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WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

December 27, 1895

 

MISREPRESENTATION

Another Boomerang Exploded.  Lies Won’t Win.

 

            The Manawa correspondent of the Sentinel, like the petition circulators for the county seat removal is dealing in false misrepresentations endeavoring to bolster up a show for the sheckels to rebuild in the event of the county seat being voted away from Waupaca.  It is a well known fact that the petition circulators told it over and over again that the walls were cracked and in a tumble down condition; the roof was leaky, the furnace played out and the vaults not large enough etc., etc.  That what money Waupaca would have to pay if the county seat was removed and what would be realized from sale of site would just about build a new court house in Manawa.  Now in the first place it is not likely Waupaca would be foolish enough to give Manawa or any other town a “bonus” to take the court house away from here.  Then the court house site was deeded for public purposes, and has been used for a court house site for lo, these thirty years.  It would also be pleasant indeed, for Waupaca to have a set of commissioners attempt to sell at public venue, to the highest bidder the lands lying around the court house for the purpose of raising money to help build another court house in some other part of the county.  Waupaca will probably submit to it like a little lamb.  Say, them petition circulators and would-like-to-remove the court house fellows are talking through their hats if they think they can get a new court house on any such representations.  They are misrepresenting the case entirely.  The court house foundation is as solid and perfect as it was the day it was finished.  There is no more substantial foundation in the state and the walls are without a break.  The roof may need a few new slates in places to make it as good as ever.  As far as the heating apparatus is concerned, that may need some repairs, and to put in the most modern heating system would not cost any great sum now.  As far as the vaults are concerned they are large enough for present needs and a storage vault for surplus documents might be built in the basement at a moderate sum if necessary. The REPUBLICAN would call attention of the Sentinel’s monumental falsifier to page 28, of the proceedings of the county board Nov. session 1881.  Supervisors C.S. Sutherland of Clintonville, J.W. Bingham of New London, M.R. Baldwin of Waupaca, committee to settle with county officers carefully examined the books, vouchers etc. of County Treasurer Chamberlain and reported finding everything correct.  Among the items going to make up the total receipts during the year is the following:

“Received from the city of Waupaca, court house appropriation $7,000.”  Will the Manawa correspondent have the kindness to request the Milwaukee Sentinel to rectify its infamous libel against the city of Wauapca?  The REPUBLICAN has no objections to Manawa’s efforts to get the question of removal submitted by fair means but libel and misrepresentation will not win.  But it will react as it should.