The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-12-15


been as salvo for his disappointmenkiano'
getting the Locofoco nomination. A pretty
round price paid for . very email article,
don's you thintf judge Boylss and otAcrs,
$4,000; Lesch 4 McF arlsad, % 900; LsscA
$1,000; Goodrich, $l,l16; Ell. Toof, 81
$50; John s. Hamilton, 81 200; W. a
Thurston, ~ 900. All these you will recos
nice as Locofoco operators, e!6ce holders, OF
members Of the Legislature, very few Of
whose names would be accepted in bank
for 1.-THE Of the amount loaned them by the
Superintendent.
noticed in the reading Of the Report, that
Thompson, editor OF the Burlington Ga
xette; Syivesters, the proprietors Of the
Reporter hero, and many others Of the Lo-
cofoco editors, had been favored with large
grabs from the School Fund. Neal, the Sem
ator from Marion, is also down for $4,000,
and other Locofoco members Of the Legisla-
ture and prominent Locofocos throughout
| the state are down for handsome Gums. IL
may therefore be expected that with SO many
paid advocates, both in the Legislature and
out, very earnest defence will be made Of
the corruption and malversation in Office of
which Eads is VIGOROUSLY guilty, Us known
on all hands, and as drawn from the facts
submitted in bis own report, whom explained
BY attendant circumstances.
But am not through with the list Of Lee
H. - A. C~k rxlE Ia
d. Eads $40, 0OO.00l Yes, James D. Eads,
Superintendent Of Public lnstruction, reports
to the Legislature and people OF Iowa, that
he loaned himself, J. ID. Eads, 81. preacher
and root doctor, the enormous sum Of $780,
10000. Such thing we venture to say is
without parallel. A public officer reporting
that be had borrowed large portion Of the
public money in his own hands for his pri-
vate purposes.
The whole secret Of the matter, | hazard
nothing IN saying, is simply this, and will SO
turn ou, on investigation, Eais used the
public money largely in his political and
property speculations, expecting that Loco
foco Legislature would be elected, and he
could smuggle matters through without in
vestigation. But it turned out that Re-
publican Legislature was elected, and there
fore he went to work to fix up some kind OF
an arrangement Of his affairs, by which he
could humbug the Legislature. To this end
he sold part Of the real estate which had
been purchas ID by him to his friends, taking
their obligations, payable Eve years or more
hence, and made payable to the Superintend-
ent OF Public Instruction. These obliga-
tons not being sufficient to cover his nc
knowledge deficit, he calls himself Dor
rover to the amount Of 100000 in or
der to balance the account.
IL such should be ascertained to be the
facts By the committee Of investigation that
will be appointed, Eads has rendered him
self liable to prosecution and punishment by
Imprisonment in the Penitentiary, and
trust that neither his position nor the infu-
entail advocates he has enlisted with the
public money, will serve to screen him from
the just punishment awarded by the statutes
of Iowa for such crimes by public officers in
this State.
! may as well say by way Of addendum,
that in his petty meanncss and malice Eads
reports the Governor in his list OF borrowers
for the sum Of $40,0o0.00 intending doubt
less to have il understood that this was bor-
rowed by Grimes for his own use instead Of
the use of the State, under joint resolution
of the extra session of last summer, as it re-
ally was.