The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-25
PAID TO A DEAD Ian
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MAKE An
ALLOWANCE TO PETER INNER
thinner Dead for More than n Year
lot Evidence of the Cor
rupt Administration.

The climax of rottenness reached by the
corrupt Democratic ring which has swal-
lowed the courthouse in its NAV is the al
lowance of bills TO dead people. Astoun0-
ing as this statement may seem. 1t is a
verltable truth. and so bold has the ring
grown that members Of IL openly admit that
bills have been allowed to a dead man.
This is the way this Infamous ring squan-
ders the money OF the taxpayers.
Some time ago Ii was shown that the
County Commissioners regularly allowed
the monthly salary OF a county physician
who had left the State and whose where
about were unknown. For several months
the commissioners still allowed this physi-
clan his salary. Though the money was
allowed to him he never received one cent
Of it. The money was taken from the
county funds, however. and paid TO some
body. This openly allowing money to a
man VINO had left the State for parts un-
known would seem to De the limit of unlaw-
full expenditure TO which the ring would
dare go, but il is not SO. Embroidered by
this. they have proceeded even further and
invaded the sanctity of the cemetery to find
way and means Of squandering the county
funds. Where's the wonder they must in
crease the tax valuation of lands, when
money is thus recklessly squandered? A
question presents itself TO the taxpayer at
this point. Is it possible that the ring can
find any more infamous method Of making
allowances?
On the records in the County Commission
ers' Office is found an entry of SIS allowed
to Peter thinner for the poor OF Center
township. The amount was allowed on
April 3 of this year: Township, Assessor
Wolf admitted that thinner had been dead
for a year or more. yet the
County Commissioners have spent SIS Of
the taxpayers money and entered the al
lowance upon the records as having been
made to thinner. 1t Is said that charity
covers a multitude of SINS and the County
Commissioners have sought to cover their
sin under the guise Of charity. The bill, os-
tensibly allowed to Peter thinner, who,. by
the admission of the township assessor, has
been dead for twelve months or more, was
allowed from the funds provided for the
care of the county's poor Robbers often
find safety In the very boldness or their
crimes and it would seem that something
of this idea had taken possession OF the
County commissioners In allowing Dllls 10
deceased persons and boldly entering on
the records the allowance and the name OF
the person TO whom II was allowed. Inc
law requires that there be some sort OF a
record for every cent of money expended,
but such boldneSs as entering the name OF
a dead person on the records as having re-
ceived money would hardly be looked for,
even from a Democratic ring or tax-eaters.
on the line of this allowance is found an
explanation of why the expenditures Tor
1884 exceed those of 1898 by $09,s2426. or
nearly 81 per cent. Figures OF the expendi-
lures for the two years, as published in the
Journal, show that such was the increase
in the expenditures. These fgures were
taken from the records or the
county auditor. and speak for themselves.
Several questions presented themselves.
They are questions Of vital importance TO
the taxpayers. whose money Is HANDED
over TO a corrupt ring to squander. First
| among these questions Is the one. TO whom
was the money givenw WHY was it al
lowed in the name of a dead man, wnen
some one else received the money? VIVA
was the purpose of concealing the name
of the person who, in fact. received the
money? Honest transactions may be hon
| estly recorded without fear of inspection;
Then why are the county records falsnied
and entries made which are lies? To falsi.
fly a record is made a crime by the statutes
of every State in the Union, yet this Is
what has been done in the records of Mar
ion county in charge of the Democratic
| ring which is fattening on the earnings o.
| the people, turned over to Ii for the eco
| nomical administration Of the affairs OF the
| county.