The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-27
have then S3O4.4S left to be invested i

The former will cost at whole
sale $2.15 per ream for note
paper, the latter about $500
per thousand; and the sum of $3O4.48
would purchase paper for $4,000 letters
and envelopes for $4,000 letters; this
would be at the rate Of l07 letters per
day! No one supposes that much
more than one.tenth of that number is
sent out daily from the Governors
office.
But in addition to the stationery
there were paid for postage stamps
1892, in the same year. This would
pay for 1886 letters, leaving 1924
letters for which there were no postage
stamps!
In addition to all this, there were
spent for telegraphic dispatches, during
the same year, $265.7o.
And in addition to this we find in the
Governor executive contingent fund
disbursements, this item. ''March 2lst,
1873, VIM. Seeger, newspapers, postage
and stationery, $l37.10." We first sup
posed that the Governor had paid
$137 10 out of his contingent fund for
stationery, newspapers, &C., used by the
State Treasurer and which should have
been paid out of his contingent fund !;
but on turning to the accounts of the
Treasurer we find s'March 18th, 1873"
one week prior to the payment by the
Governor Of $l37.16, this item: "Wm.
Seeger, for newspapers, postage, sta
tionery, viz: $92.10.' So that it
would seem to follow that the $l37 10
was for newspapers, postage and sta
tionery used by the Governor. Let us
then add up these items
| Stationery to D. D. Merrill & Co -. Sly So
| Stationery to other parties .. 80. 1911 80
Stationery, newspapers and postage,
March 81 ............. l37 ~
For postage -. 192 w
For Geographic dispatches 49,. ...... 265 70
Total for one year -. -. -. -. 1903 81
Then we have $164.85 paid to the
State Librarian and other parties for
copying in the Governor Office, not
withstanding the Governor had '.Pri-
vate Secretary" who received salary
from the State Of ST., 500 per annum, for
just such work.
Then we have $4O.l5 spent in SUBJ
scribing to Frank Daggett's ''Ledger, :"
0. Browns ''Record," the ''Lake City
Leader" and other party papers.
Then we have the following items:
The Governors trip to the National
Cemeteries, &c 49,. -. 1907 90
J. F. Williams trip to Philadelphia
as Centennial Commissioner 49,. IS 90
The Governors trip to st. Louis to
attend Commercial Convention IS 90
The Governors trip to Manitoba to
rescue Fletcher, Hoy 4 Co., who
had been arrested for trying to kid
Total for trips 1896 90
If we add to this the correspondence,
$9O3.57 the copying" $l64.85, and
the newspaper subscriptions, $40.l5, we
have total Of $1,766.47 and then
there is ''one-half barrel cement, S.. 25, >
that we suppose was used to make the
party stick together; ''two boxes of
soap, $500 mot all the perfumes of
Arabia can sweeten this little hand; i
thirteen rolls of ribbon, $780," what
in thunder were they for; did the Gov
ernor dress his hair in ribbons = zone
ice saw, $780, ''brooms, $780,
with other quaint and curious odds and
ends, some of which seem very much
out Of place in Governors Office. But
the oldest of all oddities is this: Sep
TENDER I'd, 1S73-D. C. Greenleaf, re-
pairing pen, 81"
Now we do not mean to say that any
Of these charges are fraudulent, but we
think many of them must be extrava-
CANT and unnecessary; and we think it
would be better to pay the Governor
his salary, and give him no right to
spend public money at his discretion,
without direct vote of the Legislature
instructing him to do so.
But this is not all. This is only for
the Governors Office. Every other of
fee in the Capitol had its contingent
fund and bought it's stationery, news
papers and postage stamps dd libitum.
We will take them up hereafter.
In the meantime we would
our readers that all these extravagant
expenditures come out other pockets:
and that they are represented to-day
in diminished comforts in their homes;
and that if they would stop them in the
future they must comm ence the work
of reform at the ballot box: and that
they cannot effect that desired refor.n
through the Republican party. As we'll
expet the rats in your barn, who have for
years devoured your substance and de-
stroyed your property, to reform their
habits and protect that which they have
plundered.
THANKS.
Week before last Hon. II. Doran of