Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1908-10-29

"ouiu nave 10 wait year before
ne could get the cash for ito Peo-
pie needing money badly enough to
give a mortgage on their land, GER
tainly need the same for immediate
use
And that is all there is to the
affidavit matter
In his circular of last week. Mr..
Herolz says:
The public does not care to know
about my private affairs nor where
got the money to make the before
mentioned loans, so long as the mon
ey used was not public funds.
The Record begs to assure MIR.
Herolz that some of the money he
loaned was in the shape of taxes
paid by the people of this county
money that should have all been
deposited in the local banks. to the
end that such banks could sooner be-
gin to pay out currency to their de-
positors. And Mr. Heroic. by his
own admission, admits that he did
use in an illegal manner SOME mo.
ney paid i'm by taxpayers, as shown
by his letter of September 22d. pub
lished in the Record. as follows:
During the above stated period
October 2Sth to January lsD
cashed with county currency four
OF my personal checks, amounting
to total of about $2O4.25. 1 also
cashed few wheat checks which
We're presented to me during the
time above referred to-"
And yet. Mr.. Herolz, although his
action was in direct violation of the
law, you admit to certain loans of
the county currency. And were not
the few wheat checks" cashed by
YOU with county funds given to your
personal friends whom you believed
would support you when you again
came up for office? In other words,
were You not striving to make your
self solid with certain voters by
using the county's money in an en-
tirely illegal manner?
And yet you say in your circular
that II can and do positively deny
having used county money for my
prsonal benefit while i'm the county
treasurer's Office
Now, Mr.. Herolz, which statement
do You wish us to believe-the one
in your letter. of September 22d. pub
lished in the Record. or the one in
your circular launched upon the peo-
pie of Emmons county, .'after the
Record had gone to press and
when there was but one more issue
of the paper to be published, and
only five days before election, Civ
ing insufficient time for the paper
to reach some of the postoffices in
i sAAS oOuSACiu PdIlS vi IIlG county anu
be taken from the office, as many
farmers do not go for their mail
oftener than twice a week.
In regard to the assessment of
Mr.. Herolz's stock in the First Bank
of Linton, of which Mr. E. A. Grain
is president. and of which Mr. Grain
says in his statement in Mr.. Herolz's
circular that ''it has Deen the custom
of this bank to list their shares and
pay them in a lump" the editor will
state that he knows nothing of the
custom OF this bank" but that, find
ing stockholders in other banks pay
ing taxes as individuals. and not
finding such payment bv Mr.. Herolz.
it was reasonable to suppose that
he had not paid it, Mr.. Heroic need
not have waited weeks to give the
facts in regard to this assessment.
and then send it out in circular
after the Record had gone to
press" hut could have published it
in the columns of the Record. as
he did t%o of his letters, and as we
invited him to do with anything he
might %isn to say in regard to our
Icriticisms
Mr.. HeEolz says in his recent circular
that in 1894 ..Strceter ran on the
democratic ticket for clerk of the
court and that he sought the popu-
listic nomination The facts are
these:
In the year named Mr.. H. A. Arm
strong, now another stakeholder in
the First Bank-whose political
methods are about the same as
those of Mr.. Heroic had obtained
control of the county convention
The writer did not go into the Arm
strong convention. and was in no
manner bound by its action. StreeteI
announced himself as an indepen.
dent republican He was Endorsed
by the democrats and afterwards by
the populist convention. consisting
OF about dozen people-in fact
StEeeter was Endorsed by practic
ally everybody who was opposed Il
the Armstrong methods. During
that campaign the Record carried
the republican state ticket in iti