Historical sketches and reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana . -. as he com-menced a warfare at once on the ramparts of the Democraticcamp. Hardestv was then a young man, full of vigor and knew where to shoot, and never failed to hit the mark. 150 HISTORY or IIADISON COUNTY, INDIANA. He caused the Democrats more trouble thm any one who everpublished an opposition paper in this county. When the annual statement of the receipts and disburse-ments of that year came out it was disclosed that the expenses. i L_ THE S37,00(l UlNDllW SHITTICR. incurred bv the County Board, footed up to the
Historical sketches and reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana . -. as he com-menced a warfare at once on the ramparts of the Democraticcamp. Hardestv was then a young man, full of vigor and knew where to shoot, and never failed to hit the mark. 150 HISTORY or IIADISON COUNTY, INDIANA. He caused the Democrats more trouble thm any one who everpublished an opposition paper in this county. When the annual statement of the receipts and disburse-ments of that year came out it was disclosed that the expenses. i L_ THE S37,00(l UlNDllW SHITTICR. incurred bv the County Board, footed up to the snug sum of$37,000, not an extraordinary amount for a county like Mad-ison, but the figures looked big, and sounded large to the tax-payers. Hardesty took this exhibit for his text for the campaignthat was soon approaching, and the way he handled it was acaution to the old settlers. Of course the amount expended included all paid out foreyery purpose, including the courts and the officers salaries, andthe keeping of the poor; but in looking over the list of \(Mich-ers, Hardesty discovered that the only money that had been ^IS?1<1R^? OK MADISON COUNTY, INDIANA. 151 paid for improvenicnts of the public buildings was an itemfor putting a new shutter on the court house. This wasenougii for him, and he at once began an agitation of the sub-ject through the columns of his paper, and week after weekalluded to the thii ty-se\en-thousand-dollar window shutter,until he liad all of the Republicans, and half
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