The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-30
Governor Taylor and the Cot
tage Grove B0untieS.

specializing in filling the quota Of
the town Of Cottage Grove, Dane
County. These charges were sol
damaging to Governor Taylor and
SO discreditable to the State that
we felt unwilling to believe them
and mere unwilling to publish them,
hoping that they were untrue and
that the Governor would show their
untruthfulness. So we waited till
the evidences of the truth of the
charges have multiplied, leaving no
doubt Of their truth, if the witnesses
Iof the transactions are truthful.
And, thus far we believe, their state
ments, one of them authenticated by
Affidavit, remain unimpeached. We
now feel it duty to lay the history
of the transactions, the charges, and
the evidence of their truth before
orr readers, and we do so by print
ling in this paper editorials from the
Wisconsin State Journal giving
them IN full.
Cottage Grove raised money to
pay bounty of 5000 to each soldier
1 to fill the quota of the town. Will
liam R. Taylor was Chairman Of the
Board Of Supervisors OF his town
and was made the agent to till the
quota. George B. Carter and FL. L.
| Earr in the winter Of 1868 and 1854,
were members of the SD Regiment
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and
were at home engaged in the re-
cruiting service, boarding a part of
the time at the Meredith House,
Madison. Carter states that at that
time Farr told him that he, "Farr,
; and one William r. Taylor were
engaged in procuring men to fill the
quota of the town of Cottage Grove,
3 in Dane County that the town had
voted to pay for such men 5000 each,
and that Farr and Taylor were act
ually paying much less sums for
them. in some cases from 800 to
: $3.50 per man, dividing between them
e the difference between the amount
r voted by the town and the amount
actually paid for the men,"
E Carriers statement was published
lin the State Journal on the 14th Of
September. On the 10Th the Mil
waukee News published in it's leader
8 a statement that Governor Taylor
: denies ''the allegation that he, with
Col. Farr, or alone, made any profit
: in filling the quota of his town OF
d Cottage Grove during the draft, and
! lthat the charge is unquallfedly
e false"
A Special Dispatch from Madi-
son, also published in the News,
charges Garter with being can I'm
qualified liar" and says: "Col. Farr,
e well known here, was not engaged
!, in any such transaction with Gov.
: Taylor, as to the quota of Cottage
n Grove. Col. Farr will doubtless be
; heard from as soon as he hears OF
t this scandalous charge. He is now
j. in Iowa, on business"
:IThese denials called out statement from
J: Col Farr, authenticated by his affidavit,
E, to the effect that in January 1864, Will
liam r. Taylor, who is now the Governor
of Wisconsin, was Chairman of the Board
of Supervisors Of Cottage Grove, and that
he called on Farr at the Meredith House
and proposed entering into arrangements
If with him in recruiting and making mon
!. eY out Cf the business, and sharing the
profits between them, and Chat they made
: the arrangement and made In she trans.
IL action between tour and five hundred
e. dollars, which amount was equally divld-
= led between them. The recruits from
: Cottage Grove were paid each 5000, and
!" recruits not residents of Cottage Groal
it were paid, With two or three exceptions,
not to exceed $3.50, and whatever amount
was paid receipt was always taken FOL
$500.
u The News of The 19sh, above referred
J. to, IN referring 70 Taylors filling the
y quota of Cottage Grove says: He was
= associated in this duty throughout with
y Hon. Isaac Adams, member of the assem-
= bly, last winter, and j. w. Sharp, fol
many years pos master of Door Creek, in
70 the town of Cottage Grove. The three
hired all substitutes and paid all boun-
ie ties voted by the town. Gov. Taylo
e, appeals to the testimony Of these two
n men-both republicans-as to the facts
: and he challenges and defes the produc-
ton Of any SHOW OF proof to substantiate
the absurd charge of the man Carter
D. whose letter has been published
Isaac Adams has been heard from and
!, answers the statement and Gov. Taylor's
: az zeal as follows
u 1.-THE above sta. ement, declare to be
ID false. All monies raised by Cottage
i. Grove for bounty purposes were disburs-
- ed By and through Gov. TAYLOR, as he
= gery nell knous i"
n Gov. Taylor gets 10 support in his de-
T. NAL of the charge from Mr. Adams. On
D the contrary. he has called out Mr. Ad-
olams to declare that the statement that he