Year: 1878

Editor. of the Transcript: -.: i. x rs. &.
Your article last week on local pol
itios is a good one. That is, it ,s
fair and unprejndiced statement of
fact. In this part of The county fe
have been talking for some time about
a peoples moyem ent, for that is the
only way by which the present condi>
tion Of things can be broken up. tI
learn from people living in other parts
Of the county that the feeling in their
neighborhoods is about the same as
here, and that a peoples movement
would carry everything. If put on foot
honestly and fairly. The people d en't
want any put up job. They want
honesty and when they ind: tt


there is square pull between tie off,
fee seekers on one side and Themselves
on the other, it is going TO- result in:
the complete overthrow of the office
seekers. The management. of our
county affairs is, in some respects,
shameful. Look at that tax judg>
ment sale Of last fall, and tell me
whether any such bare>faced fraud
could have b cen done in any other
county In the State. And let me say
with due respect, Mr.. Editor, that it
was your duty to expose the villainv
connected with that transaction, and
you did not do it. That sale was in
such fragrant violation of the law and
of common honesty that we cannot see
how the persons engaged in it could
ever look an honest man in the face
again. Just think Of it; $4,000
worth of land sold for less than two


hundred dollars. That is a bigger
steal IN proportion to tho opportunity
than Boss Tweed ever rerpetrated.
I know people who have been COM
PEELED to sell butter for fifteen cents
pound to raise money to pay their tax
es, and yet gang of unprincipled
vampires are able to make $40, 900
steal at one haul. Why don't you
expose this villainy and make it red


hot for the guilty parties Why
don't you let the people Of this county
know what kind of crowd they have
got to deal with? Why don't you de-
mand in unmlstakab]e terms that these
things shall be stopped? I don't be-
lieve that you belong to that crowd,
or that you ever received dime Of
their stealings but I do believe, and
so docs everybody else, that you have
not exposed and denounced the viii
lainy of some Of our officers as you
should have done. But let that pass.
The people approve Of your course in
putting forth VIM. Rhody as the stand.
ard bearer of reform, for he is an hon.
est man. Every voter who is dissatis~
fed with the present management must
unite in general movement to make
a change. But, Mr., Editor, we don't
want any third ticket. If the people
cannot unite on a ticket for reform,
we may as we'll settle down to the con-
vlction that there will be no reform.
A majority Of the Democrats are wil>
ling to unite with the Republicans on
Peoples ticket, but if the Republi.
cans run straight party ticket, refus>
ing to give the Democrats proper rep
resentation, there will not be a cam
didate on the Republican ticket clect>
ed. The reason is plain. There will
| be no trouble about uniting Unless
there should happen to be some Re-


publican Office seekers who would COM


bine to get a straight party ticket nom.
mated, hoping that there would be an


Independent ticket to draw off
Democratic votes, and thus enable


them to get into Office. But
that plan woaldn'. work. IF our


county offices are to be filled BY
office seekers, the people don't


care which crowd gets in. We want


a ticket that represents reform, hon:


esty, the people, and both political par.


ties, and such ticket will win. Now


in conclusion, let me ask you to prin,


this, for the people want hearing