Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-02-11


for reelection, and thus he paid his right
hand man. Mr.. Stickney approved the
payment. We submit whether official
corruption in IFS most profigate form can
90 further than this.
On the 1st day Of December, 1854,
he draws again. This time he is scar
penter." His wages, however, have not
come down. He receives S55,25 L.
L. Smith is still his purser, and draws
his money, and for the same reasons as
before. On the 1st day ofJanuary, 1856,
he is paid as "lumberer" $500. This
Office was not as important as superin-
tendent, for he only got as ''lumberer"
$500 per day. Mr.. Smith again takes
the cash. February 1st, 1856, he draws
as laborer in State House Yard S54.-I
April 1st, 1856, he draws as laborer for
February and March $4,000. May lst,
1855, he draws as "lumberer S50,00.-I
July 1st, 1856. he draws as 'lumberer"
in the State House Yard, for May and
June, $4,000. During this last period
we show him at his home in Lancaster,
pursuing his ordinary business through
every day in the month of May; indeed
we show that he was not, and could not,
have been in the State but a very small
part of the time for which he was paid.
He was at the American House through
all the time we have traced him; and
yet Mr.. Kelsey's books show, in all tie
: time, less than eleven weeks board, in
cluding the nursing and his own sickness.
He has charged the State with all his
time, up to the middle of December,
1855, and in his affidavit says, ''the
Commissioners, Stickney, Smith and
Faran, agreed to pay him this amount.
Now, it is evident from the testimony
that he was thus paid at The special IN
stance of Gov. Mednl. To all This plum.
dering of the treasury, Mr.. Stickney was
q a party.
The Architect, by law, approved the
bills, and whether he acted intelligenily
. in this matter is not apparent.
Price has been pid- s9O2 1j
He has been .2s6 OC
.
Total. Isles a
For this money he has rendered nc
equivalent. 1t will be seen by the evil
dence, that for months, during this time
! he was tending mill in Lancaster at $40
per month. There are many other points
in the testimony which will appear upon
perusal. With that testimony we have
]. H. Price, Gov. Medill, and Commits
sioner Stickney.
Mr.. Price, in his affidavit swears: ''I
was the personal attendant upon Gov.
Medill when he was sick at Columbus,
o during the months of April and May,
0 1854. was with him night and day
for thre weeks and FIVE days all the time.
t 1 then took down with the erysipelas, and
: kept my room for ten days. For these
r services Mr.. Medill never paid me any
= thing. In the fall of 1854-5, l rode
S seven of the townships Of this county
over for Gov Medill and the Democratic
/. party, and paid all my own expenses
= l spent each fall eight or ten days riding
: the county, and great deal of the time
: in Lancaster.
GIDEON WALroN.-From the testimo-
{ ny of the witnesses, it seems that the
D berth Of Foreman, or Superintendent, at
= the New State House, was an exemption
a from labor Mr.. Walton was most EN-
phatically a gentleman of leisure. In
his own business, is there a man in the
E State who could employ and retain a
foreman, who performed little or no Ia
. Dor? We think not. Mr.. Walton was
: regularly in receipt Of three dollars per
} day.
0 j. G. PRINoE.-This individual is
! about the State House only short time
He figures very conspicuously in the af-
: fairs Of the two New Lunatic Asylums.
, In our examinations of these Institutions,
, his true characteristics are shown in their
= correct light. In this connection, we
! shall mark few of bis operations:
{ DR.. SMrH's DooR.-This door, as the
testimony shows, was made in Princes
f shop. No one engaged upon it knew its
object or destination. No part of the
/ labor or material was, till long after, set
tied or paid for. The hands were paid
as usual. When its destination had be-
come matter of so public notoriety, Mr..
Prince, months after, in certain man
ner, paid the hands time. DR.. Smith,
on the first day of February, 1858, paid
s3 for lumber, which it is supposed was
used in constructing the door. 1t is ev-
ident from the testimony, facts and cir
J cumstances of the case, that it never
! was the design of any one to have the
door paid for, and that it never would
have been done if illusions to its con-
struction had not become public.
PRINoE's Bor.-He paid his own son,
an idle apprentice boy, full wages. for
nearly all the time. This boy worked
but little of the time, and then his labors
wsre of little value to the State; yet he
got his Sl,75 per day.