Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-10-22
How the Money is Raised.

AO" VIC AAOACy - AdlSSUs
The Washington Organ exposes the
manner in which the Clerks in the diff
ferent departments in Washington City
have beer forced to pay a Fart of sala-
rles for the purpose of aiding the cleo
ton Of James Buchanan. The matter
having leaked out, it is creating quite a
buEzing among the unterri6ed, but SC
well known are the facts, not one Of the
Buchanan papers at Washington dare
deny them, or attempt to Excuse them.
The Organ says:
LET H FACTS BE LAID BEFORE THE
COUNTRY, and let this present local con-
domination Of a high handed outrage
upon the rights and feelings of our me-
tropolitan community spread to every
section of the Union.
Be it then known, land we hold our
self responsible for the truth of the state.
ment, } that a few weeks since a meeting
of sundry leading friends of Mr.. Bucha1-
an, holding high positions under this adj
ministration, was held at the room of one
of said friends. high in Office in the
Treasury building, at which meeting it
was made known, by information COM
municated by certain other Federal dig
nitaries of this city, that funds were re-
quired to meet the e~xigencies of the
pending crisis, and t~hereupon an officer
of the Treasury offered a resolution to
the following effect, to wit:
That the Heads of Bureaus should be
''reguired': to subscribe $50 each-thoSe
receiving salaries of $500 or SO, 900
should subscribe $50 each those re.
ceiving salaries of 81, 900 should sub
scribe SIS each-thoSe receiving sala
ries of 81, 400 should subscribe SIC, so
each-and those receiving 81 900 should
subscribe $40 each, and so on.
This resolution was amended by sub
shutting the word solicited" for the
word "required," and in this shape it
passed unanimously. We hare tie names
of the dignaories present! The sums
we're 10 be paid out of the salaries for
the month Of September.
In accordance with this resolution, the
various parties subject to this black
mail tariff were waited upon at the end
of the month and ''SoLic,ted'' to subscribe
the amount assessed upon them, and in
all cases the solicitation was responded to
a%firmatively, and thus about Sc. 600
were ''Su6scri5ed" lin the Treasury De
partment alone) to the campaign fund,
to provide for the pressing wants of the
"great Democratic party !" 1t is esti-
mated that about $50, 900 have thus
been Subscribed" during the present
week in The several Departments.
And Pennsylvania, it is said, is TO be
carried by means of this d" taxation" OF
the clerks. "Old Squatter Sovereign"
is to purchase up Through his friends.
the SURFACES oil the good people of Penn
sylrania, with the money thus wrung
from The reluctant clerks under the pen
atty of dismission from Office, if they
refused to submit 10 this Uack-mGiil
But it will be said by the hirelings of
this sham Democracy that it was optional
with the clerks 10 subscribe or not, as
might think fit OF course it was,
and so is it optional with the man accost-
ed by a highway robber to surrender
his purse or have his brains blown out
with a pistol He can take his choice
sc could the clerks subscribe the
amount assessed or-''take tie conse
yuences !f'
And this same process is TO be repeat
ed at the end Of October, to reimburse
such advances as the faithful may make,
aid in carrying the Pennsylvania cleo
ion on the 14th of this present month
has been given that this further
will be committed on ''pay day"
October!
Now w say to our readers and the
that we "speak By the card
We know and we can prore what we as
iert, and we here say, that whilst, under
10 circumstances, shall we be made the
means through which the process Of de-
;apitation, for revenge, ear be carried
,ut by this administration, ace WiU, on
he first Monday in December next, de-
nand, through Congress, an investiga-
ion into this scheme of plumber, aud as
ume the responsibility of establishing it
proofs, which no man or set of men
an countervail. Will the officers Of
he Government facilitate this investiga-
ion 3? d.