The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-04-03

Those OF our readers who have kept the
run Of municipal tffairs do not need proof Of
the accuracy of the above estimates. The
figures on salaries were fixed by the Ooun-
ell. The other items are taken partly from
Treasurer's exhibit but mostly from re-
liable sources They show recklessness
simply outrageous in giving the city's prom
ises to pay; but even this exhibit does not
explain where some $4,000 or $1,000 of or
ders have gone.
The Resources from the tax Of 81 were
reduced TO the amount above stated by the
return of the National Bank tax. This,
however, was hut drop in the bucket as an
Offset to the wild extravaganza of the Dem.
ocratic city fnanciers.
As to The expenditures for street repairs,
the work performed bears no proportion to
the immense sums of money paid. The
cost was abominnbiy cxor6itant; ard in
nearly every instance the authority to make
these repairs was secured by misp, Ell resent.
alton and falsehood. To illustrate When
Mr.. BorFFUR asked the Council to authorize
the repairing of the Morrison State road, he
represented that it would take only small
sum of money-a mere trile-not more
than fifty or hundred dollars. With this
understanding the Republican members OF
the Council gave their consent. Instead
of the repairs costing from fifty to hund-
red dollars, the Street Commissioner spent
on the job fully three thousand dollars
Again The Riley road job was misrepre-
sented through after pretty much the same
fashion. The Courcl were not asked to
appropriate a cent Of the public funds for
the repairs the property holders along the
road, it was said, desired permission to fix
it up at their expense aud permission YVES
given, but not a dollar of public money
was voted. Yet city orders to The extent of
six or eight hundred dollars have been is
sued to pay for that very work. Again
The Napoleon street repairs were not TO
cost, at the outside, more than $50; but
the fact is, 5000 or 800 were squaudered
OA Lhos 1Oou' ALu tnls mas Deeu Tue case
with all these street jobs.
We know that the Public in It's capacity as
acOrroration is usually charged good round
prices for all work it has done but the pri-
cest the Fremont public wiR hare to pay are
too steep for that excuse to cover Take
few samples
The city paid t,Oentytire dollars for raising
the tagging at the crossing of Front and
Main streets. 1t would have been light
job for a couple of men one day, and ought
not to have cost over five dollars at the out
side.
The city bought lumber at HessyilIe for
street crossings paying t,Oenty dollars per
1000 feet, when the same kind of lumber
could have been bought in Fremon: at Just
half that price.
The repairs on the engine house cost three
three times what they should have done. The
blinds which enclose the cupalo cost serenity
seucn dollars, when the same could have
been procured and fitted for less than fifty
dollars.
The little piece of sewer in front of the
engine house cost the city one hundred and
forty douarS-work which plenty of con-
tractors would have done for $50
But enough. We doubt if even the city of
New York, where Democratic misrule
is 50 notorious, furnishes parallel to tie
utter recklessness with which Mr.. BoTEFUh
aud his colleagues have expended the public
money here. The odium of the profiigacy,
dishonesty, and recklessness which las
marked the management of our city affairs
falls on them and the party which sustains
them.
Will the people of the Second and Third
Wards, at the election next Moadey, voc
for the Democratic candidates for Council
men, and thereby fasten on the city another
year of such Internal misrule ?