The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-26
THE CANVASS.
COmParisOn or Expenditures uu-
der Citizems' and C1rPet-baG.
gers Rufc.

Mr.. Attorney General Morris published
in several issues back of the Leader q
letter which shows that he has been FILL
ing his belly with east wind, or at all
events trying to stuff the FIVE hundred
and one readers of the Leader with vain
knowledge Like the rest Of the Wreck
ers, he is endeavoring to cover up the ras-
calities of the Mongrel Administration
which he is part, and in doing 50 has
essayed to assail figures which have been
presented for the information of the pub
lie through ga leading Democratic jour-
nal" meaning TIE CLARION. Now,
TIE CLARroS's figures are taken from the
record. They stand in their inyincible maj
esty, protest against the dishonesty and
prohigacy Of the party of alien enemies
and venal renegades who were put in
power by fraud and corruption over the
people of the State.
The Attorney General says:
NV mind was first directed to these inves-
LEGATIONS by seeing IL stated in leading
the State Government for ordinary purposes
under Democratic rule, was annually only
5000 600; and that under Republican rule
the annual cost, for the same purposes, ex-
ceeds $l,1O0,OO0. Upon reading this asser-
ton, from a quarter SO respectable, 1 at
once examined the question OF ctsourse-
ments through the Auditors and Treasures
offices for the last twelve years, as shown Oy
those officers themselves for all those years.
And the Attorney General proceeds to
verify his assertion by presenting set OF
figures which for the most part embrace
the uears of the scar-and which we have
never been absurd enough to refer to
even in comparative statement OF ex-
penses in time Of peace, incased under
Citizens and Carpet-baggers' rule re-
spectively. And thus, whether 30 de-
signed or not, the Attorney General con-
veys a false impression of what The
CLARION has in fact undertaken to show.
What we have said and what we have
demonstrated, is, that "from $3.50, 900 to
$3.50, 900 per annum were sufficient to
carry on the State Government in defray-
ing its ordinary expenses for the taOetre
gears preceding the acar. and that from
S4OO, 900 to 100000 were ample to meet
all its requirements for the years imme-
diately succeeding the acar, before the rule
of the adverturers commenced; and that
the expenditures under adventures rule
now exceed one million one hundred
II, ~>,,,a,,d dO1larS nnr anuIIm
According to Auditor Musgrove's re-
port, the expenditures for the year 1871
were 81, O61, 249. 80, from which make
deduction of interest on account OF the
Chickasaw School Fund and some other
extraordinary appropriations, and the
sum of 1857, 80 remains. And accord
ing to the same authority, the estimated
expenses for the year 1871 are 81, 319, $50,
from which deduct expenditures not class
ed as ordinary expenses of State Gov
eminent, and the result is III, lis, $50.
The Attorney General sets down the
whole disbursements for the years 1869
respectively at 1914, 1853, and s1O9,Ol5;
but from these if he had deducted the
amounts disbursed on account of the Trust
Funds and other expenditures not classed
as ordinary expenses of the State Govern
ment and he would have had, in round
numbers, for 1868 s2S0,719. and for
1869 1858, 1928.
The CLARION has demonstrated time
andagain how this extraordinary excess OF
expenditure under Carpet-bag rule over
the expenses of Citizens rule has been
brought about, by quoting the figures as
they are to be found in the Auditor S
Reports before the war, and in the Report
of the present Auditor. But line upon
line, and precept upon Brecept' do not
serve to check the misrepresentation OF
the Wreckers. who are intent only on
propping up the rOttenness of their cor
rupt and dishonest rule.