Daily Republican., 1879-09-15
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We intend soon TO cease eur refer
ences to Mr.. Guthrie City Treasure
o oct and his little $4,000 cash bo
secrrtsd away In little corner Of tn
Union National Bank, but which wit
wonderful d.xterity during the lat
city campaign sesmsdto possess the pow
sr Of popping up from its hidden corne
and attaching itself either to the schoc
fund or to the fund for current expsn
ses AZ occasion and the sxigencies
1.-THE elsotion campaign required in orde
To n, AXE good show of the ability O
Mr. Guthrie as q financial manager
But before We cease our all usion We can
not but refer to the silence of the City
press, ,sxc.pt the " Republican" all the
time that Mr.. Guthrie was playing this
little gam. Of "now you see 1t and now
you don't see it,"
Neither the "Gazette," Every Even
ing" nor Morning Herald" ever pre-
tended to expose this little game, and
when the REPUBLICAN let light in upon
this little sligh, Of hand performance,
the Gazette" and Herald" both
sung out Justify. "You lie, you lie!"
Also that the REPUBLICAN, was a Repub
| lican paper aud of course could not b.
expected to tell the truth. By this
means the deception was not only GOV,
cred from sight but it was made of usr
to gull the people and catch votes. The
two last named papers after the last
regular meeting Of the City Council be
fore the election when by bringing out
that mythical hidden cash box Mr..
Guthrie ran his deposits up to Sl2s 900,
vocfsrously applauded his financial ex
ploits and gave him the credit Of more
than r-deeming his promise of having
Sl20,0O0 in bank after paying of all
the bills against the city with which to
carry on the city up to the lst Of April.
Why here is sl2s,O 900 in bank say
they, and the praises of Mr.. Guthrie
we're rung with an endless number Of
changes further to help him to deceive
the people. He knew and the editors
of those papers knew very we'll that
this was a glaring deception, and yet
instead Of those editors exposing It as
they should have done, they sanctioned
it and cried out the louder for a redu'
tion Of the tax rate to 81 90 on the 800
for next year. At the time that Mr..
Guthrie claimed $l2S,000 in bank to
the credit of the city the REPUBLICAN
showed that there we're but little over
$9C, 200 in bank and it was right as
trans spring events have since proven.
Those papers that sneezed when Mr.
Gutb rie took snuff have never yet un-
deceived the people whom they led
astray, they have corrected no errors,
and the people are still left to believe
that which was absolutely not true.
Suppose for instance that it was true
tina h-re were 1928, 900 in bank to the
credit OF the city ON the first of Septem-
Der, what does the account now show ?
1t would snow the most reckless ax-
travagsnce and squandering Of monty
that ever this city has shown before in
two weeks time. On the last meeting
night of Council before the election,
Mr.. Guthrie reported S12S,00 in bank
to the credit Of the city. On last Thurs
day night with an Intervention Of on
" about two weeks, Mr.. Msrris Taylor
the new chairman OF tn. Finance Com
mites and wh IN Wa believe to be an |
homes, young man, far above practicing
deception, reported in bank to the cred.
II of the city $S4,657.04. In two weeks |
time il both reports we're. correct the
city expen led in round number includ- |
ing $4,000 in orders drawn at the last
$47, 900.
Deduct Mr.. Guthrie's little $40, 900
cash box, which of course has no exist
ence, as he and the editors OF these pa
pers referred to, well know, and still
the expenditures Of these two wesks will
be $27, 900, an amount largesenough for
such short space Of time in all CON
science. With wonderful regularity
the Democratic papers have published
the financial repors from week to week
and not one Of them has had the cour-
age to expose the trick by which Mr..
Guthrie was worming himself into the
Trsasurer's Office. One question and
w have done with this article. When
Mr.. Guthrie gets seated in the Treasnr
,r's chair can we believe the reports he
will make TO Council from week to week
packed up as he will be by papers that
'upport any report he may make, truth
ul or untruthfulS
- 900 -
The DOVER "Sentinel" in sensible
,rticle aiyncates the nassapn of a &500l