The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-10-07

by the books or the penltentlary DISCLOSE
the fact that in making up the Keynote
speech Governor Foraker was quite as
economical of the truth as he was in his
now exploded cane story. Had he been
content with using the figures as fur
nlshed him from the books of the insti-
tuition, and as they appear in the official
reports on file In the State House, very
different state of things would have been
shown, and his tremendous cannOnad-
ing WOlld have been mere rattle OF
musketry.
The official records show for the two
years of Governor HOadly's admin strs-
tiOn the following facts:
Total expenditures s63e 0S9 %
Total receipts. slSlio 20
Less permanent Improvements. ............ 76200 o.
Actual loss l44'lo o.
By juRgle of the figures, aud by add
ing figures that are nowhere to be
found in the books of the Institution,
Governor Foraker makes the loss foot
up $205, l6l 32. He might as easily made
1t foot up half million by the same
process of give and take that he resOrted
to for the purpose of making the losses
appear $40 900 greater than they really
were.
HeresOrts to a very complicated meth
cd of forcing his adverse conclusions
against the Democratic management.
He assumev, for instance, that the losses
annually were 100000 and to this adds
a still further loss of $53 900, or the al
legged profits of the former years admin"
istratiOn, thus adding loss of $106,O0
which Is not to be found in the fiscal
accounts, and which has no existence
save in his own Imagination. Not con-
tent with this sort of jugglery he re-
sorts to another method of swelling the
losses, quite as hsgitiOus, unprinclpled
and unbusiness like. As, for instance, he
sets down as loss on the part Of the
penitentisry managers the sum Of $780,
63956, "fOr money credited but not col
lected." Hzaa
This sum was earned by the peniten-
tiary, and was due from contractors
whose contracts came over from the
Foster administration, and the amounts
were certified to the Auditor Of State,
and by him turned over as the law di
rected to the AttOrney-General for col
lection. Owing to the Insolvency Of
these Foster contractors the Stats failed
to collect the money, but that failure
was in nowise due to the penitentiary
managers. The whole thing passt d be
yOnd their power and control as soon as
the sums due were certified to the
proper State officials. This $25, ,63956 il,
therefore, Wrongf1lly charg up as q
l0ss to the late management. Tn. re was
nothing In the accounts of the peniten-
tisry to warrant 1t In being so charged,
and Governor Foraker knew when he 80
manipulated 1t that he was doing ViO-
lence to the truth-in short, was will.
fully making false charge against the
management.
Then he says, "and to the expendi-
lures should be added loss on State
account not carried above $34, ,70624
This Is even more flagitious than the
previous item. This latter sum Is to
cover the losses on the broom shop,
woOlen mill, Sc.
But when Governor Foraker made
this addition with view Of compelling
the figures to tell falsehoOd, he knew
very we'll that every dollar of this alleg
ed loss had been included In the expen'
dituTes above. 10 other words, this $43'
600 had already been included In the
expenditures and charged in the ac
counts against the institution, and be
concluded to do little double entry
and charged it again so as to swell the
losses by that amount.
Another of the Governors lunacles is
the way In which he figures out Loss
of $311 .061.32, apparently forgetting
that he had stopped on $205,00 few
minutes before. He does this by Rssum.
ing that under Warden Peetrey the an.
nual loss was $102,000 and under War !eD
Thomas the profit was $53, 900. Adding
these together, he makes the annual IOss
| $155, 900, and for the two years $3ll 900
A man who would In the first place
cook his figures 80 as to make them
his imagination for 100000 of addi
tional losses that the State could not
sustain under any circumstances, Ii
capable Of any demagogical perform
Rnce.
Governor Foraker's methods Of figur.
ing up the losses were varied and In
some respects amusing. In addition to
those have shown above, one method
was to charge up to the Democratic
management the time of all the cOnvictf
at seventy five cents day, the highest
price at which his administration is now
selling slaves. Then again he fixed the
present price, according to his own
Ideas, upon the permanent improve
ments made two years ago, and set The
difference down as a "lOss." The $25, ,00C
Water Works he decided should only
have cost SIS 900, and In this way figured
out a $4,000 loss there. These works
were built by q Republican firm. Bul
the statement of the actual receipts, ex
penditures and Improvements given
official accounts, which Governor Fora
ker can find In the State House, witt
his additions and fslsiacations, pTevari
cations and misstatements, show jos
how reliable he Is as Q statistician, anC
and that his figures are no more to bC
relied upon than his story about skin
ming Irishmen and negroes, which wal
so dramatically set forth to fool somC
one. m
But really, when one sees how thI
| Governor made the official figures lie
by adding what was nowhere shown o.
hinted at In The books, he can not bu
| be impressed with his moderation, con
sidering the dreadful case Of grOund-hOl
froIn which the gang Is now suffering
He might have coined twiCe as big
Munchsusenism with scarcely any ad
ditlonal effort. WA. I.
The above statement Is made upol
the figures furnished by Clerk Lang,
D mocrat retained by q Republican
administration.
Governor Foraker In his speech re
Gently delivered states that his figure
were furnished him by Clerk Lang. Nj
Lang Is an honorable man and squar
Democrat, and is now ready to max
affidavit that Governor Foraker made