Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-08-18
A SUCCESSFUL "FIZzLE."
REPU BLICAN MEASUREMENTS AZ
SWERED


Ohehalls county over $l5 ,00Oin one year,
and IN their madness they covered the
front page OF the Nidette last week under
the head of "The Last Fizzle of Popu-
ism, with abuse Of the auditor and a
mass OF false statements and figures in
which, Ii nothing else, they demonstrate
clearly that il figures will not lie the
gang will figure. lis the same old canc.
the same old tactics, the same old de-
lenders who, after fattening on the tax
payers Of the couuty for many wears. were
driven IRON the court house by an out
ragged people, who by sinking their party
differences for the time for the public
good, two years ago elected Il set OF Off
GERS who have run the offices on business
principles instead OF as an asylum for
political workers and wire pullers,
Two years absence from the county teat
has caused some OF this gentry to 90 to
work. This has not set we'll with them
and now, as election time approaches,
they adopt their old time tactics to get
back into positions in which they may
again fatten on the taxpayer.
The Nidette actually endeavors to show
that the cost of running the county offices
under fusion has cost more than when
Republicans were manipulating county
pt T,lir y, too in l, g.,
that everyone who has had business at
the court house under both administra-
tions must have observed the difference
in the manner in which the offices were
conducted during the past IS months as
contrasted with former times. They
must have observed that, while they
were met with uniform courtesy, an /
their business promptly transacted, there
was no high priced official to entertain
them with funny stories or political Cos
sip, everyone was busy and the number
of clerks and officials present much
smaller than in previous years.
Divested of mass of unmeaning fig
ures and tables the entire page of the
Nidette resolves itself into two conten-
TONS First, that Auditor Sells has
placed the amount of expenses for the
year ending June 80, '96 $11 900 too high
that this amount was properly chargeable
iutha -preYious year, al
though the warrants were drawn IN 1916.
Second, that the Indebtedness of the
county has been increased $14,0 900 during
the fusion administration.
To the first it may be said, that if the
S11 600 mentioned should be considered
chatgeaple to 1895, then it should be
added to the reported expenses OF that
year. Turning to page Is OF the auditors
report for the year ending June 80, 1895,
We find the expenses for that year to be
SO, 270Ol; now, $11 600 added to this
amount makes the expenses for 1895 $780,
270.00, when the same gang was in power.
The 81 900 has been paid by the people
and no jugglery of political bookkeeping
shall prevent their knowing it, and tc
whichever year it be charged it must be
accounted for by the Republican party.
Another misstatement should be noted
and that is the attempt to show that
Auditor Sells has ialsifed the record by
reporting only the expenses for nine
months instead OF twelve. They attempt
to do so by adding 20 the 81 ,947.34 ex'
penses reported by the auditor the sum
of S7,122.53, the expenses for the months
of April, Nay and June, 1898, making
the expenses appear to be $50, 0G0.S7 iol
the year. 1t is true that the auditors
statement Of warrants drawn does moi
contain the expenses for these months
/ for the warrants were not drawn prior t(
June %, 1893; but it does contain the
warrants drawn in July, 1897, for the
months of April, May and June, 1897, sc
that the $47, 947 "a is the correct expenses
for a wear under fusion rule; the $50,
OGo.S7 being the expenses for the htteer
] months from -ipiii /, ip"' =" -
1895. The Vidette knows this to be the
case, yet in order to fool the voter iol
political purposes it deliberately makes
this misstatement.
The reported increase Of indebtedness
is another attempt to impose upon the
credulitv Of the voter land, by the way
the gang traded for years upon the credu
lity OF the voter by an attempt to Iugglt
with bookkeeping, but it is done IN
manner so transparent as to scarcely re
quire showing.
To prove conclusiyely that the state
mcnts preceding it in the Nidette are cor
rect this would-bc critic OF fusion govern
ment concludes rs follows;
"xDrnrrDNEss or THE COUNTY
CON June SOL j,there were outstand
jng sci .s76.3l in general fund warrants
On D.c. Sd. 1897, Tie amount outstanding
,yas s64. 7gO.sS, an increase under popl
lst rule Of nearly 5000. ,.,
From the statements OF Auditor,