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y*r;S: , .•». x^y* 4 ^ f<-'*)££/.< * 5*'.. *~#FJ'; # ,/bPERA HOUSE, McHENR*? ' ' . > " . / ! '• '% "• • v'toimfi-; '?• 7-~ • • 'W^>> * V* • SUNDAY JULY 2 *V% -AND THE- BEVERIDGE PLAYERS ^'v-' " *{b's$ ; ' s • *~i T *>> ffv • ^VV; Mo iV\* r* . \; - & 1 * tr .S' ", ., "* ^, *§• : ̂ ' <"' " - ^ C>" f1 ,;"- S^> ."jtfY EUGENE WALTERS of "Md.ia Full" A comedy drama of real life Between Arts prices: : 25c, S5e» 50c SEATS ON SALE AT PETESCH'S FAIR GROUNDS j , ; Woodstock ' BASKET FAIR GROUNDS Woodstock ~:P0« Tuesday, July Fourth '" ' ADDRESSES BY KM. CHAS. ADKIHS ION. R. B. SWIFT Former Speaker of the Illinois -House of Representatives Pres. of Milk Producers Assn. of Chicago Milk District rJPHESE MEN are actively interested in the welfare of the farm­ er and have a message of congratulations and good cheer IF^efa should be heard by everybody. £ While this is a Basket Picnic the Greenwood ladies are pre- Lf paring to serve dinner at the dining hall for all who desire. fj/; Afternoon Program: Harness and Auto Races, Base i> 'j Ball Games and Sports for old and young * -- ; t ALL DAY CONCERT BY WOODSTOCK BAND Admission, 25c the Person. Children under 12 years and Vehicles FREE '• IK ITIEIIRY PLA1NDEALER muan» eveky Thursday by V F. a SCHREINER :<p* i« Btnk BuHdisig Teicpiscna *-W_ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: OnYiir.../....: .$1.M Stat Month*, 75c Three Month*, <Mc Thursday, June 29, 1916 $ ' ~ i <? : ^ • ^Candidate for State's Attorney "l- f hereby "announce myself a candi­ date for the Republican nomination for state's attorney. V. S^Lumley. , "iY '* 5" ' V --M--y--• For Circuit Clerk T nereby announce myself a candi­ date for the Republican nomination for the office of Circuit Clerk of Mc- Henry county at the Republican pri­ maries to be, held on Wednesday, September 13, 1916. *8 ^ Thos.F. Nolan. For State's Attorney am ft candidate for renoraination as state's attorney of McHenry coun­ ty. If the manner in which I have ^conducted the affiairs of that office during my incumbeney meets with your approval I will appreciate your support at the Republican primaries «« September 13, 1916. David R. Joslyn. *' For State's Attorney ' "I' tw®bv announce myself a candi- for ihe Republican nomination for the office of State's Attorney of McHenry county at the Republican primaries to be held on Wednesday, .September 13, 1916. 1 aqjc every v«ter a»d tax payer te read my platform and pledge. £8 Charles P. Barnes. To the Voters of McHenry County I am again a candidate for the of­ fice of circuit clerk. I have at all times endeavored to conduct this of­ fice to the satisfaction of all. Effi­ ciency, courtesy and fairness have been the watchwords of my office. If you are satisfied, I should appreciate your vote at the primary on Sept 13, next. I am satisfied with my job and perfectly willing to serve another term without a raise in salary. Yours very truly, Theo. Hamer. VOLO Mrs. Ben Rosing spent Friday in Fremont. Ray Paddock was a Wauconda vis­ itor Saturday. Dr. D, G. Wells of McHenry was here Saturday. * Mr. and Mrs. John Walton spent Sunday at Grayslake. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Stadtfeld were McHenry callers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and Francis spent Sunday in Wauconda. Mrs. Ben- Cushmas of Rollins was a caller at the Kirwan hom^ last Fri­ day, Rev. and Mrs. Williams of Wau­ conda spent Thursday last with Miss Ella Moore. ^ Mr. and Mrs. F. Crocker and Miss Weiis of Libertyviile spent Sunday at Iaee Huson's. The carpenters have started work on the new livestock barn to be erect­ ed by F. ffl. Wattles 0n John street on the W«t Side. '\.Vv & IgnoreSi Coijrt Dicisions and Rulings Attorney General ; •*$! OUR TAXPAYERS LOSE OVER $5000.00 OF SCHOOL HONEY m. • When our present State's Attorney entered upon the duties of hLg present office in December, 1908, by law he at once became the'eworn representative aod attorney of the people and taxpayers of this county, and waa charged by taw and his oath of offi«e with the duty of protecting our school money. lie held a fiduciary relation toward the people and taxpayers, who then became his clients, and insofar ae protecting our school money and the interests of the people and taxpayers was con­ cerned, he occupied the position of bein® their guardian. ^ • When he took the office in December, 1908, the law in relation to the dispoaltlon that should bejttiade of all fines imposed by our Justice# of the Peace, read as follows: "It shall be the duty of the Justices of the Peace to enforce,.the collection of all fines ' • ^Imposed by them, by any lawful means, and when collected the same, shall be paid toy this ^ .justice col lectins the same to the county superintendent of the cofcinty in which the same imposed." (See Hurd's Revised Statute#, 1908, Sect. 271, Chant. 