Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-08-21
Tax. payers, read this Exposure
of Aflenpted ESraMd.

Tax. payers, read This Exposure
of Attempted E'rand.
The locofocos seek to escape from the fact,
that their party made our enormous State
debt. To shield themselves, they now charge
that under Gov. Ritner's administration, a
large amount was added to the public debt
We are not the defenders of Gov. Ritner.-
Gov. Johnston was entirely unconnected with
his administration, and cannot be held answer
able for any of its acts. The leading MEM
Der of Gov. Ritner's cabinet was Thomas II.
Burrowes, who is a well-known member of
the Opposition, ard who was warmly well
coined into their ranks by the Pennsylvanidn,
Pittsburg Post and many other Locofoco pa
pers. Every blow aimed at Gov. Ritner's
official career, is therefore, blow at one of
the most prominent men of their party. But
we intend, for the sake of truth, to show that
this charge of increase Of debt under Cor.
Ritner is false, and that the Records prove
itso.
j Il
declared that Gov. Ritner had increased the
State debt ten millions of dollars The Car
Isle Volunteer asserted it was fee millions.
The same paper subsequently asserted it was
over sepen millions, and said it could prove
it. The Pennsylvania said the increase
was over fUe millions; and again, in an arti-
Gle in its paper of August s, headed ''a crown
ing argument" it virtually asserts that the
Temporary loans left by Gov Ritner for Gov.
Porter to pay, were 100000, that the heavy
expenditures of Governor Ritner's three years
were paid out of the extraordinary revenues
then received, and-that there was no perma-
nent loan made. And to sum up all, the a.
has of the Union" of the Sth said, that the
increase of debt under Gov. Ritner was So
7S6,360 40!! These are all statements made
by Locofoco papers, and each maintains his
assertion to be true by an array of figures |! !
What need is there of convictng such falsifi-
ers of dishonesty, wlen their own diverse
statements show that all their charges are
made for the occasion, and have 10 founda-
ton in FACT?
The debt in existence when Gov. Wolf
left Office, was S24 ,955, ,435 56. That is ad-
mrted by all, and is beyond doubt true. A
few days since we proved that Gov. Ritner
could not have increased the State debt five
millions for this reason Gov Porter admit
ted he had increased it fifteen millions. If
it had been thirty millions when he went IN
to Office, it must have been forty-five millions
when he left office. But this l0GS not the
fact! The debt AS ALL THE OFFICIAL
DOCUMENTS SHOW, was $40, 1913
60-being less than what it must have been
if Opposition Editors had told the truth, by
very nearly the exact amount they say Gov.
Ritner increased it! The Locofocos to assist
themselves as they had hoped, procured, and
very Unfortunately for them, have published
a statement of the receipts and expenditures
at the State Treasury from lst Dec 1885, to
3lst 1888. Taking this statement to be true
(and it certainly is not more unfavorable to
them than the truth, because they have brought
it 1--WE find that the
Total expenditures for public
works in Governor Ritners -
time, was $4,000, ,O35 SO
The ordinary reve-
nue. is stated to
have been S5,?3S, ,749 -
The extraordinary
revenues 0rom
premiums on blk
charters, premi-
ums on loans u.
5. surplus reve-
nue., interest on
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