The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-21
Eli a. Spencer - LlYwelyn
Breese=--Candidate for
Secretary of State.

The law Of the State provides that a
sum of money equal to three per cent. up
on the gross amount received in this State
for premiums and interest in each year,
shall be paid by each foreign Insurance
Company as an annual license fee at the
time of the issue of each certificate, by the
company receiving it, to the State Treas
urer, for the privilege of transacting the
business Of insurance in this State. The
insurance companies generally send
check or draft on New York or Milwau-
Ezee, made payable, sometimes to the Sec
rotary Of State or Assistant, in place of
the State Treasurer. These the Treasurer
refused to receive unless he knew them to
be good The Assistant, e. A. Spencer,
had charge of this part of the business
and duties of the Office of Secretary of
State These drafts accumulated in 1865
and 1867 to such an extent that he depos-
tied them in banks and took receipts in
his own name for them. When payment
was made he paid the money over to the
State Treasurer. One of the banks failed
with checks, or money, or both, belonging
to the insurance companies, or Spencer,
or the State Treasurer. The amount on
deposit in the bank, or in Spencer's hands,
or both, received from insurance compa-
MES and not paid to the State Treasurer
is ascertained to be nearly $4,000 This.
amount has been paid into the State Treas.
ury by Mr.. Spencer. And this payment
was made before any article appeared in
any newspaper in relation to the transac7
tions icy.
The State Committee becoming cogniz-
ant of the facts, urged upon Mr. Spencer
his voluntary withdrawal as the candidate
for Secretary of State. Mr.. Spencer at
first refused to withdraw, but finally, to
obtain from the Committee q statement
that he had paid the full amount into the
Treasury and was not a defaulter, and
that they believed he never. intended to
defraud the State, he placed in the hands
of the Committee his withdrawal as fol-
lows:
MADISON, Oct 9th, 1869.
D. ". Keyes, Chairman, &c,
SIR Believing that the interests of
the Republican party will be subserved
by my withdrawal from the ticket as a
candidate for Secretary of State, I hereby
tender my withdrawal to the State Cen
trail Committee, and ask that they n6mi.
nate some person in my stead
Respectfully &C.,
. e. A. SPENCER"
At the time of receiving Mr.. spencers
withdrawal, the Committee placed in his
hands the following':
Rooms REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE,
MADISON, WIS, Oct. 6, 1859, !
E. Il. Spencer, Esq: ba
DEAR SIR:-The Republican State Cen
trail Committee having had their attention
called to charges preferred against E. A.
Spencer, ESQ., by some portion of the pub
lie press, take occasion to say that while
they are not satisfied that he has been
guilty Of any intentional wrong, and be
Iieve that he never intended to defraud
the State, and admit he is not defaulter,
nc udVIuS pau luIO Tue 'DLdIG treasury
all moneys coming into his hands belong
ing to the State, yet believe the interests
of the party will be promoted by his
withdrawal from the Republican ticket.
E;C. WTNCKLER, HENRY KLETNPELL,
FRANZ T a Z L FL m 4. SCOTT SLOAN,
JOHN R. BENNETT
After the exchange of the foregoing,
the Committee nominated Llywelyn
Breese, of Columbia County, for Secretary
of State, and he has accepted the nomina-
ton. Then came a card by Mr.. Spencer,
in which he says that he took the paper
OF the Committee to his room, had it cop
led and certified, and within five or ten
minutes, carried it back to the Committee
and asked them to return his withdrawal.
This the Committee refused to do. Mr..
Spencer in his card says he is yet a can
didate, and that he will fight it out on
that line. This course of Mr.. Spencer's
has called from the Committee an adj.
dress to the Republicans of Wisconsin,
and lastly, though not the least, card
from the Secretary of State, Thomas S.
Allen.