Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-10-16
THE PLEDGE REDEEMED
The County Expenses We're
Kept Within the Income
by Republicans.
BY the Test Republican Of
ficials Have Shown that
They Are!Competent.

When the Republican speakers,
candidates and the Transcript repre-
sented in 1894 that the Republicans
would conduct the county affairs AZ
that the debt would not beincreased,
the Democratic candidates and pa
pers declared that the Republicans
were making use OF promises OF
better county management solely for
campaign purposes. They claimed
that the election Of tie Republican
county ticket would not result In
any better management, and that
the county was being run as eco
nomically as possible. The men who
were most active in the Republican
campaign were doing their work for
the interest of the county, and they
were in earnest in their claims that
the county must be run without In
creasing the debt. 70 show that
the Transcript was III earnest. and
regarded the issue as something
more than u cheap campaign cry.
the following was published In this
paper shortly before election 1894:
IF the present candidates ON the
Republican county ticket are given
pract teal control Of county matters.
and they do not run the county
within the limits of the income, the
Transcript will deem them incOmpe-
tent officials. While we make no
promises az to what we will do In
the next campaign, we do say that
any officials who cannot for the
next two years run the county with
in the income will be incompetent,
and un worthy of the support Of the
taxpayers That Is plain state
ment, and we will stand by 1t, and
quote it in the campaign of 1896.
When the Republicans OF Morrison
county are protesting against ex-
travagance they are making no bluff.
The hardest work tOr.the Republican
ticket is being done by heavy tax
payers who are working only Tor
the general good, and will work as
hard against any officials who can
not properly run the county, as they
are now working against the pres
,ent managers. We sincerely believe
that public economy can always be
best served by the success OF the Re
publican party, and II local expert
ence does not prove it, we will &C
knowledge the error. We know and
app, eciate the sentiment OF tho
workers in this campaign, and they
will not 40 before the people on any
false issue. Republican success Will
I've q guarantee that there shall be
no increase in the floating debt, but
rather decrease in expenditures, 80
that each year will show surplus
of receipts over expenditures, until
there shall he no floating county
debt. Voters. are you with the Re-
publicans on that proposition?'
That was certainly making the
position of the transcript plain. II
it was a bluff. it was one that would
certainly react. There was no escap-
ing from embarrassment, II the Re-
publicans were unable to do as they
claimed. If the Republican officials
had not run the county within It's
income, the Transcript could not
this yer maintain their competency.
The Transcript then promised to
quote in 1896 it's expressions OF 1894,
and it can do SO with pleasure. The
quotation ended with the inquiry as
to whether the voters OF the county
were with the Republicans on the
proposition to run the county with
in it's income, and the answer OF the
voters was the placing Of the county
under Republican coutrol. 1t was u
business matter for the considera-
ton [of the taxpayers In 1884. and
the same question is OF equal i'm
portance to them today. The Re-
publicans were elected because the
people believed they would give the
county u better administration.
That better administra ton has been
given, and the Republican party OF
Morrison county submits it's record,
with every pledge redeemed, and
every promise fulfilled.