Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-03-13

THE IIosa MAZE FRIEsps.--On last Mop-
day, the 9th inst, the school election in this
Independent School District, came Of. Tax
or no Tax seemed to take up the minds Of the
people. Capt. Stoddard who boasts Of "Cop-
0sity" leads some Of tie boosted champions OF
Republican principles, at the corporation cleo
ton they fought him like men in defense Of
their party ticket, but on this occasion they
went at his s.nod,i and seemed TO act his plcas>
urc. Caucuses were held at the Court House
on Saturday evening previous, at which divers
Presidents and Secretaries acted, and adjourn-
| ing all mixed up. On Monday morning tick.
cts were ordered printed, against the Tax. and
said 10 be the result Of the settings on Sat-
urday night, tickets were also ordered prints
ed, For the Tax, represented by good men, but
both not seeming 10 appcnsc the desires OF
some, caucus is said TO have been held in
our printing Office, Offering up another set of
candidates to be sacrificed on their cointry's
altar. Not knowing quite how TO do this sue
ccssfully, and, not knowing whether they
| wanted q Tax or not or Thich would likely
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Tax, and some For the Tax, the No Tax part
of which was successful, and that only. Should
these candidates have been elected, it would
have been difficult to have determined wheth-
err they were far or agcnst the Tax, they leant
most probably for no Tax than for Tax, be-
cause they had most Of their tickets printed
against tic Tax If there is one proposition
more true than another it is probably that one
which runs after this fashion ale who car
ries water on both shoulders will surely spill
that on one shoulder or the other by his awk-
ward movements In the case under consid-
Grafton, however, we arc inclind to think it
fell of 10th shoulders. One man was elected
on the Copper- Rcpublican based ticket, this
and the I've don't know whose servants VIC
shall be-" defeated the Tax. The For the 5
mill Tax candidates, we elected with one ex-
cepton, we hear. There is some money in
the School House Fund, but not enough TO do
much with, school room is needed very much,
but in our opinion another year will pass and
we will have no more school room than now,
we hope otherwise, however.
What surprised us more than any thina
else, was to hear Of some of our Reverend
gentleman who talk SO f,ippently about wha
great things the rising generation are expect
ed to accomplish-how they will become The
great men Of the nation, that they must have
all the facilities for educational and moral
developments THROWN open TO them, that in
temperance, oppression and corruption must
. give way before their glowing intellects, vot-
ing against School House Tax. That one lit
tie ballot. seeds ''whi--ing' into their wide
openings Just below their 'prcbossis the ter
r.ble cpithet bu, true sentence, you Xypocrifes.
The effec; OF such acts would insure the deadly
steprings Of ignorance, vice, immortality and
crime in onr midst The result Of the vote on
he School House Tax question is the mcst
Gisgracefni of any act done by the citizens Of
| Toledo known to us. II is throwing ont to the
public the admission, 1--WE have no faith that
our town will ever amount to much at least.
| we shall not risk chr money on it, To vote
down reasonable and necessary Schoo,
House Tax, as in this. case, is disgrace
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