Pocahontas star herald., 1924-02-22

S14S5.OO delinquent tax that had col
lected and had settlements made up
for at the time of the audit. This de-
linuuent tax and the recharge made
the amount that had settled for.
If Judge Million had known any
thing about the county court records,
or If his learned counsel, that he had
paid for advising him all along, had
known anything about the records,
they could have easily turned to the
records and found that | was charged
with this amount long before he hired
his bunch of imported auditors from
Memphis to make an audit to see what
| owed the county. And when they
made the audit they stated that owed
Randolph County SS224.2S and took
Judgment against me for this amount.
The fact is this, Judge Million came
into office believing that every one
around the court house was a crook
and carrying on a crooked game but
himself. He had held that attitude to-
ward all the county officials all through
his administration, and he thought he
would do something wonderful He
told his imported bunch of auditors
that we were crooked bunch and to
show us up. He told them not to talk
to any of the officials of the county, as
they would throw them Off their course
and cause them to make an erroneous
report.
If you remember, the circuit court
order states that | did not owe the
county any interest on the county
funds. To this Million and his attOr-
news agreed. This is one item that
Judge Million has been raising such
howl about and when 1t comes to a
pinch he threw up his hands and
agreed that | did not owe the county
aut interest. A good portion of the
auditors time while here was devoted
to going through the collectors re-
cords and figuring my daily collections
, for the years Of 1920 and 1921, and
then figuring interest on those daily
collections, because did not make set
Elements with the county treasurer
every thirty days. Thus you can plain
ly see that If | owed the county no
interest land he admitted that l
didn't all this time given by the audi
tors was dead expense to the county.
Judge Million had his imported audi
tors to make a complete audit for the
year of 1922 and also had them to
make up a financial statement of the
condition of Randolph county. These
auditors spent a good portion of their
time working on these two items. This
financial report, am told, shows that
Randolph county was about ten thou
sand dollars to the good. All this
work has been paid for by your county,
paying for it out of county funds and
yet, to this good day, neither the audit
for 1922 nor the financial report, show
] ing that the county was ten thousand
dollars to the good, has ever been filed.
why does not Million file these two
reports to the end that the people may
know If they really got their moneys
worth? These reports belong to the
county and Million is violating the law
| for every day that he holds them out.
Now the records will bear me out in
all that have given you and you
only have to consult them to know that
! | have told you the whole truth.
Now | believe that any reasonable
minded person can see that Million has
not saved the county one penny, but
has spent all the above amount for
nothing and no one got anything out
of il except the Memphis auditors and
his lawyers.
! So If at the time he had his auditors
here checking me up the records show
that | was charged with the amount
that | have since settled for, less the
delinquent, and was bound and under
bond to make all of my settlements
why was it necessary for him to have
an audit made at the cost Of the coun-
] ty when he had the power at any and
all times to make me settle or sue me
on my official bond? To find the
amount that was charged with see
county court record of accounts with
county officers No. s, beginning with
! page II.
/ An appeal has been taken from the
order of the county judge in allowing
the $l3345O audit expense, the $4,000
expense to Ira l.. Sink for his service
in attending circuit court for three
days and the $4,000 that he has al
lowed his lawyers, and 1t is my sincere
desire that the people of Randolph
county may yet be able to keep from
paying for this uncalled for expense.
So hoping that all the above will be
..t.,. D.. tb., ,,F tho Y,pntln aud ia