Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-31
A Scandalous Leak in the State
Treasury Exposed.
Four Years Of Piddling at Cost
of Over 100000.
And the Work Of Less Than Two
Years Is Still Unfinished.
How a Lot Of fStipendiaries Are Quar-
tered on the State Treasury to
Do Partisan Service.

On the 18th of March, 1884, the Dem.
ocratic Legislature, elected with Gov
ernor George Hoadly, passed joint
resolution providing for the publication
of roster of Ohio soldiers in the late
war to perpetuate a record of the various
organizations and the names of the in
dividual members thereof in perman-
ent and popularity accessible form. ~-r. '--''
There was appropriated to carry on
the work the sum of 5000. During the
adjourned session in 1889 $4,000 addi-
tional was appropriated, making Sl4,5OO
in all. s- Al
Ten clerks were employed sixteen
months in the work, and about two
thirds of it was completed when
Foraker and Republican Legislature
came in, and the Democratic clerks were
turned out. ' ..'
The work which remained to be done
on the roster afforded but little chance
for pickings, so bonfire was made of
all the carefully prepared roster copy
and small army of Republican clerks
were put on the State, pay-rolls to do the
work. VII FtFEEy
They began in January, 1885, and the
pay-roster. has been swelling ever since,
until now it has reached enormous and
dropsical proportions, with a steady
growth going on. After the lapse of
nearly four years twelve stipendiaries
have, performed about as much work as
ten clerks did in little more than a
year. r,
1t will take them two years more to fin
ish the work at the rate they have been
proceeding. .-.......I
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. '-s| .
The sums of money paid out and ap-
propriated, under the Foraker regime,
amount to $160,917 3s, as shown by the
official records. gs1 -.--.s. ,.a
What was there to do in preparing the
rosterP To prepare from the muster rolls
in the Adjutant-Generars office, so as to
put in book form, the complete company
and regimental organizations ofthe Ohio
troops in the war.
In other words, to make a complete
copy of the records on file. It wasa big
job of copying, but one that could be
done readily. '
There were 31S, 1S9 soldiers enrolled in
Ohio during the war. Consequently
therewere 319,1S0 names to copy with
brief annotations showing that the sol
der was discharged, was killed, had
died, was missing or had deserted, as the
case might be. Eg b
1t would not bea very big job to copy
200 names in day. At this rate it
would require one man 1,591 days, or five
wears one month and three days, 'esti-
mating S12 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 200, 900 names for $14,5OO, or
at the rate of seven cents per name.
Under the Republican regime for pre-
pairing the same number of names
twelve clerks have drawn in salaries
over $4,000. or twenty cents for each
sepafate name. While $4,000 addi
tional has been spent, making the aver
age seost of each, name so far put in tht
roster eighty cents.
Does any body pretend to say that the
work should cost any such sum O
money! p s.i..- II
NafIysralS It issimply N0Flsing pat
riotism for Doodle.
It, is "a bonanza for a.lotoft politica
hanger's-on, whose services to the Stat
consist of drawing unearned salaries an,
defaming and abusing men for beins
Democrats aAd OPPOSING Forakerisn
and politieal phiebotoany. q
These 2stipendiaries draw salarie
from TIE State and spend their time Il
running Foraker organs, disseminating
Foraker hiteratufe, or working in th
Republican Committee on State street
They outrival Comanche Indians II