Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-10-19
HE IS SMOKED OUT.
The Senatorial Candidate is forced to
Defend Himself as Tax Dodger.
He Had Better Have Kept Still.
A Defense that is Worse than Silence, Be.
cause Fraudulent.

| silence as CRIME. Inc TASK is rele-
gated to the Mayors hand-organ, but
the product may be considered an
official utterance by the boss himself.
The public is assured "thatthe chsrg-
''es of the Republican regarding the
avoiding of taxes by DR.. Daubney is
''as utterly without foundation as are
his other claims" The grammar in
that sentence points to the Doctor as
treat it as his production.
The public is told by the hand. or
gan that.
DIR. Daubney did receive 81, 900 from
his uncle, $4,000 OF WHICH WAS PROP
ERTY OUTSIDE oFTHE STATE OF IOWA.
Then follows an enumeration of the
50, 600 certificate of cash deposited in
the State Bank at Elkton, s. D., and
the $4,000 in notes secured by mort
cages on Wisconsin farm.
The Doctor, or whoever writes for
him, deliberately attempts to deceive
the reader of his lines into believing
that this personal property was not
taxable here, because, forsooth, sit
was outside of Iowar'
There is not an assessor in Winnie
sheik county so fresh and green as
not to know that this plea is the film
siest deceit possible. Not tyro in
ulent and false. The law saws.
Moneys and credits" land these
were just that ''are assessable and
taxable at the place of the owners
residence, and not elsewhere.
DIR. Daubney swore to Judge Eel
lows that he owned these 81, 900. The
law says he, Us owner, is assessable
and taxable here where he lives. Did
he not know that? 1t is impossible
to think Mayor Daubney could sit on
board of Equalization like that of
DEBORAH city for two years and re-
main ignorant of so clear a provision
of the law.
Again the law says, "a debt of which
"a note is evidence is subject to taxa
.'tion where the owner resides" The
fact that the security for the $4,000
note or notes was over in Wis, cut
no figure. The mortgage only secured
the notes, and the notes the Doctor
says he owned then,-for he got them
in August, 1896, owns them still.
| But the Doctor or his scribe, goes
on to say: The certificate of deposit
''for $4,000 10 bank at Elkton, S. D.,
| was cashed AN EXPENDED PRIOR TO
THE TIME THE ASSESSMENT WAS
s'TAKEN!"
| 1t was EXPENDED, was it?
Mark how plain tale will expose
the fraudulent intention of that SEN
tence.
We call DR.. Daubney to the witness
stand. He was sworn August Goth
by Judge Fellows, and was question
ed about this $4,000 certificate of de-
post. The Dr., then testified THAT
HE HAD LOANED 1T, THE $4,000 TO HIS
BROTHER j. w. DAUBNEY.
That is the way he EXPENDED it.
In one breath he pleads that the
81, 900 WAS out of the state, therefore
next breath asserts he has cashed it
brought it back into the state and
EXPENDED TT, BY LoANING IT, like a
good brothe, to j. W.! This is the
way the attempt to gull the people is
to be made this fall!
That there may be no doubt about
this we give the following extract
from that examination before Judge
Fellows Aug. Goth last, in which the
Dr., under oath, said he had not the
$4,000 certificate in his possession.
and this ensued:
Q. How much was that certificate
of deposit for?
A. 1t was for $4,000 upon the Elk
ton State Bank or First State Bank.
y. How came it into other hands?
A. Why, it was cashed.
q. And turned back to them?
A. 1t was cashed here at the
Winneshiek County Bank.
O.. Didn't that pass through your
brothers hands, THROUGH j. w
DAUBNEY's HANDS?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. And he endorsed it?
A. ] think he did. l presume he
did.
Q. What interest in it had he?
A. l loaned it to him.
Q. And SO you turned it over to
him?
A. Yes.
EXPENDED IT prior to assess
ment"-did he?
Is it possible in words to adequate
ly characterize such fraud as is
here attempted?
Silence would have been better than
does it not ill like mosaic into the
lodgings and twistings which have
marked this case FROM the beginning
up to the present time?
Finally we are :old the Zuckmeyer
note for $4,000 was swallowed up by
the Doctors loss on the First Nation
al Bank stock ''and other liabilities. !"
He owned just $500 Of that stock ind
did have to pay an assessment of $500
So far that is right; but that still
leaves $1,000 unexplained. A man SO
careless with his mouth when talking
must not expect to be taken literally
no matter what he says.
Deduct $500 from $1,000 leaves Sc
500 still due the tax list and unac-
counted for!-Decorah Republican.