The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-02

dropsical proportions, with steady
growth going on. After the lapse OF
nearly four years twelve stipendiaries
have performed about as much work as
ten clerks did in a little more than q
year.
1t will tal;o them two years more to fln.
ish the work at the ratio they have been
proceeding.
And how much has it cost during the
| past four years? The figures are start
ling when one considers the amount OF
work that has been done by Governor
Foraker's stipendiaries.
The sums of money paid out and ap.
propriated, under The Foraker regime,
amount to $1,000 IS, us shown by the
| official records.
What was there to do in preparing the
roster? To prepare from the muster rolls
| in the Adjutant-Generals office, so as to
| put in book form, the complete company
and rcgimental organizations of the Ohio
troops in the war.
In other words, to make complete
copy of the records on file. 1t was big
job of copying, but one that could be
done readily.
There were 31S, 1s3 soldiers enrolled in
Ohio during the war. Consequently
there were 31S, $50 names to copy with
brief annotations showing that the sol
dier was discharged, was killed, had
died, was missing or had deserted, as the
case might be.
1t would not be very big job to copy
200 names in q Gay. AT this rate it
would require one man 1851 days, or five
years one month and three days, esti-
mating 312 working days in year.
1t would take twelve men less than a
year to do it. Yet twelve men are fin
ishing up their fourth year at the job.
The ten Democratic clerks managed
to prepare 100000 names for sl4,50O, or
at the rate Of seven cents per name.
Under the Hcpubli'an regime for pre-
pairing tho same number Of names
twelve clerks have drawn in salaries
over $4,000 or twenty cents for each
separate name. While Sl20,000 addi
tional has been spent. making the ave.
age cost of each name SO far put in the
roster eighty cents.
Does any body pretend to say that the
work should cost any such sum of
money?
Nav. yor;rv: IT. 81 simrlv vorkirr nat.
riotism for boodlo.
II is bonanza for lot of nolit;caI
bapeer's-on. whose services 10 the S.ate
consist of drawing unearned salaries and
defaninp and abusinp men for beipp
Democrats and opnosiny Eorakerisn
and political phleho,omy.
These stincrdinries draw salaries
from the State and ,p,nd tboir time in
running Foraker oraans. disscminotin
Foraker literature. or WORKING in the
Republican Ctr.mittte on State street |.
They outriyal Ctm: nche Indians in
bowling "bocdle" and rcvilirg respect |
able Democrat who earn honest salaries |
in honorable o!nI loymcnt, while they
draw scycnty-fve dollars per month and |
upward from the State Treasury f,r
services they never perform.
This scandal has become so notorious
and fragrant that ! REGARD it as public
duty to expose and dcnouncc it.
Its perpetrators are not content with
the plundcr they secure, but seek to
prolong and pcrpetuate their oppor-
tunities by dttaming. assailing and
slandcring respectable gentle men who
object to the State Treasury being turn
ed into a third-teim corruption fund
slavering about patriotism and loyalty
and purity. with their arms up to their
elbows in the public strong-hox.
Behold the spectacle of the State Lii
brar.an. whose salary is paid by Demo