Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

Tod carried with 10 thos amount due the
State, of this fund in tho treasury Of the
Canal coinpony, bcing the sum Of $37 3D.
~ more than the stock had cost the Rail
Road COMPANY. The result Of this trans
action is startling Tod gofthe.s42O, 900 Of
stock for nothing, and made S2,370,T4. Of 4
clear gain in the transaction. These facts
will appear moro fully and satisfactorily
in the Senate committee, and speech Of Gen
oral Bierce (then political friend Of Tod }
who was its Chairman. Tod, the leading
spirit in this fraud, was enabled 10 perpetrate
it with impunity.
Where was the Senate Of last winter who
had this subject before them? Perhaps en-
gagged in discussing the important question
Of informing the Attorney General Of his
election The people were thus dcfraudcd
out Of $422, 1914 by a Governor who was
under the most binding obligation to pre-
vent this fraud, that is known among men
Why pursue this subject further D.? Al
most seventy thousand dollars of ''contln.
gent fund.- military contingent fund, ,
extraordinary military contingent fund,"
has been expended by the late Goycruor
during the last year, in every conceivable
way From Hays distillery at Coshocton
TO the solemn ceremonies at Getttysburg,
where Tod played the character of Bacchus,
and with few incbriatcd followers, caucuss-
ed and tramplcl about among the bones Of
the honest and heroic martys, to Washing
ton and elsewhere, fy the administration OF
Wright, Quarteriuaster, the noble grief
of the late Governor was assuagcd by the
use Of the public money. -
An immense amount Of money was ex-
pended in calling the militia to Camp Chase
during the Morgan raid and away from
where Morgan was. An additional large
amount was expended in the foolish fright
of the late Governor in the Squirrel Hun
/ ter" campaign, and in the distribution Of
his Napolonic image or yisagc to the heroes
Of that expedition. No means are at hand
to estimate the amount Of these expenses;
but it IS safe to say, that over half million
Of money has been expended by the late
I Governor including the Penn. and Ohio can
al swindle, which was unnecessary in trans
acting the business of the State, even dur
ing war-torl have not mentioned any
fraudulent contracts or swindles in the pros
ocuton Of the war on the part of the State.
Such labor is beyond my strength.
! Tod has never occupied that position oi
virtue or honesty from which to attack any
public officer. His witnesses, Wright, Dor
sey, and Cole, by movement now going on
IN the Senate VIII likely ind enough to EN-
ploy their attention on their own conduct
as members of the Board of Claims. Botl
Wright and Cole were Tod's appointees
subservient to his pleasure, and eager II,
bend the pregnant hinges of the knee tina
thrift might follow fawning.
Dorsey, in addition to his own neglect o
duty as a Member of the Board of Claims
was naturally unqualified from being homes
where political prejudice existed. Will
the vanity Of peacock, touchy in his in
tcrcourses his sensitiyeness- continual.
wounded by the presence of an inordiat
self-esteem and the absence of public respect
having long since elevated himself into
conceitcd communion with our forefathers
such little matters as the truth or falsity o
his statement never likely, was though
worthy Of his consideration.
Before concluding, cannot but mention
my satisfaction to Tod for furnishing proc
in his message, that the Attorney Genera
: was in no way connected with his misdeed
OF contaminated by his association.
Respectfully,
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