Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-07-07
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Here, says the Telegraph, is lamentable
picture of Locofoco prodigality and abuse. In
The short space of eighty-three days the Loco
toco officers on the public works have drawn
from the State Treasury the astounding sum
Of more than THREE HUNDRED THOU
SAND DOLLARS-or THREE THOU
SAND SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
DOLLARS PER DAY-whle at the same
time the Locofoco press IS filed with abuse OF
the State Treasurer because he will not fur
nish the officers with money to pay the labor
ers on the public works!.!
This fact dlcloscs q scheme ut vilany un.
paralleled, We believe. in the history of Loco
focois in this State. The sum Of $500 600.
formerly was all that was annually appropria-
ted for the ordinary repairs of the State canal
and railroads This sum was for a whole
year.
This amount has already been drawn from
The Treasury for that purpose in little over
too months! What has been done with it !
that is the question. Have the laborers been
paid The Locotoco press says they have not
Have the public officers been using this mon
ey, and telling the honest laborers that they
could get no money, while they have drawn
the enormous sum of nearly one. third Of a mil
lion Ii the Locoloco press tell the truth, it
is 50. If il Is not so, then they have been con-
cocting and circulating the most enormous lies,
and vy1Fb tho coucurrouca To-, % ~ -.
on the pubic works, otherwise they would vol
UNFAIRLY disabuse the public mind. One Of
two things are, therefore, self evident, and can
not be contreycrted either the Locofoco Off
GERS have paid the laborers on the public
works, while ihey have given currency to
vile and infamous libel upon the State Treasu-
rer; or they have used the money drawn from
the State Treasury for purposes OF speculation;
and to screen themselves from the Just censure
ofthose from whom they are fraudulently With
holding their just dues, have put INTO cncula-
ton a ialschood against the State Treasurer
Either horn Of the dilemma will hold them up
to public anathema and Indignation.
1t will not be contended by the most hard
ened and unscrupuIous Locot0co plundcrer,
that the sum ofTREE HUNDRED THOU
SAND DOLLARS IN EIGHTY-THREE
DAYS. OR THREE THOUSAND SIX HUN.
DRIED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS PER
DAY, is not sufficient to meet all expenses and
pay all the laborers on the public works. No
one will pretend that one-third of that amount
has been expended within the time and If the
poor laborers" have not been paid, and prompt
lY too, there is gross fraud The sum of $500
coo was neUer before drawn from the State
Treasury, on account Of ordinary repairs IN
The same time, nor can it have been required.
1t IS idle for Locotocoism to attempt 10 Justify
this enormous draft and expenditure on thai ac-
count.
There has evidently been a settled and de-
termincd purpose on the part OF the Locofoco
wireworkers, since Mr.. Ball came into office.
to run upon the Treasury ami break down the
credit of the State; and this unrrecedented
draft of $500 900, in less than three months.
for the public works alone, and the false hue
and cry raised that money could not be obtain
ed to pay "the poor laborers on the pubic
works ls one of the schemes fixed upon to car
ry out the design. No man of any party, ac
qaainted with the facts, can doubt this.
Ihe AdJn'ant General Of the State has caus.