Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-11-03

DAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1870
More About Fees!
Last Weeks Expose Of the Rotten At
tack on Sheriff Campbell with a
Reply to Gallup's Affidavit.
A small knot of small.bore Cresco
politicians have been for some time
concocting garbled statement of the
sheriff's last fee report, with the
county auditors authority. 1t was
carefully kept .the dark until the
last moment and only needs little
puncturing to leave it like "a Chinese
stink-pot-nasty bit harmless.
In the published proceedings of the
Board of Supervisors made at its Jan.
1908, session as published in the news
papers of the county, furnished to
them OFFICI tLLY by the County
Auditor we find the following:
"Sheriff's quarterly report for the
quarter ending June 30, 1902, showing
the fees charged s215 So, fees received
S174.Sl, and balance due $4O.75, WAS
APPROVED.
Sheriff's report for the half year
ending Dec. 81, 1902 under the new
Sheriff's law was submitted and AP-
PROVED BY THE BOARD
Said report is as follows.
Salary charged. :. 1890. 90
Salary collected. 2o1. 90
Balance salary due. ...... 10000
Fees charged. d................... 261. .65
Fees collected by sheriff. ...... 81 10
Bal. Due Payable to County S229.95
Mileage charged .49 90
Mileage collected. ). ~. .23 10
Bal. Due Payable to County $3.50
Bal. salary due. ..... .......... 600
Less fees collected. ............. 81 10
Net bal. due sheriff ...... .66s. 30
Why did the County Auditor
stop in his quotation from his
report just before the line "Bal.
due to County, $229.95?" Be-
cause a TRUTHFUL statement
would not serve their purpose.
Here is something which the audit
impression against the integrity of
the sheriff forgot to incorporate in
his published communication, to
the republican press of the county
though he furnished 1t to the news
papers last January as part Of the
OFFICIAL Board proceedings:
"The balance of fees and mile
age due the county as shown by
said report are hereby ordered
collected by the Clerk and turn
ed over to the County Treasurer
with the fees Of his office and the
Clerk is hereby requested to des-
ienate the sheriff S fees and mile
age so turned in to the treasury
separately in his reports to this
Board"
Perhaps the county auditor had he
been as anxious to give the people the
TRUTH as he was to convey an un-
truth could have reported the prog
ress the Clerk has made in such col
lections.,,
Further ION in the proceedings Of
the board the auditor OFFICIALLY
reported to the newspapers that:
1.-THE following resolution was
adopted: Resolved, that the clerk Of
the District Court be and he is here
by instructed to collect all fees and
other delinquent costs due and un-
paid on the Judgment dockets of his
office and to issue executions for that
purpose where necessary"
The county auditor in the "coM-
munication" he has furnished the pa
pers, touching this matter, has made
an aggreAated charge against the
ability and integrity of the Board of
Supervisors and the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court. Figures don't lie, but
liars sometimes manipulate them
falsely,
The county auditor in giving out
the figures stopped short when he
came to the action of the board of
supervisors touching the matter upon
which he gave out the figures. This
report, had 1T been fully published,
with the action of the Board pertain
ing to 1t, and with the resolution of
the Board turning the entire matter
over to the clerk, it would not have
served their purpose.
The Communication" which appear
ed In the Lime Springs Sun, of the
29th, was furnished to the republican
papers of the county several days ago,
and under instruction was held until
it was supposed that all opportunity
to show up its false suggestions and
insinuations