The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1858-10-26
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II brasen falsshood could carry tho day
10 Michigan, Democracy would certainly
triumph. We have lying before us the
third pamphlet that wc have seen Issued
BY tie Lecomptonites for the purpose Of
influencing the approaching election. II IL
Is series of the most audacious fshehoods
from beginning to end, although now and
then there is an admission Of past dcrclic-
tinos worthy of note. Thus, il copfesses
that the Democratic party made the Hvo
million loan, which is the prolific source of
all the financial troubles which have aaiaic-'
ted the State. The overwhelming nature
Of the proof compelled this admission. It
is true that the pamphlet makes an abor.
tive attempt to bold the Woodbridge Ad.
ministration responsible for the State debt
but it came into power long after the debt
was made, and only remained ia power
fseo years, while the Democrats bad exclu-
sivo control Of the State affairs for Hfieen
years, no one will bo much deceived.
We cannot pretend to notice ssriatim
the false statements in this pamphlet, al.
though we may notice few of them.
Thus, it sets down the total reduction Of
the State debt by the Republicans 10 three
years, 1855 z at el47,0s6, when il was
in fact $2o2,07s %. It states that "over
ono million dollars was paid out without
single voucher" and it bases il state
nent upon the fact that the payments
from the general fund are Get down in gross
in the State Treasurer's report, but tho
man who wrote it mus. have known that
all the items, for which vouchers are on
file, are Published in tie Report of the
auditor and Board Of State auditors, and
they are never published in the report of
the State Treasurer. 1t states that tho
Democrats left surplus in tho Treasury
in 1854 Of $65S,004 0s. when in fact
they,left about half million less, 1t states
that the trust funds are "largely ovcrdrawn,"
when the fact is, that during the three
past years Of Republican rule they paid
to the trust funds $i7l,826 AZ more than
was paid By tho Democrats the three pre-.
vious years.
1t publishes list Of "useless and oxtray-
agant appropriations" the items being for
the asylum founded by Democrats in ls4s
and 1850 respectively, and IIaned by
them, the work being simply left for .he
Republicans to compiete-the States Pris-
on, Of which tho growing wants of the
State compelled an enlargemeut--tho Ag
ricultural College, provided for by Dam
ocratS in the State Constitution, but.
which they now call "useless concern"
which "educates few boys, teaching them
the sublime art Of sowing and reaping"--
the compiled laws which they set down at
cost. They themselves compiled the laws
in 1888, two years after the admission
of Michigan into the Union, and again in
ls46, eight years later, ard now call il
"uscless," that with vastly increased leg
islation in the interim, the Republicans
compiled them in 1857, nine years later.
1t repeats the Free Press lying figures
in relation to the State Prison expenses.
which have been so thoroughly exposed
in an article we published a few days since
II sets down the $4,000 Kansas appro-
priation as all spent, whereas only one
thousand dollars have been spent. This
it says was spont principally
for hen and horse feed, whereas the youch-
ers of the needy Michigan settlers it rolieY.
Cd arc OF f.o with the proper State officers.
1t sets down the appropriation Of overflow
cd lands Tor the Muskcgcn river improve
nent as $50 900 in money from The Treas
urg.
And SO We might 20 on and cnumeaate
Cor a column, just such barcfaccd falsehoods
taken from the eight pages Of this pamph'
let One thing however, is fortunate,
that many Of the statements are so rcdicu-
lous as to gain no credence, and Others
are refutcd by the pamphlet itself. Thus
the statement that there arc no vouchers
or items to show for million dollar; cx-
pended, is rcfuted BY by the publication
Of some of tho very items from the report
of the Board Of Auditors in the last page
of tho pamphlet. This collation. is bad c.
nough, but we understand another, the
forth one is out, and that it is even worse
than t0is. We shall see in good time.
Dct. Tribune