The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-09-09
PLU yDERED OF MILLIONS.
How the Treasury Was Depleted by the
Republican Party.

How the Treasury Was Depleted by tn,
Republican Party.
! WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.--0ne of tht
most striking chapters of the Democratic
Csmpaign Handbook now in pre- 8, will
be that devoted to the defslcations oi
Republican officehOlders during the Re.
publican sway. 1t has been prepared
/ with great care and much labor from
The official figures, and makes more
damaging showing than anticipated
| The chapter Is headed "0pening the
Books" and vindicates promise long
made by the Democracy to the people OF
| the country. tits as follows:
"The Democratic party through its
press and by Its speakers declared for
The past ten years publicly, that if ii
could turn the rascals out and get at the
books, they could demonstrate that the
Republican party In it's long lease of
| power, had, through Its various officers,
by defalcatiOn In collections and dis
bursements, stolen millions of the peO
pies money. Mr.. Tilden In 1876 claimed
the amount to be over five million dol
lars. The amount will reach
twenty millions of dollars or
more. Under a resolution of the Dem.
Ocratic House, passed Jan. % and
which was called up again July 27 by
Representative Benton Mcmillan, Of
Tennessee, just previous to the adjourn
ment of the first session of the Forty
ninth Congress, the acting Secretary Of
the Treasury transmitted In letter to
the House of Representatives, 'eXecu-
tive document No. 1863, Forty ninth Con-
gTess, first session, in which 1t Is shown
officially that the balance now due the
Government on account of defalcations
In disbursements and collections since
1861 Is $12,893 476 48.
This does not include the overhaul
ing of the accounts of the Post Office
Department, of which the Sixth Auditor
reported to the Secretary of the Treasury
In letter March 10, as follows: You
are aware that this Office adjusts the &C.
counts Of over half the officers and EN-.
plOyees Of the Government In the civil
branches Of the service, as shown by
volume second of the biennial official
register. The amount involved $185,
100000 last year, requiring accounts
with over $1,000 receiving and disburs-
Ing officers, who employ or supervise
and pay an army of employees The
auditor also says that the amount Of
work would be so enormous to get up
the accounts of all these officers and get
at the balances due from each one of
them that 1t Is impossible with the pres
ent force to accomplish 1t.
$50 we find from an examination Of
the books In part showing only about
half of the dlsbursing and receiving
officers accounts that the balance due
by the officers, for which they have de-
faulted to the government, is over $12,-
100000. The balance due from the
others amount by the same ratio to q
larger sum
''The foregoing statement, and the
table which Ia hereafter inserted, does
not include shortage, as has been said,
In the Sixth Auditors office, which has
the auditing of the vast expenditures of |
the POstof1ice Department. 1t was there
that Dorsey, Brady and the Star.route
thieves figured. Nor does 1t include the
shortage In the Third Auditors office, |
which embraces the expenditures of the
War Department, where Howgate,
Hodges and other kindred spirits had
their day. Nor does it include the short |
age In the Fourth Au litor's Office, which |
has charge Of the expenditures in the !