The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-11-04

Treasurer's Office, when we know that the
Chief Clerk of that Office gets 81 200 per
annum, and We believe there are five six
other employees about that office, to say
nothing of postage stamps and stationery.
A good cause and honest men require no
such subterfuges and false statements to
sustain them. We are irresistably forced
to conclude there is something wrong here.
Again, the Treasurer in his report of last
year (see page g. puts the floating debt"
at 1000, with S126, 900 of old resources
to offset, which we are informed have near
ly all been realized, leaving actually about
So 1000 to the credit of the previous ad
ministration.
The Governor in his last years report
puts the floating debt at s126,O00 The
State Journal and Mr.. Bean put it at $780,
900, while Governor Randall in his Hor-
icon speech puts it at S4Ol 600.
We quote from the speech as published
in the Journal of October 5tl:, as follows,
on the subject.
81 refer to his SOL, 900 for the first
nine months of this year. Mark you, this
tax was to pay The floating debt. 1t was
levied year ago this last winter, and paid
into the collectors hands last fall. 1t went
into the treasury last winter, and was ap-
piled to the floating Indebtedness. The
floating Indebtedness has been paid out of
the taxes charged to the present year
That is what sweled it to the sum of $40l,-
600. You could not pay the debts until
the money was raised, and the sooner it
was done the better. The money of the
taxes paid in and charged to the present
year was taken to pay this debt, and this
debt being paid out of the taxes of this
year"
Now, this, according to Mr.. Carpenters
exhibit, gives US some four or five different
accounts as floating debt, and of course
all cannot be true-and again we say that
good cause and honest men require no
such deception.
The State Journal of the 9th inst, con-
tanning Gov. Randal's speech at Horizon
! in full and also tabular statement. In
! that speech the State tax of this year is
placed at $2,340,000, while in the tabular
statement-in the same paper-it is put
at only Sl50,000, while the same confu-
sion Of figures is manifest relative to the
tax of last year Now it seems to us out
siders that these persons could all tell one
| story, if all was right and no effort was
made to hide shame or conceal wrong
Again the Governor claims to have paid
S4S1,000 on the floating debt. Mr. Has
tings says he has paid over $39S,000 as
current State expenses, while he says that
he has had but 1850 600 from all sources
to pay it from, and has $1,000 in the
Treasury. Now, how anybody can pay
some 100000 from $550,000 and leave
$11, 900 to spare, staggers our credulity,
the whole thing, nor will the cry of
Printing Steals" against Mr.. Carpenter
set the results right, but in reality makes
confusion worse confounded.
Mr.. Carpenter showed from the public
records, which were not even attempted to
be denied, by Mr.. Bean, that the whole
cost of printing, binding, foreign printing
which are all in the present contract, was,
! in
1857 s129,553 IS
1858 1896 so
1850 (as shown by BEAM 1865 76
with nearly one-third more printing this
SGdI tlldll DtlOEe.
So far as we hear the republicans are
very much disappointed at the slim exhib-
it made by the great champion of the Re-
publican ticket, so much so, that distiu.
guished Republican in town, Immediately
sent for Treasurer Hastings to enlighten
our people still further on the subject, they
having been disappointed in Beams posi-
| -, Il, A
cat turks in the meal We have sus pected
for some time that the honest portion Of
the Republican party has been sold out
! and betrayed, nor has Mr.. Beams effort I'M
decided us, and in our estimation, the only
| safety for the people is to vote the demo
cratic ticket. 1t cannot be worse Be-
lieving this, we shall from this OUT urge
the election of the democratic ticket, with
all our energy.
In this number we exhibit the true fact.
in relation to the Swamp Land Survey, by
which over $40, 900 have been drawn from
the peoples pockets by Republican Gov.
ernor, promising reform on Barstow's Adj
ministration, by which it will be seen that
Barstow appointed an agent in this Survey
at 81, so per day to bear his own expenses
while Gov. Randall has employed great
many men at .fye dollars day in addition
to all expenses If this is Republican re-
form, then we are for some other reform.
AS the boarder said, "if this is tea, give
me cotfee-if this is coffee give me tea
we want a change at all events.
CHARLES O'CoSNER.-A New York pa
per draws the following portrait of the
great New York Lawyer: