The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-10
THE PENNILESS TREASURY.
Marion COunty's Settlement Provides
Enough Cash for a Days Demands.
A Politicians Predictions that Governor
Gray Will Endeayor to Turn Cooper's
Troubles to His Own Account.

Marion county settled with the Auditor of
State yesterday afternoon, and for a half hour
or so State Treasurer Cooper will have some
actual cash in his possession. The amount paid
in was $13, 100, being the balance of $8l, 900. The
remainder of that large amount having from
time to time been turned over to the State
Treasury in varying sums as Mr.. Cooper's neces-
sites demanded. OF the $13, 100 paid in 3d.
800. 20 is school fund money, and not available to
pay on legislative or other orders, SO there is
only 81, 769. so which is to be divided among the
general fund, State-house and university funds.
The reporter asked Deputy auditor Bingham
concerning yesterdays payment and how it was
divided among the funds. He replied: "All we
know in this office is concerning the full amount
in the settlement. We have nothing whatever
to do with any private dickers that may have
taken place between Mr.. Cooper and the Treas
urer of Marion county"
TREASURER c~ooPER's NEW BOND.
John J. Cooper will begin his second term of
Treasurer of State to-day, but it is not likely
that he will be able to Immediately give the
500, 600 bond required by the Legislative enact
menr of last Friday, which act was signed by the
Governor the day after its passage. Mr.. Cooper
remarked yesterday that it was impossible to give
such a large bond on so short notice unless
he could get such men as w. Fl. English and w.
Z. DePauw to come to his assistance. He said
he had the assurance of Governor Gray that he
could h&ve whatever time was necessary in
which to secure bondsmen, and that in the
meantime he could be held by the old bond. Mr..
Cooper thinks he will be able to give the bond
required in a few days. Attorney general Hord
ind orses the opinion of the Governor regarding
the bond. Mr.. Cooper. when seen by the re-
porter yesterday, was multiplying tracks in the
snow, evidently In pursuit OF capitalists who can
be prevailed upon TO attach their autographs to
this new and perplexing bond.
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The State Treasurer is in no good humor with
a number Of his co-laborers in the great cause
of reform-a reform which disappeared immedi-
ately after the election and before the cold
weather set in. He has begun to let the cat out
Of the bag in regard to a number of these fair
weather friends, among them John G. Shoe
maker. Mr.. Cooper says that Mr.. Shoemaker
came to him some time ago. before he asked for
the S., 900 with which rumor is now
so busy, and desired to borrow So, 500.
Mr.. Shoemaker told the State Treas
urer, so that individual asserts, that
he wanted the money to buy the stock held in
the Sentinel Company by ex- Attorney general
ID. p. Baldwin. Mr.. Cooper did not lend him
the money. but Mr.. Shoemaker, however he
may have felt. held his temper and said nothing
disagreeable. In fact, he became exceedingly con-
fdential, and, as Mr.. Cooper tells the story. said
that if he could not buy Baldwin out cheaply he
would see 10 it that the shares of stock held by
that gentleman paid no dividends even if, to pre-
vent it, he would have to vote himself (Shoe-
maker) as president of the Sentinel Company a
salary of SIG, 600 a year.
Notwithstanding the fact that Mr.. Cooper is
somewhat long on county orders and other al
legged securities, and short on cash, Mr.. Shoe
makers confidential communication did not
strike him as bearing the John Jacob Townsend
seal of business probity. and. in in the light of
later revelations, the Sentinel having turned
against him, discovering to him 'how sharper
than a s%erpentis tooth it is to have a thankless"
friend, he has opened his lips, loosed his impris-
oned tongue, and-talked.
GOVERNOR GRAY's ALLEGED SCHEME.
There is a rumor afioat that Governor Gray
has determined upon a brilliant political stroke.
which is intended to rebound to his own great
credit, and that no matter what the result of the
Legislatures tinkering may be Mr.. Cooper will
not be permitted to go uninvestigated. A prom
inent Democrat, high in authority, and who
claims to speak by the card, is the Journal re-
porter's authority for the statement that the
new Governor mas conceived the IDEA or con
Quoting the investigation on his own hook, in
case of the ultimate failure of the
Legislature to do the job satisfactorily.
II tell you that few people know Isaac P.
Gray" said the oracle. He is every inch
a politician, and a scheming politician at that,
too. You have heard of statesmen whose official
life was devoted entirely to the public good, and
statesmen for revenue only; but our Governor is
a statesman for Gray only. He wants to go to
the Senate two years from now, and will shape
his acts accordingly. and bend every energy to
accomplish the object of his desire. If he could
make the least bit of capital for himself by the
sacrifice of John Cooper he would not spare him
longer than the stroke of an official pen could
crush him. His plan is to sail in and conduct a
searching investigation of the Treasury's condi-
ton under his own supervision, and if it unearths
any irregularities so much the better for Gray.
It may play very successful hob with Cooper.
but it will be the maxim of the pup OF
course, / can't say positively that this programme
will be carried out, but | do know that the Gov
ernor has had it under consideration, and, ac-
cording to my information, has expressed him
self privately as inclined to pursue that policy"
By the way, it may be of interest to the pub
lie to know that Treasurer Cooperis present
bondsmen are jackson Landers, John Landers.
l. n. Pattison, Franklin Landers, Fl. w. Miller,
Joseph Loftin, James L. Thompson. Sample
Loftin, Jacob A. Emerich, Christian Myers, G.
H.. Carter, Smith FL. Myers, III. G. G. Balls. Will
liam johnson, j. P. Frenzel and Otto N. Frenzel