Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-10-04
Democratic Institution managCment.


Democratic Institution Management.
The vNrions public institutions Of the
State are in desperate strait to make
"ways and means' 10 meet their ends, or
to "nlake both ends meet" Stewards and
others now In office are making great pro-
fessions OF economy in the present man
not warranted by the facts. As rule,
with only q possible exception, the man
agcment OF the States charities under
Republican auspices has been with an eye
single to the public good and the welfare
Of the institutions. The political COM
plexion Of officials and employees was not
considered Now, as n rule, all this is
changed the institutions are run in the
interest Of the Democratic party. The
we'll being Of the inmates their health,
education and discipline, are Of minor inn
portance. How to do all this, to plunder
the funds and at the same time keep up
the prelepse and make a show Of economy,
taxes the Ingenuity Of such men as David
w. Brooks, who wags the Columbus Asy-
lum, Robert Bell, Steward, who runs the
Athens Asylum, and others. Mr.. Brooks
made bis speclous statement, q short time
since, in reply to the inexorable logic of
Captain Cope's facts, and lately Robert
Bell has published, under his own sigma.
ture, statement OF his financial manage
ment OF the Athens Asylum, as compared
with that of his predecessor, II. E. Ham
bin "a good Democrat, by-the-way), }, now
co-partner in the American House. Mr.
Bell takes the three months ending Aug,
Is, 1877 and 1878, and makes the following
exhibit:
Disbursements BY Mr.. Hambln-
For month ending June Is 1871 50 ,9S2 33
For month ending July Is. 1871. s.500.27
For month ending August l5, 1917 9, 80 SO
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. s27,663 40
And BY Mr. Bell
For month ending June Is, 1873 SO, 45S 81
For month ending July Is, 1873. 6,373 33
For month ending August Is, ls7s,' 9OSl Al
Total ...... $2I,9lI.2s
Saving in three months 5,752l2
This all looks very we'll Now, what
are the facts? We thought it must either
be false statement or susceptible Of some
explanation; and went over to the Auditor
OF States office Tor the truth, and got it
and found 1t stranger than fiction, If
there is not a committee of inquiry plying
Mr.. Bell with questions, it will be because
they don't want the facts Mr.. Bell gives
the first three months OF his management
OF the Athens Asylum and demonstrates
to his satisfaction (?) his ability to save
some twenty-three thousand dollars n year
in the current expenses of that institution.
We find, on the contrary, that he entered
office with over 5000 in cash turned over
by Mr.. Hamblin, that he received from the
State Treasury $4,000 during the first
month, $4,000 the second month, and Sl4,-
900 for the month ending August Is last
he reports only S0,0Sl.41 dIsbursed in tie
August statement; what has become of the
5000? Can it be possible that it is being
used in the vain effort to defeat Van Vor-
hees, or helping the desperate condition Of
the tried and doomed Converse, who will
be defeated by the same agencies that pre-
vented his nomination for Governor last
year? Rise up Mr. Bell and explain
While at the Auditors office application
was made for payment of the expenses of
a Trustee of one of the benevolent institu-
tions, and the discovery was made that the
Mr.. Alexander, the great fuancier, cut
down the estimate largely, Notwithstanding
the large increase in The number OF Trus-
tees. The Trustees of the Blind Asylum
| alone have incurred travelling expenses OF
upward OF five hundred dollars for four
months, against twenty-five dollars and
one-half Tor the whole OF last year; and
besides this they present receipt dated
| Sept. If, 1878, for So Is for expenses in
| CURED in travelling and purchasing a team
| for the Institution for the Blind.
| Here's reform indeed The law provides
! that the Trustees Of the several benevolent
institutions shall render services gratuit-
ously, but shall be allowed their necessary
| expenses while in the discharge Of their
dutlesi an appropriation is made for pay
| ing such expenses. In the interest of bun
combe, as illustrated in the legislative ca
reer OF Representative Alexander, this APP
| preparation was made for halt the amount
| needed, but the Trustees of the Blind Asv-
| lum, making ii convenient to travel ut the
expense OF the State, spend the above sum
and have il charged to the Current Etp ense
fund for the support and maintenance of
/ the inStitution-a clear inirnclion of the
/ law. Bad spelling and false syntax can be
| freely excused when attendant upon sound
sense and stern integrity, but when Demo.
cratic Trustees blatant in their hypocrit-
ical cries of economy aud reform, pay
| themselves 20 per cent. commission for
buying horses for their own use, it is time
I they were kicked out of the offices they
disgrace. There is no more sacred position
in the construction of our Government
than to take in trust the oversight Of one
OF our mammoth Institutions Columbus Ex
Columbus Dispatch: Fifteen or sixteen
years ago, George L. Converse, now a can
didate for Congress in the Ninth District
of Ohio, introduced bill into the Ohio
Legislature making it an offense, punisha-
BILE by fine and imprisonment, for colored
man TO immigrate TO the State of Ohio, or
to hold real or personal property therein.
In the year OF grace, 1878, this same
George l.. Converse is on the stump ap-
peaIing to these colored men, who have
since been endowed with the right Of sui
frage for their votes.
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