122, Page 1956.) - This statute wae plain, clear ami explicit. It was one of the lawe that our State's1 Attorney had sworn to enforce, in addition to the eoiemn. pledge he had made in writing over his owfi signature, that if elected he would honestly account to our school funds. * In the very face and teeth of this state law our present State's Attorney, between March 1st, 19l0, and December 1st, 1911, fraudulently and illegally collected and received over $6,000.00 of justice fines, which, under the statute above given, it clearly was the duty of our Justices to pay directly ;o our county superintendent of schools acid not to our State's Attorney. (The sworn reports of our State's Attorney, now on file, with County Clerk Guy E. Still, Show the receipt by Joslya of Ov6r . |5,000.00' in such justice fin%» during said time.) * „ Our State's Attorney was so, determined to obtain the money on all justice fines that h® illegally caused the arrest of Justice Robert E<sh of Spring Grove, who dared to question the right of our State's Attorney to gather ik the justice fines that should have been paid to our county superinten­ dent. • Justice Eah believed it to be his duty to pay the amount of the line he held directly to our county superintendent, but when arrested and brought to Woodstock he surrendered his fine to our State's Attorney and was released. Esh still holds /the receipt of our State's Attorney for the fine of $60.00. - During the same time (from March 1st, 1910, to December 1st, 1911). to cover up this sum of over $5,000.00, thee In the pocket of our State's Attorney, he padded his suborn reports by fraudu­ lently and illegally charging up illegal fees and illegal commissions amounting to more than $5000.00. He even charged an illegal commission of 10 per cent on all the justice fines he had so wrongfully aod illegally received^ Two ol his sworn reports, now on file with our county clerk, show all these illegal charges. * Having thus illegally received over $5000.00 in justice fines, in order to retain the same and profit thereby, he had to fradulently pad his sworn reports by making up Illegal charges equaling the amount he desired to thus wrongfully retain from our school funds. This he did, and the padded items are all clearly shown hi his reports, whi.ch he swore were true and correct and which were passed up to our County Court lor* approval. Imagine the extremely embarrassing position of our State's Attorney, on July 3rd, 1911, and again on February 29th, 1912, when the County Court of this county, in two separate sweeping de­ cisions rendered on these two sworn reports, decided that in said two reports (one covering otte year and the other the next nine months) our State's Attorney had wrongfully received and illegally collected justice fines totalling over $5000.00 and that he was the# also wrongfully withholding said sum from our county school funds and that he had also charged up agaipst the same, during said time, illegal fees amounting to over $5000.00. • Voters and taxpayers of this county, did you*"ever know of either of these two decisions of our County Court at the time they were rendered or before this exposure was started? Someone should explain to the voters of this county why these two decisions of our County " Court, which clearly held that our State's Attorney was looting our county school funds, were not then published broadcast throughout this county so our voters could have known in 1911 and 1912 what our State's Attorney was then doing to our school funds. When Joslyn sought re-election in 1912 not two dozen taxpayers of this entire county knew of and understood these court decisions, and at that time no figures or court records had been published that understanding^ showed his fraudulent dealings with our school funds. On the rendering of either of said court decisions, our present State's Attbrney ought then to have been publicly branded by every newspaper in this county as being a dishonest public official and totally" unfit to longer hold any office of trust and much less the important office of State's At­ torney of this county.' . . With our County Court decision of July 3rd, 1911, against our State's Attorney, and seeing that he was likely to be compelled by our County Court to disgorge this sum of over $5000.00 that he had so received on justice fines (contrary to our stdbe law above given) on February 5th, 1912, our pres­ ent State's Attorney wrote a letter to our Attorney General, and asked our