The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-09-16
: Facts For the peop,e.

ASHLAND, Sept. Sfh, 1853. ~.
/ Facts For the people. ,s 4
IT is charged BY the sham Democracy that
Through the agency Of the State Boarl IT
Equalization, the taxes For the current wear
have beer enormously increased. Repubii-
cans OF Iowa. nail this fabrication TO NE coln-
ter. The State taxes for the year 1853 have
been reduced nearly zoe a7HffEs H@Y stja'
ONE HUNDRED THousAsD DotLAas.
Let the sweeping SANDER be met at every
point, ana repnl>e the slanderers with the rec
ord in your hand. X h..A+ y 80" w
REMEMBER YoUR Sen soL FUND-
The School Fund OF Iowa has always been
nnder the management OF Democratic Super
intendents. Remember that one Of th,se
Snnerintendents has criminally taken frotnthis
sacred Fund and sqnandered on partiza, favor
ties, more than sirty.tiUe thousand dollars
And vet this lecherons defanlter, who tins
rnthiessly assaile the find that was dedicated
to the educational interests If vour children.
is deliberately defended BY the leading Demo
cratic papers Of the State. - - =
REMEMBER, that while in 1858 the amount
distributed to schools was one hundred AMI
eieuen thousnd dollars, the "A nornt at the same
time paid to School Fnnd Commissioners, by a
Democratic School S.iperintenle At, 'vis ncdrly
thirty thousand dollars!
REMEMBER also, that the Republican Leg
islature. last winter saved tn the School FuLd.
the sum of. thirty thousand dollsrs per year
Republicansdid this, and let the vote. of Iowa
give them ere lit for it. -
ANOTHER REyEL ALTON.
The Democrats in the Legislature last win
ter, were the first always to suggest ani vo.e
| for the heaviest Apr ,priations that were made.
| Not Democrat in the House voted against
tho bill for increasing the salary of two L'co
| foco State officers.
HHNRY HOFFMAN, TRIMsLE, Locofoco car
dda;e for Goa yre,S, vote,l for the appropria-
! ZION Of SloD,0lo, for the Insane Asylum.
Alien, Coobangh, Johnson, Neal Patterson
Stewart and Wilson Democrats in the Senate
recorded their vote. in favor OF procuring a
! State loan Of $500 900 to meet the expenses Of
the State Government.
| Clarke of ID ihlgl,, leader Of the Iowa
Democracy in the House. moved TO amend the
| loan hill by increasing the tp of interest paid
| by the State for tn use of S2lo 05J from SEVEN
| to TEN per cent.
Fifteen Democrats in the H,I votrl agiin' a
! the amanimant to re1lce he Insane Asylum
appr ,priati,n from Sl0),0D0 to $4,000.
/ V5ters of Iowa, these are facts ,staned HI.
/ the ,lrnals If ve ar Le-iIlatir-. Sill whIi"
the tr ,uhla to eva nila the rrcorl. that Demo
cratic Legislators were the first t. propose
heavy expen iltures, All the last to yield to a
more conservative economy in the msnag.
inent " the State rr=riy;l il u, les, true
that they had hardly retire from their seats in
key note of Repu5lica y ertrurIylnce which was
TO govern the entire L,cofoco orchestra during
the canpaign. The Democratic party of Iowa
to-day have but the miserable fragment of a
rotten plank left in their des llate platform
and With tie enthusiasm Of do nned men co,,-
scions of a total discontinue in October, they
clasp the shapeless rec of their decayel
plank to their breasts, ana sho II I" ExTRAvA-
GANcEW The have left the s'nigger in the
constitution'' to work on. his mission ia silence
they have stricken down the young giant OF
Sqnatter sovereignty in their State Convention
they have trampled him in the dust, until biz
distorted features, convnlseG with the throes OF
death, have given eren them thrill. of disgust
thsv have .gsd ehe English swindle until
the object of their affection has turned a hide
Gus corss in their embrace ]; and yet with al
their crimes, and errors aud changes and cor.
ruption clinging to their souls and bodies, thei
leaders stand mp holding the plank which il
unable to support itself, and cry aloud for th'
Democratic hosts 10 rally to victory.