Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-06-06

Gen. Guitar was q representative of
the bond holders, sent there with his
friends to break up the convention
and that he was bitterly opposed to
the Guitar delegation being allowed
a seat, for the Guitar delegation were
but the tools of the bond-holding in
terest, if they had no cause of griev-
ance should absent themselves, for
they would prove serpents in the bo-
som of the meeting. [applause.
He also stated that if Guitar and
his friends wanted to pay the Boone
county debt they should go home and
do it, that the convention was not
for the payment of debts, but for the
resisting. prolonged applause.
J. c. SLATER
OF Linn county then came excitedly
to the front and opened on Guitar
with his battery of g; tin guns. He
said he was as honest as Guitar, &c.
He dia not like to he called a repu-
d%iationist. What is that old adage
about ''the truth hurting &c?" We
have forgotten it.
GEN. GUITAR
then stated that men had different
ideas about honesty, that what some
men thought to be honest was dis
honest. 1t all depended on how a
mar had been raised. Amid great
excitement the question was put and
the Boone county delegation was
unanimously Ostracised during the
discussion W. thought there would
he a rich time, but as soon as the
Boone county delegates were expe!l-
ed the repudiators wer: again ingood
working condition and cooled down
to their work, sufficiently to take up
the next order of business, namely,
statements from the various counties.
LOVE FEAST.
According to W. Z. Barnes, Cass
county, had a bonded debt of over
$1,000, 900. \ suit for $500, 900
was now pending. Although the
State Courts had decided the town
ship Indebtedness to be illegal, the
L. S. Courts had de AIDED that it must
be paid. This would amount to con-
fiscation, as the total assessed value
of the county was but s., 600, 900,
and property was now assessed It
SIT, which would sell for but $40
per acre.
BETTER AND TRUER MEN
never lived than in Cass county, yet
they would not pay a cent of the bur-
den which helI-hounds and thieves
had placed upon them and for which
the people had received no benefits.
He closed his TRADE with the word
''IIell," and as he was sitting down
unconsciously, yet very ap-
p~ropriately; This is our condition
gentlemen. Applause.
Franklin county, represented by
Mr.. Crews, had been overrun with
redlegs from Kansas. Rock and ma
cadamized roads had been built oven
which no one would travel; $3.50, 900
in bonds had been issued, reissues
made without cancellation $50, 600
had been compromised, but what the
at present was no II could es-
probably about S40O, 600.
The courts sustained the legislature,
and decided that the people must pay.
Whether they would or not was an
other question. The people were
united in the determination.
In Howard county an immense
debt had been fraudulently created,
and the bonds issued, by Il corrupt
county court, without any guarantee
from the railroads. After paying
$500, 900 interest and S93 900 of the
principal, $795, 900 of bonds. still
hung over the county, and out of
1900 taxpayers 900 were on the de-
Iinquent list, and Mr.. kingsbury
stated that the county
WOULD RESIST TO IL UTTERMOsT.
Knox county, $. Ennis stated, had
been paying principal and interest up
10 three years ago upon bonds, though
not u rail had ever been laid of the
Missouri and Mississippi railroad.
J. &. Slater estimated the debt Of
Township, Linn county. to be
about Sl26. 600. A proposition had
been made to the holders OF the bonds
to compromise for 80 cents on the
One of them had visited the
comfy from New York on Tuesday,
and offered to throw off the interest
his bonds and accept the principal.
He was laughed at. Mr.. Slater
of bringing him to Moberly,
but on second consideration thought
it might be a dangerous proceeding.
Jackson owes $500, 600, and w.
f. Hall was authorized to state on
the part OF the people that not Il nick
Ell would be paid by the people to a
company who
NEVER INTENDED TO BUILD
a mile of the road, although they had
received $500, 900 in bonds. Forty
thousand dollars interest had been
paid by Lincoln county upon "a debt
not created legally by the people. BY
means of an i'm nense petition in 1873,
the county court had been prevented
making any more payments.
This debt OF $500, 900 is due the st.
and keokuk railroad. Although
one ofthe county judges had refused
to sign the bonds, the Governor had
another who had no such
scruples. No railroad had been built,