The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-02-17
AND CAUSES.
THE STOLEN MONEY.

no tales" The facts elected by the Commit
tee through searching investigation, present
such group of circumstantial evidence, thai
no unbiased mind can follow them and moi
feel deeply, that not only has gross, sean
dalous robbery been committed In this Ter
ritory, of the funds appropriated by Congress,
but that deeply laid, dark, and Infamous
conspiracy has been detected, through the
mazes of which the participants of the crime
hoped to evade discovery and exposure by
piling the infamy upon one in his grave.
The Statesman wades through column of
WORDS, but has not one WORD ofexplanation for
any of the strange positions in which its edi-
tor has been placed. 1t is the same old sto-
ry-Smith MUST HAVE spent the money And
why, must? Not a particle of evidence is pro-
duced to show that he ever used one cent of
the public funds, for his private purposes ::
not word to show that the Statesman edi-
Flor ever knew anything whatever about
Smiths affairs, or the use which. he made 9 {
either his own, or the public moneys. The
dedication was known, but month after
month went by and the public was left in en-
tire ignorance. The editor of that paper had
good reason. to KNOW months ago sf this de-
falcatiiSSn. He, and others, knew that $4,000
and more was missing--that there was de-
falcation within stones throw of his own
Ofice-but not word was breathed outside
.of-the sacred circle-but not shadow even
The Statesman's columns were loaded con
stantly with denunciations about defalcation
nearly forty miles distant. but were as silent
as a tomb stone about one at his own door.
Finally, Gov Lyon unearthed the ground
lings, and proclaimed the fact, that the Sec
rotary of the Territory was defaulter. I'm
mediately the Statesman commenced to az
gue-"Smith must have spent that money
-"Smith never had the money"-"Smith |
was extravagant"- Smith, Smith--It
was nobody but Smith,-Smth was the de-
faulter-No use forany investigation-Smith
was the man--better not examine into the
tgo-Smith did it: Say nothing t
more about tit WAS Smith. But the mat
ter Was, not to be silenced in that way. The
people would EHIEK, and they-acted. The
Legislature, much to the disgust of the States
man, appointed a. Committee TO examine into
the dedication. On that Committee was the
only Republican member of the Legislature,
who joined fully in this report. The States
man abused the Committee in Its weak way
-ridiculed the Investigation, and sought
through every avenue its columns offered to
iiscredit the Committee, the investigation,
and the subject. Every impeachment was
thrown in the way of an investigstion-out
It proceeded: and now in looking over the
report no one will be surprised at the course
hat paper pursued. We look to its columns
FOR an explanation, but find only equivoca-
lion, and the same old, STALE assertion that
Smith spent the money. What does that pa
per's editor know about what Smith paid out,
Or did not pay cut, for his own individual
purposes. If he did know, why. did he not
proclaim that fact as loudly as that OF the
Boise defaloaton He told his readers hun
dred times all about Slocum's supposed USE
of public moneys. Why not that of Smiths
similar use, if he knew so much about it? If
be did not know, of it, then these repeated as
sertions are worth nothing, except to show
that there was a long, concealed effort made
to keep the.public ignorant of the fact that
the money had.been used by some one, and
that there was and still is, an object in this
styain epetition''-"Smfth must have used |
the money"
is of no use for the Statesman to declare
that the money was used By the Secretary.
The Investigation has shown that over $4,000
Of nnblic funds must have been in Boise CityI
At the time Smith died-and that it isn't there
now. The Washington authorities, we think
will follow up the lead until it isshown where
the money is NOW. twill require something
more than puny equivocations and reitera-
tons to evade4h prima facia case which has
already been made out: and before the mat
ter is finally terminatedpit may require some
thing else.
MusT HAVE TIE NRGRo.-The new State of
Colorado is opposed in Congress by the radi-
role headed nv Sumner for the reason. that