The Plymouth weekly Democrat., 1868-07-30
Plymouth Democrat.
THURSDAY, JULY 80, 1868.
OPENING THE C4IKPAIGY.

palgn IN the mos. startling manner
Evidently not possessing general infor-
nation enough to discriminate between a
member Of the legislature and county
commissioner, they are ignoring national
politics. and in fact politics of any charac-
ter, almost entirely, and playing on a harp
ola single string, and that string is ''coun-
ty affairs, "only this aud nothing more"
After al excessive amount of mental Ia
bof, perfectly wonderful in them) they
have arrived at the conclusion that the
taxes of Marshall county are too high
That the per centum of Marshall county
is higher than that of LaPorte, ST. Jo-
seph, Elkhart or Kosciusko. And while
they DO not attempt to show how they as
members of the legislature will remedy
the evil, they insist n the votes of tax
payers "because this is thus" Truly
wonderful argument and a wonderful
pair.
They pre- sent facts and figures to show
most con clusively that Marshall pays most
enormous taxes, and without a figure now
at our disposal in reference to the subject
we venture the statemen. that Marshall
collects less county tax than either La
Pcrts. st. Joseph, Elkhart or Kosciusko :;
and also grant that the per centum is
higher. These brilliant champions Of
economy and profound mathematicians,
are well aware Of the fact that the taxable
property of Marshall county is assessed at
much lower figure than that of either
OF the other counties above named ::
and that as our population approximate $
70 them, the expense of doing the county
business is almost rs great, and that there
fore with very nearly the same xpondi-
tures and less property to tax, our er
centum is, Of course, higher, but our tax
Is not 50 high. And one of the Jacobin
candidates for commissioner has also com.
menced expOunding his part. He star
ties his audience (Which he assemblies On
the sidewalk of our most public streets.
to The disgust of majority Of his fellow
townsmenl with the statement that the
democrats propose to "buiid new court
house at an expense Of one hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars, and have al
ready appropriated eighty thousa1d dol
lars Of the money!" He either simply
makes the statement in pure ignorance. or
wiful!y lies which we hold ourselves in
readiness to substautiate in any and every
manner. As he is a Christian We give hum
credit for being ''fool instead of
krave," 4. 6. more fool than knavc.
An aspiring young ,Jacobin. who has
more zeal than knowledge, astonished a
small assemblage a few days ago. with the
original statement that the ':Commiss,on ,on-
ers had fooled away tie county funds in
building too many school houses :" Rath-
or good, connected with the fact that the
commissioners have no more to do with
building school houses tlan the man in
the moon has E; and the further fact that
the young man is member liz good stand
ing OF the intelligence, God -and-humani-
ty parry -
And still another "street-ta!ker' saws
the poor erpense has been too large The
Inference then IS that the poor should be
turned loose to beg and starve. Well,
perhaps as they are all ,rhHe people they
had. If they were Congo negroes, and
We we're taxed to the bottom dollar to
keep UP bureau, for the purpose of feed
ing them until election time, it would be
all right and proper.
In oil their programme, so far as the
same is yet developed, the Jacobins of
Marshall county do not attempt to specify
an act OF a county officer of this county
who has either misappropriated, or stolen,
or failed to fully report and account for
every dollar received in an official capac
ity.
We would suggest to the most wonder
fully wise managers of the Jacobin inter
est in this county that they meet and get
up new story and moro available pro-
grammc; and at the next meeting thew
take in a few Of the older heads. We
never knew them to commence so badly
as they have this year. The boys are
uncommon" wiling, but not so pery
sharp
When they get through with county af-
fairs, VIC will ask them to turn their at
teution momentarily to few other little
things some of the people have been think
ing of recently.-subjects of interest to
taxpayers.
Finish up, gentlemen, and We will try
aud keep track Of sou, aud try and pre-
serve your veracity for you. IF you make