The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-16

Editorial Opinions ofthe Leading Journals
upon Current Topics-Compiled Every
Day for the Evening Telegraph.
A "BoLT" FOR THE TAXPAYERS.

a 'BOLI fOh lhAGh
From the Lancaster (Pd,) E1pTess
That the defeat of the Mackey Treasury
ring last winter was a fortunate event for the
taxpayers of Pennsylvania is daily becoming
more manifest, as we are afforded better op-
portunity, by the lapse of time, of contrast
ing the present management of the State
finances with the extraordinary mismanage-
ment displayed by Mackey. In some
carefully prepared statistics published by
us several weeks ago, it was shown that,
during Mr.. Mackeys administration, there
we're redeemed of outstanding and overdue
loans, ETC., only $513, 1912, while during
the corresponding year of his predecessor,
General Irwin, loans were redeemed to the
amount of So, ,379, 1876 81, showing balance
in favor of Irwins inanciering of one mil
lion, eight hundred and sixty-five thousand,
eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars and
twenty five cents, ($1, 800, SS7 '25.) The same
statistics revealed the significant fact that
during Irwin's administration the "unex-
pended balance" was decreased 81, 506, 036 '43,
while during Mackeys term of one year this
corruption fund was increased over one
million dollars ISL ,002, ,266 '43.) Had Mackey
devoted this million of dollars to the pay
nent of the State debt Gas proposed by
Senator BiIHngfelt the year previously instead
of keeping it as political corruption fund in
the "vault account" thousands of dollars
WOulQ nave De6n SdV6u 10 ID0 taxpayers Oh
the State in interest on the public debt.
These facts were set forth in detail in the
Ddily ErpTeSS of May 20 and June l. and
republished in the Weekly Erpress of June 4;
but damaging as they were to the reputation
of Mr.. Mackey as 'tgreat fnancier, and
humiliating as the exposure was to his friends,
they have not attempted to this hour to con-
trovert a single fact, figure, or deduction
therein presented.
I. IL.
old Treasury bummers in facts and figures
still to come, and which fully Justify the Re-
publican members who bolted the Mackey
caucus end voted for General Irwin, the
soundness of whose Repqblicanism had never
been questioned. Although General Irwin
has had possession of the Treasury less than
two months and half, he has in that time
paid off 81, 220, 597'93 of the State debt,
being $707, 1914 more than was paid by
Mackey during his entire term. Here are the
figures
Loan paid in May, 1S7O......... $3.50, S32'73
" " " Jund ........... 1856, 10000
to July 13.....,..".... 56S, 56510
$1,22O, 597 'S3
Now, we call the attention of the honest
taxpayers of the county to the fact that if
Senator Billingfelt and Mr.. Reinoehl and
their fellow boilers had been bound by such
RESOLUTION aS was auOpteu ny tue county
Committee the other day, requiring a
pledge from all candidates for the Legisla-
ture that they will attend all caucuses for
the nomination of State Treasurer, and
other officers, and that they will abide by
the decision of such caucus" this million
of dollars which has just been used in pay
ing off that much of the State debt, and
thereby to that extent tightening the bur
dens of the taxpayers, would still be hid
away from public gaze in that mysterious
''vault account" for the benefit of Mr.
Mackey and his Treasury roosters, includ-
ing some of his editorial champions who
had the use of $685. 900 apiece, and who are
now, of course, thoroughly disguised with
''bolters" and loud in their praises of King
Caucus. We have no doubt, however, that
the honest Republican taxpayers of Lancaster
county will sustain ''bolt" the practical re-
suit of which is the liquidation of the State
debt at the rate of half million dollars a
month, rather than join in with the political
Thugs and treasury roosters in their efforts to
secure the absolute and unconditional
tyranny of a corrupt Harrisburg caucus,
the chief end of which for years has been to
make State Treasurers and United States
Senators through the most corrupt and mer-
cenary influences, and in utter defiance of
both The interests and the sentiments of the
masses of the party.