The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-09-16
From tie Hhdison Patri,t
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/ The tsOVerrOT, III MS w luoW DeuOlL
speech, said: -Four years ago | came to
! the Legislature to uproot some great evils
that existed in the body polite. | have
! labored since that time to affect some rad
ical reforms" &c. The Widows aspra
tons, no doubt, run high, A fearful re-
sponsibility rested on her shoulders. No
! body else could, would should do any thing
but isn't it unfortunate that she did not
allude to the great results Of her great mis-
sion. What, 0 WHAT has she done in the
/ line of "radical reforms?" Where is the
measure she has been the means Of con
summating for the public good! WHERE,
HOW, and in WHAT manner has her great
genius benefited the people? Barstow's
! Administration had run the annual expen-
ses of the State up to $273, 900 When
charged this upon Barstow, and denounced
his administration as wasteful and eXtraya-
cant. it was all charged to Pump" Car
renters lying. 1t seemed so preposterous
that nobody dared believe it. except those
who wanted to believe it, and they, with
us. denounced the wasteful extravaganza
Well, our then poor opinion of Barstow,
led us to oppose him and 60 IN for Bash
ford, and then fox Randall, in hopes that
they would prove the Philosophers stone
1 of % radical reforms" But we soon found
that their "radical reforms all ran the
other way-as th4Garmers say-'run to
1 land" 1t was urged and believed that
Bashford was to be an improvement on
Barstow; but he fell an easy prey to bri
beTy-kcked his friends ard pocketed
their money, and enlarged the expenses OF
Barstow's administration from $273 900 to
377,4l1 SO. 1t was urged and by many
believed that Randall would be a ''radical
improvement" on Bashford, and so the
anti Barstow, anti" Forty Thief Demo
Gratis, as they styled themselves, went in for
Randall. They worked industriously-
spent their money freely, and voted for
| Randall.
Well, Randall came into power, by
mere scratch-the Democratic vote he then
received in almost any county if given to
the Democratic nominee, would have de
! leated Alec, vet he got in. and commenced
| his career Of " Radical Reform One OF
of bis first acts was to get up the celebrat
| ed visiting bill, By wbgA he pocke;ed 500
a year, ostenSiby as pay for visiting GER
| tain institutions, but really to raise his sal
arv. That was one Radical Reform.
! lie and his party were Industr ously engag-
ed irving to get through an appropriation
Of $40 600 out Of the peoples money, os
! tensibIy to send to Kansas, but really to
paw eectioneering agents. That was an
other attempt at :" Radical Reform His
swamp land operations are quite as eXten-
sive. We have not the data before us just
now, but will obtain it in few days for
public use He found it convenient to
have a corps of eectioneeljng agents
| throughout the new counties, and SO he
managed to get up law, by the aid Of his
q Radical Reform party to provide for
surveying swamp lands, the Islands in the
/ Wisconsin river, &c. And fearing last
winter, that the fraud for that purpose
would give out before the delegates were
all selected, and lest appointees should be
growing about their pay, a law was adrot
| iy got through the Legislature so covered
up that its real objects were overlooked by
those not interested, by which the gcncrdl
fund was required to bleed to pay those
agents the Governor might send out, and
for which the people will be taxed.
We understand that the sums paid out
for these surveys are enormous, amounting
to $4,000 or $4,000. This is what We
are told, is the case, by those who ought
to know. But we will get the exact tig-
ures, if we can. And we have been as
sured by men who ought to know, that
the lands surveyed will not, and cannot for
wears to come, sell for enough to pay half
this cost Here Is another evidence Of the
Governors "Radical Reform
When Barstow sent out those scouting
parties, under the pretense OF selecting
lands, &c, the Republicans joined with us,
and charged him with sending ont spies
to hunt up delegates. Is rot Randall
equally guilty? When this matter shall
loom up in all lis detormity, through the
medium of an investigating committee,
that shall not be wholly Republican, we
expect to see black record We must
emphaticaliy deny that the interest of the
State, these hard times, demand the sacri-
flee of so much money on lands that will
not sell at present, for the cost OF record
ing the plats.
Well, we have had nearly two years OF
hNt'''N'''i' CA.'il''AIb tciilis dllNi
his q Radical Reforms pretty fair test,
and instea OF reducing the expenses of the
State below what was declared by all to
be eXtravagant under Barstow, ($273 ,000)
we find the expenses for this gear alone,
will amoTnt to bat little, if any less than
5000, 900. Only think of over half mil
hon, these times. This IS Radical Re
form with vengeance. Should Mr.. Ho
bart be elected las we believe he wiil) and
should he run the expenses Of the State
even up to this enormous figure, to say
nothing of exceeding in the late ratio Of
Radical Reforms" We will denounce him,
if we live till that time.
Randall could afford to spend twenty or
thirty thousand dollars Of the peoples
money, to stake out and survey the sunk
en- Islands in the Wisconsin, but in his
- Radical Reforms" he has vetoed the bills
that were passed to accommodate the peo
pie on that stream with bridges. One OF
his par,izian friends introduced a PROPOSE
ton last session, into the Assembly, tina,
would, if successful have Out-Reformed all
Other " Radical Reforms on record, |;