Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-27
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| Let no one cry naulJ OH inc Worh
of the investigating committee of the
Legislature until they have scraped
bottom in every department of the
Stale.
Let the calcium light be turned OH
and every detail connected with
Tate's defalcation be made known.
There are great many things
about it to be made known.
Auditor Hewitt should make known
his reason for not forcing Tate to the
customary biennial settlement in
January.
1t should be made known how
Tate, after being so strongly suspect
ed by Auditor Hewitt, was able to get
the start of justice and beat it over
the Canadian border
1t should be explained whether or
not all this enormous shortage ac-
cumulated since the examination of
the Treasurer's book in 1886.
If it did not accumulate since that
time, Auditor Hewitt and James A.
Mckenzie, then Secretary of State,
should be made to exlain how it hap
pened that they did not detect the
crookedness when they made the ex
animation required by law in 1886.
If they didn't detect it, they will
please inform the public whether
their failure to do so was not owing
to the fact that they refrained from
wounding their boon companion and
fellow joker, the Treasurer, by more
than a mere formal glance at his
books and his cash.
1t must also be made known to
whom Tate loaned the States money
from time to time, in order that the
public may size up these false friends
and clever gentlemen as being practi-
cally accessories to the misappropria-
ton of the public funds.
1t should be made known whether
or not it is true as limited that Tate
furnished money to stake several can
didates for State offices in recent
campaigns.
1t should be made known whether
or not Tate has been able TO cover up
his tracks by the actual collision or
by the criminal carelessness of Audi
tor Hewitt.
1t should be made known by what
methods all attempts at Legislative
investigation heretofore b~'" "soH
succas-rsyL,~ resisted
Everything, Immediately or re- I
notely, directly or indirectly, touch
ng upon the acts of our officials at
Frankfort during the progress of
his defalcation should be known. {
This is no time for sympathy.
sympathy Is too tender for the stern
work ahead of us.
1t is no time for display of good
Good fellowship has
stolen 100000 from the State of Ken
lucky.
1t is no time for a State official to
feel indignant because his official
conduct is suspected. Indignation
of that screened a tremendous theft.
1t is no time for sparing a man be-
cause he is jolly companion and can |
crack joke or toss bumper with
the best of the boys. Conviviality
has been deposed from the chair of
State in Kentucky.
In short, it is no time for any more
namby-pamby foolishness. There
must be thorough overhauling. The
clique must be scattered to the winds
or locked up in the penitentiary. The
folly of over confidence has been Sc
verely dem onstrated. The other long
term officials at Frankfort may be
perfectly honest, but that's what Tates
was also thought to be. The fact
are wanted now. Every rascal
whether rascal in intention or q
rascal in criminal carelessness in
guarding the States trust-must be
dragged down.
1t is pity TO suspect such fine
lot of fellows, but Kentucky wants
more firmness, more strict economy
more attention to business, and has
forever done with keeping men in
office unquestioned because they are
good fellows on lark and can ap-
preciate practical joke.
Turn on the light and turn out the
rascals.