Year: 1871




Whenever responsible business is en-.
trusted to an agent or employe, and the
duties required to be attended to are per-
formed fully, faithfully and good account
OF stewardship rendered, the employer of
course accords credit and rewards the meri
l'torlous servant by continued employment
| and confidence. As with individual ser.
vice, so common sense would indicate that
/ 1t should be with political party.
IT party selects agents or officers to
perform certain public duties, and these
duties are faithfully and honestly spertorm-
ed, that party is entitled to credit and
further confidence by virtue of its sagacity
and honesty in selecting such superior
business agents. and the endorsement of
candidates for public station by such party
is also criterion OF merit ou the part Of
those receividgit.


Now the people OF Shasta county have
for the past eight years, copstituted the
Union Republican party as their agent for
the management of their public business
affairs, aud that party has had the respop-
sbility of selecting servants to carry out
the duties and powers delegated by the
people, As the party is responsible Tor the
management of the County Government,
the peoj le Of course are to Judge as to the
faithfulness OF unfaithfuness of their
chosen agent, and by their votes show that
they either approve or condemn the man.
ner in which their public work has been
kaI ~ Il IL L
Union Republican party, by its manage
ment Of county affairs since it came into
power, has been a good business agent for
the people and proved faithful and mer.
torious public servant, then common justice
demands an acknowled edgment of its merits,
and it is certainly entitled to the further
support and confidence of the people.


How stands the record As any one
can see by the books, the Report of Felix
Tracy, County Treasurer, under date of
December 18th 1868, on the accession of
the Union Republican party to- power,
showed the Indebtedness of the county to
be sixty-seven thousand four hundred and
sixty seven dollars, not including interest.
This debt was piled up by lemocratic rule
when there was a vast amount OF taxable
property in the county, and when the pub
lie revenue paid into the T.easury were i'm
mense. 1t was left rs Democratic legacy
to the people and to the Republican party
which took control at the time the mines
began to fail, population leave for the Ter
ritories, and the taxable property rapidly
diminish in valuation. But the Republl-
cans deter mined to do the best they could
towards reserving the county from threat
ened bankruptcy, and with this Democrat
ic debt OF sixty-seven thousand four hun
dred and sixty seven dollars on their hands
and "hard times" Starring them in the fsce,
they set out like honest men and faithful
public servants to economisG and nav up
the county creditors Instead of following
the Democratic example Of increasing sal
aries and creating additional offices, as H.
lustrated by the last Legislature, they pro-
cure;i the passage of laws abolish ny the
separate Office of Tax Collector and con
sClidating it with another office. thus saving
fully four thousand dollars per year. They
also abolished the separate office of Re-
corder and consolidated it with the Clerks
office, thereby saving some three thousand
dollars more per annum. These reductions
Of expense, together with the exercise of
good judgment and economy on the part
Of the Supervisors, have enabled the Re-
publican local administrations to not only
ran the county government success, fully
in the interest Of the people but also to re-
duce the debt down to Forty one Thousand
dollars as the Report of Treasurer Cooper
will show.


Now We submit to the people-especial-
ly the taxpayiDy portion of them, if under
all the circumstances this Is not splendid
record in favor of the stewardship and
management of the Republican party? p
Should not this faithful public servant be
upheld In upholding party showing
such meritorious record would the peo-
pie not also be upholding their o,on inter-
ests


Let every taxpayer and we'll wisher of
the county think well of these things before
casting his ballot on the 9th OF September.
Certainly every Repub lean in the county
as special cause to feel proud of the local
record of his party, and can appeal to his
taxpaying Democratic neighbor with the
foregoing forcible facts as furnishing ample
reasons why he also should vote for the
Union Republican nominees. Vote to
sustain representatives of the party that
has been faithful to its trust


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