The Ohio union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1849-1854, 1853-08-17
Boom LAe HamlItch TeIrrraph.


OOLuMBUs, July ~, 1898.
WV. n. K1wDER, ESQ., Sir In the
Telegraph M The 14lh, you remark that
..ihs Democratic Central Committees hi
COhmbiana and Maloning counties had
~prupsunded certain QUESTIONS to our csndi.
date for State Treasurer, with a view Of
ascer,aining his precise whereabouts upon
The bill for the reorganization Of the
TOasury, &c" I infer. from this, that
YIN are Of the impression that inlerrOga.
tories had recently been addressed TO me,
to which 1 had declined a reply. 1t is
ptopeS therefore, Tor me to advise you that
in January last. I received a letter Of some
length, from cath Of the committees above
NAMED, advising me of the importance Of
the passage 81 the Indepande II Treasury
bill, aud suggesting the active corporation
OF myself aud friends in its behalf. AS
those letters did nm propornl any ques'
lions to which a spacifc reply was requir.
ed, il became my duty only, as | conceiv-
ed, to give them that perush and consider
ation which the respect lble source from
which they emanated entitled them.
II | had supposed, at that day, that those
communications were intended to invite a
public avowal Of my opinions, as to whelh.
or | was, or was not, in favor Of establish
ing the Independent Treasury system in
this State, il would have afforded me sin.
sere pleasure to have informed those com
mitiees, as ! now do you, that the resolu.
lions of the 9Th of January Convention
including tha, in favor o. an Independent
Treasury-meet my entire appreciation;
and il ! had been a member Of that Con.
v%enlion, they would have received my cor.
dial support.
Very respectfully, your obi s%rrv't,
JOHN G. BRESLlN.
We publish the above, al the request Of
the wriler, and il will, without doubt, be
read with interest in this and other coun.
tics, where the I%ndepend mt Treasury
system for the Stale is Oh erished object
with the Democracy. The resolution re.
lerred TO by Mr.. Breslin is the tenth in
order Of the series passed al the last Stale
Convention, and it reads as follows:
--Resolved, That the separation Of the
moneys Of the State from banking iuslilu.
lions is indispensable for the safety Of the
funds and the rights Of the people, and we
are therefore in favor If m entire divorce
1f The S,a!a from all connection with the
banking institutions as repositories of the
public moneys"
This resolution was heartily approved
by the Democracy of Butler county, and
they confidently hoped that the Legisla.
ture, which was in session at the time of
It's passage, would promptly embody the
Substance of il in a bill aud pass il with
out delay. In this they we're disappointed.
The attempt 10 give i, practical effect was,
hos some reason, a failure, and as news.
paper report attributed is defeat, in a
mel sure, TO the Treasurer Of State, a pre-.
judice was awakened agains; that gentle.
man in the minds of all " hO attached i'm
portance TO the success Of the project. As
this dissatisfaction was founded upon ru.
NOR, and as, Mr.. Breslin his, in The above
letter, declared himseIf ts, have been, and
to he, in favor Of the above resoluliun, i,
must be regard ID as an authoritative denial
of The rumor, and the friends Of the Inie-
pendent Treasury system will iDd no
difficulty in giving him a heavy support.