, 1874-10-22

the county than when he first took the
Office; and in the meantime the most
palable and bare-faced fraud has been
committed upon the county which ever
occurred under any administration,
with his connivance. approval and public
endorsement. Two town lots were
purchased from John Pinnell, ostensi-
bly, for court house and Jail, which no
one now believes will ever be occupied
for that purpose. for two thousand doll
lars. Those lots could not command
fivo hundred dollars in the market, to-
day. Pinnell was paid one thousand
dollars in gold coin and the county
farm, which no one estimates at a less
value than two thousand dollars, for the
two lots, and as part of the transaction
he divided the farm with Angus Mackin
tosh, who WAS acting at the time as the
agent of the county to procure a suita-
BILE site for county buildings. The
actual loss to the county, by this trans-
action, was not less than two thousand
dollars, for Mr.. Yesler offered better
site for the county buildings and one
thousand dollars in coin for the county
farm. This transaction, Mr.. Perkins
joined with Mr.. Macintosh in endors>
ing and defending in public print.
Every vote given for Perkins at the
pending election, is a vote endorsing
this manifest swindle upon the county.
So long as such acts are tolerated in
our county officials, the people must
expect oppressive taxation and bad
government.
Mr.. Booth is an honest, industrious
man of good business qualifications,
greatly to be preferred to Perkins.
For Sheriff.. V. Wyckcff is the
Republican candidate for the office.
Personally we know very little of Mr..
Wyckof. never having had any business
relations and very limited personal in
tercourse with him; but are willing to
take him upon the estimate put upon
him by his fellow citizens and confirmed
ON various public occasions. He was
among the earliest settlers and is per-
sonaliy known to nearly every inhabi-
tant of the county. He has held the
Office of Sheriff though several terms.
and was never defeated in popular
election for any Office for which he was
q candidate, and we recollect that it was
frequently said by his enemies at the
last election, that he must be beaten in
Convention, for he could not bo beaten
before the people. The people may be
sometimes deceived into the support of
bad man for single term, but it is
very rarely that they repeat the error,
in the ease of the same individual; and
the fact that Mr.. Wyckoff has been SO
frequently endorsed by popular vote, is
conclusive with US that he is entitled to
their suffrages by faithful discharge of
the duties of his office. Whatever our
personal relations to the individual may
have been, we are bound, in common
with every good citizens, to yield to the
popular verdict, SO often and unmistak-
ably expressed. That Mr.. Wyckoff is
an interprising and valuable citizen no
one will deny. All his means have
been devoted to improvements, both in
the town and country, which add to the
public wealth, instead of boarding his
money for usury or purposes of specula-
ton, and such are the men who ought
to oe honored by public trust.
7. D. Hinckley, the opposing candi-
date, is a worthy and estimable citizen
in all his private relations, but entirely
destitute of public spirit or enterprise.
He is Bourbon Democrat" in poll
tics, and his personal character is of the
same conservative tenor. He would
keep everything as it was in 1.-The good
old days" of the first settlement of the
country, and is adverse to all changes
or Improvements. His influence as
Sheriff would be exercised against any
weasure of public improvement which
would increase the taxes, however much
it might enhance the value of property
in the county.
For TREASURER = Capt. George D.
Hill is the Republican candidate for
Treasurer. We have had occasion here
tofore to speak of Capt. Hill, and will
have occasion to speak of him hereafter
in connection with certain slanderous
reports which appear in print. one of
which is: "That he not only frequents
gambling saloons. but is an habitual
participant in the games. This we
pronounce as false and malicious an in
vention as was ever conceived by
recreant minister who ''steals the living
of Heaven to serve the devil In. No
one will dispute the qualifications of
Capt. Hill, by education and systematic
business habits. for the discharge of the
duties of this Office. His character for
integrity and moral department stands
as fair in this community as that of any
man on either ticket.
The opposing candidates are G. W.
Moore, on the Peoples Ticket, and S.
c. Harris, independent. Mr.. Moore is
quiet. Moffensive and well-to,do citi-
zen. without any clerkly qualifications.
No one would think of employing him
as book keeper or accountant in amy
business, and if he is elected, he will be
obliged to farm the office out to some
one better qualified. If he has any