Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-25

revenues Ol tllS year 10 tlt ahiouilt vi
$500, 900. And not only had they used up
all that was bequeathed them, and all that
belonged 10 them, and all they could. by
reaching forward. rob their successors Of,
but they had contracted heavy liabilities
which they had not attempted 10 make any
provision 10 meet And on top of it all
they had submitted for allowance by the
legislature their estimates of what would
be the necessary cost of running the state
government for another year, and these eX-
ceeded their estimates of the revenues from
which they should be paid by the sum of
81, l,S64. 42l."
The governor truly asserted that never
before in the history of the state had there
existed such a financial condition." there
"had not only been an unprecedented eN-
travagance, but stupid imbecilty in the
management of every department that was
hurrying the state forward TO practical
bankruptcy"
Attention was given by the governor, in
connection with this, TO the bad manage
ment of the penitentiary by the liOadly ad-
minStratiOn. At the close of Governor
Fosters administration it was yielding net
yearly revenue of S5S, 900, and the govern
or showed, from the figures of Mr.. Lang,
a democrat, who was the clerk of the peni-
tentiary under Hoadly's administration,
that the net loss, under the two years of
democratic management of the peniten
tiary, was S205, 06l.32. We quote as fol-
lows:
The only excuse or defense made for this is
that these disastrous results are due 10 the
fact that during this administration change
WAS made from the contract to the piece price
plan This defense 10 not good, for number
of reasons. In the first place, in the state
ment given they are allowed and credited with
every dollar of extra expense incurred on that
account.
In the second place. while they are making
loud claims about the Disadvantages of the
piece price plan. and claiming great credit, In
a humane point Of view, for its introduction,
and holding out the idea that all the cOnNlcts
were worked in that way, the TACT was that
Si a SiHgs troTksd oH that plan during fhsir
hrd gerr. and during the second year the great
est number OF men worked in that way at any
one time. was 26}. All the rest, with the eNcep-
tiOn of liz. who were worked on state account,
were worked the whole time on the contract
plan. or through lack of business management
or StOiid indiffe ce, allowed TO squander
Ineir time in the 'Idle-house.'
Concerning the management, the governor
says:
With the exception of the warden, who
seems TO have been personally an honest but
weak and inefficient man amid such surround
ings, and the clerk and two or three Others
whom gladly exhonerate. the officials OF that
snstitUrion appear 60 have been, from head To
loot. a set of miserable tncOmpetents. and bold
and unblushing scoundrelS. who stole and
rnbhpd right and left. every hand. from the
day they went in until the day they were
kicked out. TO stay until they are sent back. as
they should be, 10 pay the penalty OF their
crimes by serving the state. not as onfciais,
but as convicts. These are severe charges. 1t
is extremely unpleasant 10 make them. But
they are and will be supported by overwhelm-
ing testimony. all of which will be in due time
given 10 the public. and which shows that a
regular system Of theft and robbery WAS car
ried on against both the state and the prison
ers by the ofilcials TO whom have alluded. /
mean by this that money collected for the state
was embeZZled, that clothing, blankets. casst-
meres. furniture. etc, TO the amount in value
Of thousands Of dollars, were stolen and car
ried away from the institution by and with the
conniyance of these officials.
The governor then went into details to
prove his assertions, and then said:
IL is some consolation to believe that justice
is rapidly oyertaking these men, and that ere
long they will be sent to keep comnany with
the great democratic issues. Joh'' Ios"eg and
The governor gave detailed account of
the democratic outrage described in the affi-
davIt of Frederick W. Nye, who was di-
rected by the official surgeons to skin the
body and sides diId backs of deceased
Irish prisoner, Joseph Mccoy, and cOlored
prisoner named John w. Slater, for use
ia making canes and ,rdlkiRg sticks"
The democrats, the governor continued,
repealed the McConnelsville ordinance, up
held by Allen q. Thurman when he was on
the supreme bench. The governorconclud-
ed by showing what the republican Iegisla-
ture had done, as follows:
We offset the election of Payne with the cleo
tion of Sherman-the one full of shame and
disgrace, the other full Of honor and satisfac-
ton to the whole state.
We enacted the Pugsley and registration
laws and threw such safeguards about the bal
lot as to make II tolerably certain that there
will never again, in Ohio. be such elections as
have been talking about. Instead OF the
Scott law We enacted the Dow law, and the peO-
pie are again guarded against the evils of the
traffic as well, perhaps. as they can be while ii
exists. and IL is again subject to Just proper
tiun of the burdens Of the government.
We have made q contract for the refunding
of the maturing state debt, which Is now being
carried out. The debt amounts TO S2.2bUJ
natures next December, and bears per cent.
interest. We are refunding il in bonds bear
ing per cent, for which We get premium Of
s2t.30 upon each Sl.pO-or in other words. the
net rate Of interest is 30 per cent. per annum.
and this is a lower rate than was ever realized
by any state of the Union, OF by the United
states. OF even by England, who always enjoys
the highest measure of credit known to the
commercial, world. And So IL is that the re
publican party of Ohio never entered upon
campaign with more cause Ia feel assured OF
success than We enter upon this.
We believe this to be one of the most ef
fective political addresses ever made in the
state. Its arraignment Of the democratic
administration of state affairs is really as
terrible as it is comprehensive and conf
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