The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-21
BURLINGTON. IOWA, TUESDAY
Facts for The sseeple.

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| Il 10 charged by the sham Democracy that
through the agency Of the State Board OF Equal
ixatien, the taxes for the current year have beef
enormously increased. Republicans OF lows
nail this fabrication to the counter. The Stats
| taxes for the year 1858 have been reduced
nearly
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Let the sweeping SANDER be met at every
point, and repulse the sianderers with the re-
cord in your hand.
REMEMBER YOUR School FUND.
The School Fund OF Iowa has always been
under the management Of Democratic Superin-
tendents. Remember that one of those Super
intendents has crimnally taken from this sacred
fund, and squandered on partizan favortes,
more than sixty- fee thousand dollars. And yet
this lecherous defaulter, who thus rathlessly
assailed the fund that was dedicated the edu-
cational interests Of your children, ia deliber-
ately defended by the leading Democratic pa
pers of the State.
Remember, that while in 1853 the amount
distributed to schools was one hundred and
eisren thousand dollars, the amount at the same
time paid to School Fund Commissioners, by a
Democratic School Superintendent, was nearly
thirty thousand doilars'
Remember also, that the Republican Legisla-
ture, last winter, saved to the School Fund, the
sum of thirty thousand dollars per year. Repub-
licans did this, and let the voters of Iowa give
them credit forit.
ANOTHER REVELATION.
The Democrats in the Legislature last winter
were the first always to suggest and vote for
the heariest appropriations that rere made.
Not Democrat In the House voted against
the bill for increasing the salary of two Loco
foco State officers.
III T,,r
for Congress, voted for tho appropriation of
800, 900 for the Insane Asylum.
Allen, Coolbaugh, johnson, Neal, Patterson,
Stewart and Wilson Democrats in the Senate)
recorded their votes in favor of procuring q
State loan of 100000 to meet the expenses OF
the State Government.
Clarke Of Dubuque, the leader Of the Iowa
Democracy in the House, moved to amend tile
loan bill by increasing the rate of interest paid
by the State for the use of 100000 from SEVEN
to TEN per cent.
Fifteen Democrats in the House voted against
the amendment to reduce the Insane Asylum
appropriation from 100000 to $4,000.
Voters OF Iowa, these are facts sustained by
the journals Of your Legislature. Still while il
is fact, notorious to all msn who will take the
trouble to examine the record, that Democratic
legislators were the first to propose heavy ex-
ptHuituTeS, anu the iast 10 lieiu 10 more con.
servative economy in the management Of the
State Treasury: it is no less true that they had
hardly retired from their seats in the General
Assembly, before thes struck the key note Of
Republican eatrapdgance which was to govern
the entire Locoioco orchestra during the cam.
paign. The Democratic party of Iowa to day
have but the miserable fragment of rotten
plank left in their desolatc platforms; and with
the enthusiasm Of doomed men conscious OF
total discontinue in October, they clasp the
shapeless relic of their decayed plank to their
breasts, and shout ''ExTRAyAGANCE!" They have
left the "nigger IN the constitution" to work out
his mission i'll silence; they have stricken down
the young giant of Squatter sovereignty in their
State Convention; they have trampled him in
the dust, until his distorted features, convulsed
with the throes of death, have given eyea them
a thrill of disgust; they have Rugged the Eng
lish swindle until the object of their affection
has turned hideou> corpse in their embrace;
and yet with all their crimes, and errors, and
changes. and corruption cnging to. their souls
and bodies, their leaders stand up holding the
plank which is unable to support itself, and cry
aloud for the Democratic hosts to rally to vic
tory.-Dss Mones Citizen.