The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-11-19
To the Tax Payers aud Voters Of
Yellow Medicine County Minnesota.

1~;>h in \ lew remarks to call your at.
tcn.ion TO the late acts OF Ex-Gov. Horace
Austin in reference to tie remo:al Of the
County Seat Of Yellow Medicine County.
You are al! perhaps familiar with the
''sul. q! the last general election held on
the 81 day o, November 1874, as regards
the vote for removal Of the County Seat
from Yellow Medicine City to Granite Falls
As some OF you may not he we'll posted on
the result Of said election will make full
statement Of the canvass. The whole
number Of votes in the County was 5S3.
Ofthis number OF voters 3Sj voted for the
removal, while only 194 voted against the
removal; which fact shows conclusively
that large majority Of the voters ard tax
payers Of the County want the County Seat
at Granite Falls. In this State, as we'll as
all othe: States in the Mon, it is supposed
majority rules, which should he the case.
Yet Ex-Gov. Austin thinks otherwise lie
being dissatisfied as to the result OF the
election thinks, as he thought when he was
Gov. Of this State in 1873 and vetoed a bill
granting Yellow Medicine County term OF
the District Court, that he knows better
what the people Of the County want than
they themselves do. To show them that
he does, he has served writ Of Injunction
on the Officers OF said County in order that
they may not remove their several Offices
TO the County Seat from Yellow Medicine
City, and thus he be deprived Of ever get.
| ting said County Seat ut his lovely town,
Minnesota Falls. A heavy cost must follow
this suit and the question is who is going to
pay it? Is the County going to pay or will
Gov. Austin. 1t looks very much to me
as though the County has got its foot in it
for perhaps five hundred to thousand
dollars. When a suit is commenced in the
name Of the State, think the County will
have to foot the bill if Austin can get out OF
| it and we think he can
Ii Austin could st two or three more
such men as the ones he gets to make CONF
plants in this action to lick spittlc for him
in the course 0! two or three years he would
bankrupt the County.
l am sorry to see three men like Messrs.
Yearly, Hodgkias, burlington and more
especially llodgkins and burlington 50
little interested in the welfare OF this new
County. The County has just got SO our
Orders are worth nearly their face and Will,
the tax levied this year OH the present AS
sessmen, another year would nearly clear
the County Of debt, but Ivy these three men
being induced ty Austin to make com.
plant so that under his frivolous statement
lie could swear out All injunction, the
County will, without doubt, pay for tue
same five hundred to y thousand dollars
and Ord. rs will be soon down to about fifty
cents on the dollar. All this so that Aus
tin Can try, all other year, to get the Coun-
ty Seat removed to Minnie sofa Falls, mis-.
cradle low place that overi.ows every few
years in the spring OF the year so that
Steam Noats can run through the main
streets. This think is too much for the
County to stand, and hope a majority ol
the tax payers who voted for the removal
will think SO too and act accordingly. l,
Mr.. Austin will pay these costs let him go
ahead. lie perhaps will say that he will,
hut we al. know he will not. lie will tell
You that the County will no. have to pay
j., Tut, tell you gentlemen (althoush am
no. acquainted with him) will rot believe
him ii he does say SO. Mon Anon.
DOUGER