Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-10-08

Point; was-eviidienttsy Won king for good:=
/" Why" said Republican present, what
has come over Elder SorinR he was not
he hadSno fun nor lie inShim his
speech didpot amount = anything How
true Of all the RsplblicA speeches When
you take the blaglard out Of them there is
nothing left.
With regard to the Fcatherstone meeting
we learn that the effect Of Mr.. Sorin's in.
trusion was beneficial. Several of the au-
dience, who had hitherto been staunch Re-
publicans, asserting that he did not meet
squarely, and could not answer the points
made by the Democrats on our National and
State policy, and declared their intention to
vote ths Democratic ticket. I'VE hope Mr.
Sorin will continue to follow the Democrats
around, the people having notice 81 It, that
a place will be given h,m id the programme,
and thatiat Allievents until he; gets better
posted upon the real issues before the, par
lies he will be whitfield up quite as fairly as
q fea'ne's'ohe; ~. .z!L-L :Isai Iah
THE DEBT OF lGOODHUE,C COUNTY
1t Is charged through the columns Of the
Republican, that. our statements, made at a
political gathering at Featherstone TO wit
that the county is in debt thirty thousand
dollars over and above the Court House il
debtedness-all contracted since the Kepub-
leans came ;' in powerc--is false and gives tho
following statement in proof ri, d2ida
I The financial exhibit made by the Audito,
to the Board Of supervisors, at it's meeting
held September 18th 1859, represents the
liabilities Of tie county. over the assets 10 be
$36, 46Q97, (Which SIG. 378 is for the court
House and Jail i1'6''' s'1t lt'5 u
Every word, q the above IS true, and yet
y viii ~ seen that instead Of contradictin2
It corr"berate, :; our statement. % rI,1 paper,
Ias usual, endeayprs3 to delcyc and ,msle;r
jtst readers BY slurriny over and payi ,g ITO 4.
tchtionto the important part Of the state
inents. 1t reports the liabilities TO be- alto.
sether, Court iouseta and Az S36,o 700, orr.5;
asa S IS, and therefore, as it would pretend
|at S1Q,lWO Of Indebtedness besides the Cour.
House, instead Of $780, 900 as we, reported.
Now, then, what are. the ,qsycts Of the coun
Its? About $2A,o 900 fi,t t..r cer:i! ;;catcs, no;
40 rtht~ptpcr toy rcp:iateioa; and evo,
|ifjtlley were good for the face, it, would moi
fdisprove orr statements because however
much property person may own, it does
not lessen the amount Of his Indebtedness,
According TO The, Hnu1ii"a1's, doctrine, il
the county was in aebt $4,000, and had
SPOON .ofasSets it would not mo bnt Slu.
600 dollaIs--that's the way our Republica1
officials must have reasoned in running W
that bg debit Wt$e aEhqueM tx3s w:A
iay Dir md 5tsAne$x, therefore We are no,
in debt. Soan,l, Amt it? when particularly
the deliquen, taxes are not worth one cen;
on the dollar, e They. will pay nothing. So
that af.er every cent Of the ass *, that can
be collected is paid over and applied on GU:
debt, it will still remain $500 o. and still
be increasing as it has for the last two years
at the rate Of $15, oa0 a year, over and above
the amount Of tax collected, unless there is
a radical change in the management Of the
county. .,h M .a.a f.s3.,, IT,. ........ ~.
~ Our Republican friends howled terribly,
two yearssago, because orr annual expenses
were:7, OH! !! Such extravasace was I'm
enaurable T. There must be change and
they got it-an awful change. We ask the
voters if they .wou]d not like to have j,
changed back again where it was when il
was under Democratic managemement. 49,,
Taxes two and q half per cent, in hard
times, with an assessment roll twice as lafge
as i was Two years ago; and the money
going into the packets of plundering officials
Like the editor ofthe Republican charging
and having issued to himself. two thousand
dollars in County orders, for tax certificates
when his bill ought not to have exceeded
two hundred dollars--charging eight cent.
= description for advertising land sales tina
we offered to do for, ,three cents-making !,
difference Of three hundred do7ars on tia
me job. Ircf,,aar5 I,s.,qI;s4 5i,iqees h"r
TAKE YOUR CHOICE GENTLEMEN
Hon. Chris Graham, in his speeches dur
ing tie campaign made the assertion tina
he believed that Mr.. Kelly and MI Grow
were honest enough in their intentions, bu
were not well enough acquainted with on!
land system to draw up an effective Home
stead bill" The Republican orators ant
presses took this in high du lgeon and charg
ed Mr.. Graham with egotisin and all tina
kind Of thing: We'll, Gentlemen Mr.. Grow
says that Kelly's bill; was COZ copy Of his bill
|and'if Mr.. Grow tells truth, it proves tina
Mr. Kelly did not how TO DRAFT such a bill
|, And M as that ill, 50 copied, amounts tojus
np'hp we must conclude THAT when MIR
Grow drafted that bili he eil her did M