Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-09-02
REPUBLICAN RATIFICATION MEET
ING IN CINCINNATI-SPEECH OF
GOV. CHASE.


ING In OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
GOV. CHASE.
There was large and enthusiastic
meeting of the people of Cincinnati in
Sixth Street Market Place, Thursday
evening, to ratify the State and County
tickets put in nomination by the Repub-
lican Conventions, held at Columbus
and in Hamilton County. Alphonso
Taft presided. and briefly addressed the
meeting. Gov. CHASE was loudly call
ed. We copy the report of his speech
from the Commercial, and commend it to
the attention of all our readers. He
said:
Felllw citizens, I am not here tonight
for the purpose of amusing you with a
sounding political harangue, but came
toaddress myselfto your consciences and
enlightened judgment. rejoice to see
you to night. 1 rejoice to see the spirit
which manifestly inspires you, for 1 per-
ceive by the expression of your upturned
faces, that the people OF Hamilton coun
ty feel an interest in the great issues that
are now before them, and which are the
bonds of cohesion BY which the great
Republican party is united. I perceive
that the principles of liberty still animate
you as when last addressed you, and
/ rejoice. 1t is not in the nature of the
cause of human freedom to die out of the
human heart We represent the rights
of human liberty, the same principles
that inspired Jefferson and Jackson. and
we no wstand where we always have stood
and always will stand, until we have at
tanned our ends. The election before
US, it is true, is not national election,
and it is true that we need not necessa-
riiv discuss National issues, but it is also
true that the Republican party is Nation
al in its character and design. and hence
every election, be it of State, of county,
or of tc~n or city. paitakes alike of
National nature, and their results enter
into all our general concerns.
But now purpose TO speak to you of
facts which more Immediately interest
you. am before you as your candi
date for Governor-not of my own
choice, 1 may justly say. Ny ambition
was satisfied with one term, and | had
hoped to retire from the cares of Office
10 devote my time to interests of pri-
vate nature. Yet summoned as l was,
by the unanimous choice of your repre-
sentatives in Convention. felt constrain
ed to accept the call of the Republican
party, and l am here to open 10 you my
heart and my mind upon public ques-
lions in which you justly manifest a deep
interest. Cheers.
THE TREASURY DEFALCATIoN.
am going to speak TO You, first, of
the prodigious hole found in the public
pocket. l shall tell you truly all that 1
know of the robbery of the Treasury,
which has recently developed itself, and
show you where the responsibility prop
erly belongs.
A few weeks ago, in the month of
June, l discovered, 10 my utter aston
ishmenf, that there was deficit of some
S5oo.00o in the Treasury. 1 had sup
posed from official reports of the Legis-
lative Investigating Committee, and
from the Auditor, that the money was
all safe in the Treasury as they had
found il. And it was there when they
examined the Treasury; and l shall
show you that it had been absorbed dur
ing Breslin's administration. and that
not one dollar of it ever sullied the fn
gers of a single officer of the Republican
administration.
And l shall show you the circums!an
ces under which the Republican admin
istration assumed the government. We
were elected in 1855. No Legislature
had met for two years, and the last Leg
islature which preceded our entry into
Office, which was Democratic, had failed
to pass laws TO guard the Treasury, and
thus left it at the discretion and mercy
of single man.
When the Republican Legislature met
in January, 1856, almost the first thing
they did was to pass law guarding and
protecting the Treasury. But upon trial
it did not prove as efficient as had been
anticipated. Learning its defects by
experience, however, when they met at
the adjourned session of this year they
enacted new law, which required a
quarterly examination by the Governor,
and also BY the Auditor. At the regu-
lar session they had also appointed a
Legislative Investigating Committee,
comprised of three members, all of whom
were Republicans, the Democrats hay
ing refused TO permit representative of
their party TO serve on the committee.
They did hold caucus and designated
one Democratic member for each of
three Committees, but subsequently, an
other Democratic caucus was held, and
upon deliberation they refused TO coun-
tensnee the investigation into the admin
isration of their own party, thus estab-
fishing their fears that corruption had
existed which they feared to expose.
The examination, however, was made
by the Committee. and also by the Au
ditor, and they found the money. Il
was there, in the Treasury. But it was
a sham. 1t was there, as money is some
times found in the vaults of your bank
ers, when the examiner comes round.
They fly to some other bank and borrow
funds for present purposes. The exam
iner sees that all is right. He retires,
when presto! change! and it amt there.
Just SO in this case. Just so with Glib
son. He has borrowed drafts, bills, &C.,
evidently of value, for the purpose OF
concealing a deficit which he knew ex-
listed, and, | have since learned, for pur-
poses which, if correctly understood,
cannot be considered entirely discredi-
table to him. The money was there,
but the Committee was deceived.
Mr.. Gibson was elected when was.
The same confidence was reposed in him
that the people reposed in me. In fact,
they reposed more confidence in him