Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1908-10-02
AS TO COMPARISONS.

county g general financial condition it
was said that the issuance of bonds to
take up a floating debt was not local
condition exclusively, and that other
counties had done the same. This
was denied by Fuller. In the figures
published by Fuller, he is careful to
omit figures that might give the lie
to his argument-which is, that
democrats are dishonesty extravagant
because they are democrats, and that
counties where they may have a.
majority of officers are necessarily
bad, that counties where the opposite
party runs things are always in fine
shape and never have such thing as
floating debt or bonds The argument
is dishonest one. 1t isn't true, as
we shall show, and it is an argument
which no fair-mlnded republican will
endorse The Herald does not intend
to criticise the management of any
county, but we are going to show the
Stiffness of Fuller's argument.
Grow Wing county, where the
wretch who was abused by Fuller
got more votes than anybody else, is
brought into the limelight by Fuller.
This county, as we personally know,
has and has had some pretty good
officials, and we don't think they are
to blame for the fact that Grow Wing
county has $50, 600 of bonds outstand-
ing which were issued to take up
floating Indebtedness in revenue
warrants. Democrats are scarcer in
that county than the proverbial hen 8
teeth, and have rarely, if at all, had
| a county Office, unless we except
Sheriff Erickson, who gets elected
year after year because of his con-
servatlveness in matters of ex-
penditure: So that's one bubble
punctured, and not in spirit of
criticism, because there are pre-
sumably good reasons for the condi-
tions existing.
Cass county, . which touches our
northern boundary, county where a
democrat is still less in evidence than
in Grow Wing, has $50, 900 in revenue
warrants outstanding. And without
knowing local conditions, we have no
doubt that there is a reasonable ex-
planation. There is no democratic
official in Cass county and we don t
believe there has been one since the
organization of the county.
Becker county, about as strongly
republican as they make 'em any
where, has $32, 600 of bonds outstaud-
ing which were issued to take up a
floating debt in the county revenue
fund. A democratic official there is
as scarce as political decency in
Fuller's hide.
Clay county, never democratic
county, has $40, 600 of bonds Issued to
take up a floating indebtedness in the
revenue fund.
Anoka county, always republican,
has $11, 900 of bonds outstanding
issued to take up revenue fund in
debtedness and It's revenue fund was
overdrawn &c. 526. 81 Jan. 1st of this
year. s-.-
Carlton county, as strongly re-
publican as Anoka, had on Jan 1st
$23, O13. 48 of revenue fund warrants
outstanding.
Now there is old Stearns county,
democratic from center to center, top
to bottom, and spreading over the
edges, with no bonded debt at ALL
Conditions in counties vary as to
topography, as to distances travelled,
as to the streams traverslng them,
as to their stage OF development, as to
amount of litigation, as to assess
ments, as to trials, etc. The counties
mentioned never had to refund $40, 600
in taxes, as Morrison county has done
since 1900. A republican official
placed railroad indemnity lands on the
tax rolls in this county. The state
auditor ordered most of these refund
ments.