Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1850-11-28
GRANT COUNTY HERALD
LANCASTER. Wis.
THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. %, 1850
Pct0si Republican and the C0uit-
ty Printing.


of last week deyotes some time and
wastes some paper in abuse of the Board
of Supervisors for daring to direct in re-
lation TO the County printing. He has
discovered that the Board is composed of
Is Wings and l Democrat piece of
information which we had not before re-
ceived, and which the Republican pro-
poses to turn TO political account. He
is welcome to all the capital he can make
in that way, and if he can succeed in
getting a Loco Board elected in the
Spring we will freely surrender the prin-
ting to him. Such whining comes with
very bad grace from the organ of a
party whose motto is, To the cictors be-
long the Spoils.'
The writer, with lawyer-like tact,
quotes from the Statute, Chap. 10, Sec.
100, where it says ''The Clerk Of the
Board of Supervisors in each county,
shall, at least six months before the cx-
piration of the time limited for redeem
ing lands sold as aforesaid, cause to be
published in newspaper printed in his
county, So list of all unredeemed
lands," Sc. This is the clause upon
which the Locos rest their case-which
governed the Clerk in sending his print
ing to Potosi, in opposition to an express
order Of the Board. The Statute con-
tains many sections, and among them
there is one which has escaped the eye
of the gentleman in making up his plead
ings for the Loco Foco organ. This
reads something like this The Board
shall have power to make such orders in
relation to the corporate property of the
County as they shall think expedient'"
This clause seems TO us plain and to the
point, leaving but one further point to
be settled, and that is as 10 what consti-
tutes the corporate property of the coun-
ty-whether property which the county
has the power TO deed is of right theirs
or whether it belongs to the Clerk
There is no room for argument-the
position of the Board is sustained.
] He says the bill of this paper, for in
cidental printing, exceeds that of the Re-
publican, for County Printing, some $50.
The editor must be well posted in re-
lation TO our bill against the County, for
printing done for the Clerk and Treas
urer. Our whole bill against those two
offices, with the exception of contract
which'he could have had for the asking,
for Is months, is $44,50. This looks
like monopoly. The author, immediate
" after this assertion, makes another,
which lacks one essential requisite, truth.
He says we procured the passage of
an order giving us the exclusive right
to do all County printing" This we
utterly deny. 1t is untrue in every par
ticular. The order was drawn up and
passed upon without our knowledge and
we were net appraised of its existence
until the next morning after its passage.
We are obliged for the compliment con-
tanned in the assertion but must disclaim
the influence which we are said to pos
sess. The Boarl have a way Of think
ing for themselves, and in exercise of
this faculty have punished the contempt
shown them by their Clerk by rejecting
bill made by him and by sustaining
their order. The Board have been con-
sistent in their proceedings and we are
of the opinion that the only alternative
will prove them right in their decision.
To the Democracy may be awarded
the praise of making the subject of
Printing political. Immediately on the
rejection of Mr.. Seaton's bill, council
was held, at which the Board were de-
nounced, and it is whispered round, dis
position shown to elect Board which
win be subservient TO the wishes and
behests of the Loco Foco party. We
are willing to meet them in this encoun-
ter, and whatever it may be, abide the
result. War has been declared and by
our opponents Let the Wing party in
the different towns be on their guard
Hostilities will not commence immedi-
ately but the work of drilling, which Is
so successfully done by the Locos, has
already commenced.
T5Will the editor of the Potosi Re-
NJ: IN a.. ,ba Driee Of Ranks in