The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1870-10-28
Republican Rule.
An appalling array Of Figures for the Tar.
Payers to Loook upon.

euiieu IIoiu Int paInpnlet acts recently
published by the official organ of that
body. They foot UP within fraction of
the enormous sum of EIGHT HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS; and yet fall far
short OF the amount actually expended.
During the entire history of the State
no such example of prodigate squander-
ing of the public money has ever been
known. One half of the above mentioned
sum has heretofore been adequate to the
requirements of the State government. A
few of the items named are worthy
of observation. The whole concern shall
be overhauled and thoroughly dissected
and exposed in all its rottenness and cor
ruption hereafter
The sum of THREE HUNDRED Thou
SAND DOLLARS, for salaries of State Off
GERS, judges, &c, &c, is nearly equal to
the amount required to defray the entire
annual expenses of the State government
before the war and between its close and
the inauguration of the Mongrel dynasty.
The appropriation is certainly UMPIRE
cedcated.
FoRTY-Two THOUSAND SEVEN HUMID
RED DOLLARS to repairing and furnishing
the Governors Mansion is an enormous
expenditure, exceeding the original cost
of the building. 1t is the more amazing
when connected with the fact that after
the war as liberal appropriations as the
people could afford were made; and the
establishment was in order when Gov.
Humphrey was expelled from it by Ames
with his federal soldiery. How the ex-
penditure of this extravaganza sum came
to be necessary and how it was actually
made, will become matters of future
inquiry.
FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for the
Convention (black-and-tan) of 1868
What does this mean? The Convention
levied special tax and the starveling ad-
venturers collected thier bills and paid
themselves as they went.
i EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for re-
pairing the State Capitol-an apprcpria-
| ton which might well have been
deferred to future occasion, when
the taxpayers would be better able
to bear it. The building was considered
tenantable, and no thought of such
extravagant appropriation to repair il
was INDUCED, until the Radicals who arc
concerned in levying taxes, not in paying
them, were illegally invested with power
In additionto this general appropria
ton, we find the snug sum of NINE HUN
DRIED AND NINETY FIVE dollars for tn,
office of Secretary of State. No com
plant of insufficient furniture was hearl
until Lynch (colored) was installed.
/ The iniquity of the SECRET SERVICE
FUND, (FIFTY THOUSAND DoLLARs)
for procuring perjury and prosecuting pc
litical enemies, and rewarding partizal
favorites-has been before alluded I
/ 1t is without precedent in the Legislation
of Mississippi, and is in keeping with tn
practices of the desperate men who ow
their control of the government of tn
State to fraud, corruption and violence.
The expenditures on behalf of the Sci
geant at Arms would BATTLE credulity
e we had not the evidence before us. O.
> this score FIFTEEN THOUSAND TIRE
HUNDRED DOLLARS are appropriated.
al By glance at these items the toilin
taxpayers will see how they are impose
upon by the Radical spoilsmen who al
swarming thicker than locusts over til
Il State. It's to meet outrageous appropr
e atoms of which they are specimen, ths
J the taxes have been quintupled, and tn,
Il they are brought face to face with the al
t palling fact that their property will barrel
e escape sacrifice under the Collector
: hammer, or hthat they themselve
jare in danger of the criminal
cell under the law enacted by the Mo
grel adventures and broken-down hacl
u who are administe ring the governmen
: which was instituted by aliens and en-
n mics, to plumber and Cypress, not to pr
u tect, them.
d Some of the Appropriations mae
= by the Legislature.
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