Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-16
IN REPLY.
To THE VOTERS OF MARATHON CouS

To THE VOTERS OF MARATHON CoUN
TY:
In his so-called platform, which in
reality is an attack on my official as
well as personal integrity, my opponent,
Mr.. Warren, says that never made a
report of fees received by me as County
Judge to the county board. That is
inferntially charge that L have neg
lected duty required of me as County
Judge.
In reply permit me to say that there
is no law, use or custom requiring such
report and there never was.
The County Judge has no right to
charge any fees to private parties in
settling up estates or guardianships,
except for copies of county court re-
cords when demanded, and all fees for
which the county is liable, a bill must
be rendered or else there is no pay, and
therefore the county board knows to a
cent what it pays.
My opponent promises to hold county
court once month somewhere on the
western line, which he says has never
been done, and criticises me in neglect
ing to do something, which he says,
ought to have been done.
My reply to that charge is, that there
is no law for holding county court for
Marathon county outside the county
seat, and my opponent must know it,
he being lawyeras he advertises HIM
self
Section 244O r. S. 1898, the only sec
ton applying to Marathon county reads;
There is established in each county
a county court which shall be held by
the County Judge at the county seat
of such county unless otherwise pro-
vided by law"
A term of county court held outside
of the county seat as promised by my
opponent would be null and void and
no term at all.
l am now sixty years of age and not
" at the end of the coming term as
stated by Mr.. Warren.
| have lived in the city of Wausau,
in Marathon county nearly all of the
time since 1872; and have been engaged
as teacher, as bookkeeper, as county
clerk for eight years, afterwards was a
member of the assembly, been in mer-
camille business for some years, then
held judicial offices, and this is the
first time in my private and official
life that am charged with delinquency
the charge being made by my opp
nent, and upon what fiimsy pretenses [
have shown already.
| have lived economically and have
saved up home near the south bound
airy line of the city, the result of honest
labor.
In my announcement as a candidate
have made the statement that the
estates in the year 1908 submitted for
probate in county court, amounted
alone for that year to 1858 $50 Is, which
is only in addition to hundreds IF es-
tates and gurdianships then pending,
to which statement Mr. Warren took
exception, saying that the estates of r.
E. Parcher and j. M. Smith alone wo'd
nearly amount to that sum, when in
truth and in fact the estate of r. E.
Parcher, deceased, was not included in
that amount for the reason that pro-
ceedings had been commenced in 1907,
all of which Mr.. Warren could have
easily ascertained from the record, if he
wished to make fair statement.
All other statements of my opponent
in his many letters and communion
tions written either as a Republican to
members of the Republican county COM
mittee or to others without mentioning
his political status, will be found to be
of equal value when tested by truth.
Soliciting the people of Marathon
county for their support by their votes,
and requesting all my friends in every
part of the county for their active assis-
lance, | am, very respectfully,
HENRY MILLER.