Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-10-27
OWNING UP-THE ISSUE AccrpTrn
WIN inc feopie Endorse Bars,ow by vor,,.


Win the People Endorse Bar.,ow BY val.
The GAINESVILLE Standard comes o..
boldly il favor of the Barstow and F..
Thief Dynasty. 1t says:
We say boldly, that Gov. Barston.
ministration, $50 far at least IS h. t al,
anything to do with it, was one =, of i "a
soundest and safest we have hal uie
the Territory was formed /; and we cb ilIe
lenge the comparison If il baconan-
necessary, we can show to the satisfa 80
OF all reasonable men, that the S,a,n i
of Wisconsin owes to one most Of he bas e
abused men within lis limits. '''
Now we, as Democratic ionr,,I;.
say to Messrs. Booth, King & CO ,ba,
we are willing to accept the Rars la
gauntlet which has been throw :, 9,Ow
feet de6antly. : 00r
We will gladly take it up, and tho ma.
readily, as the people of this State ' oss
fast finding out the fact, we'll known lon,.
ago to thinking and honest men. tha, :,
administration of Gov Barstow was n.b ,.-'
we have heretofore declared il 10 ba1s.
been-one of the best for the STATE :,
ever had : l.
a better, more reliable and honorable,
set of men, have not occupied the sa,no.
position since we were State, than 49,.
who composed it.
MAYOR CROSS IS \ POLITICAL
FRIEND OF GOV. BARSTOW AM
WILL IN EVERY PLACE as
POLITICIAN, DEFEND HIM
II you can make anything, gentlemen
out of the " Barstow Administrator >
you are welcome 10 it.
This is frank and bold, and we ike !,
The other supporters of Cross would do
we'll to stop lying about matter so GEN
orally understood and ACKNOWLEDGE the
fact. Cross is a political friend Of Coz
Barstow, and will, in every place. as q
politician, defend him - We all knew
this perfectly well, of course, but tba
News, Argus, and some of their under
strappers, have been denying ii. Cross
has defended Barstow as a politician N
every place thus far Look at the As.
sembly Journal of 1888, when Cross wax
a member, and read the record of his
votes.
Gross dended Barstow by voting agains,
suspendlng the sale of school lands when
Iy gross tavoritiSm and fraud, those lands
were being absorbed by the Barstow
spectators for the benefit of the Forty.
He defended Barstox BY voting 10 sus-
tain the veto OF the bill for an luyestiga-
ton of the condition of the Treasury de-
falcation, thus delaying the disclosure Of
the detalcallon for year, and enabling
BarstoW and his friends TO draw upon The
State Treasury for their campaign ex-
penses in the fall of 80. He defended
Gov. Barstow by voting aginst a bill pro-
hlbitlng State officers from trafficiug and
Specializing in the public funds. To have
voted otherwise, would have been serious
ly detrimental 10 the banking and other
speculative schemes of the Forty.
II is in evidence that Barstow took
money from the State Treasury that did
not belong to him; took money from the
Treasury without any appropriation by
law. Cross defended Barstow by voting
against a bill prohibiting the Treasurer
from paying out money except on appro
priatlons regularly made.
Through a system of connivance and
fraud, Andrew ProudGt, Barstow's quon-
dam partner, was given the contract for
the State Lunatic Asylum, a con-
tract under which the taxpayers Of the
State would have been bled to the tune o.
nearly half a million of dollars! The
investigated the letting Of the
contract, detected gross and glarlng cor
ruplion, and repealed the law authorizing
1t. Blrstow vetoed this act, and Gross de-
Tended him by voting to sustain the veto
Cross defended Barstow by sustaining
him IN his usurpation of the office Of
Governor. and by attempting to destroy
the respect of the people for the Judiciary
of the State, by melting violent resistance
to the execution of lis Judgment ous.lug
the representative of forged election re-
turns, from the Office he had introduced
into and disgraced.
Truly enough may the Standard affirm
that g Mayor Gross IS a political friend Of
Gov. Barstow, and will, in every place,
as politician (and a very vile politician
he seems to be) defend him.