St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-09-12
The Sheriff. S Latest Effort.

=za nave pointed out, lie has gone on stl
further III his frantic efforts to pro,
that black is white, and under the bal,
"a tut Influence OF some stlauEe, maii1
." nAnt spell, some evil spirit, has i'll IL /
OF madness Woyen around himself
network OF preyuilcatlons-aye, boI
=, Misrepresentation - from Wulch h
'' cannot now escape.
Last week We expressed tie feal
N based upon reasons then given, that h
IN would not make fair statement of tn
- matter IN controversy between us; bu
we had not the remOtest idea then tia
he could be induced to resort to sucI
I" rpprehtnslble means AS lie makes us
D of in his card, in order to bolster III
10 his manifestly untenable positions ant
to purposely and knowingly attempt It
:. mlslead tie public, Every unprtjudic
> ed person who has read our exposition.
iC or the matter "t Issue is doubtless con.
: Vlnctu that the Sheriff made a bad
: break Wien he asserted that the pub
l!cahun Of the parish ordinances and
proceedings heretofore cost 5000 or
!, $500 annually, and that tie publication
Il OF the proceedings and ordinances of
t the town heretofore cost $500 or $40O
0 annually, and We fear that our readers,
e bong sufficiently enlightened, do not
care to hear any more about the matter
His last card, however, contains such
outrageously false and misleading state
ments that we cannot pass them by in
silence.
He prints the statement furnished
hIn by the clerk of the police jury,
showing c!iarges Upprored by that body
III lSo0-sUFcral important items in
which we're for services performed in
1883 and 1S8y-tnd UIuly and uDuuuii-
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his signature, as charges MdGe ia 1890
He does this too, after having had fair
warning that these items, as well as
others which he failed to eliminate from
his calculations, should he lett out of
any statement intended to show the cost
in 189O-of publishing proceedings and
ordinances, or even proceedings, Or
| dinances, registration and election no.
| tees, orders of Court and jury lists"
! BY this system of hOcus -pocus, and by
! including charges for advertising for
proposals, notices to taxpayers, etc, he
makes a total Of $GS3 %. And how,
gentle reader, do you suppose he desis- |
mates this total? Not as total amount |
advertising for 1690-which it is, incIud- !
ing amounts earned in 1853 0nd 1889
but Amount paid Coulter and Demo |
Crat ordinances printing 1890 1858 25 - |
And he has the brazen audaclty to add:
"These figures from the official record
Justify my statement his statement
that the parish ordinances and pro-
ceedings heretofore cost $500 to $500 an
Rndlly' AS IL matter OF fact, as we
showed last week, proceedings and or
dinances cost in both papers in 1890
S513 0o, and their publication, together
with that of tie registration and nlpc-
ton notices, orders OF court and Jury
lists, cost in both papers only $50 odd
Gnllars-and the official record proves
these facts
But it is when tie Sheriff comes to
tie town printing question that Ilis
abilities III tie art OF max
ing white appear black shine forth in
all their Respondent effulgence. H.. :
says that the total amount charged hv ;
the DEMOCRAT for town printing for I
1890, as taken from the official record |
If tho Town Council" is 1890 95, aud
hat the Courier's charges for that year /
we're $14035, making 1871 for 1890
hus showing, says be, that bis assertion I
that the publication of the proceedings /
md ordinances of Opelousas heretofore t
ost about $500 or $40o annually)," was c
within the mark" Now, we showed
hows, that the total cost for oil town
dvertising, in both papers, for 1890, y
7as 1914 20! Feeling SOM curiosity to II
nd how this item of S230.95 was ob- "
aimed, we examined the "offcial re- ',
ord" in the possession Of the Clerk y
nd copied therefrom in bis presence L
nd with his assistance the following T.
ems: On March II. 1890, the Council L
ppr0ued a bull of DEMOCRAT amount B.
" to $95.75, for publishing proceed Dc
gs, &c, from March 2, 1889, to Dec. &c &c
1880" On April 6, 1891 the same body ha im
)proved bill of DEMOCRAT for $135.- pl
}, for "pu biisiing ordinances, &c, N
om Feb. 1, 1890, to Jan. "a, 1891" Ia Ia
hese two items: including publ cations ia ia
ade in three different years, added to- he
ether make the Sheritf's amount of sts
,3O95, which ho publishes to the world te, es
the DEMOCRATS charge for one year as
Having made this admirably truthful, an
rTect and honest presentation of the hls
cts contained iD these "officiaI rec Las las
ds,n he closes, with smile chilalike a r
I'd bland, as follOwst fri
What have said here is based on the Off
i records; the public can judge between
sm and the assertions of the Messrs Sandoz.
their private "facts and figures, files and =
cuments" are to be taken as proof in prefer MI
60 to official public records, there is no sense he
public records being kept. az
Ah, but, for ways that are dark and be
cks that are vain," some Of our anti els
terry high moralists are indeed quite he
peculiar y th:
As to the Courier's bill for advertising a
< sales in 1887, which the Sheriff still ho
rps on, we have shown that the Cou- bu
r was paid less per nama than he is sal
W paying the Clarion. This does not al,
isfy him, and he evidently yearns for ho
ne information which he imagines is all
the possession of his predecessor. We up
We suggested already that lie ask wh
n. We renew the suggestion. all