the moneys heretofore illegally
paid out of the county treasury, to our
various county officers, on account of
salaries, but also until they have secu-
red the amount of some $4,000, the
warrants for which, as a majority of
the late board of county commissioners
now allege, were destroyed by fire be-
fore record of them was made, and by
which unprecedented, unlawful, illicit.
contraband destruction of evidence of
our late treasurer's Indebtedness, the
Taxpayers of this county were robbed
of the above amount, or about 1900.
After other spirited and neatly round
ed Anglo Saxon remarks, germane to
the last above subject. by Coils. w. w.
S. Snoddy, w. S. Denton, John Jesse,
j. w. Lappin, A. j. Jones. VIM. Kiger,
S. Palmer and John L. Brady, the AS
ISOLATION settled down to business, and
on motion of Mr.. Brady, committee
of three was appointed to draft and
submit to the next meeting of this AS
ISOLATION, a code of laws for its govern
ment. Whereupon the chair appointed
the following named gentlemen as SAID
committee Col. w. w. S. Snoddy, J.
I. Jesse and G. B. Currie.
On motian of j. w. Lappin a COM
mittee of three was appointed to ex-
anime the records of the county clerk,
relative to the county census, to ascer-
tain what amounts, if any, have been
paid to our county officers in excess of
regular salary warranted by the said
county census, and upon their findings,
to request our present board of county
commissioners to take all needful &C
ton in the premises necessary to recov-
er back such excess of salaries as were
illegally paid to said county officers by
the late board of county commissioners
Whereupon, the chair appointed J. C.
Garten, William Mobley and William
Kiger as said committee, with further
instructions to report back to the next
meeting of the Association.
After which, John 7. Jesse offered
the following resolution:
Resolved, That committee of three be ap-
pointed to confer with the present board of
county commissioners IA N "a 0f
the accounts of the late county treasurer, John
Rogers, and report back to this Association, at
its next meeting, written report of such in
formation as they, the committee, may be en-
abled to secure.
The following gentlemen were ap-
pointed as said committee: John T.
Jesse, j. w. Lappin and p. B. Cole.
After which w. S. Denton took the
floor, and after oOngratulating the peo-
pie of Barber county upon the grand re-
suits of the last meeting of this Asso-
citation, thanking the honorable Judge
and counsel for the people for the COM
mendabie manner In which they defend
ed the rights and interests of the tax
payers of this county, and expressing
the hope that they would continue to
charge the works Of the enemy until
they had not only recovered back the
salary grab but the $4,000 above
referred to, even if it took all summer.
he gave way to Col. Snoddy, who intro
duced the following resolution;
Resolved, That IN the official ACTS of the Hon.
c. W. Ellis, as demonstrated in the case of the
First National bank, of Medicine Lodge nanin..
the County Commission wo roooon;,a
Judge uninfluenced by any other consideration
than desire to administer the law, guided by
a disciplined mind and enlightened conscience;
unpersuaded alike by either the clamor of the
outraged people or the seductive blandsh-
ments of the plethoric bondholder.
On motion of Mr.. Brady it was agreed
that when this meeting adjourns it do
adjourn to meet again on the first Sat
urday afternoon in April next, after
the regular meeting of the board of
county commissioners.
On motion, adjourned,