Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-09-04
the SCHOOL FUND.
Why There Is q Falling on From
Last Years Figures.
A Complete Answer to the Republican
Howl Which Has Been Rending
the FACILITATING Air. .

citizens who make pracnce OF reaolng
Republican papers have been accustomed
TO seeing, along with the usual quantum OF
patent medicine notices and fearful edito'
rails over the dispo; ition Of the Administra-
ton to turn sundry stall fed othce-holders
out upon an upsympathetic world, numer-
Gus wild appeals to a cOntented people to
take notice of the fact that the distributable
school fund this year showed a considera-
BILE falling off from the usual sum. This
decrease was to the aversge Republican
editor conclusive evidence that
SOMETHING AKIN TO RAsCALlrY
was going on within the walls of the Capitol
building, and with that wild desire to do
something which is mostly associated with
an iniudicious and Unbalanced mud or
disposition to make political capital atwhat-
ever sacrifice of truth necessary, these edi-
torial adopts in the art OF falsitcatlon set
themselves to work to bring discredit upon
the party in power by snesking insinuations,
mysterious winnings and holdings, or,where
these failed, open accusations that the
money which rightfully and lawfully be
Iopged to the schools of the State had been
put to illegitimate uses.
OF course thinking men, OF all parties,
knew that the &c assertions and lnslnustlons
we're wrong and without any legitimate
foundation, but the charges continued to
appear with q regularity and persistence
worthy OF a righteous cause, and there
seemed to be q concert of action IN the mat
ter which was calculated to make all appeals
for statement of facts or an investigation
in vain. Explanations, official and unofficial
addressed to the editors of Republican pa
pers, were received in
PROFOUND SILENCE,
and it became evident that the charges
we're TO be kept up in the hope that eventu-
| ally some one might be convinced that there
vas some foundation upon which to base
he allegations.
As is we'll known Auditor Duffy has been
IN the city during the entire week, but no
| Republican editor has had sufficient de
sire to get at the truth, to print an inter
view with him, and after giving abundant
opportunity for such publication, the REG
IsTER now gives the facts in regard to the
shoItsge as obtained from the Auditor;
The cause of the falling off in the school
fund" said Mr.. Duffy, in response to ques-
ion, "is simply this: The law provides
hat the money received from the Sherifs OF
the various counties from the 10th of June
IN one year until the 10th OF June of the
ysaI following, shall be distributed among the
schools Of the State for that year. Three
lculths of this revenue is
DUE on MAY lsT.
This year most of the Sheriff's failed to
make any pay nent up 10 June 10th, and,
in fact, some of them even neglected to
mske a payment in last January. This &C.
counts for the falling off in the fund"
Has any money come in since June
lNhY'
"Oh, yes; we have received quite large
sum since that date, but that must lie
over until next year. For instance, If q
sheriff has $1,000 on hand, and neglects
TO pay it over until June llth, it must lie
over until the succeeding year, as is pro-
I'D, d by law, whereas if he had been one
lay earlier, it would have gone to swell the
| Al Ounl luis YEAR
What is the cause OF this delay?
The trouble is due to combination OF
several causes.
TINES ARE HARD
al over the State and money scarce; the
reps were bad last year, and many people
ave been reduced to want who formerly
mad plenty; the past winter was an excep.
iopally severe one; drought during the
,Ummer has killed off stock, and business
1ass been Frustrated everywhere. In defer
zee to the people, under these circum.
tarces, sherifs have been lenient in the
matter of collections, for it certainly would
10 10 good to force payments The sheriff:
+ many counties have written to me, saying
he people had no money, and that it would
Oe lar better TO
WAIT FEW MONTHS
than to distress and sell property for which
heIe was absolute no market"
viii the schools suffer By this falling of
n the revenueY
Not 10 any sppreciable extent. 10 q
few OF the counties an increase in The local
levy may be necessary, but that will be
slight, and will be offset by corresponding
reduction mex; year"
How SOP
Why, you see, all this money laying
over, which should have been included in
bile year apportionm snt VIII be added Il
bit kgitimstely coming in next yeAr. This
Nil give Us
VERY LARGE FUND,
probably over S"00OO0 next year, unless
OF course, some great calamity oyertske'
US. This large sum will give the severa.
counties a correspordingly heavy spportion
pent, and the local levies can either be cut
down or the schools kept open for q longer
y What is the total Of the fund tAis year a:
compared with Is SIP
Il have not the exact figures by me, but
think the total this year is $4,000
against $250000, in round numbers, las
year There is one feature of this matter
have not mentioned, and that IS, that il
the counties where the Radical papers are
making the greatest howl there is to be
found the greatest delay in paying up OF
the part Of the Sheriffs
THESE EDITORS MUST KNOW
the state of affairs at home, and the effect i
necessarily has on the school fund, and ye
they 60 on with their reckless assertions a.
to the base uses TO which the fund has beer
put
Anyone who has seen the statement:
made by some Of the more reckless Of tht
Republican papers in the hope of making
psrty capital from false deductions, can SET
oy this statement from the Auditor that i
The distributable school fund is small THU
year there is good and sufficient reason fol
1t, and it can also be seen that there Will b.
corresponding increase next year.
Will the howlers kindly take rest
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