The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-09-27

care and management, the CcnOOt
Fund would receive from the proceeds
of the sale of these lands, at lea
81 COG, coo. But not one cent has
been received by cur Common School
Fund from that source, nor Dever will
be. Democratic contractors, with the
assistance, completely aud partnership
of the Democratic Office holders. en-
bezzled and eWindled the State out OF
the whole Of these lands, or the pro-
ceeds Of such as had been sold; and
thus TIE School Fund lost at least one
million dollars. The accrued interest
on that sum, at z per cent. Is SOY OO.
That sum annually, through all future
time, is taken or robbed from the
children of the State. By Democratic
fnanciering.
The Democratic Treasurer Of JAS
per County when his term expired IN
1853, was found to be indebted and
a defaulter to the State IN her
Swamp Land Fund, $127, $40 80. a
suit, against this defaulter, was
disissed BY Governor Willard,
who, short time after
wards, appointed this delaulter
Swamp Land Commissioner of Jasper
County with large defalcation Of
500, 900 still hanging over him. AS
Swamp Land Commissioner he issued
ditching warrants sufficiently to viz
tually wipe out his defalcation. and he
brought in a bill Of $3,475 against the
| State for his services as Swamp Land
| Commissioner, for which he Obtained
the Democratic Auditor of State 8
warrant But instead Of creditiDg
this on his defalcation, he sold and
assigned his warrant, and the assignee
brought suit on this warrant in De-
eember last. and the case Is now pend
ing In our Supreme Court.
Another instance Of. Democratic
| inancieriDg is the celebrated Georgia
land case. In the financial crash OF
1887, the Morris Canal and Banking
Company broke with large amount Of
| Indiana Internal Improvement funds
on deposit. Tho State, in eompro-
missing with this broken bank. got,
among other things, deed for 30O,-
| GOO acres of Georgia lands, which.
being we'll timbered, were estimated
to be worth 81 per acre but Demo.
cratic Governor sold this tract of
100000 acres for 81, 900, which was
one third Of q cent per acre, or 800
Iature, under the lead of A. j. VIII
lard, then member from Floyd
County, confirmed the sale Ia 1893.
and the State was thus sWindled out
of 1929, 600. et4
A Democratic Agent Of State, Cd.
O. Stover). appointed by Governor
Willard in 1883, was detected, BY his
Republican successor, (Col. II. nj.
Hudson J, IN 1861, In a forgery of State
stocks to the amount Of s., 440, 600, as
shown By the report Of Hon, Joseph
Z. Mcdonald, and $784, 900 Of these
bonds are still outstanding. A grand
jury of New York city, where the
Office of Agent ofState is located, and
where the supposed offense was COM
nitted. fonnd On indictment against
him, charging him with this ofense.
But a virthous and pecuniarily en-
frightened Democratic Judge of that
city quashed the Indictment on the
ground that no offense had been com.
mitted against the laws Of New Yorkll
During the hard times that fol-
lowed tho financial crash of 1897 the
Legislature, in, order TO furnish CIR
culating medium, authorized the Isl
sue OF. State Treaaury notes. There
were three issues authorized-esch oil
certain amounts specified by law.
The scrip of issues was known and
named among the people as white
dog, red dog" and blue PUP"
and was receivable in part for
taxes and canal lands. and was
ordered by law to be cancelled
and filed away as fast as itcame into
the State Treasury. The Democratic
- IL i -
stead of cancelling and fling away
these notes as fast as they came IN, to
pocket and pay them out again in
their own private speeulations; and
it was discovered in 1856. when these
notes were ali redeemed, that So. 600
more were charged to the State than
she had ever authorized to be issued.
That amount the State and her tax
payers lost. and Democratic officials
gained. But. it being all IN the Dem
ocratic family, it was never made
known to the public Who got the
money.
There had been accu mulating dur
ing many sessions of the Legislature
prior to 1857, tons Of useless docu-
ments, such as reports OF the different
State officials and institutions, reports |
Of Legislative committees, journals of
the proceedings of the two houses, etc.,
until the lower rooms of our State |
House were crowded with them. The |
Legislature of that year. IN order to |
get clear of this vast accumulation Of /
useless stuff, passed an act authoriz-
ing the Superintendent of Public In
struction to distribute the stuff among |
tho Township Libraries of the State. |
So our good old Democratic Super
intendent of Public instruction (Prof. |
Larrabee) set men to work making /
out complete sets of these useless /
for the Township Libra
ries. But there being over thou
sand townships In the State to be sup
piled, il was soon discovered that
there was not near printed matter
enough IN the big pile to supply
each Township Library with a
full set OF these documents A bril-
liant Democratic financial idea struck
the heads of the Superintendent
of Public Instruction and Democratic
State Printer upon the discovery of
this fact. The act authorizing the
distribution of this useless pile of
printed matter, could. with little
straining and harmonizing OF inter-
ests. be construed TO mean and di-
rect that every township library IN the
State must have fun set of every old
printed report, journal, act. message,
and other document that could be
found in the pile. So, after arrang-
ing matters, the State Printer.went to
work and reprinted a sufficient amount
Of the old stuff to give a full set Of
everything to every township library
in the State, for which he charged the
modest sum of $4,000, and being all
in the Democratic family, It was al
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