The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-07
Parkor's Apologize.

Farkor's ApoIoEtst.
The Union, Of yesterday. heads its
editorial columns with an article endea.
vori1g, after its fashion, to bolster up
Parker, and to explain away the facts
and figures brought forward by US on
Friday last, showing that the State
Treasurer had expended, in round num-
bers, So. 500, 1000, since his term OF Office.
unlawfully and .fel0nious!y, there being
no appropriations by the General Assem-
bly, therefor. We are glad to have you
show your colors, Mr. Union. as the
organ of the ring which now controls
the State Government, Of which Parker
is most important segment, it is rea-
sonabie to expect that you should do all
in your power to sustain it's acts. But
pray, Mr.. Union. assume one role and
keep it. Let US, for consistenoy's sake,
at least, hear nothing more from you.
about honesty and reform in the govern.
ment. Honesty and reform is directly
opposed to the support of Parker and
the ring. If there be dishonesty any
where in the State Government, it will
be found in that cesspool of seething
corruption, the State Treasury Depart
ment.
We are so much gratiied, Mr.. Union,
to have you take mp the gauntlet for
Parker. that we will take in high good
humor your puny attempt at acetiousness
at our expense. You touch us on sensi-
tive point, MIR. Union, when you ques-
tion our arithmetic. We brag on our
arithmetic. Mr.. Union. and think, if we
know anything at all, it is of the prinoi-
pies of that branch. and perhaps some
higher branches, of mathematics.
At any rate. most learned "Ku Klux
martyr" wa are ready and anxious to
measure swords with you. You and
Parker and your cowreres have had
large experience in subtraction, we ad-
nit; but your process was illicit, and
can be sustained as little by mathemati-
cal as by moral rules. Your minuend
was the hard earnings of an impover-
rished and helpless people, and your
subtrahend was the fraudulent bonds.
You say, Mr.. Union. that the money
received from Mr.. Kimpton by Parker,
which amounted in the fiscal year
S-69 to $819, ,7145O, would hardly
be regarded by most business men as
receipts" We dislike to call any one
in public print downright fool, and We
will not dub you as one here, Mr.. Union;
but will let it suffice to say that the
asinine element in your nature most
grievously preporderated at the time
you wrote that paragraph. All moneys
received into the Treasury on account of
the State are receipts, chargeable against
Parker, or else the word receipts means
nothing. Parker himself, Mr.. Union.
places the moneys received from Kimp.
ton under the head of receipts, and
surely you do not question his Financial
ability!" Now, We showed that Parker
received, according to his opn sho,oing,
from taxes for the fiscal year commenc.
ing November l, 1868, the sum of
1921 482.02. The entire nppropria-
tions for that year amounted to 81, 1885,
800. Every dollar which Parker paid
out. over and above the appropriations,
or for purposes other than those named
in the Acts of appropriation, was paid
without authority of law, and was
felonious abuse on Parker's part of his
official trusts and powers. Now, in this
very year, when the receipts from taxes
alone exceeded the entire appropriations
by upwards OF $l50.O00, Parker borrows
from or through Kimpton 1919, 714.5O.
He received, then, as is plain to see,
between 100000 and $1,OOO,OOO over
and above the appropriations The
Union would now argue that the money
borrowed from Kimpton was received
and paid out on legitimate appropria-
tions bsfore the taxes were paid in, and
that when the latter were received, so
much as was necessary was taken and
paid to Kimpton, in satisfaction of the
rravioua loan he had nada Noz M.