White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-04-25

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;nb.p Comfy, snd most Of the towns in
It. Troy WAS once badly Border RaHiasi
but she has purged bersslf of them. and
IL now as loyal as any town in the State.
Tb;. should be . mark in her favor. in
stead of to her diseredh. AZ to the
h.neers-on aud leechees. We would in'
cuirs wSsshee any one Knows of q Com-
I, Seat that does not possess them =
They are cosgreg.ted in every County
Seat and State Cspitsl. Remove the
Cou,,y Sest, and they will follow.
We now come to an Issue which. at
one stage Of the question. bad more weight
in this part of.ths County than anything
else. The people of White Cloud. lows
Point and Highland have oil been solic.
tied to vote for Wathena or Donipbsp.
With the promise. thst il then they would
ask to be cut Of from the County. be-
cause the County Seat was so far from
them, the friends Of the new County
Seat would favor the measure. and that
then these three towns could fight among
themselves for the County Seat of some
other Co6uty-which ~ould be Brown.
ws presume. They would cut of por-
ton oftbe Southeastern corner OF Brown.
and attach it to; Douiphan. and would
give Brown the bulk Of Iowa Township,
and let. it Ego for" the County Seat OF
Brown. This would all be done, as .
matter of course, without consulting
Brown County. or anybody else. Now.
let as assure our nSpple. that all talk on
that subject is ! waste of breath. The
change will not and cannot be made. and
it is useless to nurse the ides, and to be
influenced by it. The Constitution pro-
hibits the formation Of new Counties, or
the cutting down of old ones. to g less
area than 432 square miles. Donipban
contains less than that now and all
technical quibles to get over that objec-
tion. or all attempts to make the County
larger BY including the Missouri River.
will svail nothing. The scheme Of tax
ing from Brown at one end. and giving
to her at the other. cannot be accomplish
ed without the consent of Brown. which
cannot be obtained. She will never con.
sent to be dismemb bersd, or to have her
fair proportions mar.ed. for the accom-
mediation Of . few men in an adjoining
County-particulsrly when she is told.
beforehand. that this is done for the pur-
pose Of permitting two or three towns to
disturb her County Seat question:
question. by the way. which has been
settled by vote Of the people. and. under
the present law. cannot be re-opsned so
that our people would 60 of on a wild
goose chase. This County line business
is tho most difficult thing that can be
brought before . Legislature. It is al.
most impossible to change Csunty lines.
even whsn the people Of both Countie,
ere agreed to it. There are other cousid
erstions involved in it. than the sim pie
change of surveyed line. The first Free
State Legislature attempted to slter the
County lines established by the odious
Border Ruffian Legislature. and utterly
failed. When the machinery of Town
ship, school. and other organizations is
set ia motion, titles recorded, and all the
minutie Of County organization woven
together. it is no trivial cause that can &C.
complish change. We therefore warn
our people against being deceived BY such
promises and Inducements. If we vote
to remove the County Seat farther from
as. with any such expectations. we will
be left ont in the cold, and will be laugh
ed at for being such dupes.
1t is an excellent rule to "let we'll
enough alone." Our present location Of
County Seat msy not be we'll enough for
as but any chsngs that can be made
will be worse for us. We cannot see it
10 any other light. but that it is the inter.
est and duty Of every voter in Iowa
Township, and in the western and
southern part Of the County. to vote in
favor of the County Seat remaining ct
Troy. Our vote cannot possibly be unit
cd upon any town nearer to Us; and BY
dividing our vote. we only postpone the
question. anil continue the uncertainty and
wrangling for time longer. Let every
man think over it. make bis own esti-
mates of loss and gain. and then act as
bis comomn sense dictates.
Since the above was written, we have
received an article from Troy. which we
print elsewhere. It contains msay Of the
ideas embraced in the foregoing: bat
truth cannot suffer by being twice told.
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