Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-05
DVIADIlC Thu ISSUE.
The Court House Gang Have Z
Mortal Terror OF any Refer
ence to County FL
4 S nances.
The Method adopted IL to Ht-
tack Hny Onewho Exposes
the Lamentable Is cond at
ton OF the County
Treasury.

ton Of the County
Treasury.
The thinking taxpayer who gives
his hard earned money to thecounty
treasurer must consider it strange
that the county gang and the Demo-
cratic papers possess the assurance
and nerve they do. The county Of
ficers are held up as models of excel
lence in county management in the
face of the fact they expended $lO.-
600 more for county revenue pur-
poses during the year 1893 than that
fund received from all sources.
The Transcript has been foremost
in publishing the bad financial rec
ord made by the county managers
and the defense offered is a novel
one. The reply has been a constant
and vicious attack ON the editor Of
the Transcript. When the Democrat
and Herald both published a false,
deceptive and crooked statement
ON county finances, the Transcript
completely exposed the effort to de-
ceive the taxpayers, and defied any
county officer to endorse the state
ment. The absolute facts were pub
lished about it, and the other papers
were compelled to abandon any de-
Tense of it. The old method was re-
sorted to, and the Democrats con-
vincing reply was:
"The Democrat rises to inquire if
the people think Fuller a. fit candi-
dldate for the state senate in the
light of the incOherent inmbles he
imposes ON them in regard to the
financial statement published in the
Democrat last week. A speech like
that would electrify the upper house
Of the Minnesota legislatures
The only reply of the Herald up to
date has been declara tons that Full
Ter is practically an outlaw, and at
tributing to him about all the in
EQUITIES known. =.
Isn't that a brilliant county cam
paign?
Do TRADES against Fuller satisfy
the taxpayers that deficiency OF
over $4,000 in the county revenue
fund could possibly follow proper
management If county affairs?
The wra thful bowls OF the Herald
that Fuller is a. liar, a thief and
general scoundrel are all very we'll
to show the public how he is hated
by the editor of the Herald and by
the court house gang, who, with
scarcely an exception, own Herald
stock. That he has their enmity,
and deserves it, is doubtless true.
He expects and has earned their OPP
position in all political matters.
The Herald and the court house
gang can solemnly aver that Fuller
has violated every clause in the
penal code, and then call that. a
proper discussion of the issues before
the people in the county campaign.
II such trash is not an evidence O1
their own weakness, then there is NO
logic in public affairs.
The people Of the county know
that a continuation of the present
management and methods in Morri-
son county government can lead
only to county bankruptcy. An in.
crease in the floating debt Of over
$4,000 a year To nothing more nor
less than an absolute waste OF the
public money. II the people endorse
such extravaganza, where will be the
limits of the gangs expenditures in
the future?
If they have been bold and reckless
in the past, what will follow a dis
tinct approval by the taxpayers o
such conduct? ~. IN. .r
= No public servants ever SO flag
rantly forfeited the right to public
confidence, and then brazenly pro
claimed their ability integrity ane
rights to further public position
They assume that the county il
theirs, and if thousands of dollars
are, expended unnecessarily. s1wht
dares question their conduct? The,
are above criticism, and woe be tt
him who says aught against the i'm In
perial conclave that holds Morrison
county in it's grasp.