The daily gazette., 1882-09-06
DEMOCR ATTIC COUNTY TICKET.
FOR SHERIFF,
PURNAL j. LYNCH.
FOR CORONER,
FRANK f. SMITH.
The Morning Organ still CackIing,

The morning organ repeats its stale
"sensation" con ,erning the so-called School
Board fund and prints what purports to be
an interview with "prominent citizen" In
which interview that probably mythical per
30 lage is made to rave in the most approved
partisan manner In plain words we do not
believe the morning organ can produce the |
name ofany "prominent citizen, well posted |
''in municipal affairs, who will commit the
absurdity of subscribing to the words put
in his mouth by this pretended interview.
The men whom the morning organ names
do not support its view Of the matter. |
Mr.. Caesar Rodney, one of the most cautious
and careful members OF Council at
the time the TRANSACTION in question
took place, was thoroughly aware of what
was being done, and he declares that 'there
''was no misapprehension of it at all, +" and
his impression is that every member of
Council knew of 1t at the time. Now it
appears to us to be fiat conftg-
sion of incompetency for Il member
OF Council to say that important
transaction of the nature of this one could
be publicly made by public body Of which |
he f,rned part and he know nothing Of 1t. |
1t was the duty Of the Councilman to know |
of it, and an examination of the reported |
proce ding of Council will convince
any reasonable man that any member who
was not fully aware OF the nature ofwhat
was done in the matter was either culpably
mcgliient OF his duty, or so densely ignorant
as to render him entirely unit to exercise the
trust reposed in him by the people.
We happen to know that the morning
organ did interview one prominent citizen
who is exceeding well posted in municipal
affairs and who is likewise Republican,
but We look in vain for report of that in
tsrview in its columns this morning. Ne
have interviewed the same gentleman and
give, together with his name what he has to
say upon the subject in another part of
to-day's paper. If the morning organ
would act in the same frank manner
with its readers it would not la,
itself open to suspicion of an attemp
TO bolster up its case by attributing its owl
distorted views to an anonymous "promi
nent citizen" If, however, it shall b.
any means chance that there really is in thi
city a prominent citizen y who will publicl,
confess to being such numbskull as tn,
morning organ makes him out to be whei
it puts in his mouth the intimation that thi
money has been secretly made away with W
would like to have the pleasure OF cnlighten
ing him upon the subject by pointing out tn
sure and simple method by which he ca
obtain the fullest and most accurat
knowledge as to where every cent of til
public money expended by the Democrats
hot only of the last Council, but of othe
Councils in which they had the control
went, and for what purpose it was paid
The City Auditors books are open to tn
inspection of any che who may feel an inter
est in this NATTER and its pages will
show clean record for the Demo
cratic party throughout its contrC
Of city affairs, a claim which the mornin
organ dare not make for its party. 1t wi
show that some of the very money, which
few of the r, publican members of Counc
are now pretending to lie ignorant of weu
into their own pockets as salary without tn
sipht' St objection on their part; u it wen
there honestly and the only disreputabl
feature oi the matter is The al
tempt now made to create the bell,
IN the public mind that this none
has been misspent. We have already poInte
out mat II mas never hecn the custom of Il
City Council to set apart certain al
specific sum OF money for the use Of Boai
OF Education. All the money received
the city has invariably been deposited to h
credit of the city and each department
the municipal government, including Il
Board of Education, has been credited on Il
books of the city with the amount of its a
preparation and has been furnished mon,
from the general fund, as it needed it,
called for it, until its appropriation W
exhausted. This has been the uniyers
custom, and for any one to set up the clai
that there was anything crooked in Il
transaction in question is to proclai
himself lacking ordinary comprehensive
or to confess to psrtisanship of SO low
grade as to lead him to wiliully pervert t
facts in the hope of party gain.