Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-11-04


considerations although Il whig member made
motion that be referred to the Secretary of State
for examination and adjustment. A brief exam-
nation of the account shows one item of about six
hundred and fifty dollars, to be overcharged fire
hundred dolidrs' and no doubt closer examination
would detect other overchargcs.
AT the first session of the state legislature, So,
so cents per day were paid to Chief and Assistant
Clerks. At the last session FIVE DOLLARS
per day were paid to these same officers And
not only this but the Chief Clerk of the Senate
was paid at that rate for sixty days of recess
when it was well understood he had not performed
ten days serviec during the whole time.
We might goon through columns rccounting in
stances of reckless extravaganza. What we have
stated arc facts, and certainly we have stated
enough without using any more time or room, to
show where the money has gone and who is res
ponsibc.
hcparty which has done this thing is now mar
shalicd for another campaign 1t has a state tick
ct in the field headed by VIM. A. Barstow, which
we honestly and cnnddly believe, could not very
well be worse, so far these interests of the PEG
pie, to which we have alluded, are concerned. The
men who compose it, are of that class who make
politics their business, and pursue it as any other
speculation or calling. They sought bargained,
and log-rocd for their present places what they
are and expect to be, they owe entirely to caucu-
ses and conventions. They owe the people moth
ing and it seems to certain decree of
fate, that whatever power they get will be used at
the eXptns OF the people, TO reward the partSanS
who built them up, To elect this ticket is simply
to keep paramount and in power the same inGu-
cnces which have caused the disastrous state of
things alluded to, with such increased procliyity
to. mischief, as new lease of power and fresh
popular endorsement would inevitably give. And
this will be well understood to be no idle fear or
unfoundcd assertion when is rccollct ted that the
convention which put this ticket in nomination,
hootcd ont ami kicked out resolution plcdging
the party to future economy.
1t is in your power, voters, to continue this con-
diton Of things at once arrest it. 1t is suppo-
sed that the cry democracy" democracy !"
which these men have learned to utter so glibly,
is still potent enough to induce You to submit to
this mode of plundering yet awhile. Perhaps it
Is You know quite we'll rs we can tell you, how
much democracy there is in all this, and the cx-
tent OF its claims on your pocket. But if you wish
to relieve yourselves candidly believe the door
is wide open and the way clear.
I The Peoples Ticket" for State Officers, ut
the head of our paper, is recommended to you as
worthy of your suiirageS and which if elected will
most assurcdly correct the evils alluded to. 1t is
not the ticket of any set of men any party 1t
to be the opinion of Ill candid men that the
present emergency i'll our state matters not only
iustics but requires that abstract and remote qucs
tons Of national policy should be laid aside long
enough to accomplish by united effort, the reforms
demanded at home. 1t is not sought to defeat the
democratic ticket, simply because tits the dcmocra-
( tic ticket. We have no spite against that party,
and particularly have we none against its present
nominees nor have we any thing personally to
gain or to hope for from its defeat. We have pre-
cisc!y the same interest i'll the matter neither more
or less, any other voter, and it is the same with
others who are urging this ticket. 1t is put for
ward As the reform ticket in opposition to the men
and measures we have alluded to. Should it be
successful it will be unmstakeable expression
of the people in favor of reform and against extra
vagancc, and will most assuredly produce results
according to such expression. The opponents of
til, ticket, might be supposed, appealing to
the prcjudices of voters, to induce them to submit
to be plundcred awhile longer. Coalition"
"whigs, abotionsts" anti senscless stuff of
that nature is relied on to brighten men into Il
pudation of their best interests. If voters choose
to be influenced in that manner it is their look out;
we have no more interest in it than others and can
Sfo mi rup 81 las nn 9TH | find
" democracy which has involved them in
debt of two hundred thousand dollars and has inn
posed on them tax of sixty cents on the hundred
dollars, without Welding them single benefit in
return so attractive and valuable to deserve to
be continued forever in power, it is their privilege
to so continue it. We state the thing as it is
The Peoples Ticket is conn oscd of men of ability
personally honest and without II roach in all the
relations ofIifc They are not politicians by trade
have not sought their present places; they ali the
nominees of no party; they are recommended to
the people for their support, as means OF reliey
ing themselves from unnecessary and intOlerable
burthcnS The defeat of this ticket will not spite
us; will not spite the abolitioniStS, wings, Free
Democracy, for il is ROT the ticket of any of them
or all of them combined. 1t is the voters gencr-
ally, who arc interested in the matter: they are
sovereign; they can do they please and if they
choose to reject this ticket shall suffer no more
than will the rest.
Can this ticket he clectcdi is an mportcnt qucs-
ton with many. We only say this. 1t is re-
ceivcd not only with favor, but with enthusiasm
throughout the state. Every whig, Free Demo
cratic and independent paper in the state, with
one exception and one democratic support it,
There are upmistakoablc indications from every
quarter ct the state that the people for once are de-
termined to look after their own interests instead
of thar of the politicians We have u hope-in-
decd confidence that this ticket not only can but
will be elected Let us do orr share of il at least
e. The milwaukee, Sentinel is trying TO find
ont how the Wisconsin stands on the temperance
question but without success. The editor Of the
Wisconsin will probably do as he did on the bank
iucsuon-yole split ticket.
Oy-Dr. c. MILLER is the Free Democratic no.