Warren sheaf., 1890-09-25
Il Worthless Document.
THAT Is WHAT TUE ARGYLE
CONTRACT WITH THE ST.
PAUL TRUST co. is.
IHEC ECeiNTi is NOTAPARTYTO
THE CONTRACT, AND CAN
NOT COMPEL IT'S
ENFORCEMENT.
IL Is \ BLIND TO DECEIVE THE
TAXPAYERS. VOTERS
BEWAREl


BEWARE,
1heiH has been considerable inuni.
ny throughout the county regarding
the $4,000 claimed to have been do.
posted by Argyle for the building O,
COURT house in case the county
scat is changed, and some have still
the idea that there is S5 900 in cash
deposited with County Treasurer
Holm Tor such a purpose, Now it is
n lnct that there is not now, nor has
thereever been onecent of shmoney
deposited with Mr.. Holm. True. at
'he beginning, OF this campaign, when
II was necessary for Argyle 10 hit ND.
on some scheme toinduce people to
sign their petition, thevpat into the
hands oil Mr.. Holm a draftof Mr.
Siel@aard's on st. Paul bank payo-
nie, o-tle county board upon certain
conditions. This draft may or NAV
not have been good, and doubtless
1t was issued with an understandino
with the st. Paul bank that it need
not be paid. No certificate of deposit
MAS EVER ISSUED to Mr.. Holm for
TINS draft. But it had a purpose to
serve. When it was delivered to Mr..
Hoim receipt was taken for the
same, and this receipt the Argylites
made Use OF when circulating, their
petition to make people believe that
they had $1,000 in actual cash de-
posted with the County Treasurer.
when they didn't have a cent cash
there. Many people signed that De-
tltion fully believing that the ARGYLE
people had gone down into their own
pockets, and actually raised that
amount OF money. What will these
voters say when they learn that Ar
Gyte has practised trickery and de-
celt upon them to catch their sigma
lures and their votes, and that there
has never been a cent cash deposited
with the County Treasurer. AS soon
as this draft had served it's purpose
namely to catch sioners to the Ar
gNle petition, it was taken away
from MIR. Holm, and where is it now?
What has become of it? Who took
1t? Is it possible that Melraard has
taken it back?
Next the Argylites claim that they
have $4,000 deposited in a bank in
st. Paul. This deposit is said to have
been made by the Farmers & Mer.
chants bank at Argyle, and the GER
tliicate OF deposit issued therefore
transferred to the st. Paul Trust Co.
The contract between the Farmers &
Merchants bank and the Trust com
pany was published in the Banner
ior Aug. 9TH, and it does not require
much OF n lawyer to see that the
county has no guarantee whatever
that this money will be paid. The
county is not a party to the con-
tract and can not compel it's enforce
ment. II Smith agrees with Jones
to pay Brown q certain sum of mOney
at some future time, it is plain that
Brown can not force the payment.
and Smith and Jones may at any
time annul their contract. Neither
can the county force Argyle or the
Trust Company to pay one cent OF
$4,000. The contract is simply an
agreement between the Argyle bank
ana SAID company, and they may at
any time declare said contract void
They may even il they choose divide
the $4,000 between themselves, in
ease that money is there, and the
county would not have q word to
say The contract is not WORTH the
paper on which it is written.
Alter so many changes and differ
ent tactics with their boasted $5, ,OOG
lGmnst be self evident to every un-
preludiced voter that Argyle is de-
iuding the people OF this county.