Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1909-10-28
Some Of The Money The
Republicans Have Spent.

The Republican party in Frederick
county have spent in the last twelve
years of the taxpayers money in clerk-
Mi;& alone:
Index Clerk to Registero Of Wills, 50, 800 90
Index Clerk in Clerk = O Iice, 5,04O 90
Clerk to County Treasurer, 5000 90
Court Stenographer, 5000 90
A grand total of $50, 400. 90
The above figures are matter of proof.
DR.. Waters, the last Democrat to
occupy the Register of Wills Office,
abolished and diScontinu d the draw
ing of the money from the county for
the benefit of the Ind * Clerk. He
saved the taxpayers of the County
and State over S6, 900 during his term
of office. The next man who ocru-
pied that office was Republican and
he Immediately had it restored upon
his assuming the duties of that office,
and while the amount levied always
has been $500 per year, it has been
increased year after year by the Re-
publicans until it is now $50 per
year.
The Index Clerk in the Clerk 5 Of
flee should be paid from the fees OF
that office. The last six years there
has been no Index Clerk paid by the
taxpayers and saving of 5000 has
been effected during DR.. Hatfner's
term as Clerk of the Court. This saw
ing was brought bout not because it
was intended that the amount should
be saved but because the Republican
boss proposed to dictate the appoint
ment in DR.. Hatfner's office to this
position. The Doctor rebcllcd against
this course and the consequences has
been that the office has been vacant
six years and the taxpayers are prof
iting by this little family disagree
ment.
Alexander Ramsburg, the last Dem
ocrat to occupy the office OF County
Treasurer, paid his own deputy out
of the fees of that office. No sooner
had the Republicans gotten into pow
er bill was passed by the Republic
cans in the Legislature requiring that
$500 of the taxpayers money be levi
ed to pay clerk in the County Treas
urer's Office. This has been increas-
ed to the sum of 5000 per year now
and the taxpayer will have to foot
the bill.
The Court Stenographer is an im-
imported Pennsylvania Republican
who intends going back to his native
heath at the expiration of Judge Mot
ter's term, and gets magnificent
salary for no service he renders the
taxpayers. His salary is likewise in
creased from $500 per annum to what
it is now, $500 He is political
Court House ally paying tribute to
his boss at the expense of the tax
paying public of Frederick county.
This is not all of the Court House
rottenness. The County Commits
sioners' office is full of dead men 8
bones' in the shap, of fees paid to
the various petty road supervisors of
the county; how much it is impossi-
BILE to tell, because of their ability to
cover up the items under the heads
of Contingent Fund" and 'Miscel-
laneous," the amount of which for
1909 is about Sl9, 900. The Com
missioners themselves have increased
their salaries almost double to what
the law contemplates they should get
by their mileage scheme.
Look at the County Statement is
sued this week. You will see, Lewis
F. Carter, constable, gets 500. EN-
ory Nelson, constable, gets $1,000,
$17OO to two constables, out of $2665
levied. The balance (11 other con-
stables) get 1855 between them.
The Clerk to the Commissioners
gets $500 now, and it used to be
but $1,000.
Nobody knows what the money
was spent for under the items "Citi-
zens National Bank Discount" the
total of which is $2i, 1918.
Read your County Statement care
fully.
The Republicans will attempt to
brand these statements as campaign
canard, but the proof is at the hand
obtained from the Republicans them
selves in their own county statements
which are assumed to be true. Legis-
lative action will prove what they did