Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-10-12
More Peg Railroads-County Aid
Humbug Pledges.

The magic trick of promising and
pegging routes for railroads here and
these is again to be resorted to in
Grant County for catching votes.
Potosi is being plugged by tricksters
and depot spot fixed and pegs driv-
en- Just where it is wanted. Water
loo is to be pegged through from end
to end and the only question is shall
Waterloo have depot? Cassvile
is to be pegged and we presume ev-
cry other town is being promised
the pegs-conditioned that Mr.
Hazelton is not supported for the
Senate.
In some parts, county aid for build
ing railroads is to be the question
wherever it will catch votes, and
wherever the people are averse to
county aid, the like is to be mover
mentioned, but the people are to be
plugged for their votes by some 9TH
er wild scheme.
Now the facts are, these pegs and
promises during political election
are harmless late years, or measure
bly, so. County aid may or may not
be practical issue-we think i'm
practical at present, if ever the peo-
pie support it. However considered
the election of Senator can have
nothing to do with it, because an en-
abling act would be granted and sup
ported by any Senator upon ascer-
tanning that the people favored it or
desired to vote on the question Of
lending their aid. As to towns,
there is already law existing to
authorize the people to vote "yeS" or
'n0" on town taxation to build rail-
roads.
And as to charters for building
railroads everywhere in all direc-
tions, every inch of territory in
Grant County is already covered by
right of way, by acts in existence
for twenty years, by acts more re-
cent, and by acts so liberal as to al
low companies to run through the
houses and barns of everybody. 1t
is not for want Of railroad charters
and charters Of dangerous liberaity
that railroads are not built-but for
want of capital and cooperation.
Just now, there being an election
at hand, the Monroe road is to be
extended west the Plattevillo road
is to be discharged as huckshot, scat
tering in all directions, and the Hi
nois Central is to fire winding shot
up the Mississippi bottom from Dun
leith to Cassville. There is to be
brilliant and astounding display of
pegs and pledges, plugs and promises
to bewilder the people for the bene-
fit Of Democratic candidate for
senator, who is to handle the next
Legislature as a public jug at barn
raising.
During the two years of Mr. Hazel
tons services as Senator, he has lent
a liberal support to all reasonable
measures for building railroads.&c.
far as he thought the people would
sanction. The question of county
aid was not agitated, but that of
State aid was offered and postponed
in view of finding out the public
wish. If elected, he will favor any
legitimate railroad enterprise, not
dangerous to the people. But he
will not, either blindly or knowingly,
support any fraud by which the peo-
pie may be taxed for railroads and
then be cheated out of their bonds
and roads. He belongs not to, nor is
he identified with, any railroad or
monopoly. He is no silent partner
nor associated with defunct enter
prises for selling railroad charters.
His record is not clogged in with the
schemes Of old politicians Of the
State, who once combined in mo-
nopoly so vast that they had to
abandon them from fears of beget-
ing q civil war. He is free and
wiling to cooperate with the people.