The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-10-28
A Change Demanded.

The Wapkesha Pdiadeqier says, tia t
,fNhen- tie Denoeratic Patty had last
control of our state administration, the state
administration, the state was out Of debt,
and it cost less than tSo Hundred thousand
dollars to discharge The annual expenses Of
tho state government We now owe con-
siderable more than TwoMHLIoNs OF DOL
F15Aks, and our annual expenses amount to
nearly another MILLION. The democrats
left In the State Treasury every dollar of
our magnificent school fund, Which had
grown TO large dimensions under Tire fost,
teriBg care Of democratic legislation. Ey-
cry dollar of that is nov gone. 1t has been
appropriated 10y radical legislation, and
lqpapdcred hy radical extrayaganee. Dur
sius the var cur expenses were necessarily
large, but under radical mismanagcment,
extr ayagance and corruption, we say they
were necessarily enormous. 1t must Re
remembered that the many millions which
nave been drawn frou he people OK our
srtate for he lat ten years have been col,
icctcd Handled and ,pen: by radical office
,-hQaders,
II Dtmea at. have had nothing to do with
dollar of the civil fund, the war fund, or
the school fund, except TO pay their taxes
into radical hands The ten or fifteen
millions which. The People paid nfo the
Treasury, either in The shape of taxes or
which found Their way there in he form
so1oans, have pasted out OF the Treasury
through the Itching palms Of radical
oHiee holders. We know si;h what aston
iebing rapidity these men have bccsme rich
rtEhe. road TO +ud,lep wealth was land out
through The Z Madison Regency ring.
The favors OF this powerful radical faction
was the Only sure pas port TO Office aud
TO place. Their smile was The git ct
Foi4unatus, and their trowns the doom OF
expulsion from all participation in the
Z 'spoils. nazDocs any body know of radi-
cal state officer, who did not get rich? Ii
there is such being, let him be tr0tted out
sias1a single specimen for public admiration
Does an body know Of a member of the
regency rug who does not live III pal
Iaatialf fesiaence," sport fine equipage'
wear gay apparel, and who like the I'M
sthottal Dogbery, has not everything hand
Some. sbQat him.""
There loas Ra5lee, our new Minister to
Switzerland there as Ksyes, who now
''rsttIes around in he absent minister 5
chair. there is Ben. Hopkins, one Of the
sRcgepcy' : bowers, but VITO won be play
-sed ur,fess lie is to have large share OF the
profits of the game, and others whom we
have not time to mention but these are
specimen bricks. All Of these, from moth.
@inV, now report incomes OF rom six TO ten
..aof swetvefihousand2 dollars ; aud yet they
t5ited r7s heather did they spin po.i
.ljey has 1cen their traia
bstd}urIito 20 back a little. There was
sfl4stings, who vas elected Treasurer poor,
.stat be4ele l.. went cat al oflce succeeded
bna rotitns nj an income of IS 600 or SO 600
pef year There is Attorney General Gil +;
iase7never heard that be had anything when
he went into Office. from $4,000 10 So
0e0 year now indicates bis pile Allen,
saaiew years ago since school land clerk,
and glad of 500 or $40 per month, is now
.,anfluent circumstances. State Treasurer
Smith, we Know how radical papers charg
Him with making his Office pay
We mightextend the list; but this will
serveior; an illustration as to whore the
-people S money goes to. These are the
:anen, aad 'others of that Tx. who have col,
9ccnd, handled and disburscd the millions
THAT have been extorted from the people
t--sthe money which the industrious masse,
have earued with lard hands, will. sweat.
lhg@broAVs,' in long days OF anxious toll =
'liowlnuch of it has gone to defray the leei.
-tnlate necessary expenses Of the State gov
ornament ? And how much iegitin,atel,
INFO the pockets Of greedy and needy Office.
holders IN hurry TO get rich, never can be
told until there is change in the State
standardization If the People want to have
matters. looked into, they must first briue
oaboul change. Before there can he in
vestlgatIIon there must be change. A
ocaanee of men, change of parties, mus,
sprscede a thorough and searching examina
ton into our State afTairs.
The Regency is dirty bird :" but i
won't foul its own nest, or, rather, il vii
mot expose, It's foul doings to the gaze O
the people. At all events let this dirt,
bird bedriven from the State Treasury. /
has had its nest there too long already. a.
events have demonstrated Break IN III,
Regency Smash the ring Drive out tn,
.hsEes,o and let those sleek fellows VIII.
have Jared sumptuously every day. :,
long attthe peoples expense, know thai
s,hesod Shipof State is at last determine
toshske herself loose from Barpacles
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,e ms Prospect in Wisconsin.
al Abe milwaukee Nacs says, Never be
FORE since the Eeeublican nor,r .;, =