The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-06-20
To tic Voters Of Monroe.

To the Voters Of Monroe.
FoRx CREEK, June 10th, 1872.
Fellow Citizens OF thc County Of Mou-
roo No, having an opportunity or meet
lug you all face 70 face, take ihe liberty
OF presenting you with the Records Of
your county in regard to my official acts
as your collector for the year 1871, which
are as follows; My report IT Your quar-
terly court, stand thus; Insolvents, Over
seer's, Overchargc, &c, two hundred and
eighty-Gy dollars and eleven cents. Nine
tv-scvcn dollars Of this report was paid to
the Oyerseer's Of your county, not lnsOl.
vents, leaving one hundred and eighty.
eight dollars and eleven cents Of lusol.
y~oncies, etc., only. | assessed and collec-
ted three hundred and nineteen dollars
aud thirty eight cents, called picked up
tax, over aud above the assessment Of
your nineteen assessors appointed 10y the
Court. | now give you the official acts
Of our late Collector NJ. G. Wright, for
the year 1869, which stands as follows:
IuSnlyencies, removals, Sc., nine bundled
and ninety.fyo dollars and thirty-six
cents. Assessed and collected, vo hun
Died and three dollars and forty-seyen
cents picked up tax. You will see at a
glance that n. &. Wright lost seven hum
Ired and ninety-one dollars and eighty
nine cents, while | made a gain Of one
hundred aud thir'y.oue dollars and TWEEN
t~y.scycn cents, making a difference in our
collecting between nine hundred and one
thousand dollars. This fellow citizens is
10 fancy Of the brain, but 4 correct re-
port Of tie record Of your county. You
may ask Ire why | selected the record Of
N. 6. Wight. | will say to YOU for three
good reasons, namely: lie was your last
Collector. Second, [ take him to bo a nice,
sentoel, good citizen, and last because the
Legislature passed a compulsory act for
his benefit as collector which spoke to the
tax-rayer and said in thunder tones that,
if We did not pay our taxes at r certain
time, we would have to pay o double tax.
You all rccollcct how we rushed to tho
Tax Collector to pay our tax, and save
paving 4 double tax. This law vas re-
pcaled when | came into Office. | received
none Of the benefits, which was equal to
several Deputies. Now, gentlemen ask
who Of you have seen q harder year to
collect, and people oppressed, and taxes
at ninety cents on the one hundred dol
lars, than the PRESENT. pause for = reply.
Echo answers away back yonder 1910. Now
listen. I say without doubt,hnd we Of had
a collector who understood his business Us
collector and discharged bis duties as such
to his constituents, our county to-day
would have been out of debt and hundred,
Of dollars in our Treasury, Il county tax
reduced to Il small pittance, our warrants
ut par, and you, fellow>ci,i1ens, when
dragged from your homes for days to
transact the business of your county, re
cciye your pay in county warrants, much
under par. Otherwise was YOU county
out Of debt, your warrants equal to gold,
YOU then could pay your hotel bill with
your warrant for the term of service rcn.
dcred at least, but not so now. Look to
ycur interest. Now feilow.citi2ens | will
say to you, that | am a candidate for re-
election, ON the first Of August next, to
the position Of Collector. Gentlemen,
many of you knew ME in my boyhood,
above half . century ago, you know me
to~dqy, Just old Harris, is all you can
make out of me. Twice have you elected
me to the Office of collector. Now
should you ia your Judgment select me
as your next collector, you gentlemen will
ever fud INC battling for tho interest Of
my c%cuntrymon, last though not least
am under many obligations to you fell
low-citizons for your very kind treatment
toward me when from my home transact.
ing the business of your county, you have
sheltered me from the stormy blast of The
wintry winds aud ever cared for me at al
times. To-day do you think | can ever
forget your Kindness to me? No never
Very respectfully,
go IL AnrIs- Wnr Cnllrrtnr