The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02
The Lawyers After Parker-Some oe hi
Frauds and Eolonles.

What is popularly known as the Glib.
son case was ended on Tuesday last. 80
far as the preliminary trial before Judge
Willard goes-and this is great way.
The plaintiffs. who were represented by
Messrs. Pope & Haskell, have sustained
their case in every particular, and made
terrible exhibit Of Parker's unlawful
expenditures Of the public moneys for
the. last four years. Messrs. Pope &
Haskell, though acting only in the capa-
city OF attorneys for private parties,
have been of immense service to the peo-
pie of the entire State in disemboweling
such OF PArker's rascalities as came with
in the purview of their case. and we
hope and believe have opened the way
for successful criminal prosecution of
some of the official robbers who have
been plundering the State.
Here are some OF the facts and figures
which are unquestionable. The only
thing is, that. they do not show by
millions all the money of the people
which has been. stolen, misappropriated
and misapplied in aid of the many
speculative schemes. by which the cor
rupt ring have enriched themselves.
They do not show ali, we say. because
from the amount of taxable property in
the State, according to assessment, as
shown in the Comptroller's report of
1870, say, il round numbers. $1S4, ,O0O,-
600, the amounts received from taxes
should have been far larger than thos 3
acknowledged to have been received by
the Treasurer. But they are enough,
Heaven knows, as they stand on Par
ker's showing, to send him and all his
embezzling associates, many times over,
10 the penitentiary for the rest Of their
days, and to greater torments still in
another world, when their days on earth
shall have ended.
First! we win take the amounts al
legged to have been paid out this year for
the legislative expenses of the last
session. and for deficit in the payment
of those Of the previous session. The
whole appropriation. outrageous though
it be, when compared to the $4,000
which was considered ample when the
government was in honest hands.
amounts only for the last session to
$3.50, 600. The appropriation to meet
the deficit in the payment OF last years
appropriations, $3.50. 900. Total amount
appropriated for Legislative expenses,
$3.50. 900.
Now, let US see what Treasurer Parker
claims to have paid out on this account.
His exhibit sums up as follows:
Paid iu cash from Treasury $596.111 05
Paid borrowed on notes. -. 399.3l2 72
1otal 1886, z23 II
Besides this, he paid 'on account of
public printing, for which no appropria-
tion was made, Sl13, ,3746 This makes,
in all. paid ont for legislative expenses.
Sl. DAB, 1893. 90. Parker has thus paid, or
claims to have paid, over and above the
lawful appropriations, $44s. 1893. 1t is
thus seen that Parker sqnandered almost
the entire tax of this year upon. legisla,
tive expenses alone, for about one.half
OF which thero was not even an appto-
priation made.
We come now to bigger things still,
and we invite the attention of our North.
ern readers and exchanges especially to
it, for it gives the most damning proof
Of the infamous State Government which
Grants tyranny and Grants bayonets
have foisted upon this devoted State.
It has been the cry of Gov. Scott-it has
been the cry of our Ku Klux martyr
across the way-it has been the CRY of
every Radical in the State who has at.
tempted to explain away or excuse the
enormous. bonded debt which has been
heaped upon the State by the ,arpet-bag
crew which Grantism has cast among us,
and which Grant himself has encouraged.
smiled upon. sympathized with, and
protected with the army Of the United
States-that our people have not maid