Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-04-09
Communications

Editor Bismarck Tribune: We note
the communication in your issue OF
Monday evening in which County
Treasurer KositZky seems very much
peeved because We exposed the fact
that lists of names of Burleigh county
taxpayers were being compiled and
sent in to eastern mail order houses.
He states that he has never made up
a mailing list since he has been treas.
urer and to prove that assertion he
says: 'tMr. McMaster and Mr.. Poole
have also been seen in the court house
at various times at night when no
officers were in their respective Of
fices.' Very conclusive proof, we
must say.
He also says: 'tMr. McMaster has
knowingly attacked me from time to
to time with falsehoods." A ground
less assertion. We have criticized
his conduct and told Of his actions in
and out of the court house-and will
continue to do so-but in each and
every case we have confined ourselves
to the naked truth. There was-and
is-'plenty of material to work on
without manufacturing anything.
Mr.. Kositzky has been a meddler
and a trouble breeder since the first
day he entered the coutny treasurer's
office He could not attend to his
own duties and let the other county
officials attend to theirs unmolested.
He started in at once to oversee the
entire court house and to dictate the
duties of each officer. He has quar-
relied with practically every county
official up to the present time. He an
tagonized Commissioners Ecklund and
Webb when they were on the board;
he was continually at war with /. w.
Healy- when he was county auditor.
He opposed Commissioners Davies
and Vesperman when they We're APP
pointed and tried to prevent them TAX
ing their seats; he tried to dictate the
election of the chairman of the board
and refused to pay warrants when he
failed in the attempt; he has always
antagonized Commissioner Patterson;
he tried to put skids under Commits
sioners Thompson and Korn because
they would not submit to his dictation
in all things: he is now engaged in a
desperate effort to name his success
sor in office and is fighting the entire
county board because they refuse to
place his candidate on the pay roll
and thus furnish him the money with
which to make his campaign. He was
instrumental in calling a grand jury
that wasted about a thousand dollars
of the county funds and secured no
results; he went before committee
of the last legislature and tried to get
bill passed to increase his allowance
for deputy hire, and it was proved con-
clusively by the county records that
there was no truth in his representa-
tons and the committee turned him
down cold and one of it's members
called him liar to his face; he in
stigated and was prime mover in
the recent recall election which cost
the city $3.50 and accomplished moth
ing.
A while back a reform paper men
tione him as a candidate for state
treasurer against Gunder Olson; he
himself solicited support for the Of
flee of sheriff with the intention OF
running against Frank Barnes at the
coming primaries; failing in that he
solicited support for state senator
with the intention of coming out
against George WEIGH; that not bring
ing the desired results he next tried
for county Judge; still nothing doing
and he fell back on the Office of reg
lister of deeds; no enthusiasm being
stirred up he tackled the Office OF
clerk of the court and made an effort
to secure support for that position;
still no results and he is now laying
his wires with a view to getting the
nomination for county commissioner
from his district.
He has not a friend today in the