The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1856-10-14
~ From the Livingston Republican.
.Yl6 egAte- AdpinistratIon and the Lansing

"A" From the Livingston Republican.
,Yl< eyate. AdpinlstratIon and the Lansing
If we may be suffered to associate in the
same article, an administration so meritorious
so far above reproach as the present State ad-
ministration, by its frugalty, economy and
honesty has proven itself; with that unprinci-
pied, slandcrous Pro-Slavery smut-machine
Of blackguardism and falsehood, the State
Jouraal-we have a word or two to say -
The Journal has some circulation in these
parts, but, we are pleased to say, that at
least three -fourths of those who do read it put
no reliance in its oft refuted and stale false
hoods-regard its lies as a matter of course
its INSCRIPTIONS moral perjurics from week to
week as frailty in nature, or misfortune of
its editors, who, with NIL our enlightenment,
sll our Christianity, having failed to recog
nizc that commandment which all good men
respect and obey,-"Thou shalt not LIEr'
For the last eighteen months, this pusilan-
imous sheet has teemed with nothing but one
grand tissue of Misrepresentation, vitupertion
and falsehood against the State Administra-
ton; and to all appearances, promises to do
the same thing for the next eighteen months
to come.
1t first commenced its wholesale sanders
upon the Commissioner Of the State Land Of
flee. Making base and defamatory charges
against Mr.. Treadwell. They were met, and
hurled back upon the slanderous libeller by
the following record of facts: In 1851, the
(loco) travelling expenses of the Office under
Porter Kibbee,
amounts to sls2,sO
Same year. other expenses of the office, for
deputies, timber agents, &c, 2.376,6s
Same year, the illegal advertising of the
Swamp lands not less than 5000, 90
Making total incidental loco expense for
1854, ofthe sum of $3.50, ,5s
In 1855, uuder Mr.. TreadwelI, the only 'ex-
tras' allowed were travelling expenses s7,75
Difference, $547i, SO
in favor of the present economical administra-
ton. From this record there is no appeal
the vouchers show it to be a record of fact
The next charge was flaming falsehood up
on the States prison. Lieing outright for the
sake of slandering the administration. The
Record of Facts showed, by a comparison of
authentic records embracing ten months un-
der the loco and ten under the present admin
istration, stood: from March 1st, 1854, to
Jan. l6th. 1855, or loco management, 436, 6,1s3 "a
Same length Of time under present admin
istration, for first ten months, 81, 1896 SO
Difference in favor of fRepublican manage.
ment, $3,587 SO
Thus did the figures nail the ISLANDERS upon
that score.
Next in order came that shower of false
hood against the State Treasurer; in which it
spoke large lies in larger display of capitals,
assuming to show that 100000 Of the public
had -
and the State defrauded Of that amount. II
was base falsehood, and the scoundrel of a
lying editor proved nothing. Let US again
go to the record. This same State Treasurer
Mr. Holmes, which it has libeled with such
nnblushing effrontery, paid into the State
Treasury for the last year as
Interest money, on funds in his hnnds, 600 s2e 43
% last year of loco rule 5000
Difference in favor Of present administra-
tion, $2l ,923, ,43
And thus was this dastardly attack, this foul
lie against the present administration, brand
ed upon the forehead of the traduccr by the
record of facts.
We have now shown, from the Journals
exhibit Of falsehood, that the administration,
in these three particulars, saved the State
Treasury the sum of S3O,9s7,62. Now it is
our turn. Here is record OF. facts which
this loco editor, his aiders and party, must
answer for: -
Frauds to the Amount ofIo7,5io7e.
Fraudulent Gain of Phoenix Bank, 35,5oo 90
% Of job Brookfeld $4,000 90
Gov. Stock Bank Bneys robbing Of state 35 600 90
Over pay Of Peck Jfnting session laws&c g. 500
Peck or some one else for 'iat-cap not devd, 1916
Totsl amount of these loco frauds, IO75lO 76
These are the records of Facts. They are
taken from the vouchers and official records ut
the Capitol. No man can disprove them
While the late loco administration, in the
last year Of its rule, either stole or at least
permitted to be squandered, this enormous
sum; no depredations of the kind have been
permitted under the present administration
of our State finances-no robberies-no false
and fraut ulent claims, to pay off political
quacks for doctoring the putrid carcass Of mo-
dern locofocoism in Michigan, as the alowan-
ces we have just quoted were for; but on tho
contrary the expense Of the State government
under tho present State administration does
not come up to that Of its loco predecessor,
by $4,000! With this we dismiss its whole
batch of falsehood.
Next in order we note that shameless slander
and wicked charge against the administration,
of an endeavor to bribe the Hoiiander, Ger.
man paper. The Journal has often repeated
the charge of bribery. This is also basely
false. 1t now comes out with large show Of
black letters conjectured and arranged from
the base corruption Of that black-hearted
white "nigger" which edits the Journal; and
an affidavit which discloscs the efollowing state
ment Of circumstances:
Sometime in November, the Hobldnder
petitioned the Auditor General for tho tax
sales. That one of the petitioners was a Mr.
Bailey. That this man Bailey was in Lansing
in April last, and saw tho Audtor-that
Bailey afterwords told the editor of the Hol-
lander that il it would change its politics it
could getthe tax sales and HE made propo-
sails to buy one half the Hollander office for a
given sum- That the paper should be repub-
lican in politics and that the editor refused