The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-09-17
DAKOTA COUNTY PoLIrICs.
HASTINGS, MINI,

HASTINGS, MINI,
September S, 1874. !
Hon. 1. Donnelly, Editor of the Anti-Mo-
nopolist:
DEAR SIR: I think you are a very
curious man. In one issue of your pa
per you advise all in favor of reform as
follows:
Commence to economic in your
township affairs; then take up your
county affairs; then elect legislature
that will cut down State taxation one
half, instead of increasing it $l46,OOO. :
But in your next, you advise US IN
Dakota county to act different. You
wish us to ignore all the abuses caused
by Democratic management. You wish
us to quietly endure the squandering Of
= our hard earned taxes-taxes that, &C.
cording to your own showing, are TAX
ing the whole value Of our property
every ten years. You wish US to con-
tinue in Office set of Democratic Of
ficials whose only aim is, and has been,
to get all they can out of the Treasury.
You wish US to still keep in power Off
Gals who will quietly wink at thousands
of dollars thrown away for useless fur
naces, through their own non-pe-form-
ance of duty, to draw it mildly. You
wish us to continue in Office men who
will publish a tax-list entirely unneces-
sary; so much so that some OF our cit
liens have appealed to the courts to
stop the payment for such publication !;
but you never told your readers about
it. You wish US to keep in official po-
sition, men who left no stone unturned
TO harass and annoy the County Treas
urer elected last fall on the Peoples
ticket, even going so far as to ridicule
the style of his penmanship, when it
will compare favorably with the hand
writing of the majority of mankind
and is perfectly legible. You wish us !:
but why enlarge? You, Mr.. Don
nelly, knew all these things before you
advised the people of Dakota county to
continue in power the Democratic
party.
Have you forgotten that Owatonna
resolution, declaring that the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties had out
lived their usefulness ! Have you for
gotten that you said before the Demo-
cratic State Convention of last fall,
that probably the Convention would
notlike to adopt the Owatonna platform
on account of that resolutions! Have
you forgotten how you thought, or said
you thought, last fall at Pennington,
that it was better for the Peoples Con-
vention to have nothing to do with
either party! Have you forgotten now
the Democrats selected you only from
the Peoples ticket, Notwithstanding
the Peoples convention had nominated
honest men, most of whom were and
had been Democrats Have you for
gotten how you canvassed the county
for yourself, incidentally mentioning
the State ticket, but not word about
the Peoples county ticket, when you
had promised Col. Barton to assist him
generally in the State! Have you for
gotten how you used to hold up for
condemnation this same Democratic
party! Methinks can yet hear your
sonorous denunciations, as you fulmin.
ated against the Democrats in Teutonia
Hall; and almost cursed them right
and left for not supporting ''good old
Abraham Lincoln
What meat have these Democrats
fed on that has mad them so pure and
honest that, to read your paper, one
might think they were descendants of
the vestal virgins. (As you are Irish you
will pardon the buiI. As far as
the State and nation
are concerned they have been feeding
on the husks; in Dakota county they
have fed on the kernels. Mark some of
the results; they have, against the
counsel of men like Judge Crosby lew
led tax of $4,000, when there is al.
ready enough, thanks to the new tax
law. in the treasury to run the county
another year-the Democrats have q
full crib; the publishers of the Demo
cratic paper are in league with the Re-
publican publishers to force the county
to submit the payment of the enormous
sum of $1,000 for publishing the delin-
quent tax list, when it can be done prof
gitably for $1,000. But you never men
toned this in your paper, because in
the Republican publishers you
would also expose the Democratic pub
fishers. You cant slap your friends
in the face, you know.
Will you please publish the call issu-
ed by the Peoples committee, and let
your readers Judge whether there is
anything in it to bar all good and hon
est Democrats from joining in the con.
vention.
You say '.if there are evils that need