Marshall County Republican

"Our Efficient Auditor" Again.

The Democrat is terribly exercised over the exposures we made the other week of "our efficient Auditor's" blunders. It admits the correctness of one of the specifications, but insists that some one else is responsible for the other. We cannot understand how, if "our efficient Auditor is guilty of the first blunder, his predecessor could commit the second, provided last year's duplicate was correct, which, we understand is the fact. Did not our efficient Auditor or his deputy, copy the duplicates entire this year? We admit that the best qualified men may sometimes commit errors in copying tax duplicates, but if they exercise the usual precaution such errors, if any, will be discovered. The fact that "our efficient Auditor" failed to discover the blunder until it was pointed out to him, proves conclusively that he is a careless officer, unfit to be trusted with such important business, and also justifies the inference that he has made scores of similar blunders since he has been in office.

The Democrat thinks no one but an abolition editor would have thought for a moment of manufacturing political capital out of such flimsy material, and adds "All we have to say in relation to the matter is that even an abolitionist is hard run for capital when he invests in such stock."

It may now appear to the Democrat to be small business to point out the blunders of an Auditor, but when "our efficient Auditor himself run the machine," he did not so regard it, but with an unscrupulousness which doubtless made the devil himself tremble, lest he should be eclipsed as a falsifier not only talked and blathered by the column about some imaginary blunders of his predecessor, but went round in the night painting the fences and side-walks with figures to expose a ridiculous blunder one of our young typos made in correcting the annual exhibit, but for which he repeatedly insisted, for the purpose of manufacturing political capital, upon holding the Auditor responsible. He enjoyed the sport amazingly of pointing out imaginary blunders of the then incumbent of the office he now holds, but thinks it rather unbecoming in us to expose his real ones. Shamocracy, truly, is represented by all her votaries.

In regard to the challenge the Democrat sends us, offering to find five blunders committed by Auditor Fuller while in office for each one committed by any Democratic Auditor this County ever had, we must decline at present for obvious reasons, but will accept it on even terms after the close of Auditor Thomson's term. What say you, neighbor?