The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-12-15
About Fees.


legal fees. He says we are school
boy, in the first grade of the kinder
garten. This is true, Bro. Toole.
We haven't been in the newspaper
business long enough to learn to
keep our mouth shut. Perhaps we
will get herdened after while and
can look upon illegal proceedings
with blind eyes, but we hope the
good Lord will strike us dead before
we do. The Journal-Gazette and
Hooking Sentinel censure us for dis
turbing the peaceful drawing of il.
legal fees, and point with pride at
the past spotless record of this great
county. That is all very pretty,
brothers. You have been in the
business many years, and learned to
keep your mouths shut. We are
green yet. A good country boy,
raised out at Ilesboro, and we have
not learned yet to look upon wrong
in official circles and wink the other
eye, and call it right. The deputy
auditor says we are sore because we
lost the commissioners report. Not
80, had it been lost fairly. But Cart
Webb and Jesse Williams, because
we fought them and turned the
search light upon their rottenness,
illegally placed the publishing of the
commissioners report before the re-
tirement of Webb from Office. The
law says that on or before the second
Monday in September the commits
sioners shall make out report of
the expenditures for the year last
past. That it shall be submitted to
the Court, and his honor shall ap-
point two examiners, who shall ex-
anime same, and place same and
their report with the auditor, and
THEREAFTER the commissioners
shall cause same to be published.
They did not wait until the THERE
AFTER according to law, for then a
democratic board would be in the
harness, and we would get the re-
port.
AS to county Auditor Bay drawing
$4,000 illegally we have this further
to say. In our opening up the ball
We did not censure him in the least.
We believe he drew this money in
good faith as his predecessors had
done. Mr.. Bay has made one of the
best auditors Hooking county has
ever had. He is honest, careful and
accommodating Not word in the
last heated campaign came from
democrats or democratic newspapers
against Auditor Bay. There was
nothing to say. His record stands
out clean shaven. His deputy, Mr..
Toole, is one of the best business
men and accountants Logan has ever
possessed. He has been accommo-
dating in Office and pleasant in social
life, and we had full confidence that
they would not draw illegal pay,
knowing such to be the case. We
have placed the blame entirely with
the commissioners. The attention
of Cart Webb was called to the shut
ting off of illegal bills when he first
went in office, and he started out
very bravely and every body cheered
him when he set down on the bill OF
5000 of Nels Armstrong for index
ing the commissioners report. Arm
strong presented the bill in good
faith as had done his predecessors
but Cart Webb rose up in ibis nigh
and says, "No bill will I sign ap
proved, unless it is strictly legal anc
know it," We heard him say it
and regardless of politics we cheer
ed his policy. But, great redeemer
how he did forget that declaration
The examining board of last yea
censured the commissioners for al
lowing illegal bills, and then Carr
and Jesse, forgetting to stand by the
declaration to investigate the Law
before allowing bill, ruthlessly ant
promiscuously approved everything
that came in. Here is where tn,
We care nothing about the politi
cal buncomb about democrats TO-
past years drawing hundreds of dol.
lars illegal; it takes the figures of 81
years illegal drawing under demo
Gratis to foot up with the three year
of republicans. When it comes tt
paying back SO much by democrat
for thirty years, we will more thai
balance 1t by few swipes like tn
illegal transferring of $20OO.00 b.
Webb and Williams to build a pike
They can be made to pay every cen
of that money back, and it will breal
them up. To the $330O.00 of illega
allowance in 30 ears of democratic
reign, we will add about 100000 o
illegal allowances in the 3 years o
republican reign, and this will sur
enough help out the treasury and re
duce the taxes. Let us crack the bi
whip, let the lash cut whose face |
may. The democrats are ready. w
will bring Cart Webb and Jesse Will
liams down the line, and burst then
and their bondsmen wide open
Thanks, Mr.. Deputy Auditor, for as
sistance in keeping the matter be
fore the people. We insist on tn
suits being entered at once. We ar,
in the right. The people applaud u
on every hand. The other paper
say, 'hush, hush," but there is n
hush. We are too green to hush
We haven't sense enough to keel
our mouth shut, and will go right OF
pointing out tho wrong. We car
not who 1t hurts. An official Is no
q politician, he Is servant Of tn
people and we care not what his pol