The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-02-02
sUsiE SUGGESTIONS
ConcernIng the staie Finances and the
Management Thereof

ConcernIng the state Finances and the
Management Thereof
To Democrats in The Vest Virginia LegiSld-
ttIre:
As your various duties may permit you
from deyoting much time to the inyestiga-
ton of the financial condition Of the State,
allow friend to refer you toa few facts. For
fullness OF information upon this subject
you need not resort to the Reports OF the
Auditor, or TO the Message OF the Governor.
One is: "By Sundries, Or" "To sundries,
Dr." The other is merely bad case Of
congostiye tlatulency. The Auditor, in his
biennial Report for lSSl-S2, says: During
the year ending SeptemberS0. 1881, it was
necessary for the State to borrow $50, 00C
in two different loans, and during the year
1882, sums aggregating $4,000 were Dor
rowed. Of these amounts the sum OF SOU
600, with interest thereon, has been paid,
leaving the sum OF $4,000, and interest,
still due and unpaid.
These loans were made necessary by rea-
son OF the appropriations Of the Two years
Just passed, having been greatly in excess
of the receipts for those years.
Although this excuse is plain violation
OF Section 8 Article y OF the Constitution,
your present Democratic State officials may
not BIZ liable to impeachment, for, perhaps
they took their oaths with mental reser-
yation, that they would keep within the
limits OF the Constitution 80 long as 1t
might not be necessary" TO break through
1t.
You will remember that necessity is
the rogue's and tyrants plea" as your
Democratic statesmen 80 often informed us
during the past twenty years, when we
were trying to make you reform" But
your Auditor and your Governor to screen
you and themselves from q violation Of
their duty, hasten to adopt this plea Of
roguery and tyranny" "Reiorm is neces-
sary." Your Legislature in lSS0-sl,
"promised TO pay more than you
could squeeze out Of the taxpayers,
80 for these two years, 1t was
necessary" TO take the money sacredly
devoted 10 the education OF the children OF
all the people, to redeem your promises to
to pay. When Smith was arrested for muir
der he offered tho oxtenuating circum-
stance that he had promised to pay his
creditors, and killed his man 10 raise the
money. Thus reformed Democracy defes
and kicks aside their constitution and to
pay for worthless legislation and incompe.
tent officials, you lay sacrilegious hands on
the children's money, in their Constitu.
tional Savings Bank. You used to say the
radicals robbed the Ffeedman's Bank but
YOU rob your own sacred color, and chiefly
infants in the bargain.
Your reason is necessity"
Is 1t even necessary to violate your Con-
stitution for cause OF lucre2
Is your own offspring not entitled to
more paternal care?
II you have no respect for your natural,
baby bantling, have some for the anxious
struggling boys and gttls OF your State.
It is a fair rule, that II an offender is
guilty Of several offences and offers an
excuse for the one last committed, only,
he must be held 10 have no excuse for the
first otthe series.
You confess the illegal taking and con-
version Of 100000 In the year lSSl.'S2,
what have you to say for the S64 900 In
1879 and the S45, 900 in 1880. Your Audi
tors Office ought 10 show? See Report
1879 80.
When you confess your sins why not
make,aC clean breast OF them all? Did you
think murder would not out"
viii you explain the necessity" for
having a Constitution, II your mismanage.
ment and extravaganza, create a greater
Necessity" for disregarding it2
Was II the brief ,haltgasping, admission OF
guilt in your Auditor'srepo now lying in
your desks, that inspirited your Falstaff OF
4 Governor to roar rs his prototype did at
CABS Hill in order that the shortcomings
and oyerreachincs Of his administration
might escape notice in The dim Of his noisy
fustian?
these things" KASAwHA,