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THAT REPQRT.
The report of the legal committee is
certainly a stride in the right direction.
It is, however, nothing more than a
stride.
There is considerable ground yet to
he covered before the work will have
reached its limit for diffusing much
needed Information.
The report recites only what the
Committee has collected, Judgments ren
dered and promises received.
It details no history of expense in
curred in doing this work.
The report was signed by the com
mittee appointed last January, although
the litigation recited covers the entire
life of the committee.
The report does not show that the
county attorney took any part in the
legal actions. The burden of the song
Is simply that the legal committee did
this and did that.
Were it not for the numerous bills
filed by Attorney Harrington one might
infer from the verbose document that
the committee bad prosecuted its‘affairs
Independent of legal counsel.
But accept the report for what it
shows upon Its face. It is material that
far, but the people want more: they
want the Inside.
They want to know:
How much money the committee has
received since Its birth.
What became of It.
now muon not yet paid, that It lias
promited to pay.
What attorney did the work.
It not the county attorney, why not.
i?s How much money received by mem
bers of the committee tor work as such
members. • ■
And how paid.
If in cash, by whom paid and by
whom received.
And If in cash, how came It so.
How many actions commenced by
, the committee that were lost, and the
expense thereof.
In short what is wanted Is an Itemised
statement; a trial balance,
f V If this report is honestly made the
people can decide for thpmselves
whether or not the fight we have made
, upon this sponge has been just. They
ban also judge whether or not it was
necessary to employ Mike Harrington
; to do the work of the county attorney,
and also whether or not the committee
should be abolished and the county at
torney instructed to do the work that
properly belongs to his office, and for
y which he draws a salary, office rent and
fuel thrown in.
In these days of populist domination
every man should be a philosopher and
school liimself in the art of being sur
prised at nothing. In fact such an ac
complishment is an absolute necessity
to the Hoi)t county denizen who desires
to lead\a life free from pertubatlon.
Tho latest inconsistency in the manage
ment of local affairs is heart-rending.
It is a bill filed by Clerk Bethea, in the
amount of $700, for making delinquent
tax list. We do not question the pro
, priety or the legality of this proceedure.
In fact we-believe that under the statute
the clerk is entitled to compensation for
, this work. What we object to is popu
lists making a campaign against repub
licans for doing the same thing. When
republicans received pay for this work
the reformers very emphatically pro
nounced it a steal. In their settlement
with ex-Clerk Buttler the board refused
to allow his bill for similar work. They
secured a judgment against ex-Clerk
Uaselet for bills allowed him for the
same work, and only last week we
found the following astonishing para
graph in the report of the legal com
mittee:
The legal committee intends to bring
another suit against G. C. Hazelet and
his bondsmen for fees for making the
delinquent tax list of 1891, and which
he has never accounted for.
And now to find that Mr. Bethea has
filed a bill for the same identical work,
right in the very teeth of professed re
form, is surprising to say the least. It
teaches us one thing, and that is: that
these reformers are so in name only.
Their actions as public officials entitle
them to be known as nothing but inter
lopers and imposters. Reform, as we
see them practice it, consists of taking
all of the fees taken by republicans
and as much more as they can grasp in
their avaricious claws. These last ob
servations do not apply in particular to
the clerk. They apply to the whole
company of reformers now In control
of the county.
Tri Kearney Hub says “congress will
soon melt away like a beautiful dream.”
Congress hss “melted away,” but it
dissolved more like a “night hoes” than
, “a beautiful dream.”
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INDEPENDENT STEALS.
From Thk Fkontisk, 1894.
At every meeting of tlie board of
supervisors they steal from the county
1188, by charging for the day before
the board meets and the day after it ad
journs. -
Hy awarding the printing of the tax
list to the Independent they have stolen
over $1,500 from the people of the
county.
By employing more help in the treas
urer’s office than is necessary, and more
than was employed under a republican
administration, they are wrongfully
spending the people's money.
