The state herald., 1901-04-26
bushes. a. . so went busln.s. man, aud

the only defense to the debt . purely
technical one. Here is debt incurred
BY the people Of this county through
their officials regularly elected to Office
md every claim included In this debt
has been passed upon by the board Of
county commissioner, aided by the sd-
vice Of county attorney. and BY this
board pronounced good and valid clsim
against the county and allowed and the
clerk has BY them been ordered to draw
= warrant on the county treasurer for
the payment Of same. This warrant
bears the signature OF the chairman Of
the board Of county commissioners and
the county clerk and also the county
seal. Most OF these warrants were de-
livsred to the people Of our own county
In payment for claims which they had
against tho county and, % they could
net Be paid At the tune Of issus, they
we're sold to parties who had mosey 70
invest IN such paper. The people Of this
county received most Of the money rep
resented BY these warrants and 1t 10 not
at all likely that they now Wish, BY at
tempting to repudists this debt, 70
plead guilty to having sold to innocent
purchasers worthless county paper. That
is exactly the position that tho writer Of
the Republican article would have the
people Of this county take on this quss-
tion. Tie parties who bought these
county warrants could not COLLECT their
money and finally sued the county and
- the county made No defense, judge
msnt was taken. The county coumis
sionsrs issued county bonds to satisfy
these Judgements. When thsss war
rants we're sued upon was the proper
time for the advocates OF rspudistion 10
have made defence ssainst judgement
on the warrants but NO word Of opposi.
tion 70 judgement was herd and the
attorneys Of Rolyoke without exception
we're all employed in bringing sctions on
these warrants. These bonds represent
. valid Indebtedness Of this county. In
oludsd in this debt 10 the running sx.
pensss Of the county for eight months
OF the year 1889. whsn the county was
cut of from Logan II Was loft without
any funds With which to pay expenses
till tax levy could b. collected. Some
Of the debt without question was the 70.
snlt OF extrsvagsnoe aud bad manage
ment on the part Of county odfieiala
but even that the people OF the county
are in duty bound to pay, for these mes
were put into these oficss BY the vots
Of the county. The proposition to re-
pudiats this debt 10 . plain proposition
to repudiats simply and solely On the
ground Of tsohiscslity and, IL the pso-
pie Of this county Are ready to endorss
such violation OF business morals ~
this would be. then We bsvs formed .
radically wrong opision Of their standing
on such questions - this.
The legal editor or would-bs legal
editor Of the Republican insists that the
question OF the validity Of these bonds
should bs tested and yet in commenting
on the question Of attempting TO collect
the tack tax from the B. 4. n. Co, he
says:
ANY attempts 10 compel the payment
Of this tax is futile aud the action begun
by W. d. Kelsey some time ago IN ths
district court to that end va ill-sdvissd
and rightfully dismissed BY Judge
Armour"
We arc not posing ~ supreme court
and consequently have 20 oooasioa tr
psss on the correctness Of Judge Arm
ours action IN dismissing this cause bul
the Republican writer evidently over
looked the fact that his comment On the
Kelsey case conflicts somewhat With hii
appeal to the people " have the quss
iion OF the validity Of these bonds testst
IN the courts. The anton commsncsd
by Mr.. Kelsey vould have tsstsd thii
question just ~ effectively - any action
thst cas- b had. 6oms time during tbs
early part Of 1880 the board q oosuty
commissioners entered into an agree
msnt With W. d. Kelsey by which b
was 10 bring an action st h,s ewn ex'
psuss for the collection Of tho esok u,
Of the b. 4 N. TO aud 10 csss Of his sue
cess IN making the collection, hs vss u
have q certaiu collection fes. A. ths
the last meeting VI the board Of count,
commissioner Mr. kelsey presented {
petition to the board asking that ths
county take the csss on Of his hspds and
prosecute 10 In the ssprems court but
his offer was not accepted. We an
crsdibiy informed that the oass VII
bs taken up on writ Of error from tbs
district court and u the RspublIcsa sdi
tor 10 20 very anxious 10 have this quss
ton tested he should shos his goec
iaith by volunteering his nbls legal Ger
vices In prosecuting The csss 10 spsed,
termination. He IL excssdinsly auxiou'
10 have the question tested snd still b,
hes examined the question 20 thorough
y that he knows tos csrtain,y. In hi
own mind, thst the cosrt oi nnal resor
vili hold that the bonds are not valid
We do no, presume 10 cay vbst III
courts may do IN this case but thsrs 4
10 question what the higher courts hav
done IN similar Gases and the decision