The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-12-21


. ami the few others N Prescott who ruu
he few others in Presc 1T who run the
party machine independent of your
friends in the country Let as SEQ The
+ committee went to work, and worked
faithfully aHd efficiently. j)ld Yea cucour-
age and sustain thems Ear from it
! You threw cold water on the whole pro
/ caeding-sucered st and tainted tic
committeeman made the street corners
and dry goods boXost about town VEGA!
with unfriendiy criticisms on the labors Of
/ those men-presuming to Judge of the
T results in advance Of their report. 10 n
man mp tree your policy looked clear
YOU saw that tho Repubicans, If that
committee were not frightened Of. their
work, were likely 10 regulate their own
/ officers aud kayo little OCCASION for the
+ paople 30 cal Oh the Democrats for help
! al the county election in the fall. Aud
WI o. the record was made MP in July of
/ that wear, and deficit shown. and 3
i proposition made for settlement hy tax
en- real estate security, WITH what energy
your crowd Iabored to emb ras and
cog tue settlement. The mon Y was
gone-uo mistake about tlat-and the
cnv question was, shall the county take
security? How could there have been
any doubt as to the best policy for tho
| people on that question-yet right hore
your idea of "aayth;ng to got top show
cd itself again and YOU went against the
settlement. Why Though the accounts
with the towns had all been cleared up,
and except the deficit, the county Treas
ury itself had been put ia good shsp.
for Mr.. Southwiek to perform his duties
us Treasurer, still there was one chance
/ fer your party left. You said to your
selves, 'lct US prevent the board from
taking security for the defalcation and We
can say to the people in the Fall, the
county can't get anything from this Re-
. publican Treasurer, and oh, what de
! Iightful howl We can raise on that score" "
! Bat YOU didn't win. Tic dedication
was secured to the county, and your
I party hnd to to burt out the LONG peat-up
boo hoor' at nothing. And what did
il avail youl Nothing. And what los:-
on did YOU learn from it? Nothing
For YOU played tho same policy again at
tie November meeting, 1853. when q
few Democratic members and oats dcrs
and disatiecied Republicans RUN the
Board. Mr.. Ayres at that time offered
the county warranty deed OF all the
property lie had control of in the world
| for full settlement of the demands
! against him rs Treasurer for one term
and Deputy Treasurer for another term
and this offer included some SIX hun
drcd dollars worth Of property, in aldi-
ton to what he had already given on
mortgages as security Tor his own account
! There was no doubt but that he otfcre !
the best terms in his power, and the rs1-
perry would eventually have boon cool
for the demands: and at tho same tune it
was known that if no settlement was
made, and the Board went to law, thc
county could not possibly recover any
thing more than the property offered, and,
to reduce the value Of this, there would
he the delays expenses AMI uncertainties
Of litigation. Yet you schomed and
caucassed against this proposed settle
ment, till You stitled it in the Board, by
doceiying the majority. And what have
you been doing ever sn G: living
that tho county laa got nothing and
never will get anything. Your incons;s-
tcmcy is too bare:ace The wish is faith
or to the thonght with your lea ling Dem
ocrats--"anythi"g to get top The
same proposition is up for consideration
at the November meeting, 1859; AMI
the published minutes show your crowd
to be still playing their old tricks. And
right here let me say that 50 long rs YOU
openly oppose he coanty's real ling
ANYTHING from those old dciafcations YOU
aro utterly prccludel III an intelligent
community trorl finding faIlt with Re
pubIicams become nothing IS ro:,li:ed.--
Your ehoic course shows contempt fol
pnpu'ar intelligence When will you
learn that the people arc the soyereigns
in FREQ community and can sec through
all tricks AMI artful lodges. Men Of
poicv ike y"u ought 10 lie sharp enough
o % in occasionally for what is pIanIy
right But | trust, on tbs head, YOU
game i, W. The majority in tho Board
saw their way clear h $ time, and favor
ed settlement. HINGE, one reason fol
YOU trip to Sparta"
Another application Of your policy has
cen made on the printing-in rhicl
mat ~ as the minutes show, You Iabored
hard for several days to force the Treas.
urer into adiIonma. Had yon succeeded
Mr.. S ,ulhwick would have hmd one OF
two things to do-eitIlcr violate the law
or d his duty and have your GROVE
bowling at his heels for '.sctting aside the
viii Of the people as expressed 10y tloil
representatives in the County Board =
And fur her, YOU wanted him to get tn,
tax list rrinta'l for say ten CO.. IS DIES rip
ton, IN make Linn cole of the Ian,
owner % cts, thus spocula ing FIR ia,
, county st the c p .nsc Of both the tx pay
er and printer. As long as the pub i
knew that the Treasurer had 10 right t.
: DO this, by law, or by the instruction g
4 the Board could have justified himself il
5 carrying out such policy! Plainly h
\ could not-he would have been in ho
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