By employing more help in the clerk’s
office than is necessary and more than
was employed under a republican ad
ministration, they are robhlng the tax
payers.
By allowing the sheriff two deputies
when he should do all of the work him
self, they are heaping additional bur
dens upon the public.
By recklesly plunging the county into
ill-advised and losing litigation they are
increasing taxes.
Employing John Morrow for a year at
$3.50 per day as assistant expert, was
clearly in violation of our statute.
By calling a grand jury last fall they
heaped thousands of dollars of addi
tional debt upon the county, and the
benefits derived were absolutely nothing.
Being the plurality party they are re
sponsible for the continuance of the
supervisor system, which costs the
county over $50,000 more every year
than that of the commissioner.
Before election Joss Mullen promised
that all the help he would ask would be
one deputy and one clerk. Therefore,
all the help he employs above that num
ber is a steal, according to the words of
bis own mouth.
A GOOD BEGINNING FOR 1805.
The former steals of the pops are
entitled to these additions:
By refusing to accept $50,000 and set
tle with Scott's bondsmen tbe super
visors certainly beat the county out of
mat amount.
By vitiating Scott’s bond the pop su
pervisors defrauded the tax payers out
of an amount equal to Scott’s shortage,
as the bond was worth the amount and
could have been collected.
Every cent paid Mike Harrington is a
legal political steal. He has done noth
ing but the duty of the county attorney,
and they both have received pay.
Every cent paid the legal committee
is a steal, as the work they are doing
belongs exclusively to the county attor
ney and should be performed by him.
Awarding the publishing of the tax
list to tbe Beacon Light this year at its
own figures is a steal almost as large as
that perpetrated in tbe same way last
year.
Paying the treasurer’s chief clerk
$100 more per year than is allowed by
law must be a steal. When republicans
did the same thing the pops pronounced
it a steal and said that if they were
elected they would not do anything of
the kind.
When the county clerk files a bill for
•700 for making tbe tax list, that also
must be a steal. It is a steal because
the populist board of supervisors re
fused to allo^ Ed. Buttler pay for tbe
same work; and the legal committee
even now say they are going to litigate
with Gheyer Haaelet and recover from
him liba amount allowed by a former
board (or Ihla tame work.
TV hen County Attorney Murphy went
to California to take a deposition it waa
an expense that was entirely unneces
sary.
County Attorney Murphy waa sent to
Mexico on two junketing tours. They
were both devoid of results, other than
spending the people’s money.
Frank Campbell's trip to Mexico cost
a neat little sum. He was there to rep
resent the great state of Nebraska, but
did not arreRt his man, neither did he
have him in custody for a moment. He
did, however, advance Cunningham a
considerable sum of Holt county mouey.
This expense was not necessary, there
fore if not a steal, was at least gross
extravagance.
When the county board paid an
Omaha attorney to defend Henry Mur
phy in the case brought against him for
false imprisonment, they surely perpe
trated another steal. They had no
more right to pay for Murphy’s defense
than they had to pay for the defense of
Barrett Scott, John Skirving, Chever
Hazelet, Hank McEvony or even the
three commissioners from whom they
now seek to recover $1,500, claimed to
be short on the sale of those old bonds.
The board paid Judge Roberts for
acting county attorney while Mr.
Murphy was visiting in the east last
January. Both Roberts and Murphy
are certainly not entitled to pay for the
same work.
Office rent and fuel allowed the county
attorney is a little out of the usual
order. When the last county attorney,
who, by the way, was a republican,
asked for these trimmings he was po
litely informed that he could occupy a
portion of the sheriff’s office.
It is stated upon good populist au
thority that the vigilantes have listed
another O’Neill man for the slaughter.
The vigilantes should revise their by
laws and insert the golden rule: “Do
unto others as you would that others
should do unto you.” They should not
only list it among the duties to be per
formed by them, but they should live
up to it in every respect. We cannot
believe that they are foolish enough to
hope that they can continue to kill
without interruption. There is a nat
ural limit to all earthly affairs.
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