The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-21

sLusH.
The board Of commissioners
meet again next week to crack
nuts and draw their little three
dollars day and travelling expen.
SEES. There is no use of Johnson
protesting-they over.rule him
every time and have the meetings
just fur enough apart so they have
a day or two to get acquainted
with their families between times,
The new reform members-ah,
tbey'er the daisies! They Just
rack their brains to invent some
way of beating honest creditors out
Of a portion Of their bills against
the county, and letting fat Job.
takers 70 through unquestioned,
while they draw their three dollars
|per day. Hurrah for reform!-
Bathgate Democrat.
We publish the above, the sin.
gle, lonesome, original editorial con.
tanned in the Democrat of March
18th, as specimen of the pains
its editor is taking, these DAYS. to
make a spicy andinteresting sheet.
Sometime since he threatened the
commissioners with dire vengeance
and awful expositions, because
they gave the proceedings to an.
other paper, and we presume this
is one Of the awful exposes"
We agree that the commission.
ers are open to criticism. they are
human, but there is difference be.
tween honest criticism and slush,
Several distinct charges are as.
serted or insinuated in the above
paragraph. LIST. That the com.
missioners are in session most of
the time. End. That they do
nothing while in session. 3rd,
That they rob honest creditors of
the county and pay fat jobs with.
out question. 4th. That johnson
is the only honest man ON the
board. 9Th. That the commits.
sioners met last week.
The first two or three charges
are best answered from the Demo.
Gratis own columns. In the same
issue, Of March 10Th, it publishes
proceedings of the board which
were dated February 10Th, just one
month previous. And they seem
to be yet incompleted though the
board adjourned February 14th.
Judging by the way the Democrat
strings out the proceedings, one
would naturally suppose that the
commissioners were always in SEES.
sion. Bat if it takes SO long to
publish the proceedings what lie.
comes of the second charge, that
they do nothing while in session.
The third charge is paying fraud.
ulcnt bills. We only know of one
case in which the commissioners
have done so knowingly. The
bill in question had been positively
rejected a year ago. by the previ.
GUS board who were we'll &C.
quainted with the facts. The pres.
ent board allowed it. They may
have a good excuse though they did
not enter the reason for their nc.
ton OIL the minutes, but as the
publisher of the Democrat drew
the cash on the order, we do not
see the force Of his criticism,
In the fourth charge, we agree
with the Democrat that Mr.. John.
son is an honest man, and we be.
heve too honest, to say that he be.
lieves his fellow commissioners
dishonest. The impression sought
to be shown by the Democrat, that
Mr.. johnson is always variance
with the board is simply false.
He is very pleasant, genial gen.
tleman and knows what his duties
are and gets along very we'll with
his fellow officials. As to the
meeting. tins week. there ism t any,
and the Democrat shows itself two
weeks behind the news by the
charge. It evidently refers to a
meeting to be held the first week
OF March to act OH bonding for seed
wheat, provided petitions came in.
Such a petition was circulated in
Bathgate the last week of Febru.
any. but owing to the lack of
the proper number of signers
and that it was filed one day too late
the meeting was not called. Sub.
sequent developments show that
it is a pity that the meeting was
not called, even though the county
would haye had to pay s. per day
for each commissioner. We beg
our readers pardon for taking so
much space with so trivial a text,
but the bite Of a reptile. though
the wound be small. has to be at.
tended to, in order to counteract
the poison.
IN THE HOLY LAND.