Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-25
SOME SIDE LIGHTS.
Mr.. Walters Official Record Not So Clean,
So Says "Citizen.'

Mr.. Waters Official Record Not So Clean,
So Says "Citizen.''
EDITOR GAzETTE:-I would
like to call attention Of the
voters of Benton county to a few
facts relative to the administra-
ton of the clerks Office by Mr..
Waters.
He is claiming OH the canvass
and it was claimed for him by
the Corvallis Times, that he saw
ed this county some money by
doing the work of registering
himself without special deputy
for that purpose; but it is fact
that he at first asked the mef1-
bers of the county court for
special deputy to register voters,
then afterwards told them he
would do the work himself if
they would pay him what a dep
uty would cost, and that is the
understanding under which Mr..
Waters did the registration
work. He had plenty of time to
do this work, but must have ex-
ira pay and is to receive extra
compensation for it although he
gets $500 per annum for his ser
vices bv statute, and his deputy,
Mr.. Moses draws down every six
months $88 or $176 yearly as
such deputy.
The fact is Mr.. Waters has
been a costly appendage to Ben
ton county. He takes extra pay
for transcribing tax rolls, he
takes pay for his ::deputy's ser
vices to copy journal entries pre-
pared for him by the attorneys in
the various cases that come be-
fore any of the several courts,
whilst Hon. B. w. Wilson and
Ira Hunter when clerks did and
Mr.. Crabtree, clerk of Linn
county, does all this work, and
in fact all clerks except Mr.. Wat
ters do this work without having
the forms written out for them.
Mr.. Wilson was clerk of the
courts held during his admins
tration as was also Mr.. Hunter,
while during Mr.. Waters ad-
ninistration the attorneys in the
cases are theIreal clerk, he being
a mere copyist or alnenuensis.
Still lie is always ready to draw
his full salary and all extras he
can get. He has never been a
friend to Benton county. He
buys all the supplies for the
clerks Offices and for as many
other places as he can get the
privilege at high prices and from
one firm, without taking bids for
the same, just because this firm
"treats" him very nice. Is it
not little queer that Mr.. Wat
tiers is the only county official
that is able to get fine cabinet
or paper file brought to the court
house and then it is presented"
by Mr.. Walters to his dear friend
the lawyer. Is it not little
odd that the Corvallis Times
should make special mention
that Mr.. Waters recently ad-
vocated to the county court the
purchase of new files in his office
at a cost of hundreds of dollars to
the tax payers when the court
hesitated to make the expendi-
lures, and when everybody knows
Benton county was already better
supplied with equipments for
clerks office than any other
county in the state? 1t is lit
tie odd unless we remember that
Mr.. Walters would like to bene-
fit SOMEONE who had the goods to
sell, and wanted his attention
called to the fact by publishing
the same in the Times.
It is fact that Mr.. Waters
has held office most of the time
since coming into the county,
and desires to continue the rest
of his life. Some of us would
not object so much to his holding