The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-11-11

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in order to hide his dark transactions, net
lected to make the reports required Of hi
by law: and when he did make them, ii
Republican commissioners meekly accepte
them, and thus allowed him to pocket hur
dreds of dollars every year more than wa
due him under the law. They gave ava
hundreds for printing, the contract price o
which was thirty or forty dollars; AM
when the county funds fell short, they in
creased the per cent. Of taxation. The.
issued county orders, and, contrary to law
the officials speculated in them, AM
brought them down to forty cents
on the dollar Moneys appropriated fol
internal improvements were squandered
This shameful practice, persisted in fol-
years, brought the Republican officials to
oppulencc and the county to beggary. The
only paper in the county, the Herald, was
faithful organ of the ring-deceiving the
people as to the dark deeds Of its masters
and looking down on all who had the i'm
pudence to complain Or dared to mention
investigation.
Under the party rule public education
was neglected and commerce received no
encouragement whatever. There are no
railroads, no telegraph wires, poor wagon
roads and worse bridges. In short, the
Pope county Of year ago was a disgrace
to Illinos-a miserable placc--inhabitcd
chiefly bymere party tools and ruled over by
a band of conscienciousless scallawags who
showed, Enthusiastically, what Republican
ism is to the core.
But change has come over the wretched
little county. A few Democrats or 'rebels(D"
who are compelled to reside there, could
bear it no longer, and resolved that the
true inwardness of Republicanism should
be exposed. About year ago the "PopC
County Democrat" was established, With
that sterling Democrat, Mr.. Phil. V. Field,
as editor. From that time until the pres
ent day the democrat" has labored inces-
sently to teach the truth. It published the
law, the records and the reports, and by
comparing the one with the other, laid
bare the shameful mal-practices Of its enc
mics in office. Unshrinkingly it bore
the hatred and persecution of those
in power and their dupes,
and stood alone, the advocate of honesty,
the eypounder Of state and moral law the
denouncer Of public defaultcrs, Assisted
by the tom Halliday law" which clearly
defined the compensation county officers
were to receive, 1t has succeeded in bringing
tho yultuves 20 oeoount. The eiiclif has
been sued for hundreds of dollars wrong
fully withheld from the county; new com
missioners have been elected the
financial affairs of the county
have been re-adjustod and are now
economically conducted. New county or
ders have been issued and the merchants Of
Golconda have advertised through the
Democrat that they would take them at par;
internal improvements have been begun
and the county is now on the high road to
prosperity,
And how was all this accomplished? By
reducing the Republican majority; by
busting" the Republican ring, i, e, by
allowing the "rebels" and "copperheais' to
make themselves felt. At the last con-
gressional election, the "Dcmocrat" caused
the Republican majority to tumble over
one hundred votes, and it has ever since
steadily tumbled, and with it has steadily
tumbled the reckless expenditures; and the
"devil-may- care" officials have also tumbled
out Of Office.
Light more light!' is apparently all
that Republicanstherc and elsewhere need
to become firm Democrats. Our Republi.
can brethren in Pope county have all this
time been benighted and in the dark; when,
in our language, which our friend Phil.
Field has adopted, they ought not 50 to
have been"
ON THE BELLEROPHON.