Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-10-04
The Meeting Last Ntxht.

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tally attended meeting ut Lincoln Han, last
night, cannot fail to impress thoughtful, fair
minded citizens Of all classes, because they were
addressed to thei- intelligence and reason, and
presented in their calm, irresistible array of
figures and facts most convincing answer to
the windy defamation and false or grossly ex-
aggerated statements of the enemies of improve
ment For instance, in reply to the wild ALE
cations Of the inJunctionsts As to the cost of the
improvements in progress and the frightful
amornt If indebtedness incurred, we have it
stated, on an authority no one will discredt-
that of Governor CoOke-that "the current Az
penditures of the District government proper
are strictly confined to the limits fixed by the
appropriations made by the legislature for the
current year, and that in making these appro-
priations that body kept scrupulously within the
estimates OF taxes received. These estimates, IL
is now demonstrated, will be fully realized, and
that, too, without single penny's increase in
the ratio OF per centage of teyat.on."
In the same direction we have the data prC
sented by Mr.. Shepherd, Vice President o. the
BoardOf Public Works. showing from indsputa-
bic figures that the expenditures Of the board
from July 1, ISL, to September 3, 1872 had
been but si,7O9,473, Instead of the enormous
amount, varying from twenty to ninety millions,
so industriously reported by the croakers. From
Mr.. Shepherds statement Ii appears that the
total resources of the board, from various
sources named, aggregate ss,OC.,0O0, and that
the aggre gate liabilities of the board to Septem-
Der so, 1S-2, are $685. ,s35, leaving balance in
favor Of the board of 81 6I9 163; which is pretty
well for bankrupt government The state
ment of the vast amount OF work executed by
the board also serves to show, by comparison,
how much he's been performed for q less sum
than was Uttered away without appreciable
results in less than half dozen years OF NUM-
cipal rule previous to the accession OF the new
District government.
The data and figures furnished by Register
John +. Cook are also equally conclusive in
their way as showing the groundless nature of
the croakiDgs of the injunctionists, and that the
financial credit OF the District has been rising
steadily as illustrated by instances cited of the
increase in the value OF the funded indie btedness
CT the Dis ;ict.
These facts and many others presented by the
various speakers, and sustained by exact figures.
were most satisfactory as showing that the vast
improvements going on are being executed
carefully and economically, and within the re-
sources of the District government
III Is too much, perhaps, to expect that copsti-
tuuoDai croakers and heated partisans will be
wholly sIenced by even the convincing exposi.
ton OF last night; but their senseless growllngs.
exsggers;iors, and m'Sstatements can hardly
find responsive ears in the future.
1t sounds odd to hear the New York Tribune,
under the exigencies of Greeley democratic or
Ransbip, speaking OF the election riots in Geor-
gia, which resulted in the Ioes of q number of
lives, as ''the slight rioting which occurred in
one or two places" and also OF the "negroes as
the principal aggressors."
1t also seems odd to find the Tribune once 30
ofa%1 ,l:4:~
for its Careful and even dispassionate political
data, now filing its columns with such slop "a
the stories about the Wholesale purchase of
votes in the New England States by the admin
lstratlon, and Tin yesterdays issue) the idiotc
trash from its Indianapolis correspondent that
the administration proposes to carry Indiana by
"swearing in the votes of clubs of young lads
whose ages range from IL to 20 :" and BY similar
devices! Really, Horace, il is to be hoped YOU
will get the craze for Presidential Off ce 50 effec-
tually knocked out Of your head by the October
elections that you will be able to see how this
partisan bunkum is damaging the reputation OF
the TT1tEHe for political sSgscity and reliability
a review OF the amount OF gold and silver
yielded in California shows that there is a slow
but steady decline in the product. Numerous
claims that have been worked by sluicing and
the hydraulic process are exhausted every year.
anu very lew are opened. The productive au-
riferous quartz mines are not increasing in
number and importance, perhaps because many
OF the most intelligent and enterprisng miners
and mining engineers find a larger profit In the
Nevada silver mines, which more than compen-
safe, by their rising Importance, for the decline
IN the yield Of California 1t is probable, how
ever, that with the discovery Of new fields, the
aggregate product of the precious metals In the
United States is up to the average mark.
III seems that the cOiored voters in Georgia
were not only driven from the polls by violence
In various localities, but were also virtually ex-
cluded in large numbers throughout the state
by the heavy poll tax requirement which seems
to have been designed expressly for that end.
The WEEKLY STAB, now ready contains
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Mussey says about Andy johnson and Mrs.
Surratt; rev street railroads; -ial OF George
W. jenkins Tor killing his wife with a
butchers cleaver; the Georgetown wiSs
murder; improvements of streets and av-
enues under the board of public works: notes
OF the national and local political Campaigns:
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