The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-09-22

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from the public Treasury. lie seems
to have overlooked the fact that Secre-
tary Boutwell, found discrepancy of
the small sum of 5000, 00O, 900 in the
accounts of the Treasury, and to con.
ceal the theft forced balance, as was
shown by Senator Davis, of West
Virginia, in the Senate last July. He
probably has not hoard of the fact
proved by investis alton, that George
M. Robson. Secretary of the Navy,
who receives an annual salary of So, 600
deposited from his stealings in different
banks within one year $417. 600 He
also forgets that through the connivance
of Grants revenue collectors in the
Western States, the Government lost,
according to the most reliable estimates,
$500, 900 Of revenue on whisky alone
but We forget. that did not get into the
Treasury, it was pocksted before reach
ing Washington by the friends of the
administration. We might also refresh
Mr.. Johnson's memory by calling his
attention to a certain George NJ. Pinney,
who took the small trifls of over a mil
lion dollars from the Treasury when he
bid bis native land adieu year ago.
If Mr.. Johnson mean that the Treasury
has not been broken into and robbed.
he is correct otherwise he is seriously
mistaken.
The saving of 100000 on the
appropriation bills, Mr.. johnson says,
is simply postponementto to provided
for in the future. But as this opinion,
like many others advanced by Mr..
johnson, is not supported by facts or
proofs, it must be set down as one of
his fapcies.
oih. The cost of running the Gov
erDment under GraDt Is one sixth less
than it ever was under q Democratic
Administration.
MIR. Johnson claims to have been
! misquoted on this point, and says he
ment loss " instead of cost" In
proof of this he offers what purports
to be Treasury statement printed last
July. Holy smoke! What credulous
individual the gentleman is! Think of
of it, in this centennial year, when q
tabulated statement. giving the names
of defaulters and the amount of their
defalcations, shows the loss from this
source alone under Grants Administra-
ton to be So, 500, 595 SO. 1t is possible
that Mr.. johnson has forgotten the St.
Louis and Chicago whisky trials? If
not. he surely must know that the con-
spirators-al of them paid aud sworn
officers of the Government-with as
little regard for their oaths az that
certain Southern element to which
he referred, robbed the Government ac-
cording to Mr. Bristows estimates of
about $500, 000, 900. How, in the face
OF such facts, Lans person, not
blinded by partisanism, can attempt to
prove what Mr.. Johnson does, will
probably remain mystery until after
election, at least. We beg to assure Mr..
Johnson his figures are nothing moro
nor less than elsctioneering documents,
compiled with great care under the d.
rsction of Zack Chandler, Chairman of
the Republican National Executive
Committee, and calculated to deceive
the public.
To the last assertion of Mr.. John
sons. quoted in the SILVER STATE,
That S. j. Tilden made the debt of
the United States necessary by the
war;" the gentleman takes exceptions,
and claims that the language used by
him was different, and that to prove
what he did say would be to show that
Mr.. Tilden was secsssionist' AS such
sterling Union men as John Bigslow. of
New York, who held an important
Office under Abraham Lincoln and Gov
ernor Parker, of New Jersey, say they
know that 8. j. Tilden was for the res
toration of peace only on the basis of
the Union, it would be very difficult for
Mr.. johnson, or anyone else to prove
him a sscessionist. In conclusion Mr.