D. T. Farr

FARR

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/12/2009 at 23:35:57

Jackson Sentinel
August 24, 1876

“Boss” Farr Heard From.
No Vote to be Ordered on the County Seat Question.

D. T. Farr, member of the Board of Supervisors, to whom the petition for the removal of the County Seat is to be submitted, has taken the field and is circulating a remonstrance in the interest of Maquoketa. Not only this, but he has subscribed twenty-five dollars, and offers to double the amount if necessary, to assist in preventing a fair expression of the people, by ballot on this question.

Nor is this all, the “Boss” says “that the question will not be submitted to the people by the Board.” We have always supposed that an officer before whom a petition was to be filed, or a case to be tried, was barred by honor, manhood and decency, if not by law, from participating in the contest, either by acting as council or advancing money to assist in the prosecution or defense of the case, or by hunting up evidence to be used in the trial, and certainly nothing but a corrupt man would render a decision on the case before it is presented to him. But this modern reformer; this man who has no policy, no opinion except what is inspired by Maquoketa, does not hesitate to thus abuse his official position, and has devoted himself body, conscience, and money, to the accomplishment of the infamous purposes of Maquoketa by every means in his power, and that he will not scruple to be a subservient tool, his acts in the premises bears evidence.

What a shame to Jackson county that the office of Supervisor should be so disgraced by a man of such diminutive and dishonorable proportions. Through Mr. Farr’s indiscreet expressions and actions can be seen Maquoketa’s determination to prevent a vote at all hazards, knowing that “Boss” Farr will be with them in any emergency. We ask in all candor whether, in view of the action he has taken in the matter, he can insist upon sitting as a member of the Board and acting upon the petition and remonstrance’s when they are submitted, and still lay any claim to honesty or a desire for fair dealing.

We venture to assert that no such a dishonorable game has ever been practiced by any supervisor in this county heretofore. The only honorable way is for the “Boss” to step down and out and give place to some unbiased and unprejudiced man who will not decide upon the question till the petitions and remonstrances are all filed and honestly examined. – Bellevue Leader.