Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-01-17
The Examination of County Commits
siOner Healy For Mutilati0n
Of County Records.
He Was Ably Defended by Three At.
tOrneys, But His Guilt Was
Too Apparent,
And the Judge Held Him in $500
Bonds to Appear Before the
Grand Jury.
The Healy Examination.
[From Sundays Daily.)

IRON sundays UAly.J
Commissioner Healy. who mutilated the
warrants in'the Office of the county auditor,
will be given his preliminary hearing in
the court house tomorrow. He will be
called upon to answer a most serious
charge, from which the weekly sewer
which has grown utterly and disgustingly
filthy, has attempted to draw public at
tention by a display of nastiness, which is
an insult to every self respecting citizen
into whose home 1t finds its way.
The question as to whether or not Mr..
Healy mutilated the records is answered
by the announcement that he signed the
warrants in blank, and that Deputy Audi
tor Holley did not follow his instructions.
In other words, he attempts to acquit
himself of criminal intention, by acknowl-
edging criminal carelessness in disburs-
ing the funds. Is he in the habit of
signing blank warrants? Does he consider
singing a blank warrant which might be
filled out for $50 or IS 1000 by any one into
whose hands it might fall, a proper way to
transact the peoples business? Would he
transact his own business on this prin-
ciple?
1t won't 60 down, Mr.. Healy.
But whatever the desperate commission
er said to Mr.. Holley is OF no interest to the
people or to the courts.
The question to be answered tomorrow
is: Did MIR. Healy willfully mutilate a
county warrant which had been legally
issued and which was a part of the public
record in the Office of the county auditor ?
Is it not a fact that one of the warrants
which he intended to deface was drawn to
Perkins got the order and had it caSlled ?
This is true, and being true. if Mr.. Healy
is exonerated, it will be simply a question
OF whether or not you are a better %Sprinter
than Healy. If you can get to the county
auditors office before he breaks in and
mutilates the warrant, you will be paid
for services to the county. If Healy gets
their first, Jour clam is cancelled and you
may blame your legs for your poverty.
Again they say that Mr.. Healy secured
legal advice and an attorney advised him
to hasten to the auditors Office and deface
the warrants.
Why do they not give the name of the
attorney?
Who is this brilliant legal luminary?
What lawyer has discovered this cross
lot method of stopping the payment of
county warrants
1t is told of a Celt who Endorsed a note
for a friend who failed to meet the obliga-
ton, that when the holder of the note came
to him for the money, he grabbed his pen,
claimed! "Sure l only signed it for accom-
m~edashin."
Is this the way that Healy and his
illegal advisor look upon his signature as
chairman of the board of county commits
sioners? If so, it is about time they be
taught a lesson in official responsibility.
The fact is that Mr.. Healv and the coterie
trained. have been running county affairs
with such a high hand during the past
year that he imagined himself free to do
as he wished-even to go so far as to re-
verse the will of the majority, outrage
every principle of official dignity and
decency and dishonor the county by de-
stroying its pledges.
AS for the first cry that was made against
the TR1BUNE's criticism. it came from a
young man whose intentions are believed
to be good, but whose associations for sew
eral years have been such that even since
his separation from them he will spasmod-
ically make faces at the TRIBUNE through
force of habit.
AS for Nasty Willie Moffet, as contempt.
ible a little hypocrite and Dlackmailer as
ever gained a livelihood by assailing the
private character of the citizens of a com.
munity, he is simply continuing in a course
which it he were a man and not a whim'
Pering sucking, would long since
way that nature has given man to resent
an insult to his personal character and tt
his family.
The criticism of a public official for his
public acts. calls in reply a page of clumsy
and revolving insults, and this, too, from {
fawning weakling who has set himself w
as a moral leader and reformer.
One who, making loud prOtestations Of
reform, has been a corrupt and unprinci
pied tool of the disgruntled towards whC
say through him what because of their bet
ter sense they dare not say themselves
who while playing upon the credulity OF
the W. CT. y. and gaining a moral stand
ing by .clinging to its apron strings, of
dealer whom he urged to accept a nOmina
ton for alderman from the First ward
who hushed his paper for a consideration
who sold every principle that he had pro
fessed for the hope of the reward he saw
in a salo%on-keeper's till and in the candi
date tor city treasurer whom the saloon
keeper was supporting: who refused tt
join the republican league when Cleve
land was president, and who was first tt
don the league hat after Harrison's cleo
ton, much to the disgust of the reputable
young republicans of the city; who has
taken advantage of the liberality of thu
laws governing the United States mail:
and printing presses to circulate persona
ISLANDERS and insults on citizens of Bis
marck from the very day that he entered
the city a begging stranger-and yet wht
has been so physically insignificant, intel
lectually irresponsible and morally weak
that he has evoked only contempt.
The TRIBUNE has treated him with
silence in the hope that his disease nigh
prove durable, and at last through a de
cent respect for the community he would
take a moral bath and attempt TO be clean
MOI would this criticism be made were
it not for the braZen manner in which his
disgusting little sheet has attempted tt
mislead the public and attract attention
from the serious character of the charge
for which Commissioner Healy will bt
given a hearing Tomorrow. Nasty Willie
and the more intellectual hypocrites witt
are behind him have been strutting at thu
expense OF the people Of Burleigh county
long enough.
Healy In Court.
From Wednesdays Daily.]
The city hall was crowded with interest
ed spectators yesterday to witness the pre-.
liminary examination of COMMISSIONS