Sharp County record., 1896-04-24
Kings s Reply to Morgan.

months, w. s. Morgan again bubles
ND in the Kicker with "Dayid l..
King as a text. He starts off by
,ay,Ig that he has been "irlng at
much larger game" and that might
have escaped the fury of his wrath
but for the fact that kind friend
sent him "marked copy" of the
grand iury's report of the Southern
District of Sharp county which
reads as follows.
"We have examined the com>
mis,oner's report and tiEd that eI-
clerk D. l.. King, of Sharp county
Ark, did collect currency as a coun'
" tax in the matter OF marriage
license, recording deeds and mertga'
ges etc,
We see no disposition on his part
to correct his mistake, as Is shown
in our minds from the written
testimony to said report, and we
recomend that the States Attorney
forthwith proceed to take such steps
a. to compel him to correct and
make good all deficiencies in accord,
snce With the laws governing all
such cases"
Doubtless when Mr.. Morgan re,
- .h,s umavEed copy he'
thought he had me sure and would
now proceed to lay me ou:. But on
. second reading 1t was not so de''
perate as:hs imagined and before he
got through with his article be con,
cluded there was nothing in it and
cried "enough!'
As the grand jurys are Away
worthy of respect and especially the
one making this report, l desire to
notice It a little. BY examining II
carefully we 6nd that the grand jury
say that they have "examlned the re-
pcrt of the commissioners of &C.
counts and find that ex.clerk u. L.
klng did collect currency as q "a,
on deeds, marriage llcence, ETC., and
state that they see no disposition on
bis part to correct his mistake II
seems that they did not investigate
the matter for themselves but report
that from the report Of the com
m,sioner's OF accounts that made
a mistake and they see no disposition
upon nv part to correct. They DC
not intimate that the found any
fraud or illegality IN said transac'
tlons. explained this matter ~
nv first article in the Hustler Heard
of February % and there stated that
while I was clerk ] collected for the
county about 800 aud paid into
the treasury $6a6.OO. | always p i'd
AZ the records show, every quarter,
every cent due the county, whether
I collected 1t or not. 1t Is fact
a. I stated that what l did collect
was III cash but always made the
nr.per reduction and often two to
tbres times the difference on tha'
part, the party having the work
done would have to pay IN scrip
And this self same w. S. Morgan
came IN for his share Of it. lie had
som, deeds recorded and l charged
him tl.25 and sl.3o each when ht
should have paid II so, but he cou!t
nav 20 cents on each deed in scril
which was worth at that time 81
csn,s And there are hundreds o
other men IN Sharp county wh'
ware thus befrlcnded at my expense
Had I made each individual pay II
fnn tor h,s work l would be owe
ioo better off today and the countr..
none the poorer but as it is she ha
every cent due her.
II the commissioners OF account
had gone little further back the
would have found that all the clerk
SHARP county ever had have slway
mad this SPECIAL taz IN county sor'
regardless Of whether they ool'ec'e'
Il or not. lfthe commissioners 0
accounts arc going to have the cler
10 nav cash why not have the collect
". ~ do thu same? There 10 no
mora than one man out Of every foa
when he pays his tax, who has 4crl
and the collector makes the reduc
t;ou and the tax payer pays all cas-
and goes on rejoicing aud the COZ
lector pays over AZ the end OF u
fiscal year, about *O,ooo'oo IN co, e9an Il,
tvs ,eT,p when he did not collec
over half that much from the peoPl
but GOT currency therefor. FrleId
Morgan fully understands this mat ~
cor and knows there Is nothing i" it
bu, he hopes to keep me iron
"Ircakiug into the Arkansas L'g,s
laturs." But as tho Democratic part!
will nominate aud elect a ticket u
sharp county this year without tn
AID or advice of Nr. Mogan, ! an
not very much exercised over hi
attack, A..