Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-06-29

THE Republican papers up in
Jefferson county raised Hades be-
cause Judge Weiner, elected a
Democratic member of the County
Court, was stakeholder in and
Vice. President of the bank which
would probably be selected as
county depository. Whereupon
Judge Weiner sold out his stock
in the bank and dropped out of its
directory. He obeyed the spirit of
the law given in Secs. 1902 and
4093, which read as follows:
SECTION 4092.-No judge of any
county court in the state shall, di-
rectly or indirectly, become a party
to any contract to which such
county is a party, Dr. to act as any
road or bridge commissioner, Ell
Their general or special, or keeper
of any poor person, or to act as
director in any railway company
in which such county or any town
ship, part of a township, city or
incorporated town or village there
in is a stock holder, or to act as
agent for the subscription of any
stock voted to any railroad by any
county or subdivision thereof.
SECTION 4093.-Any judge of the
county court who shall violate any
of the provisions of the next pre-
ceding section, or who shall do
any of the acts or enter into any
of the contracts prohibited or de-
clared unlawful in said section,
shall be punished by a fine not ex-
ceeding one thousand dollars for
each ~offense, or by imprisonment
in the county jail not exceeding
six months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment,
VIM. T. Gay, a Republican, is
Presiding Judge of the Iron Coun-
ty Court and President of the
Bank Of Ironton. The court last
week made that institution county
depository for the ensuing two
years, the bank obligating itself
under bond to pay interest for the
use of the county money as shown
by the daily balances. This looks
to me like a "contract," pure and
simple. Still, as / am no lawyer,
/ may be wrong in my conatruc-
ton OF statutory English IS 1t is
writ; but II Mr.. Gay was q Demo-
crat would not the Rev. DR.. Swift
be swearing that the statutes were
being outraged, tearing his hair,
and demanding In the name of JUS
tice that the law be enforced to the
letter? When Collector Lewis
sinnsd through ignorance did not
the members of the aforesaid bank
call in Prosecuting Attorney Dam
ron and demand that the whole
"pound of flesh" be exacted?
When full restitution of the coun-
ty's loss through the remissness of
the Collector was made, his pur-
: suers were not satisfied, sternly
insisting that about $500 addition
al penalty WAS needed to atone to
the offended law. But the county
court having given the Collector
quittance, MI. Damron refused to
prosecute further. Whereupon
Cashier L. A. Cook wrote to the
Attorney General demanding Mr..
DIS removal from Office for de-
reelection of duty. l recall these
facts to show how highly virtuous
we are, and how insistent upon
"socking it to" offenders, in GER
tain cases. With conditions re-
versed-with a Democratic Presid-
ing Judge who was at the same
time President of the bank made
depository of the county funds
the Rev. DR.. Swift would be re-
producing the foregoing sections
OF the law in bold-faced type with
caption in letters at least a half
inch high. l am not after ''the
pound Of 6esh;" I merely desire
to set out the difference between
the goring of my OK and yours
from the Republican point Of view.
Hammond's oleomargarine and