Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-04
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Wednesday Evening, Sept. 4, 1873
wovLo.Be ReFoRmEas.

WOULD.BE REFORMERS.
Democratic DcfaIcatton. 4" Pennsylvania,
Missouri, and Ohio.
When Mr.. Moves, democratic state treas
urer of Pennsylvania, was elected last year
il was claimed that "his election would lead
to the disclosure Of gross mismanagemcnt
Of the state finances on the part Of the re-
publicans." As no report Of irregularities
had been made, as promised, his attention
was recently called to the matter, in not q
very polite way, by a democratic county
committee. Had the committee known the
reason for delay they would not have been
yielded, reluctantly, to the demand, and the
result is "the most complete vindication Of
the republican officials That was ever re-
ceived by any party" But this is not all.
The discovery was made, and reluctantly |
divulged, of an over issue of state bonds to
the amount Of. 100000 during the official
term Of John NJ. Bickel, ex-democratic state
ire .surer, now residing in Philadelphia.
Nor is this all:
Mr.. EickeIs bonds are missing! The
Huntingdon (Pa.) Journal, August %, says:
"Not only have 800, 600 OF state bonds
passed mysteriously and unaccountably into
the hands of private parties, but the official
bond Of the state treasurer during whose
term the loss occurred is also missing"
The Halrisburgh Telegraph states the re-
suit Of the search for the missing bonds az
follows:
"There seems to be no doubt but that the
bond given by State Trearurer Bickel in
1852 and 1858 has been stolen from the pack
ages containing the bonds filed by state Off
Gals in those years. The search for the bond
vas concluded Saturday, every package of
bonds from 1900 down to the present have
been carefully gone over by q competent
clerk in the state department; but no trace
Of the missing bonds we're found. Mr.. Bick.
ELS bonds for 1850 and 1851 are there with
the bonds Of others for the SAM years, blu.
while the packages for 1852 and 1853 con.
tains all the bonds of the state officers fol
these years, the bonds of Mr. Bickel are
missing. 1t has gone where the woodbine
twineth, and all further search for it has
r ceased"
Mr.. Noyes was elected, says the Journal,
l for the purpose Of disclosing the short com.
ings and dishonesty of his republican prede-
%cessors, but in this respect his promises
t have been unfulflled. He has given his
: party an exposure of a democratic defalca.
ton, feeling obliged, no doubt, to discove,
some wropg-doing, even if it should be in
his own party. And now they are mad al
him. Has he not shown his incompetency
d by failing to find any republican crooked
ness and by lot overlooking Bicke's trans
actions as a tinancier! According to thu
democratic views, he has.
In St. Louis, Mo-, disclosures have Jus
been made Of financial Encouragement or
the part of the democratic state tire asurer
y Gates, involving a loss to the state amount
ing to half a million dollars, while the
. treasurer's bonds are pronounced to b.
practically worthless" Investigation il
now in progress to ascertain the extent O
the loss to the state. 1t has been ascertain
ed. says the St. Louis Evening Post, tina
"there is absolutely no cash in the treasury
The July interest on the state debt has no
been paid, and there are no funds where
with to pay the January interest, abou
100000. So far as has been ascertaine
warrants on the treasury have not been pal
h when presented, since the LIST of Marsh las
= and they are now selling on the streets {
St. Louis at ninety. five cents on the dollar
The Evening Post, August Is, says:
ut is now becoming a settled convictio
d in e%verybody's mind that the ~commonwealt
Of Missouri was never at so grave a crisi
in her civil history. Each day comes lade
with new rumors of greater and worse "a
cality, and, worse than all, a far more de
= perate etate of affairs ia now tacitly admitte
y on all sides than the Post charged at ii
beginning Of its revelations. People al
. astonlshed and amazed that such gro
wrongs should have remained 60 long hi.
den from the public eye"
1t is stated that the only way Of relief wi
be in calling the state legislature together
extra session to authorize a special tax upc
the people, in order to meet the defcienci
III the treasury.
This is democratic rule. The Gefalcatit
in Pennsylvania was also under democrat
management. In Ohio. a few weeks az
the aggregate sum ofSG47, 595 was amour
/, ed by the public press as having been IL
in twenty-one counties through defalcatiol
N by democratic county officials within a sho
!, period, of which only $57 $50 had been !
II covered, and only five out Of twenty thr
defaulters had been puniehed!
These are alarming revelations, and tn
force the inquiry home to the serious &C
loo sideration of every taxpayer, not only
all the states thus robbed, but in every st:
and territory throughout the union :
.st. these things occur through democratic at,
St. rule, what would be the result if the Unit
I'll, States treasury and the federal official off,
Ihee should become subject to the control a
manipulations of the democratic party
y Seriously. ",an the nation trust the dem,
+. racy with the management Of its fnanc
affairs?"