Daily Republican., 1881-07-27
The county Taxes Due.

T0e county IAXeo Due.
The County tax duplicates have fol
some time past been in the har1s of tn.
County Collectors, Messrs. G. X. d.
Bedford and William Kvne, and these
gentlemen are now ready, waiting and
willing to receive all the taxes that
may be brought to them. We would
suggest to those who bave steady EN-
ployment and reasonably good wages
that now is a very good time to hunt
up the Collectors and pay their County
taxes These are the taxes that qualify
for voting at either the City, County or
State elections and unless these taxes
are paid, of course the persons not pay
ing them can get no vote. They are in
no way enereus and all citizens espe-
cially wtss sniy pay poll tax should
take pleasure in pay,"nn them and be
fully prepared to exercise the righs o,
the elective franchise when the time
comes for holding the elections. A re-
ceipt for taxes paid now will entitle the
holder Of it, If it bo Cor lin, to vote Al
the city election for Mayor, City Trea.
surer, City Council and Ward officers in
June next; at the County and State
election for Governor, Legislature, Levy
Court, Sheriff and Coroner in the No.
yember following, and at the city cleo
tion for City Council and Ward officers
again in June, 1888. This i, q long
string Of elections to which one tax re.
ceipt will confer the right to vote, and
we sincerely hope that the laboring part |
Of the population who have As good 4 !
right to vote AZ the manufacturer the
merchant and the millionaire, will
qualify now for that duty by paying
their taxes aud taking their receipts.
To Republicans this admonition is
directed with Ettlu more force than to
Democrats. The whole machinery of
the election laws from the
incipient stops looking towards |
an assessment, until the time the
ballots are counted, are in the
hands of one political party that has
had no scruples Of conscience ip ad
minlstering those laws for the benefit
OF their own party and this has been
done in such manner as to defeat the
ends of justice and render nugatory the
will of the majority of the people, The
Republicans have a majority of at
least one thousand in this city on a
full vote and fair election, fftee. hun
dred in the county and two thousand to
twenty-five hundred in the State, and
yet owing to the manipulatons, illegal
voting AID false counting, they have
bsen cheated ont Of their rights and
disfranchised az citizens. This has been
in part owing to the negligence and su-
pineness Of the Republicans them
selves. 1t is true that every inagina-
bio obstacle in the past has been placed
in the way Of full and honest assess
msnt Of Republicans and in the wav of
an honest connt, but stil it is somewhat
difficult to cheat IA man out of his vote
IT he is determined to qualify himselfto
v'te and determined to vote after he has
qualified. If the little details of get
ting assessed and paying the small sti
pend OF taxes required are attended to
there will be no difficulty in voting
when the time comes. 1t is true that
voters have no control of their ballot
after 1t leaves their hands ard uasses
into the hands Of unscrupulous, dishon-
est inspectors of the Pat Gardutr
style, but that makes no differences to
the voters Their duty is to cast their
vote and prosecute the inspectors if they
90 not count them, or if tney change the
ballots and count them wrong Tb,
temper OF public opinion will hardly
yield t" the appointment of such men
again to hold elections who viola 9
every principle of law and decency.
What we wish to say to Republicans
49, That they must qualify now by pay
ing their taxes, that they may be pre-
paled to assist in ing change in
the City Government next June and in
the State in November following. They
have the numerical majority TO do it
in the city, county and State and it
only remains for them to pay their tax
es and qualify for making this change.
The tax collectors office is at 602]y Mar
ket street, secord story. Republican
laborers, mechanics, manufacturers and
merchants pay Your taxes.