The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1885-03-05
Valuable Information.

the pubic the 'ioilOwlDg informs
tion
When Governor Lowry went into office
there was more than s600,000 in cash ip
the State Treasury. Taxes have not yet
been reduced since that time, and the
| amount levied and collected during each
year of his administration will approx
mate very closely TO 81, 900, 900 per annun,.
Notwithstanding the enormous amounts
poured into the Treasury by the Tux
/ gatlerers, at the expiration Of two years
the State was selling her bonds to pay
! the salaries of her officers. The $500, 900
| in the State Treasury at the beginning of
| Governor Lowry's term was gone. The
! g., 900. 900 gathered into the Treasury dur
| ing the two cars Of his official life was
also gone. The taxpayers think Governor
| Lowry should be going and our prodie-
! tiom is, that when his present term eX1
pires he too will be gon,.-to the shades
of private life. st
" hen a newspaper undertakes 10
instruct the public and deals ib
round assertions without consulting
the records whereof it speak, it does
the kablic an INJUSTICE aDd subjects
| the psnss generally to frequent and
@evere criticism. Now, the official
reports aud facts pht the Messenger
at fault in every instance where q
figure is male In the above surpris-
ing statement.
For instance the cash. on hand.
Jan. 1st, 1882, instead or being
5000. .OOO WAS &545, ,10628, q small
mistake of $54, ,S93.72 The Mes
s-uger says "the $600,0 900 was
gone" We'll, let us see fer what
purposes. 1t was paid ont by the
officials charged with that duty to
meet the following obligations
Outstanding warrants issued
before that date, .......... S2lS, S4p. 50.
Bonds due aud TO become
due before that date issued, s2se, 100000.
Tatal Observation-Disclosures. S443, 640. 80.
Deduct this amount and the obi
cations previously issued by the
State, and with which Governor
Lowry had no more to do than tie
editor of the Chickasaw Messenger,
and there is left out OF that six hun
dred thousand dollars $l0i, ,265 80.
So much for the first count in The
Indictment.
The second assertion Of the Mes
senger is quite as inaccurate, for is
saws, "taxes have not been reduced
since Jan. 1st, 1882" Taxes were
reduced from three to two and
half mills. Our impression was
that all reading people of the Stale
knew this fact. See the law.
The Messenger mentions the taxes
levied and collected during two
years OF Governor Lowry's admins
tration in round numbers as $2 ,O00,-
900, or one million per annum. For
the two years the receipts in the
Treasury were $l,517,S2427. In
this count our esteemed contempora-
ry makes a small error of $4S2,l75
ia sharp little sum in hard
times.
Now for the information of the
public. we assert, taking the figures
from the official reports, that there
was more money received into the
Treasury and more money disbursed
during the two years preceding
Governor Lowry's inauguration
than received and disbursed during
the first two years of his admins
tration. This is what the reports
say
| Receipts in 1880, Gov Stones
Administration. 81, ,O9l, eIS. .os'
| Receipts for 1881, ........ S397, ,92S. Ia.
Total for 1880 and 1881, 81 $50, ,-OS.77.
Disbursements 1850, 81 ,097, 1S9.3a-
Disbursements 1881, ..,. sc9- 1914,
Total. .A :. -. 81 ,9l5, ,S54. 81.
Receipts, for 1852, Gov. -
| Lowry's admihistra-
tom. n.......-.....-.. $40 S770, ,e59.52.
Receipts for year 1881 SO sb'e6i.7a.
Total Receipts, ...., 81, ,517, ,s24.27.
Disbursements 1892, sl.C57, ,441.O5.
Disbursements 1888, 1856, 1890.
Total. al..............,,...s 81, 693, SAC. 50.
Thus IL will be observed that
there was more money received asd
paid nat in the two years preceding
Coy. Lowry administration than
was received aud paid out during
the first years of his administration.
For the eorrect.less OF the above fiY-
ares We refer Ia the official reports
of the years mentioned.
Ii the coming State canvass is to
be determined by wild assel tons
rather than by stern facts and fig
ures. then let the people. So under
stand. Our opinion is that the peo
pie are just, and when they learn
that the opponents of public ofIl
cial charge extravaganza at his door,
and upon examination. they find
such charges made mp OF mere as
sertions, unsupported in every par
ticular, when the trnth is that tho
cost OF the State government has
been even less for the two years in
question under the directing hand
of Governor Lowry, than il was
under the last two wears Of his
worthy, economical and distinguish,
ed predecessor, an intelligent and
discriminating public will condemn
such warfare and stand firmly by
the right. This is our prediction.
We do not hesitate to, assert that
the Government of Mississippi has
heen managed since 1875, hnder
Democratic auspices, with ability
and filelity, and from q careful ex-