Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-11-01
MORE ABOUT EXPENSES.

explain away IdcLS. In speaking OF the
bridge business of 1898. the Cresset fig
ures every little culvert that was re-
paired as new bridge. We said, and
we say again, that all the bridges re-
ferred to by the Cresset were not new
bridges but simply repaired ones, and
we reiterate our statement that bridges
were also repaired under the Populist
administration and it all goes in as cur
rent expense. Why does not the Ores
set admit that the salaries of the coun-
ty officers and cost of county printing
1897, if it is half as fair and truthful as
it pretends to be? Wen tell you why:
The republicans don't want the people
to know that they used up $4,000 more
of the peoples money than we charged
them with squandering. Why don't
they answer why the county Is buying
typewriters far the county officers? Be-
cause the Populist board did not buy
them for Populist officers. Why don't
they give reason for employing a
foreign republican expert accountant
for going over and dong the same work
that home republican experts were paid
for doing before? Why don't they ad-
NIT that ii. G. Walker, the Populist
member of the board, voted against it?
They are afraid of their record or they
would admit all these facts.
sHERIFF'S EXPENSES.
The Cresset is foolish enough to at
tempt to refute our statement Of sher-
lifts expenses, and, as in the case of
county expenses, only makes it strong
er in favor of the Popullst party. The
Cresset says our statement that Gano
drew from the county ST. ,321.40 more in
one year and six months than Mills did
during his last term is false. 1t is not
false. Our figures we're taken from the
list of expenditures published In the
official paper and certified to by a re-
publican county clerk, 80 far as Gano
is concerned. The records cannot be
otherwise than correct. But here Is
the Cresset's excuse. "Gano had more
prisoners than Mills" That's our case
exactly. An incompetent republican
county attorney and an extravagant
sheriff worked up cases against men
against whom there was no evidence OF
guilt, went through trials, kept them
in Jail for months and finally turned
them loose. Take it III the last term OF
court, there were II criminal cases, and
only | conviction. The sheriff gets his
fees out of all of these and the county
pays for having kept these men in jai
when they should never have beer
brought here. The Cresset says thai
Sheriff Gano paid out money for cloth
ing for prisoners. IT he did, that is
another fault. The law does not con
template that the county shall buy new
clothes for every man that is arrested
The Jail was not constructed as rem
devious for dudes. Men who ART
brought to jail are not supposed to b.
kept up in style nor treated like bon
tons of society. If Mr.. Ganois in tn,
habit of buying new clothes for prison
ers he is doing wrong. We hav.
never seen him bring in a prisoner wht
was naked. The statement that Mills
took only seven persons to the peniten
Liary, reform school, and insane asy
II, and we think more. The col
lection of tax warrants is a sheriff
duty and each sheriff collected on war
rants issued where property was found
Gano did his duty in that respect 81
far as we know and so did Mills. W.
are dealing with the cost Of each Office
to the county. The figures certified
| by the county clerk are the best au
| thority.
We are willing to give credit for wha
Gano has done, but we want to sum NJ
the good and bad together, compare
with the good and bad of Mills admin
istratiOn and compare the respectiv
results. This is what we have done
We have shown, time after time
that Gano's fees for his first Is month
of service, from the county treasury
were over $500 more than Mills fee
from the same source for his last tw
years.
TAX LEVIES.
We have shown before that when tn
Populists first came into power the lev
on the general fund was as high as te
mills and that when the Populists wer
out of power 1t was down to 2 and
mills. Answering this the Cresset say
Everyone knows that up to two yeal
ago the Populists had been in contr,
of county affairs since $780," No OF
who is informed knows anything Of til
kind. With the exception of one yes
the republicans controlled the board {
commissioners up to 1895, and recer
experience has taught US that republ
can extravaganza in one year can q
more to put the treasury behind tina
Populist economy can do to bring it U
in four years. The Populists were nc