The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-01-02

me general council % paythe other
Claimant.
II would seem that IL Mr.. Wal
tiers has a valid claim to the ONCE,
he should proceed through legal
means, to Gust Mr. Dorian. II the
courts should decide that Mr.. Dorian
lis not eligible and that Mr.. Walters
lis elected city treasurer, 1t would not
be necessary to declare martial Law
| In order to drive Mr.. Dorian from the
Office. He would step down and out
with Celtic good humor. Mr.. Dorian
was duly elected, his bond approved
and his acts recognized as valid.
Moreover, he has the sanction OF the
states attorney general for consider
| ing himself eligible and legally elect
ed Most assuredly Mr.. Dorian is as
much city treasurer and as eligible
now. as he was the first of January.
1908. The legal status OF his posses
sion has not deteriorated, but rather
his claim OF right has improved by
ltacit recognition of his acts up to
this time.
1t looks decidedly as though the
Interests behind the adventurer. Wal
tiers, are overly eager to get at the
funds, and as though Mr.. Mcintyre is
a willing agent. Mr., Walters tried
lever so hard to have his bond accept
ell by the general council; but the
legislative department had already
accepted the bond of Mr.. Dorian for
treasurer, and it looked to the menu
bers as though Mr.. Walters should
prove his right to the Office in court
before he asked the general council
to stultify its own action. Then by
attorney he endeavored to prevent
Mr.. Dorian from drawing the salary
he had already earned. In this he
failed. Mr.. Dorian collected the city's
taxes until December 81.
On January L, the city clerk, forth
fed with a gratuitous opinion from
the city solicitor, certainly no better
authority than the states attorney
general who holds exactly the oppo-
site, set himself up as Poo Bah, and
declare that he and not the general
council is the proper Authority to
pass upon and approve bonds. ana
that he approves Mr.. Walters bond.
The revelation did not come to the
Poo Bah OF the city hall until all the
taxes were collected and city licenses
were due. He happens to be the gem
itleman. who issues licenses, while
the treasurer and auditor receipt for
taxes and that is the end of the lat
ter transaction. He had it in his
power to arbitrarily refuse to recog-
nize receipts from the city treasurer,
on which licenses are issued: where
fore he---Pshaw. he never thought Of
that-hisi managers thought of the
scheme to fortify his arbitrary action
by an equally arbitrary decree that
he has the right 10 approve bonds,
and he approves Walters bond
3What right has city clerk to say
Who is treasurer and who not? Mr..
Dorian has been acting as city treas
orer ever since Maurice Mcintyre ha>
|bfen clerk. and Mcintyre has recog-
,qtzed his receipts as valid. Isn't Mr..
Bvrian's right to the ofice OF city
treasurer as valid now as IT has been
at any time since the election of
1907? Isn't II is valid now as ii has
been at any time since the election
'of 1908? II Mr.. Mcintyre has the
right to settle for himself who is city
treasurer and he thinks Mr.. Dorian
lis ineligible, why has he not refuses
to accept Dorian's receipts up to this
time?
However this lawsuit. inevitable
NOW. may be decided. 1t has nothing
Ito do with the shadow play, in which
IAeIntyre and Walters are the mani.
kins. Mcintyre turns from the man
lin the treasurer's Office. whose re-
'ceipts he has accepted up to now, and
sides with an adventurer, who has
not perfected .egal step to get
possession OF the city treasurer's
Office. the city records and the hooks
In the treasurer's Office. and need
lessly and recklessly confuses the
n m q fo1 I'd of. Of