Attorney General to make a ruling as to whether, under the above statute, the justices of this county were in duty bound to pay their fines directly to our county superintendent of schools or whether they should pay the same to our State's Attorney. . In his letter to our Attorney General he was extremely careful to make no mention of the fact that he then had, in his own private pocket, over $5000.00 of such justice fines that belonged to our county school funds. He did not even hint to our Attorney General that on July 3rd, 1911, our County Court had de­ cided that he must give up those justice fines. It would be absurd for anyone to claim that at the time the wrote this letter (in February, 1912) our brilliant State's Attorney did not then know that our Attorney General had twice ruled on the exact question, early in 1909. He knew it then and he knew of the state law and the previous rulings of our Attorney (general in 1909 all the time he was ille­ gally receiving these justice fines. The very peculiar wording of the letter of our State's Attorney to cur Attorney General on this point fully shows nis extreme cunning and his ability to evade. He worded it as follows; "Have I the right, as State's Attorney, to receive from Justices of the Peace of my county the money that has been cni)|«at«d by such Justices of the Peace on fines imposed by them in criminal' cases where I have appeared as prosecutor, and also where such fine* were imposed by justices in criminal cases where i did not appear arid was not represented by any of my assistants? Or must said Justices of the Peace turn over the amount of suoh fines to the county superintendent of schools?" (See 1912 repcrt of Attorney General, page 523.) On February 7th, 1912, our Attorney General sent a letter to our State's Attorney that would have caused amy honest State's Attorney to have quickly found our county superintendent of schools and turned into our school funds every penny of these justice' fines that he was then wrongfully and illegally withholding. However, Joslyn did not do this because he was not and is not an honest State's Attorney. In the letter mentioned our Attorney General again ruled (and plainly told our State's Attorney) that our justices must pay thoir lines directly to our county superintendent of schools, and that our State's Attorney had no right whatever under the law to receive or retain such fines. (See letter of former Attorney General Stead to David R. Joslyn,-State's Attorney, in printed published report of Attorney General for year of 1912, page 523.) In his letter our Attorney General referred our State's Atto/ney to a previous ruling of the for­ mer's offic^ made in January, 1909, where the Attorney General had used this language: - "The law as applicable to the State's Attorneys now in offioe does not give sucti State's Attorneys lien upon the judgment. Therefore, a Justice of the Peace, when a fine; has been collected by him, has no prior lien of the State's Attorney to satisfy, and in my Judgment it is his duty under th,e school act to turn over the amount of fine collected by him lb the oounty superintendent of schools and not to the State's Attorney." (See 1910 report of Attorney General, page 463.) . - . Could language be plainer or a ruling more explicit than the above, to which our Attorney Gen­ era^ called our State's Attorney's attention? In March, 1909, just after our State's Attorney took office, In a sianllar public and published rul­ ing made by our Attorney General, he bad also said: / • "ynder the provisions of said paragraph 271, it is the duty of the Justice of the Peace to pay over tp the county superintendent of schools of his county all fines imposed and col­ lected by him. It is apparent, therefore, that, in the instance cited by you, the justice was unauthorized to pay the fine over to the State's Attorney. He should have paid it to the county superintendent of schools. It results, therefore, that the State's Attorney would not be authorized to retain this fine and apply the same in payment of his fees earned in other ^ ' cases. "I am therefore of the opinion that the State's Attorney is not entitled to a ten per cent collection fee for collecting the fine referred to in your letter, and that the State's Attor* -J ney is not authorized to rota in the said fine or any portion thereof in payment of his fees earned in other qases." (See 1910 report of Attorney General, page 464.) Our State's Attorney has always charged the illegal 10 per cent collection fee on all justice fines. The letter and ruling of our Attorney General, above shown, on February 7th,* 1912, was one more body blow to our State's Attorney in his bold