The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-24

Ia Il due 70 the Republican party. whoee
candidate DR.. Conover b, that he OF BIZ Riends
/ should fully explain the matters brought against
| him and rethte the charges which 20 seri0usly
affect his persCnal and political record, Mere
Ss sd ,ds so = : %1 OF Coo % es I z:
been misunderstood or misrepresented or sland.
cred he should be thoroughly vindcated, and
every Republican should aid % Ar % possible In
promoting this vindication; but, Il one-half Of
the matters alleged against him are true, no Re.
publican who respects himself or his party should
vote for him.
1t is said that Conover threatens, If his
record is not let alone, to "tell all he
knows about the blue scrip matter" This
"blue scrip" business is but one item in
his record which needs clearing up;
but the people would be glad to know
how thousands Of dollars of blue scrip"
warrants paid twenty years previously
managed to get out of the Treasurer's
Office into circulation again, and how it
was that with the evidence Of their pre-
vious payment under his nose he paid
over $4,000 Of them second time
Furthermore, surprising that he was not
in collision with Gleason who says that
he bought the stolen blue scrip war
rants in New York, the people want to
know how it was that no suspicion was
created in his mind that the State was
being swindled when, among the blue
scrip warrants he redeemed, was one is
sued to former Treasurer in 1852, and
which he was bound to believe, it seems
to us, that said former Treasurer would
have paid, since it was his own property
and he had the money in his keeping for
its redemption, and which indeed the
books of the Office showed he had paid.
And the people also want to know some
thing about the mOdtIs OperaadS by which
warrant No. 200 of 1859 issued for 1921. go
was entered in the Treasurer's books as
having been paid for $465.s2, by which
entry the State was robbed of $2O4.22;
and they likewise want information about
the inaccuracies of various kind" which
Comptroller Cowgirl says his books dis
closed, and how it happened that 3d.
$3.50 of warrants and certificates paid
by him in 1870 mysteriously went out of
the Treasurer's Office afterwards and were
paid again. These are matters which not
only concern DIR. Conover's character"
but they concern the people whose Gov
ernor DR.. Conover aspires to become, and
who will not feel It safe to entrust him
with the powers of the Executive Office,
when, as Treasurer, either through incom-
potency or carelessness, he suffered them
to be robbed of thousands of dollars
The charge, which has not yet been re-
futed, that be was bought off in 1875
from the race against Stearns, is matter
which peculiarly concerns Republicans,
and is only of interest to Democrats in so
far as it is an indication of character"
There is something connected with his
brief candidacy that year, however, which
has not as yet been ventilated, but which
may be brought out during the campaign,
and which may prove further indication
of character"
1t may as well be stated now that the
charges affecting DIR. Conover's "charac-
ter" originated with, and were made pub
lie by, Republicans