attempt to grab off. and keep in his own pocket another sum of ov%r $5000.00 of our county school funds. By this ruling "of the Attorney General's office he was again caught redhanded ih withholding from our county superintendent of schools over $5000.00 of justice fines that should have been paid by our justices, as fas* as received, directly to our county superintendent. • . " ^ Our Attorney General never hinted In anjr one of his three holdings above shown that there eKer was any question as to tho law governing this matter, and there never was. Please re-read the above statute and form your own conclusion. -- It was only questioned when a State's Attorney was reaching out and trying to grab off the tax­ payers' school money. If our State's Attorney had had the least desire to deal honestly with our school funds and was not trying to keep over $5000.00, on which he had no valid claim, he would have immediately turned this money over to our county superintendent of schools after this ruling was made by&our Attorney General. This he did not do. A littie later, and on February 29th, 1912, a second decision was rendered by our county court on another sworn report o< our State's Attorney, and this decision likewise held that our State's At­ torney must disgorge these justice fines. It also held that in only nine months our State's Attorney had charged up against these justice fines nearly $2000.00 of illegal fees and illegal commissions. This is the printed court decisions 1 recently sent to the voter3 of thlB county. It now stands as follows: There are three rulingB from former Attorney General Stead, and two decisions of our County Court, each to the effect that our present Stale's Attorney illegally re­ ceived in one year and nine monlhs over $5000.00 in justice fines, which he is still withholding from ; our county school funds. These three holdings of our Attorney General and the two decision® of our County Court have utterly failed to restore to our school funds one penny of this money, which am­ ounts to over $5000.00, besides interest on the same for nearly five years; Our State's 'Attorney still wants a chance to explain. * His few supporters say he is ready and willing to pay over rssoonasthe court" decides how much school money he is illegally withholding. t This much-talked-of and long-delayed court decision, when,rendered, will only be one more deci­ sion of our County Court, by another judge, and- it will only be $ decision as to the approval of a portion of the reports of our Slate's Attorney, and whether rigii* or wrong, it is no more final than the other two decisions of the same court, and no more likely to Le obeyed by Joslyn than he did the other two or the three rulings given out by our Attorney General. Please understand he has also received thousands of dollars on other justice fines in other years that are not Included in the above $5000.00. Comments from me on the above are entirely unnecessary, as it is a penitentiary offense for any public officer to embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use any portion of the public funds In his custody or possession- Our State's Attorney has always scoffed and sneered at evejy attempt that has so far been made to compel him to disgorge and render an honeBt accounting to our school funds.* In the face of his record shown above and the numerous other acts of official misconducthis part, heretofore made public, he boldly comes out and is now asking that the voters of this county pow renominate and re-elect him for a third term, the same as if his record on.our school funds and on illegal charges was perfect and spotless. Before Primary Day arrives vou will he fold by his present supporters that there is nothing to these charges--that they are political yarns--and that the record of our present State's Attorney is perfect in every way, and you will be urged to support this official for re-election for a third +erm, and it will be up to you to decide that question. • ; - tnUy. yours, Charles P. Barnes HARDWARK, PLUMBING, HEATING' " : , # AND SHEET METAL WORK '< "I >: '-'V -f,:- ^ *,* ffC'. ' " " T|4B ».• *k, s. * "• fv «*•1 • I ' v . A I ' , - i r Let us give you an e&imate on your plumb­ ing, heating and sheet metal work;. . ^ I? Also on your hardware,, " "•^5 "l- J-* v b V ! US HELP YOU IN THIS WAT x • IT COSTS YOU NOTHING (r --THURSDAY- WE are going to designate this day as "Baby's Day" in the futui^:. at our studio. « Take advantage of the special inducements on that day, as ill addition we will give one-half dozen photographs free to the first sitting com­ ing in,^ no matter what your order may be. 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